Has anyone gone fishing for a retention offer on the SPG Lux/Bonvoy Brilliant? I expect my 2nd year AF to post at the close of this current statement.
I saw a DP that Amex offered 30k Marriott points for $3k spend over 3 months, or $100 credit after $2.5k spend in 3 months.
Considering Marriott points are much harder to earn through SUBs nowadays, it’s not a bad play if you’re going to keep the card anyway.
But I wonder if downgrading to the discontinued, legacy SPG/Bonvoy Amex will let you (1) get the 50k FN cert (or will you get the 35k FN cert, since “your account must be open and not in default at the time of the Free Night Award e-certificate issuance”), and (2) get targeted for upgrade offers back up to the Brilliant (offering a lucrative 100k-125k Marriott points), which it seems you’re excluded from while still holding the Brilliant?
If yes to the above two, then the latter option seems to be the better strategy.
ETA or a third way, assuming you don’t get the 50k FN cert if you’ve downgraded the Brilliant to the legacy Bonvoy, I could hold the Brilliant long enough for the 50k FN cert to deposit, downgrade to the legacy Bonvoy, and hopefully open myself up to upgrade offers when I’m no longer holding the Brilliant.