Can you tell what it is yet?

Out of the blue today I received a package courtesy of DHL. It's a box, about 8' x 8' x 5'.



It was a bit like pass the parcel.









Credit crunch? What credit crunch?

It's finally arrived, the UK Amex Centurion titanium card, but fortunately for LRoM it no longer sports 'Charter Member' on the front that allowed me to irritate him with.

Howard

[Darren Wheeler]

At first I though that was what the bill came in.

Oh, and I just read the bumf. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Annual fee increased from 650 to 1800. Oooooouch! Not sure I can be arsed with that thank you.

Howard

[Scrooge]

Call and complain, demand the 'charter member' decal be placed on the card.

[ChuckC]

While you're at it, Howard, perhaps demand your old fee back!

Chuck-

PS: For those interested here is a website that discusses various black cards.

[Scrooge]

and ask them where the pens are.

[HighFlyer]

Thats so typical of AmEx to send the most ostentatious and ridiculous box for a card and some paper. Still, if you were to whack it up on eBay some fool would snap it up [:D]

So ... are you going to pay the fee? Or tell them where to go?

Thanks,
Sarah

quote:Originally posted by Howard Long
Oh, and I just read the bumf. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Annual fee increased from 650 to 1800. Oooooouch! Not sure I can be arsed with that thank you.

Howard



Have to ask, what do you get for 1800[?]

-Steve

quote:Originally posted by HighFlyer
So ... are you going to pay the fee? Or tell them where to go?


It's got a lovely metallic feel to it though. And cold to the touch. Does that make it worth 1,800 yet? In fact, ounce for ounce, is gold more or less expensive I wonder?

H

[mcmbenjamin]

Wow! Does it scrape ice off a car well? Trying to make a list of uses for a Centurion Card... [:?] [:p] [:)]

quote:Originally posted by mcmbenjamin
Wow! Does it scrape ice off a car well? Trying to make a list of uses for a Centurion Card... [:?] [:p] [:)]


LOL! I will try it tonight.

Howard

[Decker]

Someone suggested last night I could sharpen mine and use it to kill people. But I am in a rough area of BC.

I use mine to protect my precious NATWEST Black Card !

[Decker]

Or as someone else commented the other day here in sunny Guildford BC - 'Amex make the coolest coloured cards - the other day I had a RED one'

[RichardMannion]

Interesting, did you not get all the other pre-amble like the book of nothing or the postcard canvas?

quote:Originally posted by RichardMannion
Interesting, did you not get all the other pre-amble like the book of nothing or the postcard canvas?


Possibly - there was a greater than average tree felling identifiable as Amex Centurion coming through my letterbox over the past few weeks. That goes straight to recycling: unlike the idle rich that this stuff typically targets I don't have time to ponder over advertisements for private jets I'm afraid.

H

Do you have to carry the card around in its protective box?

[RichardMannion]

Running a bit behind Decker and Howard!

However, 'Temptation is on the way' - aptly a lyric from Madness, House of Fun.



The box



The opened inner box



The bizarre, postcard sized canvas print. Nothing more, nothing less in the box.