If I paid $10,000 just to get a card with $5,000 every year just to keep it and I ask for a jar of sand, I better receive a damn jar of sand, like sand is free to pick up and with international shipping the total is around $65. With how much money credit card companies make off of these people, it didn't cost them anything.
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If I pay $5000 a year to hold a plastic credit card then you’re damn right that guy is going to drive out on a motorcycle and get a handful of sand to ship it to me sounds like he got a day out of the office and I got a handful of sand.
I once had a customer at a restaurant I used to be a server at with a Amex black card. I asked him about it and what’s it like to have one. He says it gets annoying towards the end of the year when you have a certain amount you need to spend and he hasn’t reached it, he literally gives the card to his kids to splurge, travel, and buy anything so that he reaches the spending bar every year. And I was like dayyyuuumm that sounds like a nice problem to have 😳
What tf kind of school did that kid go to that the teacher needed some sand from the Dead Sea as a project?! Clearly that kid never seen a public school day in his life!!!
@@Hellooooo378 no, it does not. Public school means going out in public with other people of the standard class. Private School is one where they're individually taught and have special privileges
@@savagecabbage1184 American public schools are basically called state schools in the UK, and UK public schools are the private schools you're thinking of.
@@savagecabbage1184 also even in the US it doesn’t mean that? A private school is just a k-12 school that is funded by tuition money and not by taxes. There is no guarantee of quality at all. Wrong twice
Do you even go to buy something yourself with that kind of card? Just call people and they will get it for you. Edit : sorry forgot to mention i know its a joke and yes its kind of funny. But still i doubt anyone goes to buy anything themselves with this kind of card.
@@ArKeTiCt yeah people do.. it’s not like you have to be super rich. You could run a business and charge business expenses on Amex that amounts over 500k per year and get an invite. There’s tons of regular middle class people with a black card because they have high expenses every year.
I work at Disneyland Paris. I had a guest who used his card to ask me "Do you know who I am ?!" Because the B&J cookie dough ice cream was sold out. Yes. This card is used by giant douches.
@@trollinape2697 so you think people who woyld spend that much money for the sake of status and willingly get a card with a 10k initiation fee are, what? Philanthopists?
Trust me, you can tell where sand is from by texture among other things. This is coming from an Arabian sand boa (plus if you’ve ever been to the Gulf of Mexico and compare the sand to the north eastern coast sand it’s way different). Plus they’re paid to do it so they should just do it, a job is a job and pay is pay.
Bro, the rider its a spanish youtuber named Nicolas, he have a channel “ridemefive” and the boi is travelling around Africa, he’s not a ¿millonarie?, he is a normal person XD
I held one once. A guy paid for tickets at the zoo I work at woth one. I freaked out and told my co workers and they were like huh and I had to explain how rare they are
*Guy working at American Express* “Thank you for calling American Express how can I help you?” Rich dude: “Hi my son needs some sand from the Dead Sea for his school project.” “Sir I’m sorry but my services don’t include tha-“ “I have the black card.” *sighs and looks at moped helmet* “very well sir *hangs up* I don’t get paid enough for this shit.”
Strange, I don’t remember ever hearing my teacher say “Alright class, remember, everyone better have a handful of sand from the dead sea by Monday morning otherwise your science project will receive an F!”
My classroom was given a similar assignment when i was in the 6th grade (this was around 1988...yeesh). Each of us was assigned a state. We had to do a history report on it and had to have a small sample of dirt from that state. I don't remember how we were supposed to contact somebody to get this sample. I do remember that i didn't complete that part of the assignment though
I saw someone with a black card have the card declined at a Starbucks when taking out a much younger woman. The woman promptly left as soon as she saw that it was declined.
Back in 2003 I was the stock room manager at Victoria’s Secret in Beverly Hills. Beyoncé, Solange, and their mother did a little shopping spree. The bill was over 10k. This is the card Beyoncé used to pay the bill.
@@mysalival100 It is. I worked in restaurants for years, trust me, you can be Arnold Schwarzenegger, if they are no table available, I won't make you eat in the kitchen, and 99% of real chefs/hotel master would not kick a client out for anybody. That can be illegal actually.
@@ScottMccain117 I don't think you have if you think this means kicking someone out 😂 what I'm saying is literally every table is not filled. My own father walked into a restaurant recently and was told it was absolutely full but then the manager who is the son of a close friend saw him and said not a problem, for you I can find a table. Boom seated menus, great meal all round.
You're also missing the point about the card you're not going in flashing it saying "gimme table" you phone the Amex concierge service a lot of the concierges has relationships with Good restaurant and can get you exclusive bookings etc.
Exactly. Actually I've never seen it accepted here. Here only MasterCard/Visa/Maestro and that's about all. I can only recall seen it in a fancy restaurants and hotels.
Imagine calling a bank and being like " yo bitch, my son needs some sand from the dead sea for his school project , you have 2 hours tops, thanks" and they send a guy on a fucking moped just to bring you some fucking sand, and if he doesn't he gets fucking fired.
