Longest Amex card holder in Australia.

[TheTrimmer]

Just wondering how long you have been an Amex card holder in Australia.

 

[NM]

well, I'll kick it off ... my card says "Member since 93". There will definitely be many longer than that on AFF.

 

[knagelli]

I am still in my early years with Amex and had my Platinum Charge Card since 2019.

 

[Dr Ralph]

11 months and 30 days. Churn and burn forever!

 

[whughes3]

My Amex cards show me as a member since '78, which IIRC was when they started operating in Australia. I vaguely recall getting a letter in the mail telling me what a terrific person I was and wouldn't I just love having one of their cards: which, being a sucker for such things, I apparently did and have had ever since.

 

[Quickstatus]

Sorry I though this was about the length of the Amex card

 

[knagelli]

Sorry I though this was about the length of the Amex card

I guess you are spot on ; if you have been a member with no gaps then your card might actually show the member since information. I am sure you do know that but just clarifying in case I read it differently.

Technically it's the age of your membership with Amex across different cards in my reading.

 

[NM]

Sorry I though this was about the length of the Amex card

In that case, mine is 86mm

 

[MathNerd]

In that case, mine is 86mm

Taken out of context, this would be.... very worrying!

 

[albyd]

Mine is 94. I feel pretty old now ...Though looked at a couple and they all have different years.

 

[Captain Halliday]

In that case, mine is 86mm

Mine is 94. I feel pretty old now ...Though looked at a couple and they all have different years.

In wonder why yours is 8mm longer than @NM ?

You think the machines pressing the cards would be more accurate!

 

[coriander]

Since 79

 

[desafinado74]

Since 2015.

 

[AIRwin]

In wonder why yours is 8mm longer than @NM ?

Size doesn't matter does it?

 

[Hvr]

Taken out of context, this would be.... very worrying!

And seasonal.

 

[cove]

Ours are 1979. We have US and Australian cards. Gold in the US, Ultimate and Platinum Edge in Australia. Have a work Platinum Corporate too.

 

[Ktan89]

11 months and 30 days. Churn and burn forever!

This is 8months too long Dr Ralph

 

[MathNerd]

Wow. Some real veterans here.

Mine is Since 2016, as that's when I signed up to my first AmEx (Platinum Edge with no/reduced annual fee for the first year IIRC).
It's been a rocky journey for the last 6 years (with the reduction of transfer ratios and the removal of local champion, amongst many things) but overall it's let me + Mrs MN travel in SQ R or J for peanuts so can't complain.

 

[SYD]

1990. I must have been a child…

But the reason I got one was “Express cash“. Who remembers that and does it still work???

Before using your regular bank ATM card overseas became a practical thing, you could link your AMEX to any bank account with a “cheque” facility (who still uses cheques?) and withdraw cash fee free and at the bank rate. There were AMEX ATMs (I still remember where one in London was) and usually at least one bank chain per country you could use. This was in 1990. No more travellers cheques (who remembers them?)

Funny thing, I’d linked mine to a Credit Union and when they started charging $1 per month for the privilege of having an ATM card, I went in an cancelled my card. The person there did not believe me that I was already withdrawing cash using my AMEX card…

 

[tgh]

Mine would have been in the 70's but I got annoyed with them during one of their loyalty destroying renaissances
and cut their coughpy card into a million pieces. I am a man of my word and haven't gone back..
otoh I do have a supp card for swmbo's Dj/amex...