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Tuesday, February 26. 2013

The Black American Express Card


Yes, they do exist. It's the level above Platinum. A friend told me they saw somebody buy a necklace at Tiffany's with one before Valentine's Day. American Express calls it the Centurion Card. It seems to have no limit.


You can't apply for one. They offer it to you, and deliver it to you with a security guard. Sheesh.

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the snopes article points out they are so rare that that merchants may not recognize them.

I now have several blackened Black AmEx cards. this should be as good as the day I bought ice cream for a crowd at the Santa Monica pier using Japanese-Philippine Occupation currency.
#1 wirraway on 2013-02-26 12:06 (Reply)
my father had Mastercard's equivalent, he never did understand why he got invited to the program as he wasn't a very big spender but he was a regular user (intensive business travel will see to that) whose bills were always paid in full in time, may have helped.

Was delivered like every other, just mailed or couriered. Indeed no limit, and indeed sometimes not recognised in your local supermarket or gas station (but the Hilton tends to know what they're looking at).
#2 J.T. Wenting on 2013-02-26 12:48 (Reply)
I have a friend who runs a lot of business stuff through his Amex card (apx $350,000 a year) and still doesn't get invited to have a Black Card. He looked it up on the internet and found that the yearly fee is about $2500 plus a one time fee of $5000. And for that you get about the same deals as the Platinum cards get. But you may get better discounts at premium jewelers or casinos and such if they think you're a big spender. He does have the top Visa or Mastercard which gets him automatic upgrades at hotels and airlines. They don't publish the criteria for that but he found out he made the list because he had charges on three continents in one year. They were then going to drop him down to Platinum status the next year when his travel was more concentrated but he got a friendly hotel to get him a one year reprieve. This year he will have business in Europe and vacation in Asia again.
Meanwhile, my idea of special treatment is using the McDonalds' secret menu to get scrambled eggs and a bagel for breakfast. Livin' large.
#3 Colorado on 2013-02-26 15:14 (Reply)
No security guards. High annual fee with concierge services for those who travel, entertain and make extraordinary purchases plus require that certain je-ne-c'est snobbery to impress. Just pay cash with 100's.
#4 jma on 2013-02-26 16:24 (Reply)
A true Black Card understands the card is but lubrication for the wheel. Cashcashcash makes the wheel turnturnturn.
#5 DHH on 2013-02-26 20:30 (Reply)
I ran into one the other day. A guy won an auction at our local, decidedly low-brow volunteer fire department fundraiser and wanted to use his black AmEx card to pay the purchase price. Unfortunately, although we recently became able to take MasterCard and VISA, we still don't accept AmEx.

He looked like an ordinary down-at-the-heels farmer. He was enjoying flashing the card, and we appreciated his support at the auction, so we stroked him a bit.
#6 Texan99 (Link) on 2013-02-27 10:10 (Reply)
Isn't African American Express card the preferred term?
#7 Ray on 2013-02-27 15:30 (Reply)

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