Amex Centurion Card eligibility in Australia

[colt75]

How is the EOI done?
And what are the fees currently

 

[Viridis]

How is the EOI done?
And what are the fees

Online via Chat or over the phone with Customer Services

$5000 joining fee and $6500pa

 

[demz123]

Has anyone been approved recently?
Got on the phone for an EOI and was advised there was ok chance of approval (4-month holder of AMEX, pushed about 150k personal spend)

Thanks!

 

[bmcc]

Has anyone been approved recently?
Got on the phone for an EOI and was advised there was ok chance of approval (4-month holder of AMEX, pushed about 150k personal spend)

Thanks!

If it's genuine personal spend then this level (around AU$500k a year) should put you at the lower end of the bracket of eligibility. I imagine they would want to see at least a year of spend history before extending the invitation.

 

[SAB]

Has anyone been approved recently?
Got on the phone for an EOI and was advised there was ok chance of approval (4-month holder of AMEX, pushed about 150k personal spend)

Thanks!

Assume you have got the Platinum Charge card. It helps to spend on business class tickets, hotels and tours etc if you haven't already done so.

 

[Jazzline]

Does anyone know what additional or supplementary cards you get with centurion personal card?

 

[colt75]

Does anyone know what additional or supplementary cards you get with centurion personal card?

I believe its supplementary cards for a fee.

Has anyone been approved recently?
Got on the phone for an EOI and was advised there was ok chance of approval (4-month holder of AMEX, pushed about 150k personal spend)

Thanks!

Did you end up getting invited?

 

[daft009]

Does anyone know what additional or supplementary cards you get with centurion personal card?

1 cent supp for yourself for business expenses or similar. 1 cent supp for your partner.

4 platinum supps for whomever

 

[kingmaxlin2007]

I spent $1.3m in 2024 and $1.5m in 2025 on my personal card (past 24 months paid for five vehicles, spent $500k on travel), submitted an EOI four times, and was not invited. I felt I had been deliberately filtered out, so I'm not going to send any more EOI in the future.

 

[shuuy]

2 year platinum (personal) holder
* year 1: $200k
* year 2: $600k

no offer to date

 

[daft009]

I spent $1.3m in 2024 and $1.5m in 2025 on my personal card (past 24 months paid for five vehicles, spent $500k on travel), submitted an EOI four times, and was not invited. I felt I had been deliberately filtered out, so I'm not going to send any more EOI in the future.

If you have a friend with the card, ask them to refer you via their RM.

 

[kingmaxlin2007]

Yes, got 2 friends referred, and spoke to Olivia 1 year ago on the phone directly, quite frustrated, was planning to have a corporate card and have all employees to use the Amex card so easily bring in 2m plus to Amex after invitation, but they failed to initiate the invitation, unfortunately, NAB RM kicked in and won the business.

I think Amex Centurion failed to identify the target properly, and from what the post above says, it seems the service component was not offered properly at the price charged.


But overall, I am quite pissed off that the Amex Centurion Team did not really have the right person, the right talent to stick to the values and criteria they claimed they had to really identify and service the client segment they thought they understood, but they failed on this.

 

[Flyerwin]

But overall, I am quite pissed off that the Amex Centurion Team

Maybe it’s like one of those clubs where if you try too hard they won’t let you join?

 

[Viridis]

As I said previously, there’s much more to it than the simple quantum of spend

My brother and I put about the same amount of money through our Platinum accounts (on roughly the same category of goods). He’s been offered the card ….. twice …. with no EOI.

I’ve never been offered

I would have suggested that Centurion offers are in the same category as Chairman’s Lounge membership ….. but, we earned roughly the same amount of income in similar industries . Given up wondering if I’m honest

The only difference that we can see is that we both got the card about the same time …. in the late 80s. He has uninterrupted membership ……. I have a few years break in the mid naughties

 

[kingmaxlin2007]

If you have a friend with the card, ask them to refer you via their RM.

That might be right, but it is ok now. I don't want it anymore, chasing up something else.

I think the Australian market lacks premium and quality products in the retail market; we will see how we can improve the market competition.