No, they be more like: "Hello sir, sorry to bother you with this, but I really need a sample of some sand from the Dead Sea, and I was wondering if there's any way you can get some? Oh you can? Great! Please send the bill to my account at your earliest convenience."
@@in-homewellnessmentalhealt7480 holy fucking shit you got ratioed so hard, props to you for taking it and not doubling down and starting an argument like most here
Everyone outside of the US: “Should I care? This black card means nothing to me” Edit: Americans need to stop getting offended when I say everywhere. I mean most businesses, not every single business. The majority of businesses that don’t accept Amex outnumbers the ones that do. Edit 2: To all the americans in this thread. Cope.
@@FoxTrot63 Only if they accept American Express, a lot of businesses outside of the US don’t because they charge more in fees when compared to other credit card companies
My grandpa got several invitations lol. I was so excited for him and he didn’t even care. When it comes to finances I go to him and my grandma. They live like the average family, nice house, nice cars but not too too flashy, yet their bank accounts and credit is many levels above how they live.
I had a client in petstore in poland once trying to pay with this shit... It took almost one hour to authorize transaction cause operator needed a phonecall to do confirm that holder just traveled all the way to some European end of world and trying to spend 100zl that was around 20 bucks back then... And on top of this they had to finish it on open transaction and our card transactions operator was rejecting transaction after 15 minutes of waiting cause its timeout limit. So I think it would be faseter if someone of them can take moto and bring some cash to poor women. She was so embarased lol
Had two friends that had this card as sister cards from their parents company cards. Yeah all cards in the family get's upgraded! And you can have It as a privat company owner which makes spending this kimd of cash a year viable. It did not cost an annual fee or initiation fee If you live up to the limit of getting one. The service you get for It sucks in Europe, basically just help booking airplane tickets. This card was cool when Brats were cool back in 2004, now no one knows what It is.. except baftenders that expect a hefty tip If you hand It in which is honestly not a benefit...
Get a seat at a fully booked restaurant, How’s that go exactly? “Excuse me sir, you and your date must vacate the table. A trust fund brat with a black piece of plastic just arrived!”
Most high-end restaurants have empty tables that are permanently booked by banks like AMEX, just waiting for someone with a Platinum or high-end cards to use them. These tables aren’t made available for other guests, so even if there are no one using them, the restaurant would still tell you that they’re booked up. This is why you’ve never heard people complaining about some rich guy stealing their seats (at least in high-end restaurants). When you book online, the restaurant doesn’t know who you are and don’t know if you’re a big spender or not. That’s why they don’t give you a lot of priority. But when these guys call in through a Concierge, they know exactly that the people reserving are gonna spend big. So restaurants bend over backward to serve you, even if it means materialising a table out of nowhere.
@@aconite72 there literally like maybe 10,000 restaurants in the entire world that actually participate in that crap 😂 restaurants that would just laugh in a normal persons face if they even thought about asking how long the wait was so actually that’s why you never hear someone complain about a rich guy stealing their table because rich people and middle class people don’t dine nor live in the same areas especially when the rich guys spending $250k a year
@@M-Powerdreamsgarage What are you even trying to say. The keyword is “high-end”. Most people don’t have to call their credit card Concierge to reserve a table at Olive Garden. This practice is for premium restaurants with months-long reservation list only.
I work in a Zaxbys as a cashier in GA, I swear I get handed this card so many times and it feels like I’m holding gold. It’s heavier than a normal credit card and it just feels expensive.
Is this being presented to me as something… good? Because all I’m hearing is more ways rich people waist their money and thus more reasons for them to be systematically executed.
Years ago I had a client pay with their black card. It was metal and too thick to swipe in my card reader. Had to manually enter it. Amex has since made the card thinner.
I swear if I had this I’d still be staying in cheap motels. I dunno, there’s something about having a family history from the Great Depression, unreasonable frugality some would say.
If you had this you’d probably be worth millions upon millions of dollars and you wouldn’t stay at no damn cheap motels that crack heads sleep and fuck at 😂 I’m pretty well off definitely not American Express black card well off but I’m more then comfortable and even I refuse to go sleep in a hotel any worse then a Hampton inn why would you pay 60 bucks and sleep on a crackhead motel but not pay an extra 30 or 40 bucks to stay in something halfway decent it makes no sense
I've had The Black Card in my hand before, Chauffer in Nashville Tennessee. The office wanted an "Imprint"---they don't imprint---I've known about the card for years.
Half true half myth. I know at least 3 persons that own this card (I say at least because nobody always flashes their cards) and for sure two of them didn’t spent even a fraction of those amounts before being invited, and didn’t have to kept that much of expenses for keeping them. One of them has had it for almost 10 years and offered to invite me. Invitations which I kindly declined as I think insane to pay 5,000 USD for the annual payment of a card. As it is completely aspirational card and they want you to think that you can only have it with those amounts.
