12-02-2009, 06:10 PM
I've been impressed with Amex before. Once, when I was on a trip to Seattle, I realized that I had lost my ATM card, and I had no cash. I called up Amex and asked if they could somehow give me a cash advance without my PIN, and they said, "Yup. We can do a 1-time cash advance of up to $500; we just need some information, and you can't re-use this service for a month." I got out the money and was in good shape (until all my luggage got stolen from my car a few days later in Vancouver, but that's a different story).