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- From: giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani)
- Subject: Re: AmEx Vs Visa
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.212323.11885@opencon.com>
- Followup-To: misc.consumers
- Sender: giand@opencon.com
- Organization: OpenCon Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec4.233624.27329@infonode.ingr.com> <4890047@pollux.svale.hp.com>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:23:23 GMT
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- In article <4890047@pollux.svale.hp.com> dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low) writes:
- >>(Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- >>IMHO, the only time using AmEx is not bonehead stupid is if your
- >>company pays for it, or if you are traveling internationally. The same
- >>thing goes for their Shearson financial services.
- >
- >AmEx is worth it if you do a lot of traveling. Period. Hotel reservations
- >guaranteed by AmEx are truly guaranteed unlike Visa/MC where they
- >are technically not a guarantee. The odds of a Visa/MC guarantee NOT
- >being honored is very low BUT if you do a lot of traveling, you will
- >encounter such a situation if you use only Visa/MC. AmEx is also much
- >more aggressive in getting hotels, airlines, etc. to provide extra
- >ammenities like express checkout. You can get many of the same extras
- >with SOME Visa/MC cards but AmEx always seems to be ahead in quality
- >and quantity. For example, AmEx started the extended warranty program.
- >Visa/MC cards who offer the same thing did so only after AmEx proved
- >the value of such a program.
- >
-
- Plus, AmEx one gets a carbon copy of "charge" receipt on every
- charge you made (along with the itemised list, which is
- convient) in your MONTHLY statement. I don't know of other
- cards doing it, i.e. VISA of Master Card.
-
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