My ex-girlfriend's dad had a Amex Black. He used it to buy diamonds and stuff for his business I think.
Originally posted by: Azurik
I'm also Azurik on Anandtech
Still have that link to your Xanga site that was closed down for CC fraud in your sig?
Azurik
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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Azurik
I'm also Azurik on Anandtech
If you are a AMEX black holder how come your xanga is charged with credit card fraud?
Mo0o,
I don't bother taking the link off of my profile. I had Xanga my sophomore year of college, about two years to this date. I subsribed to their premium services for a while and then cancelled it. They charged me anyway so I disputed it with AMEX. Ever since then, that message has been left there. And besides the point, who says you can't be fraudster with a black card? See the following:
AMEX Fraudster
Azurik
Mo0o
Lifer
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Originally posted by: Azurik
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Azurik
I'm also Azurik on Anandtech
If you are a AMEX black holder how come your xanga is charged with credit card fraud?
Mo0o,
I don't bother taking the link off of my profile. I had Xanga my sophomore year of college, about two years to this date. I subsribed to their premium services for a while and then cancelled it. They charged me anyway so I disputed it with AMEX. Ever since then, that message has been left there. And besides the point, who says you can't be fraudster with a black card? See the following:
AMEX Fraudster
Azurik
Hmm interesting i retract what i said. Wow 2 years since graduating and youre already spending enough to be a centurion member? What did you major in in college?
Azurik
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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Azurik
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Azurik
I'm also Azurik on Anandtech
If you are a AMEX black holder how come your xanga is charged with credit card fraud?
Mo0o,
I don't bother taking the link off of my profile. I had Xanga my sophomore year of college, about two years to this date. I subsribed to their premium services for a while and then cancelled it. They charged me anyway so I disputed it with AMEX. Ever since then, that message has been left there. And besides the point, who says you can't be fraudster with a black card? See the following:
AMEX Fraudster
Azurik
Hmm interesting i retract what i said. Wow 2 years since graduating and youre already spending enough to be a centurion member? What did you major in in college?
Mo0o,
I majored in "Brothel Management"
j/k
Business Administration Major with a concentration in Entrepreneurship/Venture Capital along with a Minor in Rhetoric and Public Address.
Azurik
Sorry for the bad link, C&P of the 1st page:
Student entrepreneurs master the Internet market
John Pham and Bryan Hammond earn more money in a month than the average college student earns in four years of college.
Pham, a junior, and Hammond, a freshman, are full-time undergraduate students in the Whittemore School of Business Economics. They both live in the dorms. They both eat in the dining halls. They both have pretty typical collegiate social lives. They both try hard to be as "normal" as possible.
And they both own and run their own, separate Internet businesses and make enough money to pay for their education, plus a lot more.
Pham makes his mark
Pham created Azurik, Inc., a company that buys technology products in bulk and sells them on eBay, as well as to large companies like Dell, IBM, Sony and Canon.
Pham started the business in part with money he made in 1996 when Microsoft bought the rights to a Web site he had created with his AOL screen name so they could market an Xbox game by the same name. The rest of the money was a loan from his father, who owns his own chemical and manufacturing engineering company.
He admits it wasn't easy to get the business started.
"The problem is, when you're young, not a lot of people trust you with a lot of money," Pham said.
He makes about $50,000 in revenues a month on eBay sales alone and another $25,000 through consultations and sales to corporations, but he wants a degree to fall back on.
"My friends don't appreciate all my hard work," he said. "They ask for money like it's nothing to me-they don't realize how many hours I have to put into this. If you slack off at all and lose touch with your customers, you lose business."
Pham uses his credit cards for so many business purchases that he was offered an American Express Centurion card, also known as "the Black Card." This credit card cannot be applied for. It is offered to credit card users who spend more than $150,000 annually.
Student entrepreneurs master the Internet market
John Pham and Bryan Hammond earn more money in a month than the average college student earns in four years of college.
Pham, a junior, and Hammond, a freshman, are full-time undergraduate students in the Whittemore School of Business Economics. They both live in the dorms. They both eat in the dining halls. They both have pretty typical collegiate social lives. They both try hard to be as "normal" as possible.
And they both own and run their own, separate Internet businesses and make enough money to pay for their education, plus a lot more.
Pham makes his mark
Pham created Azurik, Inc., a company that buys technology products in bulk and sells them on eBay, as well as to large companies like Dell, IBM, Sony and Canon.
Pham started the business in part with money he made in 1996 when Microsoft bought the rights to a Web site he had created with his AOL screen name so they could market an Xbox game by the same name. The rest of the money was a loan from his father, who owns his own chemical and manufacturing engineering company.
He admits it wasn't easy to get the business started.
"The problem is, when you're young, not a lot of people trust you with a lot of money," Pham said.
He makes about $50,000 in revenues a month on eBay sales alone and another $25,000 through consultations and sales to corporations, but he wants a degree to fall back on.
"My friends don't appreciate all my hard work," he said. "They ask for money like it's nothing to me-they don't realize how many hours I have to put into this. If you slack off at all and lose touch with your customers, you lose business."
Pham uses his credit cards for so many business purchases that he was offered an American Express Centurion card, also known as "the Black Card." This credit card cannot be applied for. It is offered to credit card users who spend more than $150,000 annually.
I don't associate my credit cards with being prestigious, or any CC for that matter. They're just a tool to me.
Centurion is the ultimate card. My dad has the Amex Plat, he does a lot of business charging and he gets good use of some of the features.
SpunkyJones
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Originally posted by: jjsole
There's no prestige in having the credit, only the cash.
:thumbsup:
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Originally posted by: jjsole
There's no prestige in having the credit, only the cash.
:thumbsup:
When your card can close down any store or restraunt for you and your party, I would say it definitely has prestige.
mugs
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Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Originally posted by: jjsole
There's no prestige in having the credit, only the cash.
:thumbsup:
When your card can close down any store or restraunt for you and your party, I would say it definitely has prestige.
If a store is going to close down for you and your party, I don't think it would make a difference if you paid cash or credit, as long as they got however much money they would require to shut down for you.
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