American Express Trifecta | Why I Pay $1,190 PER YEAR

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The American Express trifecta is one of the most powerful credit card combinations on the market and includes the platinum, gold, and blue business plus cards from American Express. A setup like this allows you to maximize your earning on all spending categories with the platinum card covering your travel purchases and premium travel benefits, the gold card covering you on dining and grocery stores, and the blue business plus card giving you two points on all other purchases. But at nearly $1,000 per year in annual fees or more depending on which combination you decide to go with, you'll want to carefully consider which cards are a worthwhile addition to your wallet.
So today we'll cover every combination of the Amex trifecta including the pros and cons of each, show you the easiest way to find those elusive elevated targeted offers so you get the largest sign up bonus possible and of course give you a few examples on how you can use three simple credit cards to earn some amazing free travel experiences.
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0:00-Intro
0:37-What is a Trifecta?
1:57-Amex Platinum
4:46-Amex Gold
5:27-Amex Blue Business Plus
6:04-Cheaper Card Combos
8:34-Which Should YOU Get?

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[@erinwilms9459]

Looking forward to a Chase trifecta. Love your videos!

[@DailyDrop]

We are so glad that you enjoy them! Thanks for watching 🤗

[@georgegotay9709]

The plat, gold, green, business blue plus combo works well if you live in NYC.

[@TampaTravel]

Great Video... Thanks

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Thanks for watching 🤗

[@kennethbatts5182]

I feel like it would make more sense to switch out the gold card with blue preferred . you could make up on the dining by getting the greed card.

[@Th33Vultur3]

You can also do the blue business plus, the green card and the blue cash preferred. I have even though they overlap in groceries with gold, the blue business plus, the gold and the blue cash preferred. If you want to save, you can also do green, blue business plus or the blue cash everyday if you don't spend a lot on supermarkets.

[@nicholasrobinson848]

The trifecta you don’t discuss is the Plat Gold and Green. Use plat for flights, gold for food, and green if you don’t want to use the Amex portal for hotels like Airbnb. And the green is a great travel buddy that covers traveling related expenses that the Plat doesn’t cover. This trifecta maximizes points but you and no one talks about.

[@Americanomondays]

DANG. I just added my AMEX fee’s up and I’m at $1690 at year. YIKES. Platinum + my wife as an AU. Gold. Delta Reserve Business and Blue Business Plus - I still feel it’s worth it - I’m getting a ton of value - but if I were to downgrade - I do think that the Delta card may be the first to get the downgrade.

[@SolidLiquidFox]

This video may be about 4 years too late. Amex is due for another price increase on the Platinum and the craziness with Delta that happened this week. MR is still valuable, but it almost feels irresponsible to recommend this trifecta at the crucial junction in the points and miles game.

[@diotitus]

No they won't.

[@boy_named_niel]

Great video! ATM im using Plat, Gold, Blue Business Plus. At 2c per point, I get 10% ROS on flights, 8% ROS on food and groceries and 4% back on everything else. Only bad thing is because blue has foreign transaction fee of 2.7%, it’s only 1.3% abroad, so I have to use my flat rate 2% Apple Card or Amex Gold for 1x (still 2%)

[@DailyDrop]

Good stuff! Thanks for sharing!

[@Th33Vultur3]

I currently have the blue business plus, AMEX gold, and the blue cash preferred and blue business cash. At the earliest I would downgrade the cash preferred to the blue cash every day. Or if my spending is much lower than $6000, I can maybe do the green card, blue business plus, blue cash every day and Everyday preferred. I would also downgrade from gold back to green. The only problem is I would only travel maybe once a year and would have to put a lot of restaurants spend since I don’t live in a major city and I cannot justify the lounge buddy or a clear credits on green. My local international airport is very small and doesn’t have any lounges at all.

[@ThunderCat19D]

The blue cash every day card is much better as a sub. 3% cash back for gas groceries and ANY ONLINE PURCHASES any app any online store . You don't need the cash preferred the gold card does pretty much everything the preferd does

[@robertmurray8763]

With my white American Express, I have no gimmicks and no fees. Only interest for money outstanding for 55 days. I had a platinum card , i only paid about US$50 a year.

[@cmg799]

Would love an in depth platinum card video

[@DailyDrop]

Great suggestion! We will add it to our content idea list 👍

[@larock0wns]

So with all the limitation with lounge access, is Amex Platinum lounge access still a perk?

[@bytechlife]

I agree. Another point, is I fly United exclusively and the Amex lounges are never in the same area as United flights.

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

Spending $1000+ a year to get "free" travel experiences doesn’t sound worth it to me.

[@theclown888]

I'd look at the credits and see if they're in categories you spend money on anyway.

[@bw68319]

I have yet to dip into the AMEX cards simply because I don’t fly that often. Amex annual fees seem to be best offset with flights. Correct me if I’m wrong as I’d love to know how AMEX can be beneficial to those who don’t fly. I am considering getting the AMEX green card for 3x on travel tho. Thanks for sharing this info! Love the informant info while also keeping it entertaining!!😊

[@KeriBeal]

Existing customers aren’t eligible for the sign up bonus on a new card. I have a Blue card and now a Gold, no points given when signing up for the Gold 😢

[@BrandoMoto]

I had the gold signed up for the platinum and got 150k points

[@ranktank45]

It seems like you might be in pop up jail friend. You need to put more spend on your cards or just wait a bit longer before applying for cards after getting your sub.

[@wendiwestvincent7915]

I did when I already had a blue and other branded Amex cards

[@matthewnirenberg]

LOL - can't be done outside the USA as in the rest of the world Amex cards are tiered, as in you move from one to another, you can't have multiple levels at once.

[@theclown888]

USA FTW

[@nathanvess4035]

This is bonkers for most people, myself included.

[@CARow2487]

I find the background techno music distracting - your video is already fast moving and has lots of screen transitions, the busy music is a bit much

[@asverma93]

It may help to slow down the video. You can do so in the video settings.

[@mintico]

He is trying brian jung style

[@CARow2487]

@mintico Interesting, haven't seen his videos so didn't realize!