Receive £5 from Amex for writing a review on TripAdvisor

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• Flyoff says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:28

  Once you register you can load offers which will provide £10 off £50 at named restaurants.

• Nick says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:30

  Would supplementary card holders qualify?

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 08:49

    I reckon they probably would, against their own TripAdvisor account. However, my wife has her own BA Amex so I’ll be using that for full certainty.

• Roger says:

  9 Oct9 October 08:05

  I received the offer as an insert in my PRG snailmail statement yesterday but with a different link: amex.co/tripadvisoruk.

  I was slightly concerned – why would AmEx be inviting me to link via a .co website? .co is Colombia!

  Anyway, the link didn’t work and I got a 403 FORBIDDEN response. I’ll try Raffles’s link.

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 08:48

    It’s the same link, it started working late last night, prompting a rewrite of my article!

  • Andy says:

    9 Oct9 October 14:36

    .co is just a new domain that has become available a couple of years ago. My wife uses it. More expensive than .com but heyho.

• Andrew says:

  9 Oct9 October 08:07

  The T&Cs talk about a qualifying transaction – does that mean you need to have spent on the card at the venue you’re reviewing to receive the credit?

  • Tom H says:

    9 Oct9 October 08:11

    Looks to me like they have copied and pasted T&Cs from a previous promotion.

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 08:47

    No. I read this too, but it is very clear that you get the £5 for writing the review and not for using Amex at the place where you write the review. Although Amex would, of course, benefit if people believed otherwise!

    • Andrew says:

      9 Oct9 October 09:00

      Think you’re right Tom – they’ve just copied the T&Cs from the Foursquare offer. I suppose that would apply to the offers which Flyoff has found on the site, which are more of a load to card statement credit format.

      • Andrew says:

        9 Oct9 October 09:03

        Looks like it’s all been put together without much proofing: “It’s complimentary for eligible American Express Cardmembers (prepaid cards, gift cards and corporate cards are not eligible for the program). It’s complimentary, you will not be charged for connecting your Card.” Not sure it’s necessary to tell us it’s complimentary twice in the same paragraph and define what complimentary means!

• Scott says:

  9 Oct9 October 08:44

  Done in less than 5 minutes. £5 for 5 minutes = £60 per hour 🙂 thanks Raffles

  • Luke says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:07

    There is *surely* a limit on this?

    • Rob says:

      9 Oct9 October 09:20

      25,000 people

      I suppose you could set up lots of different TA accounts for every Amex card you own ….

      • Luke says:

        9 Oct9 October 13:46

        One day I will read the entire post before asking a question already answered..

        • Rob says:

          9 Oct9 October 17:14

          No, you get 1 x £5, full stop!

          I also got an email confirming my review. It says I will be paid in 2-5 days, which makes a mockery of the March 2014 implied in the leaflet!

• Colin MacKinnon says:

  9 Oct9 October 08:51

  Thnaks, one for me and one for the missus.

• wilfred47 says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:06

  thanks. done it for ba and gold along with supplementary cards

• Lee Earl says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:17

  My MBNA card worked successfully this morning, so might want to double check.

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:21

    I only tell you what the rules say! Certainly worth a go if you don’t have an Amex Amex, though.

    • Nick Burch says:

      10 Oct10 October 23:27

      The rules on the email I got today looked a little different, and did explicitly mention third party issued ones as OK, so perhaps they’ve finally reviewed+fixed the wording?

    • Simon says:

      12 Oct12 October 20:12

      Did reviews on my Gold, BA, SPG and Nectar cards and got emails confirming I’ll get £5 credit, just tried my American Airlines and Lloyds cards, I noticed when I logged in with the MBNA card account it knew I’d been to the Hen & Chicken recently (I went there a few times as it was on the small shop promotion!) which makes me think I’ll get the £5 credit, as you say certainly worth a go.

      • Alan says:

        12 Oct12 October 20:14

        Was that all to the one TA a/c? Did you sync then submit a review and wait for confirmation before your next review?

        • Simon says:

          12 Oct12 October 20:27

          No I created 6 different accounts TA accounts. Did 2 reviews one after the other over 3 different days.

        • Alan says:

          12 Oct12 October 20:38

          OK thanks 🙂

  • Andrew says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:52

    Perhaps they are happy for you to link your non-Amex Amex but you just won’t be eligible for the credits. That said, the offers on the site are nothing new, just the D&D London offer which is currently running and that is open to all cards regardless of issuer. So like Raffles said, worth a try but I don’t think I’ll be going to the bother to create an additional TA account for my MBNA card.

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