I agree, them allowing me to chargeback would have been nice but I certainly understand why they would say otherwise. I was hoping to charge back and then meet

I agree, them allowing me to chargeback would have been nice but I certainly understand why they would say otherwise. I was hoping to charge back and then meet the merchant in court when they sued, so I could also collect attorney fees in this case. It was egregious. But, I also understood that Amex may take your point of view. I didn't have a problem with this. Them stating I can't stop future payments though has nothing to do with any third party contract that may or may not exist. It's not up to them to enforce that, and in any case I can assure you said contract did not list American Express as a payment method anywhere on it. They enabled a merchant to extort me because I had at one time years before made the mistake of giving them my Amex account number and the merchant purposefully made it impossible to remove.