Friend of my Dad's has one of these. I never knew the power this card had until I joined the military. While on leave in Tokyo I called my Dad and his friend was with him. They asked how I was. I told them how I was getting a hotel room. Dad's friend goes "oh try this hotel" mind you the basic room was 500 dollars a night and there was 6 of us. So my Dad's friend goes "I got you guys, go to the hotel and just give them your name" I hang up and we make our way there. Mind you we are 6 Marines. So we're used to being sneered down at. I swear, we were treated like visiting royalty. We had our own concierge, a chef was assigned to us and a sommelier was on call. He had gotten us a 2k A NIGHT suite
Way back when when I used to work for kinko's, I actually had a customer pay with an AmEx black card. It's actually a little thicker than the regular credit card.
Imagine spending ridiculous amounts of money just to be able to spend money you were already going to spend and STILL have it affect the arbitrary number that the credit bureaus give you.
Cashier at Chipotle In San Rafael Bay Area, and I have seen quite a few of these. I knew the cards were special, but damn, now when they don't tip at all or drop a quarter in imma be low key irritated, it sure as heck is not going to hurt YOU any to drop a dollar or two in the jar for about 6 employees to split between ourselves.
As a person who has had such a card, the card itself sucks. I used it in a self-serving gas station and since the card is made of metal, the machine could not get the card out so the card got stuck in the machine and had to wait 2 hours for someone to go out to the gas station to help me get the card back.
I had a platinum one but not everywhere accepts it. And the $500 yearly fee kinda sucks for me since I don’t use credit daily. But the rewards were good. I got rid of mine after two years.
I remember working at a restaurant and the guy handed me a card to pay and when I picked it up it was cold. So I looked down and I was like oh shit, put my head back up and looked at the guy and just said “good for you”. He smiled and laughed. I don’t think I’ll ever see one, let alone hold one ever again in my life.
@@gentlerain8537 it’s just because of where I live and and work. There is a Whole Foods right across from where I work and so we get a lot of people with more money coming in.
My parents have this card. My mom says the Concierge service will help protect them if a merchant is fraudulent or if there is a defect with a product they buy that is the fault of the merchant.
@@jakecortez4795 iv gotten scammed like 3 times bc of my children and lost cards multiple times and they always took care of me right away. This is more of an adult convo buddy
I didn't know these things existed until a few years ago when I started volunteering at an annual GALA dinner. So many of those people had these cards. Not sure if it was the cheap card swipers that we use or just how thick and heavy they are, but these ones are annoying to swipe.
Gaining business knowledge and experience, building businesses and pretty much just working hard and smart while making the best decisions possible for said company. Alongside a good share of luck. Still wouldn't really recommend the card as it's like an iPhone it's just a status thing. But yeah fastest way to get to millionaire status is to make a good business although fastest doesn't mean easiest at all.
It has a huge amount of benefits if you have the money to spend on it. Obviously if you aren’t rich you shouldn’t get it, but it comes with so many benefits
You value the dollar and don’t have nearly as much as the one who doesn’t value it at all. Perhaps you need to realize it has no value and is just a simple to tool for your uses.
You’re forgetting that most of the people with this card are not going to sweat about spending $250,000 a year. And saving money is for poor people. The longer money is in your pocket, the less value it has.
I'm still charging them an excess as American express would make small business go bust because of their ridiculous fees. Most of the world would ban them if we could.
I’ve handled 2 of them for a transaction. Both times in my former place of work at a movie theatre. Considering this was before the US had a major upgrade to chip/tap-to-pay based systems, this card was pretty thick to be able to be slid thru the stripe reader.
There are a lot of other perks that this card has that I have heard someone explain while in a conference that are included and the ones that you mentioned are just some of the first level type of perks there are a lot of other ones. It's actually a one thing that's on my dream board to one day qualify to be invited to get this card.
I’m a private medical transporter, I had a client on a wheelchair going from Kahului airport to Kapalaua Montage, the total amount for the trip was $575. The Black Card was thin yet surprisingly heavy. After doing the charge, I asked the son, “What’s up with the weight?”, “It’s made of Rhodium.” He replied. I then got tipped $100.
I got EVERY credit card so you don't have to: ua-cam.com/video/FdfXdJDg-Hs/v-deo.html
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What about the Dubai First Royal Mastercard or the J.P Morgan Reserve Palladium Card?
To receive my centurion invitation is definitely one of my life goals.
The story about collecting sand for the cardholder's son's project sounds like power tripping to me
Homies getting paid to go grab some sand🤷🏼♂️ everyone’s happy
UK has that little sand they had to get some from another country ☠
because it is? money is great.
@@kornani657 ok calm down Tony Stark
If I paid $10,000 just to get a card with $5,000 every year just to keep it and I ask for a jar of sand, I better receive a damn jar of sand, like sand is free to pick up and with international shipping the total is around $65.
With how much money credit card companies make off of these people, it didn't cost them anything.
When I was working in Hong Kong at a hotel, I have handled few black cards, they are so thick that it’s hard to swipe the card machine.
It’s bc they were made out of titanium, not anymore sadly ;(
Same as me when working in HK at a hotel
Coz they are black :-\
@@iampiyushsingh7544 imagine saying something racist smh
@@akirakurume1560 It's not racist
Painted my card black. Pretty much the same thing
@@undercoverboss543 1st floor huh? yeah i landed in the bushes but still got my peice of debt aquiring permission 😅 whew
Your channel is extremely cringe, please stop polluting shorts comments with your poorly disguised self promotion attempts.
