http://www.luxuryplastic.com/wall-street-journal-5131988-an-american-express-black-card/ Black Card | Luxury Credit Card News, Information, Gossip and More Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:19:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.luxuryplastic.com/wall-street-journal-5131988-an-american-express-black-card/comment-page-1/#comment-2151 Black Card History | The Black Card | Centurion Card | Visa Black Card | Luxury Credit Cards Fri, 29 May 2009 14:29:52 +0000 http://www.luxuryplastic.com/?p=3028#comment-2151 [...] The Black Card started out as an urban legend in the early 1980s circa 1984. It was alleged by that American Express handed out a high end ID with unusual privileges. This rumor is corroborated by a Wall Street Journal article written in 1988, despite the fact that American Express continually declined the rumor as true. From WSJ: Suppose, for example, on a 3-o’clock-in-the-morning whim, you decided to book a round-the-world trip; American Express would accommodate you with a travel service staffed 24 hours a day. In the market for a red 1965 Ferrari? If you were a black-card holder, American Express would kick tires in the world’s fanciest used-car lots. If you remembered in Singapore that you had left your favorite suit in a Hong Kong penthouse, the company would arrange to fetch it. (full 1988 WSJ Black Card Article Here) [...] [...] The Black Card started out as an urban legend in the early 1980s circa 1984. It was alleged by that American Express handed out a high end ID with unusual privileges. This rumor is corroborated by a Wall Street Journal article written in 1988, despite the fact that American Express continually declined the rumor as true. From WSJ: Suppose, for example, on a 3-o’clock-in-the-morning whim, you decided to book a round-the-world trip; American Express would accommodate you with a travel service staffed 24 hours a day. In the market for a red 1965 Ferrari? If you were a black-card holder, American Express would kick tires in the world’s fanciest used-car lots. If you remembered in Singapore that you had left your favorite suit in a Hong Kong penthouse, the company would arrange to fetch it. (full 1988 WSJ Black Card Article Here) [...]

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