Adrianna TanThe state of America right now is that many people have no food to eat, and many people who pay $695 a year for a credit card (not a typo) are also in a hundred people long waiting list to get into an airport lounge that only serves people who have a platinum or centurion or black card. At every airport with one of those. At any time. Inside the lounge, when you get in, there’s free food, of course.
Sorry it’s $895 now
Golden Ratboy@jaykass it has a bunch of things that add up that makes it worth it for people who have one, like $400 vouchers at restaurants these folks eat at anyway (I am one of these people, but it was the only credit card I could get as an immigrant with no credit score: they transfer foreign Amex users into it)
Viss@skinnylatte @jaykass amex platunum is really handy if you travel often. it makes up for its cost pretty fast. but if youre not in planes and hotels like once a month, the scales tip fast
@Viss @skinnylatte I'm maybe once per year for plane travel. My new job might change that to a bit more often but I'll definitely still be an occasional air traveler at most.
@jaykass @skinnylatte get your job to reimburse you the cost of the card per year :D
make sure the card is yours, in your name, and farm amex points! you can spend amex points at amazon and with paypal and also uber and possibly lyft, i think
@skinnylatte yeah i bailed on my platinum card cuz it got way expensive and i dont travel once every six weeks anymore. and the food in the lounges isnt all that special anyway. its like marie calendars grade. not bad, not great. DEFINITELY not worth almost a grand a year
Berkubernetus@skinnylatte yeah, last weeks travel convinced me that i dont need a lounge membership anywhere
@fuzzychef well, I haven’t hit the 75K yearly spend that’s now required to get in, even with a card, so.. I guess I’ll just sit outside with everyone else.
Walter Nissen@skinnylatte The Bay Area is also special in the level of perks. Once I was going to a tech conference from SFO and the United upgrade list was 90 people long. The plane only held 147 passengers! Apparently Apple alone regularly books 50 people a day in business to Shenzen.