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- From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
- Subject: Re: AmEx Vs Visa
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.151902.2778@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- References: <1992Dec4.233624.27329@infonode.ingr.com> <4890047@pollux.svale.hp.com> <1992Dec17.212323.11885@opencon.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:19:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.212323.11885@opencon.com> giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani) writes:
- >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
-
- [deletia]
- >
- > 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.
- >
- For me, the value of the AMEX gold card is not only the monthly record
- they send but the annualized report I get in January, in which my
- purchases are categorized according to type and reported for each month
- of the previous year (with yearly totals, too). This is especially
- handy for us at tax time. If you don't need it, it's surely not worth
- the extra money for the card, I would think.
-
- jmalloy@hamilton.edu
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- >____________________ . . __ . | Deepak S. Gianchandani
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- > . || /_____/ NCC_1701 __/ . . . | To Boldly Go Where
- >. . || /--/--._________.----/ . | No One Has Gone BEFORE
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