It’s metal
Good. Now ask the bank to fetch some sand for you from the Bahamas.
American Express hates this one simple trick
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American Express really said “hey we think you’re special! And for that, we’d like to invite YOU to pay us a $10,000 initiation fee:D”
💀💀💀
*Also American Express: “oh and you have to pay us $5,000 annually” :)
If you're spending $250k+ per year, it's chump change.
For real 😂
@@Sinyao "you're special, now give me 10k"
“Oh my god, is that a black card?”
I turned around and replied, ”Why yes
But I prefer the term African American Express"
-Kanye West.
That was funny 😄 I could imagine him saying something like that💯
@@niyahtalley30 he did
mayonnaise color benz i push miracle whips
@@niyahtalley30 it’s in last call from college dropout
Immediately thought of Last Call, you’re doing God’s work son.
"The card holder's son needed the sand for a school project."
No he didn't, he wanted to flex.
I think it was more of a power trip
Honestly I don’t blame him
If I pay $5000 a year to hold a plastic credit card then you’re damn right that guy is going to drive out on a motorcycle and get a handful of sand to ship it to me sounds like he got a day out of the office and I got a handful of sand.
@@apenguingames4305 Fair trade.
How is dead sea sand different than normal sand ?
I once had a customer at a restaurant I used to be a server at with a Amex black card. I asked him about it and what’s it like to have one. He says it gets annoying towards the end of the year when you have a certain amount you need to spend and he hasn’t reached it, he literally gives the card to his kids to splurge, travel, and buy anything so that he reaches the spending bar every year. And I was like dayyyuuumm that sounds like a nice problem to have 😳
What tf kind of school did that kid go to that the teacher needed some sand from the Dead Sea as a project?! Clearly that kid never seen a public school day in his life!!!
If someone can drop 15k and 250-450k a year for a credit card then no, likely their children do not go to public school.
Public school means private school btw
@@Hellooooo378 no, it does not. Public school means going out in public with other people of the standard class. Private School is one where they're individually taught and have special privileges
@@savagecabbage1184 American public schools are basically called state schools in the UK, and UK public schools are the private schools you're thinking of.
@@savagecabbage1184 also even in the US it doesn’t mean that? A private school is just a k-12 school that is funded by tuition money and not by taxes. There is no guarantee of quality at all. Wrong twice
**finally gets to own American express black card
-cashier: sorry... we don't take Amex...
True
24 hour
Win Co.
grocery store
Do you even go to buy something yourself with that kind of card? Just call people and they will get it for you.
Edit : sorry forgot to mention i know its a joke and yes its kind of funny. But still i doubt anyone goes to buy anything themselves with this kind of card.
Cap on last statement
@@ArKeTiCt yeah people do.. it’s not like you have to be super rich. You could run a business and charge business expenses on Amex that amounts over 500k per year and get an invite. There’s tons of regular middle class people with a black card because they have high expenses every year.
I work at Disneyland Paris.
I had a guest who used his card to ask me
"Do you know who I am ?!"
Because the B&J cookie dough ice cream was sold out.
Yes. This card is used by giant douches.
Should have replied with "You know who I AM?"
Alr bro just because you knew one guy who used it, doesnt mean everyone is lile that
Should have replied "if you don't know how am I supposed to" 😆 lol
@@trollinape2697 so you think people who woyld spend that much money for the sake of status and willingly get a card with a 10k initiation fee are, what? Philanthopists?
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme since Im not a god I dont know
That last example was the most luxurious thing I ever heard of
yes it's true, i know someone who know a guy, who use it to locate the dragonballs.
😂😂
U friends with bulma
I swear… someday they’ll be able to come up with a time machine…
Legends say an American express employee scavenged the world to get the guy actual dragon's balls too
😂😂😂
You absolutely do not have to spend that much per year to get a black card. But you do need to be a long time cardmember and have really good credit.
So, you own one?
Yes you do.
Yup
Lmao everything in that comment is wrong
You DO need to spend insane amounts of money for that card, it's literally singlehandedly THE most exclusive card
Me working at target seeing people with this card everyday like: 👁👄👁
Bro you probably live in Switzerland
mf lives in monaco
So that's how I get the reservation at Dorsia
I’m sure that driver really drove out to the Dead Sea for that sand and didn’t just pull some out from the nearest kids sand box
Unless the project was scientific in nature, yeah it was probably not really dead sea sand
Trust me, you can tell where sand is from by texture among other things. This is coming from an Arabian sand boa (plus if you’ve ever been to the Gulf of Mexico and compare the sand to the north eastern coast sand it’s way different). Plus they’re paid to do it so they should just do it, a job is a job and pay is pay.
Lets see.. A bank is paying me to drive somewhere to ship sand? Sure
@@Remixthisgaming mans probably got payed a shit ton and no cap mans was probably a billionaire
Bro, the rider its a spanish youtuber named Nicolas, he have a channel “ridemefive” and the boi is travelling around Africa, he’s not a ¿millonarie?, he is a normal person XD
I held one once. A guy paid for tickets at the zoo I work at woth one. I freaked out and told my co workers and they were like huh and I had to explain how rare they are
Did you try running away with it?
