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£5 off £10 at Tesco, £20 off £60 at World Duty Free – new Amex offers

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Two very attractive new offers probably appeared on your American Express account yesterday, although you may not have noticed.  These are a continuation of the special deals that have been running for the last few weeks.

The first is one which almost every Head for Points reader should be able to use – £5 off a £10 spend at any Tesco store (not online).

The second is also a good one if you travelling soon – £20 off a £60 spend at World Duty Free.

These offers are limited to a fixed number of sign-ups, so you should register as soon as possible.  Both deals are valid until 28th February, so there is no rush to use them.

To sign up, visit americanexpress.co.uk (or open the Amex app) and log in.  Go to the summary page for one of your cards.  In the right hand margin of the website, you will see a box marked ‘Your Offers’.

Click this, and you will see all the offers available to you.  These two above should be included.  You need to click ‘Save to Card’ to activate the offer, otherwise it is not valid.

If you have multiple Amex-issued Amex cards (eg BA, Starwood, Gold, Platinum etc) then you should be able to sign up under each of them.  I got the offer under all three of my cards, so that is an easy £15 I will save at Tesco.

The money is paid back to you as a statement credit, usually around 5 days after you make the transaction.  Importantly, it will combine with ANY other promotion.

With World Duty Free, for example, it will combine with the ‘£5 off £75 spend’ vouchers which can be downloaded here.  A £75 spend will then only cost you £50 if you use the coupon and register for the Amex offer.

This is essentially free money, especially the Tesco one, so do sign up on as many cards as you can.  Only main cardholders can register, not supplementary cards.


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Comments (52)

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  • kevino says:

    Only the main card-holder can register, but does using a supplementary cards trigger it?

  • Stu says:

    Neither of our Starwood cards show the offer either.

  • Worzel says:

    For me(Gold + BA basic) the following are also showing various credits:

    Currys PC world, ASOS, Harvey Nicols, Financial Times, Space NK, Blacks, Anthropologie.

    Look at the T&C’s as some are 1st registered(so if you’re in, you’re in-i.eTesco) some are restricted to a limited amount of statement credits.

    Thank You Raffles.

  • Danksy says:

    I did this yesterday, works on the BAPP and platinum, but not SPG

  • Col A-B says:

    Spotted these & some others for ASOS yesterday which I have obtained.
    However the Tesco one wasn’t available for my Nectar AMEX card. Funny that!

  • Worzel says:

    Kevino (7.25am) if you look at the T&c’s it”s Main CC holder only-have double checked as a supp and offers not shown.

  • Andrew says:

    Another targeted offer and again they are not showing on my BA or Platinum card. I actually have a formal complaint with Amex going through at the moment on this subject.

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

      Admittedly, you’ve only given a few words, but I’d be surprised if you have any grounds for complaint for not receiving targeted offers. They’ve got a lot of latitude to target as they see fit.

      The only thing I could think of is that they can’t exclude you based upon an Equality Act Protected Characteristic.

      • Andrew says:

        Yes, of course I am not taking a legal case against them over it, simply complaining that as one of their most “valued customers” (paying £450 a year for the Platinum Card) I haven’t been offered these promotions. I would like to understand the criterion for being selected – do I spend too little or too much money at Tesco?! My complaint started on email and then they ended up classifying it as a formal complaint going through its formal procedures.

  • Idrive says:

    Excellent!!! Thanks Raffles!

    for you info, I got it on SPG, i think it is targeted on Tesco spenders

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