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Can anyone get a black American Express card now? |
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Posts: 6885 (09/04/2008 2:53 AM) |
I work at a mall in Denver and during the DNC week, a lady used her Black American Express. She didn't appear to be famous or rich, but she had one.
I thought they only gave them through invite or you had to at least spend $100,000 a year in order to be offered one. |
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Posts: 1037 (09/04/2008 2:55 AM) Biggest Health Nut '08 |
not just ANYONE can have one, but you don't have to be special, just rich.
 and not everyone that is rich looks rich.
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Posts: 92509 (09/04/2008 2:58 AM) |
There's a 16-year old kid I came across online recently that has one. He said you still have to be invited.
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Posts: 6886 (09/04/2008 2:58 AM) |
Exactly, I didn't mean to say that you have to look rich to be rich, but I meant in the rich and famous, recognizable way...not by appearance. I knew that
would be taken a different way than what I meant...
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Posts: 6887 (09/04/2008 3:01 AM) |
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Posts: 1038 (09/04/2008 3:22 AM) Biggest Health Nut '08 |
my boss has one, and told me you don't have to be invited per say, but if you're spending a certain amount it is offered, so I guess in that sense it
is an "invitation"
but it's not like AMEX is like "oh hey you're a celeb here's a pretty card". apparently it's also
not worth it.
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Posts: 2937 (09/04/2008 3:30 AM) |
You're sure it was American Express? I have a Citi card that is black. I used it about a month ago and when the sales lady handed it back to me she said
that at first she thought it was the black AMEX, but then when handing it back she noticed the Citi logo.
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dear lady |
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Posts: 36876 (09/04/2008 3:37 AM) |
Uh, no. Amex asks you to becomes a member based on what you spend a year and how much you make. You cannot apply. I've come to realize that rich people
don't always dress "rich"---every damn person I've ever known that owned the nicest things or were basically billionaires, always dressed the
plainest.
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Posts: 21412 (09/04/2008 3:44 AM) |
/I trust Kelly Doll more than anyone else in this matter.
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Posts: 6888 (09/04/2008 6:23 AM) |
It was an Amex.
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mEEEEchelle |
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Posts: 2916 (09/04/2008 6:25 AM) |
Those black cards are so cool and HEAVY. A customer handed on to me and I almost dropped it!
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Posts: 6889 (09/04/2008 6:29 AM) |
mEEEEchelle wrote: Ya that's what threw me off, cause I accepted it from her without looking right at it, but then noticed it didn't feel like a normal credit card, which is why I checked it over and was like WHOA, a black Amex, never seen or touched one before. |
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Posts: 8109 (09/04/2008 6:43 AM) |
Sometimes, employees of those departments also get invitations, or get those benefits without really qualifying for them. Those are very high-end departments
within credit card divisions so not anyone can work there to begin with. We are far from rich and we have a Citi Ultima (Citi's equivalent to the AMEX
black) and a Citigold checking account just because hubby works for their high-end financial department.
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Posts: 54746 (09/04/2008 7:41 AM) |
I was going to say, a couple of people come through my job with them sometimes, and you know when you touch them. They're heavy and like...metal.
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