I was able to hold one too! Pretty cool thing to hold
@@bahaatamer1245 no I was working in a booth lol
Just a kfn card
@@lukesteele5013 nice, so I'm assuming you're behind glass? Should've ran away with it 🌚
Sorry couldn't focus on what you were saying cuz of the music. It filled me with nostalgia.
“My son needs some sand from the dead sea for his project”
*Guy working at American Express*
“Thank you for calling American Express how can I help you?”
Rich dude: “Hi my son needs some sand from the Dead Sea for his school project.”
“Sir I’m sorry but my services don’t include tha-“
“I have the black card.”
*sighs and looks at moped helmet* “very well sir *hangs up* I don’t get paid enough for this shit.”
That MF WENT OUTSIDE AND SCRAPED DIRT
Be honest he probably does
AMEX Centurion (the real name of the “Black Card” service) concierge gets paid $99,221 a year.
Perfect narrative
Am I crazy or did 900 people like this comment before watching to video
Strange, I don’t remember ever hearing my teacher say “Alright class, remember, everyone better have a handful of sand from the dead sea by Monday morning otherwise your science project will receive an F!”
It was probably a science fair. Also, I have this card and I can tell that this story is most likely true.
@@moefromdagrieve give me money
@@moefromdagrieve yeah sure lol, only way you can prove it is asking for dead sea sand
My classroom was given a similar assignment when i was in the 6th grade (this was around 1988...yeesh). Each of us was assigned a state. We had to do a history report on it and had to have a small sample of dirt from that state. I don't remember how we were supposed to contact somebody to get this sample. I do remember that i didn't complete that part of the assignment though
It was research most probabll , your school nor academic setting simply is not on the level where you would be needing it, but this one does
I saw someone with a black card have the card declined at a Starbucks when taking out a much younger woman. The woman promptly left as soon as she saw that it was declined.
lol, it was probably just hard to scan, as usual. The card is pretty hefty.
The guy dogged a bullet
I don't think these have a credit limit all too often. Probably the strip got worn out or something
she probably stole it
Dude dodged a bullet
Imagine being that employee getting paid for a nice little holiday 😂
The more you know. I just thought our regular customer at Starbucks had a cool card.
There's multiple tiers, but the black metal cards always mean "big baller"
i feel like the last instance is an extremely fumbled story that has been told differently each time it was told to make it sound legendary
that sand for son's project is like that devil wears prada scene.
Back in 2003 I was the stock room manager at Victoria’s Secret in Beverly Hills. Beyoncé, Solange, and their mother did a little shopping spree. The bill was over 10k. This is the card Beyoncé used to pay the bill.
Did they bought the whole store with that amount of money?
- Sorry sir, all our tables are taken for tonight.
- I have a black card
- 1 moment please
*Proceed to yeet people out of the restaurant*
Imagine he only bought a fish and chip 😂
There is always space for the right people. A restaurant is never 100% booked up.
@@mysalival100 It is. I worked in restaurants for years, trust me, you can be Arnold Schwarzenegger, if they are no table available, I won't make you eat in the kitchen, and 99% of real chefs/hotel master would not kick a client out for anybody. That can be illegal actually.
@@ScottMccain117 I don't think you have if you think this means kicking someone out 😂 what I'm saying is literally every table is not filled. My own father walked into a restaurant recently and was told it was absolutely full but then the manager who is the son of a close friend saw him and said not a problem, for you I can find a table. Boom seated menus, great meal all round.
You're also missing the point about the card you're not going in flashing it saying "gimme table" you phone the Amex concierge service a lot of the concierges has relationships with Good restaurant and can get you exclusive bookings etc.
Enjoy travelling with that card. So many places outside the US don’t accept Amex 😂
I mean, if they're rich enough to have a black amex card I'm pretty sure they won't be traveling to the same countries we do
So many places *inside* the US don’t accept Amex. I have no idea why people get cards they can’t use at 90% of businesses.
If you got the black card, I think they'll be a way. With enough money it's possible
Exactly. Actually I've never seen it accepted here. Here only MasterCard/Visa/Maestro and that's about all. I can only recall seen it in a fancy restaurants and hotels.
@@themonsteraddictmmxvi1564 what are you talking about? Everyone travels to the same places there aren't secret countries for rich people
Imagine calling a bank and being like " yo bitch, my son needs some sand from the dead sea for his school project , you have 2 hours tops, thanks" and they send a guy on a fucking moped just to bring you some fucking sand, and if he doesn't he gets fucking fired.
There’s levels to this shit lol. I would hope I would never be that dramatic if I was that rich.
My credit Union will do the same thing ... and I don’t have to call anyone a bitch...
💀
Or see the better picture... The guy got paid handsomely for this task. Everyone wins :)
No, they be more like: "Hello sir, sorry to bother you with this, but I really need a sample of some sand from the Dead Sea, and I was wondering if there's any way you can get some? Oh you can? Great! Please send the bill to my account at your earliest convenience."
