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After raising their annual fees, many American Express Gold cardholders are ready to cancel their cards. In this video, I'll go over some alternate credit card options for those who are no longer interested in the American Express card. These cards are especially geared towards those who want to earn miles and points for travel.

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📕 Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:20 Capital One SavorOne
03:16 Citi Strata Premier
04:13 Bilt Rewards Mastercard
05:20 Chase Credit Cards
07:02 Thoughts
08:00 Closing

[evanperry]

I’ll probably keep the gold for a while and downgrade before that af hits. There wasn’t anything wrong with card before. I get they have to increase the af every so often but still frustrating.

[jvirtus]

I went from 2 years platinum, down to 1 year gold, down to green. Perks weren't useful to me and spending more for a annual fee aint it.

[ImKeeday]

If wells improved their transfer partners, now more than ever they’d sway more people to give their cards a chance.

[nicveras]

If my only Amex card is the gold card, how would you go about canceling it? I have a fair bit of points and I don’t want to just use them with no flexibility. I don’t really want the green card either. My only thought would be to take advantage of the British airways 30% bonus right now and transfer out. Is there an option I’m not thinking of that could allow me to remain in the Amex ecosystem with no annual fee?

[PhatNguyen-jp]

Can you just apply to the Amex Plat to keep the points then cancel the gold? Or ask them for upgrade offer?

[toddyee-en]

Not sure if you stated, but the Capital One Venture One (no annual fee) can also transfer cents to Cap One miles. A no annual fee duo is the Venture One and Savor One. powerful for those not inclinded to pay annual fees.

[kevinlin]

Of note, food delivery services code as groceries for Chase

[serocks]

Im sticking with amex because I live in a highly populated area so I can easily take advantage of all my credits. I also travel to see family in Hawaii every year or so and they’re currently the only partner credit card that transfers to Hawaiian Miles after BILT quietly removed them a few months ago. Great video though Max! I get why people want to cancel.

[lebisque]

I don't like the new AF. They could have just kept the fee the same and the benefits. I've been getting offers to upgrade to Plat with 125K bonus points, but I have even less of a need for the Plat and its exorbitant AF. I'll be keeping the gold. My begging kids will be able to use all of these credits. My daughter used my card at a restaurant just after the upgrade and I saw the Resy credit on my statement. So not bad enough for me to cancel. We call it our food card, lol.

[matteog]

I just renewed the gold for $250, so I will use it an other year for sure! Having the Cap Venture X Im still planning to apply to the SavorOne and then revaluate in 12 months

[pearlintheoyster]

Hi i work in grocery store n i see these ppl who shop for ppl who order on-line n they arent as mindful when shopping for the on-line orders. They just dump the groceries in the shopping cart n continue the on-line lists due to the time allot. But there are except few that care to organize the grocery lists nicely.
I would not order on-line shopping as i work n see how these shoppers are rushing to get the orders quickly done
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[gilbertnicholas]

My Savor One is en route It was good while it lasted with the AmEx Gold

[jsbatra]

I was fully expecting Amex to screw up my most favorite card. while very unhappy with the direction Amex is taking with their cards, these changes work in my favor without having to go too far out of my way. annoying but I still get a lot of value from this card

[clam]

Thank you for the video! I’ve been using the Gold card for years, mainly for the 4x points on dining and groceries, while relying on Capital One for 2x on everything else. The recent fee increase on the Gold card isn’t great, so I appreciate you offering an alternative. I’ll definitely be switching to the Savor card. Thanks again!

[saulmartinez]

Still going strong with the CSP as my dining card for 2 years now. I might get the Savor One to cover the groceries part of my spending. Thanks for the video!

[wclwpsh]

So happy I never fell for the hype and went with the Capital One duo

[Opinionated]

At this point there are so many better cards than the Amex gold and now that the AF is increased I see less of a reason to get it unless you’re just chasing the sign up bonus and canceling a year later

[Cryptid]

How do you talk about the built card without talking about the fact that you can pay your rent with the credit card? Like every human being that rents on Earth can pay and you earn points that you can turn into miles from your largest month they expense which is your rent

[ginalynellsmith]

Good info except on the Chase card you said "who buys groceries online anyway?" But you forget not everyone is abled body nor younger than age 65 like yourself. Some of us find online groceries necessary and more convenient. Thx

[ginalynellsmith]

Good info except on the Chase card you said "who buys groceries online anyway?" But you forget not everyone is abled body nor younger than age 65 like yourself. Some of us find online groceries necessary and more convenient. Thx