 

[kingmaxlin2007]

As I said previously, there’s much more to it than the simple quantum of spend

My brother and I put about the same amount of money through our Platinum accounts (on roughly the same category of goods). He’s been offered the card ….. twice …. with no EOI.

I’ve never been offered

I would have suggested that Centurion offers are in the same category as Chairman’s Lounge membership ….. but, we earned roughly the same amount of income in similar industries . Given up wondering if I’m honest

The only difference that we can see is that we both got the card about the same time …. in the late 80s. He has uninterrupted membership ……. I have a few years break in the mid naughties

Thanks for sharing.

I thought I talked to the centurion team too early when I joined platinum, only on a monthly 50-60k, and did not have a good pattern, and I told them all the people around me with this level of cards, while I was a newbie to Amex. I sort of need this card to be on the same page as other HBS OPMers, that was the first intention for this card, but after attending, mingling, and spending, the previous assumption was not correct, so the urgency of getting this card no longer exists.

In my scenario, I had 4m points in Amex, and I was hardly able to find a way to use the points in an effective way. The only time I use the point effectively is to book Fairmont Boston, but it quickly turned out that I would be better off using my 100k points in the All Accor account rather than Amex, and Accor Diamond offered weekend breakfast with access to the Fairmont Lounge.... I don't really need to book through FHR. Anyway, I could not find an effective way to use various points balances in all airlines and cards at this stage, while the points of all airline/hotel accounts are quickly accumulating and are on high balance.

Therefore, for Centurion cards, valued at this stage at least from my point of view, could provide:

1. either a status of recognition of success,
2. either a points accumulation for higher spending over 2.1m, adjusting for higher annual fees

I am not happy with the misalignment that they did not offer even though I had put in EOI 4 times, but it is ok if you look back, as long as you did not spend more than 2.1m, you won't be better off in terms of points. I could not find a reasonable ground for me to get it.

 

[Daver6]

Thanks for sharing.

I thought I talked to the centurion team too early when I joined platinum, only on a monthly 50-60k, and did not have a good pattern, and I told them all the people around me with this level of cards, while I was a newbie to Amex. I sort of need this card to be on the same page as other HBS OPMers, that was the first intention for this card, but after attending, mingling, and spending, the previous assumption was not correct, so the urgency of getting this card no longer exists.

In my scenario, I had 4m points in Amex, and I was hardly able to find a way to use the points in an effective way. The only time I use the point effectively is to book Fairmont Boston, but it quickly turned out that I would be better off using my 100k points in the All Accor account rather than Amex, and Accor Diamond offered weekend breakfast with access to the Fairmont Lounge.... I don't really need to book through FHR. Anyway, I could not find an effective way to use various points balances in all airlines and cards at this stage, while the points of all airline/hotel accounts are quickly accumulating and are on high balance.

Therefore, for Centurion cards, valued at this stage at least from my point of view, could provide:

1. either a status of recognition of success,
2. either a points accumulation for higher spending over 2.1m, adjusting for higher annual fees

I am not happy with the misalignment that they did not offer even though I had put in EOI 4 times, but it is ok if you look back, as long as you did not spend more than 2.1m, you won't be better off in terms of points. I could not find a reasonable ground for me to get it.

Sorry if I'm misreading this, but it sounds like you want the Centurion card so that your peers recognise your cough being as large as theirs?

 

[kingmaxlin2007]

Sorry if I'm misreading this, but it sounds like you want the Centurion card so that your peers recognise your cough being as large as theirs?

Not exactly. Back at the time, I was a bit burned out at work and life, and could not properly recognize self-recognition and locate social valuation. That was the initial intention 2 years back; it was a bit naive, as people keep saying that the Centurion card is a status of success.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

people keep saying that the Centurion card is a status of success.

Oh FFS - point me to those people and I’ll point you to some flogs.

 

[hexDoor]

people keep saying that the Centurion card is a status of success.

At the price point, a better status symbol is just owning a house in Double Bay, Vaucluse or literally anywhere in metro Sydney...