Planning on paying cash for a car ~23k. Just got my Amex Plat. Should I put the car on the card and then pay it off the following week? Pros, cons?

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If the car is only 23k I doubt the dealer will accept AMEX for payment. My luxury car dealer only accepts it for up to $8k for down payment and that's on an $85k vehicle.

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This was my experience as well. They will cap it, especially Amex since fee to them is high.

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That’s what I did for the down payment. Easy way to hit your 6k spend for your intro miles.

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My dealer wouldn't let me, insisted on check.

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8k is what I paid using CC and put the rest on personal check

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Mercedes only let me charge up to $5K on my CSR for the deposit. ~120k car

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Lol, TL1. D1 is correct. I’m a senior associate in biglaw and my base comp is 400k (HHI 610).

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If tried this at various dealers for various amounts, no one has ever allowed it

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I feel like most businesses will charge you a few to use a card. Is that different for cars?

Do it for the points if the dealership accepts it. Usually they don’t, Amex is so expensive on the merchant side.

Most dealers won't accept a credit card, and those that do often charge 2-4% processing fee.

Very hard to find a dealer who will do this. Mine did allow me to put $18k on mine but said it was a huge exception (height of covid well before cars were a hot commodity)

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If you can, but as others have mentioned many don’t let you. I’ve bought two cars since I got my plat 8 years ago, and both times they only let me pay the down payment on the CC.

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