The goal would be to bang out the card in 1-3 days. No single purchase over $2500 so it wouldnt get flagged. 2-3 purchaes in a day or else the fraud dept gets flagged. A 20k card wasnt really worrh it becaus it would get flagged well before that limit.
5k gold cards were the best back then.
They were like heroin, very addicting. Unfortunately it was only a matter of time until the postal inspectors got involved and they live for that shit.