Get 500 free American Express Membership Rewards points

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• Geoggy says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:03

  I can’t see Priority Club listed on the travel rewards “Hotel Partners” section. Only SPG, HH CC and Jumeriah?

  • Raffles says:

    4 Oct4 October 09:15

    Yes, sorry, had a mind blockage earlier. PC stopped being a partner at the end of June. Post amended!

• Jimmy says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:06

  I didn’t get the email but do we have a direct link at all please

  • Raffles says:

    4 Oct4 October 09:15

    There is no link, it was just stated in the text of the email (along with the pretty image that I copied into the post!)

• PTM101 says:

  4 Oct4 October 15:48

  How have you gone on changing your Club Carlson number? My previous Goldpoints number (which is the same except for a few extra digits at the start) wouldn’t work in Membership Rewards anymore, so I called Amex to change it, and had to leave it with them. They still only have Goldpoints on their system and the rep I was speaking too was busy explaining that they can’t transfer to Club Carlson! Having pointed out that we’re the same thing, I left it with them and await a call back.

  • Philip Massey (@PTM101) says:

    4 Oct4 October 15:59

    **UPDATE** Received call back, they have managed to change the number, but it will now take 14 days to ‘verify’ before I can transfer points!

  • Raffles says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:56

    Rang yesterday, agent was able to take my CC number but gave me the usual stuff about taking 14 days to verify. It now shows online if I do a dummy redemption, marked as ‘Pending’. Still listed under Goldpoints Plus, of course!

    • Alan says:

      5 Oct5 October 10:05

      Hmm – I’ve got my last 10 digits in but it still won’t let me transfer online. Went back and forward by email about the problem a few months back (not helped by them not realising it was a minimum of 3 points, in increments of 3) – eventually I gave up, but they turned my last email into a formal complaint (as they often do) and ended up coming back saying it was a technical error and giving me a £75 statement credit to apologise!!

      Has anyone managed to do an online transfer to CC or have you always had to do it over the phone?

      I’ve now registered my Nectar card, but note you sould only enter the last 11 digits – it just gives an error if you enter the whole card number.

      Overall the transfer system seems pretty flakey!

      • Raffles says:

        5 Oct5 October 10:09

        Worth noting that the rules of the 500 point bonus say it must be an ONLINE transfer, so don’t call Amex and do a Carlson redemption by phone.

      • Alan says:

        5 Oct5 October 10:14

        Definitely – hence why I’ve registered my Nectar card to do an online transfer, but worth highlighting the point, Raffles 😀

• Ben E says:

  4 Oct4 October 17:47

  Quick Q: we’ve been given a corporate amex for work and expenses… I’l likely only use it for flights as I’ve got approval to use my personal BA Amex for other expenses, however I’ve noted that I can personally receive the MR from the green work amex if I pay them £30 a year…. question is, at what level of work spend does that then become effective for my outlay? thx!

  • Raffles says:

    4 Oct4 October 18:00

    You don’t need to pay the fee if you have a personal Membership Rewards account already. I recommend you get an Amex Gold (fee free for first year, 22k MR for signing up if referred, 20k MR if not referred) which will get you a personal MR account with no need to pay any fee. You can then have the MR points from the corporate card diverted into that MR account as well, saving £30. (I did this for years with my corporate Amex.) After the free Amex Gold year, reassess whether to keep the Gold (£125 per year) or pay the £30. Happy to refer to Amex Gold if required!

    • ups says:

      4 Oct4 October 21:53

      This doesn’t work (at least now). I had asked Amex to do the same thing (i.e. link my Corp card to the Gold-linked MR account) and they still asked for the fee which was around £35 IIRC. I double checked if I need to pay the fee despite having a MR account already, and they confirmed back that I had to pay the fee.

      • Raffles says:

        5 Oct5 October 08:06

        Really? That is relatively new, then, because I never had to do that (albeit we later swapped to BA Amex Corporate Cards instead). Apologies for the false info earlier.

        • ups says:

          6 Oct6 October 14:40

          I have both my corp and gold cards linked to the same online account. After signing in, if I try to enroll the corp card into MR, get the same message of a charge (even if I was logged into both card account and MR accounts, as that acts falkey at times). Finally messaged Amex and got the same response.

          Perhaps Amex wants to keep a way to earn additional revenue on corp cards as they can be heavy spenders..

• uk1 says:

  4 Oct4 October 19:44

  Strange …. when I look at the “Register a new partner” on the “transfer my points” page in MR – Club Carlson isn’t listed and I can’t see any way to transfer points.

• Mike says:

  4 Oct4 October 20:39

  It’s called Radisson GoldPoints Plus on the register link. It only changed Mar 2011, so you need to give Amex a bit of time to recognise this and update their site.

  That said, I tried to register mine and it failed, I had to call.

  • Raffles says:

    4 Oct4 October 20:56

    Try using the last 10 digits only, as that is all I see online when I check my number

• uk1 says:

  4 Oct4 October 21:49

  Thanks – I’d previously tried the Radisson GoldPoints but it was the number length which floored it. The last 10 digit number tip has become “pending” so all is hopeful. Thanks for the pointers.

• gagravarr says:

  5 Oct5 October 14:46

  I didn’t get the email, but the post has just arrived including a “Bright ideas to make your Christmas sparkle” brouchure from Amex. The letter with that had the 500 points offer there, same details as the email. So, if you didn’t get the email, keep an eye out for it coming by post instead!

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