It’s called the American Express “Centurion” card. The centurion is the logo of the head on the card. It’s actually made out of titanium not plastic.
Handled these cards all the time at the Tesla service centre where I worked.
Nice twist lol
Tesla doesn’t usually take these cards. They store them on line… 😑
@@in-homewellnessmentalhealt7480 back when I worked there 4 years ago people paid for their car service in person with their credit card.
@@paigegorrie8565 my bad!
@@in-homewellnessmentalhealt7480 holy fucking shit you got ratioed so hard, props to you for taking it and not doubling down and starting an argument like most here
Ironically, Mozart, who wrote the music used in the background, died broke.
Also he was heavily into scat... And incest
@@peroh3408 average Austrian
That’s nasty
@@peroh3408 how do I unread something?
@@engineergaming1669 right
This music never gets old
Why do I hear
"aMeRicAn ExpRess pLatiNuM cArd" lmfao
Everyone outside of the US: “Should I care? This black card means nothing to me”
Edit: Americans need to stop getting offended when I say everywhere. I mean most businesses, not every single business. The majority of businesses that don’t accept Amex outnumbers the ones that do.
Edit 2: To all the americans in this thread. Cope.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😂😭😂😭😂😂😭😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😂😂😭😂😭😐😐😐😐😐😐 hilarious
Tf is it for anyway
Applies to a lot of people in the USA, too! 😆
No, it literally works everywhere that knows what a cred card is.
@@FoxTrot63 Only if they accept American Express, a lot of businesses outside of the US don’t because they charge more in fees when compared to other credit card companies
My grandpa got several invitations lol. I was so excited for him and he didn’t even care. When it comes to finances I go to him and my grandma. They live like the average family, nice house, nice cars but not too too flashy, yet their bank accounts and credit is many levels above how they live.
Lovely humble flex right there.
ayee letme hol 50
This is a humble flex
Good for them, money shouldn’t change people
No reason to ball on bullshit! Bet they used that money to go on some great adventures!
imagine the butler gets back and the card holders son just says he needs a bit more
Worked at a fastfood joint and someone came in and bought a biscuit sandwich with this card. I was honestly floored
The rich need to eat aswell
I love I how I can understand what being floored means
He needed that 4.99 to make sure he spent $250000 that year.
Well a biscuit is a biscuit
People still get pissed when they can't use this card at costco lol
I had a client in petstore in poland once trying to pay with this shit... It took almost one hour to authorize transaction cause operator needed a phonecall to do confirm that holder just traveled all the way to some European end of world and trying to spend 100zl that was around 20 bucks back then... And on top of this they had to finish it on open transaction and our card transactions operator was rejecting transaction after 15 minutes of waiting cause its timeout limit. So I think it would be faseter if someone of them can take moto and bring some cash to poor women. She was so embarased lol
that’s so funny
“You’re saying they paid with a black card”
“Yes”
“You live in a small town in south Poland though”
“Yes
@@coffee4682 what
@@coffee4682 The holder is probably on a trip. And reading from OP's comment, i think that's the case
@@arttukujala02 it just seems so off for someone to use such a card in such a rural/obscure place especially in poland
That's every card though,
Had two friends that had this card as sister cards from their parents company cards. Yeah all cards in the family get's upgraded! And you can have It as a privat company owner which makes spending this kimd of cash a year viable. It did not cost an annual fee or initiation fee If you live up to the limit of getting one. The service you get for It sucks in Europe, basically just help booking airplane tickets.
This card was cool when Brats were cool back in 2004, now no one knows what It is.. except baftenders that expect a hefty tip If you hand It in which is honestly not a benefit...
Loved the song in the background lol
Get a seat at a fully booked restaurant,
How’s that go exactly?
“Excuse me sir, you and your date must vacate the table. A trust fund brat with a black piece of plastic just arrived!”
Black piece of metal *
Most high-end restaurants have empty tables that are permanently booked by banks like AMEX, just waiting for someone with a Platinum or high-end cards to use them. These tables aren’t made available for other guests, so even if there are no one using them, the restaurant would still tell you that they’re booked up. This is why you’ve never heard people complaining about some rich guy stealing their seats (at least in high-end restaurants).
When you book online, the restaurant doesn’t know who you are and don’t know if you’re a big spender or not. That’s why they don’t give you a lot of priority. But when these guys call in through a Concierge, they know exactly that the people reserving are gonna spend big. So restaurants bend over backward to serve you, even if it means materialising a table out of nowhere.
@@aconite72 there literally like maybe 10,000 restaurants in the entire world that actually participate in that crap 😂 restaurants that would just laugh in a normal persons face if they even thought about asking how long the wait was so actually that’s why you never hear someone complain about a rich guy stealing their table because rich people and middle class people don’t dine nor live in the same areas especially when the rich guys spending $250k a year
@@M-Powerdreamsgarage What are you even trying to say. The keyword is “high-end”. Most people don’t have to call their credit card Concierge to reserve a table at Olive Garden. This practice is for premium restaurants with months-long reservation list only.
