What Gives With American Express Card

[John K Jordan]

Zounds, if I had a card like that I'd give it up too. We've never experienced availability problems or fees like that. We always get the flights we want on Delta, easier if booking in advance. Maybe it helps that my wife is a wizard at travel planning.

...I also have an airline miles card, but have given up on it as the rules and availability of frequent flyer flights have made the miles darn near impossible to use. ... they will add "fees" of about $650 to your "free" ticket to London, while at the same time selling the same out of season ticket for $500 if you just pay cash. ...

[lowell holmes]

I now have a bank card issued by my bank. I have not experienced any difficulties with it. They provided me with a debit card to retrieve funds from their cash machine if I need it. The credit card works the same except it is a credit card requiring repayment. he debit card funds draws down the account balance.

[Chris Parks]

It hasn't been that way for me for at least 10 years. WAY back, they charged a higher percentage and paid only once a month.

I had Amex try a convince me to accept their card over 30 years ago but they refused to lower their charges so we refused to accept their card from customers.

[Brian Elfert]

For merchants that use Square or Paypal the rate for Amex is the same as for any other card. Paypal offers a service to take cards in person and not just online.

I have a very small side gig where I use Square to take credit cards and I can take pretty much any form of credit card including Apple Pay and other phone payments.

[Jim Becker]

Brian, same for the payments with QuickBooks...same fee across the board except for ACH which is free.

[lowell holmes]

My vet refused my American Express card. I still have the card, but it is retired.

[Ronald Blue]

Food for thought.

nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/retailers-accept-american-express/

[John K Jordan]

My vet refused my American Express card. I still have the card, but it is retired.

People are different. My eye surgeon signed up to accept Amex when I said I'd like to use it to pay for Lasik.