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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
But, TM, what kind of fool pays for a platinum card?
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Interesting. I'll give you two reasons:
1. It's actually a fairly good deal. For years, I could get a free business class companion ticket, once a year, which we would use for our anniversary trip. If you did your homework (comparing prices and figuring out where you could go to actually take advantage of the deal, which took some work) you could save thousands of dollars. We've gone to Asia a few times where the companion ticket deal saved us ~$5,000.
You get $200 a year in reimbursements for various airline related charges.
You get $15 a month in uber reimbursements.
They pay your charges for you and family members (up to a certain amount) for trusted traveler fees.
The mileage program is one of the best (in terms of partnership options and multiplier deals when you want to cash them in)
Other stuff I can't remember.
2. It gives me a small bit of satisfaction when service people who automatically feel superior for any number of reasons have to take the card and realize that maybe they're not so superior (based on how they were judging me in the first place) after all. Petty and stupid? Yep. But I takes it where I gets it.
TM