@@aconite72
So what happens if two black ninja XL card carriers go to a booked restaurant, they draw straws lol?
I work in a Zaxbys as a cashier in GA, I swear I get handed this card so many times and it feels like I’m holding gold. It’s heavier than a normal credit card and it just feels expensive.
It's made out of metal, I forgot what kind
@@NikoBellaKhouf2 Titanium
@@Teo-ui4qs that sounds like the one
My dad have this one but he always says that don’t have money 🤕
Is this being presented to me as something… good? Because all I’m hearing is more ways rich people waist their money and thus more reasons for them to be systematically executed.
I've only ever seen one of those once and I still remember the transaction so clearly in my head
No you don’t
My father used to have that card when he worked for IBM
My dad only has platinum
@Pitt platinum is really easy to get, it's only the black which is different
I have a platinum card, and AEB! but money won't make you happy. It just helps the process of having time to be happier!
Years ago I had a client pay with their black card. It was metal and too thick to swipe in my card reader. Had to manually enter it. Amex has since made the card thinner.
I loved when Kanye West called this, “African American Express.”
“Oh my god is that a Black Card? I turned around and replied ‘Why Yes but I prefer the term African American Express’” is such a good line
@@andrewallstar2719 Yes, it cracked me up the first time I heard that line. Lyrical genius
I swear if I had this I’d still be staying in cheap motels. I dunno, there’s something about having a family history from the Great Depression, unreasonable frugality some would say.
I feel ya. I can't help but be frugal. It's almost genetic
I think you mean being a jew
@@rcollosi average 4chan user
If you had this you’d probably be worth millions upon millions of dollars and you wouldn’t stay at no damn cheap motels that crack heads sleep and fuck at 😂 I’m pretty well off definitely not American Express black card well off but I’m more then comfortable and even I refuse to go sleep in a hotel any worse then a Hampton inn why would you pay 60 bucks and sleep on a crackhead motel but not pay an extra 30 or 40 bucks to stay in something halfway decent it makes no sense
@@bigboibuer4220 average Reddit user
knew lots of soldiers with these- didn't know it was so special.
I've had The Black Card in my hand before, Chauffer in Nashville Tennessee. The office wanted an "Imprint"---they don't imprint---I've known about the card for years.
Half true half myth. I know at least 3 persons that own this card (I say at least because nobody always flashes their cards) and for sure two of them didn’t spent even a fraction of those amounts before being invited, and didn’t have to kept that much of expenses for keeping them. One of them has had it for almost 10 years and offered to invite me. Invitations which I kindly declined as I think insane to pay 5,000 USD for the annual payment of a card.
As it is completely aspirational card and they want you to think that you can only have it with those amounts.
Friend of my Dad's has one of these. I never knew the power this card had until I joined the military. While on leave in Tokyo I called my Dad and his friend was with him. They asked how I was. I told them how I was getting a hotel room. Dad's friend goes "oh try this hotel" mind you the basic room was 500 dollars a night and there was 6 of us. So my Dad's friend goes "I got you guys, go to the hotel and just give them your name" I hang up and we make our way there. Mind you we are 6 Marines. So we're used to being sneered down at. I swear, we were treated like visiting royalty. We had our own concierge, a chef was assigned to us and a sommelier was on call. He had gotten us a 2k A NIGHT suite
That’s absurd 😅
@Calvin Tower it blew me away. Legit they realize that people that own these cards make a ton of money
@@Loukious Yeah... where thousands looks like close to nothing. So wild.
Does he like artwork 🎨 because I make art
Your dad is smart lol 😂
Way back when when I used to work for kinko's, I actually had a customer pay with an AmEx black card. It's actually a little thicker than the regular credit card.
Saw a few of these working at TGI Fridays from late 90’s to 2007
“You can be assure they’re a real sociopath ..”
💀💀💀💀
Imagine spending ridiculous amounts of money just to be able to spend money you were already going to spend and STILL have it affect the arbitrary number that the credit bureaus give you.
Cashier at Chipotle In San Rafael Bay Area, and I have seen quite a few of these. I knew the cards were special, but damn, now when they don't tip at all or drop a quarter in imma be low key irritated, it sure as heck is not going to hurt YOU any to drop a dollar or two in the jar for about 6 employees to split between ourselves.
My neighbor had one before he passed away some of the perks he got was insane
Oh my god this slowly becomes an urban legend and the irony is so many places outside of the US don’t accept this card so you are kinda stuck!
Good places accept it everywhere
Do you really think these people only have one credit card?
"Do you accept American Express?" Lol not so versatile is it?
Time to grind 😂
I’ve seen a few of these, and I just swipe the card lol
As a person who has had such a card, the card itself sucks. I used it in a self-serving gas station and since the card is made of metal, the machine could not get the card out so the card got stuck in the machine and had to wait 2 hours for someone to go out to the gas station to help me get the card back.
I had a platinum one but not everywhere accepts it. And the $500 yearly fee kinda sucks for me since I don’t use credit daily. But the rewards were good. I got rid of mine after two years.
Just buy the gas station.
