Strange travel credit situation

[aspro2]

My Explorer anniversary date is next week and I'm planning to cancel (my last attempt to cancel, a few months ago, resulted in an acceptable retention offer, so I doubt I'll get another now). However, i just noticed that I received the $400 annual travel credit about 15 days ago! This seems very strange... and surely looks like I could use this credit without incurring the annual fee. How odd. (I don't have any particular reason to use it right now.) Has anyone else been in this situation?

 

[Dr Ralph]

Quite normal. Well reported on AFF.

I use the 2nd credit to forward book a hotel room and then cancel the card. Never been an issue when it came time to stay at the hotel even though the card had been cancelled.

 

[aspro2]

Quite normal. Well reported on AFF.

Oh my search didn't yield results that seemed to be the same scenario, sorry!

 

[Dr Ralph]

Oh my search didn't yield results that seemed to be the same scenario, sorry!

Here's one example of a post discussing this:

AMEX Explorer: Two $400 travel credits with one annual fee?

I got the AMEX Explorer in December 2021 and paid the annual fee, and was told in live chat that my second annual fee would accrue on 5 Jan 2023 (fortunately I took a screenshot of this). I already spent the travel credit I got in December 2022 on flights I took in December 2021, and I'm...

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