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AmEx Platinum Business Charge Card: 100,000 Bonus Membership Rewards Points + Unlimited Global Lounge Access ($1,500 Annual Fee)

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This is basically the business version of the Amex Platinum Charge Card that has previously posted. Obviously the large annual fee will not suit everyone but this card could be useful for business owners who can claim this as a business expense.

The list of benefits for this card is quite extensive but some of the highlights include the 100,000 bonus points (110,000 through referral) which can be transferred to Qantas and most other airlines at 1:1. Note also the higher point earn rate on advertising, couriers or computer equipment as shown below.

Also get unlimited access to Virgin Australia, Priority Pass and American Express airline lounges globally for the cardholder + one supplementary cardholder.

Rewards (MR Ascent Premium):
- 2 points per $1 spent at eligible restaurants, airlines, accommodation, foreign currency, advertising, couriers and computer equipment
- 2 points per $ on overseas spend
- 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases, except those listed below
- 0.5 points per dollar spent on utilities, insurance (except those issued by American Express) and government bodies
- Transfer points to Transfer to 10 Airline Partners (Qantas, Virgin Australia, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Etihad, Malaysia Airlines, Thai Airways, Emirates, Virgin Atlantic, Air New Zealand) and SPG

Other benefits:
- Starwood Gold Preferred Guest membership and Club Carlson’s Gold Elite status
- Complimentary membership to the elite Preferred Golf Club
- Complimentary annual digital multi-device subscription per year to The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au), The Age (theage.com.au), or The Financial Review (afr.com.au)
- Travel booking benefits through AmEx Travel: discounts on British Airways, Delta, Emirates, Etihad, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways and Virgin Australia flights; exclusive benefits on partner independent hotel chains; and Fine Hotels & Resorts benefits ($100 USD in credit per stay, 12pm check in, Room upgrade if available, Free breakfast, 4pm late checkout, Free wifi)
- Up to 99 Supplementary Cards for your employees at no additional cost
- Platinum Travel Insurances where you don’t even need to use your Card for the purchase to be covered; you’re entitled to them, just for holding the Card. Plus, your dependent children (up to and including the age of 24), your spouse and any Supplementary Card Members are also covered by these travel insurances.
- Monthly Business Expenses Insurance means you'll receive protection in the event you're temporarily unable to run your business, to a maximum of $12,000.
- Loss/Damage waiver on motor vehicle provides cover for loss or damage to your rental vehicle up to $125,000
- Direct transaction data feeds to MYOB accounting software

Requirements:
- Personal gross (pre-tax) annual income of $75,000 or more and operate a trading ABN or ACN
- Card Members who currently hold or who have previously held any other Card product issued by American Express Australia Limited in the preceding 18 month period are ineligible for this offer. Previous and existing bank-issued American Express companion cardholders are eligible for this offer.
- $5,000 spend in the first 2 months from the Card approval date to get the bonus points

Note that this is a Charge Card with no pre-set spending limit. Annual Fee: $1,500.

Referral Offer
Apply using the link below for 110,000 bonus points (10,000 extra):
https://www316.americanexpress.com/iFormsSecure/un/iforms.do…

Referral Links

Business Explorer Card: random (1)

Referrer: 40,000 Reward Points

Centurion Personal Charge Card: random (7)

Referee gets 200,000 MR points. Referrer gets 150,000 MR points.

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  • +5

    $1,500 Annual Fee

    LOL

    • +1

      Are you laughing because it's too cheap for you?

      • +1

        No, she is laughing because this is Ozbargain…

    • +1

      LOL ,

      Indeed JV,

      LOL ,

      Indeed.

  • Wasn't this 150k a few months back?

  • +12

    0p seems to be milking OzBargain for referral credit.
    Based on his last few posts…

    Just an observation…
    :)

    • +2

      Actually,
      This is, border level Brodening
      There's a wiki for a reason…
      So referrals are given to more members…

      Sorry i have to neg but i mean look at these ^

      • The original post should make it clear that the bonus points are not only available via his personal referral link, BUT ALSO BY THE RANDOM REFERRAL LINK. Very badly worded - methinks deliberately.

  • +1

    OP has been flying first class thanks to Ozbargain

    • -1

      Haha, no such luck as yet.

  • +3
    • Up to 99 Supplementary Cards for your employees at no additional cost

    Wow…

  • -1

    Wow $1500

  • This is certainly one of those cards that if you have to ask why, then it is not for you. Very hard to see value out of this unless it is for a business and want to issue supplementary cards to their employees while earning decent point on spending.

  • -1

    i have one of these supplied by work, its good, I spend about 5k a month half to all of that is work expenses, then at the end of the year my boss gives me $1000 gift card. im im probably being ripped off because he gets around 9k of points a month.

    • +2

      …except that it's your bosses money you're spending so he's entitled to collect the points and you're lucky to get $1,000 out of it!

      Aside from that, the points value on these cards is a way better return than regular cards, when you consider the spending is likely entirely written off as a business expense.

  • Assuming the 99 additional cardholders don't get the perks? 100 Virgin Lounge memberships for $1500 would be a pretty good deal!

    • Only 1 other gets lounge access but all covered for travel insurance.

      • all card holders get lounge access to Amex Lounge, probably no access to other lounge. but supplementary card holder only get limited travel insurance.

        I have one supplementary card and I'm happy with free lounge access in sydney, my boss is happy with his points, he currently has almost 1 million points.

      • On the amex website it says "Your Platinum Business Card comes with complimentary Virgin Lounge access. Simply show your Card and Virgin Australia boarding pass to gain entry"

        Is there some kind of identifier on the primary vs. additional cards? Otherwise, how would lounge staff know the difference?

        • I think that this has been covered elsewhere and people say that supp. card holders have been successful.

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