@@Sandouras wow so practical…..
@@JBBrickman Wooooosh! That was the joke flying over your head.
@@Sandouras what I can’t be sarcastic about one of the worst jokes I’ve ever heard
I remember working at a restaurant and the guy handed me a card to pay and when I picked it up it was cold. So I looked down and I was like oh shit, put my head back up and looked at the guy and just said “good for you”. He smiled and laughed. I don’t think I’ll ever see one, let alone hold one ever again in my life.
Thanks, this was very informative, now I can surely put my 250k without having to worry about anything
Thing is basically a hunter license
Daniel "butlers all around the world" Illes
Greg I have missed you so much 😭
I have swiped a couple of these cards when I was at work and now I feel honored
You found a job that takes American Express…
That is a rare achievement…
@@gentlerain8537 it’s just because of where I live and and work. There is a Whole Foods right across from where I work and so we get a lot of people with more money coming in.
You right, I got that and it’s been incredible.
You can't even get breakfast in most service stations with AMEX in the UK. It's widely refused as a payment method...
My parents have this card. My mom says the Concierge service will help protect them if a merchant is fraudulent or if there is a defect with a product they buy that is the fault of the merchant.
Like every other card lmao
Wow even the credit cards which international students get in Canada do that lol
Or you could just bank with chase, have a normal card, and get treated the exact same.
@@olliewilliams8925 nah if you have actually looked at any comparing service vids AE comes out on top all the time
@@jakecortez4795 iv gotten scammed like 3 times bc of my children and lost cards multiple times and they always took care of me right away. This is more of an adult convo buddy
“Hey bro! You’re pretty rich and special! How about you spend 10k on our initiation fee and 5k annual fee to have a couple of cool perks!!!”
I didn't know these things existed until a few years ago when I started volunteering at an annual GALA dinner. So many of those people had these cards. Not sure if it was the cheap card swipers that we use or just how thick and heavy they are, but these ones are annoying to swipe.
I studied in private schools for my primary and high school days but never encountered this. This is a different level of private school lol
This is basically the closest real life equivalent to being a member of the Continental.
How would you even statistically pay that off without being a millionaire already? How is it possible to attain this power? I seek to learn.
Gaining business knowledge and experience, building businesses and pretty much just working hard and smart while making the best decisions possible for said company.
Alongside a good share of luck.
Still wouldn't really recommend the card as it's like an iPhone it's just a status thing.
But yeah fastest way to get to millionaire status is to make a good business although fastest doesn't mean easiest at all.
Have a business that incurs large expenses
@@ABEL-cd2sp lottery: hold my beer
@@ajproductions2289 The lottery is to give the peasants hope.
@@Tom-pe4iw yep
Imagine owning a card that literally forced you to spend your money. When did people forget the value of a dollar?
When people became materialistic assholes and everyone applauded materialism
When the federal reserve became a thing
It has a huge amount of benefits if you have the money to spend on it. Obviously if you aren’t rich you shouldn’t get it, but it comes with so many benefits
You value the dollar and don’t have nearly as much as the one who doesn’t value it at all. Perhaps you need to realize it has no value and is just a simple to tool for your uses.
You’re forgetting that most of the people with this card are not going to sweat about spending $250,000 a year.
And saving money is for poor people. The longer money is in your pocket, the less value it has.
Me: spray paints my card.
I'm still charging them an excess as American express would make small business go bust because of their ridiculous fees. Most of the world would ban them if we could.
You do realize they lowered their fees years ago and are basically charging what visa and MasterCard do now
@@foofy8604 not in Australia mate. And not when I left Africa. And not when I left the middle east either. Want to try anywhere outside the US?
I’ve handled 2 of them for a transaction. Both times in my former place of work at a movie theatre.
Considering this was before the US had a major upgrade to chip/tap-to-pay based systems, this card was pretty thick to be able to be slid thru the stripe reader.
World elite series from Mastercard and the counterpart from Visa work the same way, minus having to pay 15k usd upfront for the first year
But you still can't shop at half of the stores lol.
This just sounds like an extremely unfair thing for others.
The things money does
*me who is going to gonna customize my card like this*
"I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move"
Now I know how much a family member spent to get a black card. Thanks for that info.
My grandpa has a silver one of those. I never knew what they meant
No one:
Some rich kid: Dad! I need some sand, but it has to be specifically from the dead sea
There are a lot of other perks that this card has that I have heard someone explain while in a conference that are included and the ones that you mentioned are just some of the first level type of perks there are a lot of other ones. It's actually a one thing that's on my dream board to one day qualify to be invited to get this card.
It’s pretty cool my dad has one
I've had like 3 people with this card come through my drive thru
that initiation fee is not even half my limit 😅
I’m a private medical transporter, I had a client on a wheelchair going from Kahului airport to Kapalaua Montage, the total amount for the trip was $575. The Black Card was thin yet surprisingly heavy. After doing the charge, I asked the son, “What’s up with the weight?”, “It’s made of Rhodium.” He replied. I then got tipped $100.
Plot Twist: That is Health Insurance in the US
No incel
Imagine getting that card stolen.