I had forgotten that you can get a Chip+PIN with a Platinum card. I travel almost enough to make the annual fee worthwhile, but not quite enough :-)
I Europe you can get Amex Gold with Chip+PIN. I tried to apply using our London office as a mail drop, but they stopped me at "you are a US citizen, no EU AMEX for you". Btw, It has become practically impossible to open a bank account in EU if you're a US citizen, by the way. Several US friends who had had UK Barclay's and other bank accounts in UK for convenience had their accounts cancelled,,, On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Chris Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/02/15, Tom Perrine wrote: >> My latest AMEX came with CHIP+sig, that was 2 months ago. There was >> no indication in the letter or any printed material with the card. >> >> $spouse just got her AMEX today. There's an included letter that talks >> about the card being CHIP+sig. > > You can request an AMEX chip + pin card. it's subject to some approval > process > and they have to send you a new card but it was free to me. (though I travel > a > ton these days so I have a platinum card, I dunno if that helped or not). > > -C > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
