andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (02/01/84)
What's the difference between an American Express blue (normal) card and their gold card? -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)
rpw3@fortune.UUCP (02/05/84)
#R:orca:-52200:fortune:15800003:000:548
fortune!rpw3 Feb 5 03:12:00 1984
The American Express Gold card is tied to your bank account, thus
giving you the priviledge (?) of having your bank lend you money to
pay your American Express bill if you can't hack it all at month's end.
Note that the individual items are not financed, only the total. The
items are paid off instantly by the loan.
There are some other bennies, I forget (not being a Goldy).
Rob Warnock
UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3
DDD: (415)595-8444
USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065andrew@inmet.UUCP (02/10/84)
#R:orca:-52200:inmet:8700006:000:1160 inmet!andrew Feb 8 11:30:00 1984 The 'Blue' card (they call it 'Green') is not a true credit card because no credit is actually extended. You have to pay the balance as soon as the bill arrives; that's why AMEX is fairly easy for someone with substantial income but no credit history (i.e., a recent graduate) to obtain. (I believe AMEX will let you pay off airline tickets and such over several months.) AMEX Gold actually does carry a credit line, like a MasterCard or Visa. It's more expensive ($50 rather that $35) and has considerably higher salary requirements (around $30K gold, $18K green last I knew). While there are some useful features of the Gold card (read their propaganda to see if they're useful to you), their ads have been mostly promoting it as the latest status symbol for the pathologically insecure or socially-conscious. I consider this as prima facie evidence that it is inherently worthless. Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics ...harpo!inmet!andrew 733 Concord Ave. ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!andrew Cambridge, MA 02138 ...uw-beav!cornell!esquire!inmet!andrew (617) 661-1840 ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!andrew