Free TfL £5 and ‘£10 off £50 at Esso’ offers now open to all Amex cardholders

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• Idrive says:

  31 Oct31 October 06:54

  Last night all my offers on Ba Prem and Plat disappeared.no offers available at this time.am i the only one?

  • ankomonkey says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:23

    I had this too on 2 cards, but not on a third. I haven’t tried to re-check since, but I suspect they were having system issues. On one of my cards I couldn’t see any transactions either, not just offers.

    • JQ says:

      31 Oct31 October 08:04

      This happens every night at about 2230-2330

      • idrive says:

        31 Oct31 October 08:19

        fine, never incurred into this before. got them all now.

• Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

  31 Oct31 October 07:11

  Any idea whether you can get the TFL credit with a £5 Oyster top-up?

  • JQ says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:15

    No, the T&C specifically say that this only applies to contactless and not ticket machines

    Unless your question was really asking if it will work anyway…

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

      31 Oct31 October 07:21

      Exactly that. I have a gold card discount on my PAYG oyster, so I’d rather take the £5 as a top-up.

      • Peter says:

        31 Oct31 October 07:40

        Well, why don’t you try it and let us know, then?? You won’t be losing anything, after all!

        ;))

        • JT says:

          31 Oct31 October 22:31

          Tried it last week and didn’t work unfortunately

  • ms says:

    31 Oct31 October 16:06

    Unfortunately, it does work.
    I have already tried it (£5 as a top-up). Transaction on my statement on 26.10.14, on record agaist my saved offer.

    • ms says:

      31 Oct31 October 16:11

      Sorry, I meant NO record against my saved offer (no credit either).

• JQ says:

  31 Oct31 October 07:17

  Has anyone been to a MALTHURST Esso and received the credit? Mine hasn’t come through after 7 days, I know it says 8 weeks but never waited more than 5 days for any previous offer. Also the offer is not marked as “redeemed” on my Amex page.

  • TimS says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:24

    Have the avios/MR points tracked yet?

    I find that credits track at the same time as the points, not the original charge.

    • JQ says:

      31 Oct31 October 08:09

      I find that the credits track about 2 days after the points track, which is usually the day after the trasnaction is processed. And yes, the points have tracked

      • TimS says:

        31 Oct31 October 09:12

        MIght be worth sending a secure message to Amex then for them to investigate. The last time I had a credit not track they looked into it and applied the credit within 48 hours.

  • Frenske says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:53

    Mmm mine has not appeared. I went to Esso Tolworth but it has a little Tesco attached to it and payment appeared as Tesco Express. *sigh*

  • grex9101 says:

    31 Oct31 October 08:19

    I could be wrong, but I’m sure I saw somewhere that MALTHURST Esso’s were excluded, just as Tesco ones are?

    • gadgetcakes says:

      31 Oct31 October 08:34

      Below is the list on the Amex site of excluded stations.
      Budgens Langford, Tout Limited, Bridgwater Road, Langford, BS40 5JG
      Budgens Nailsea, Tout Limited, Bristol Road, Wraxall, BS48 1BN
      Coop Westways, The Co-operative Group Ltd, A39 Marksbury, Marksbury, BA2 9HN
      Coop North Road Garage, The Co-operative Group Ltd, Station Road, Builth Wells, LD2 3SS
      Coop Golden Lion, Arbroath, Angus, DD11 5JP
      Coop Springfield, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB15 7SE
      Coop Stonehaven, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, AB39 2NQ
      Coop Birkhill, Birkhill, Dundee, DD2 5PG
      Coop Gosforth, Gosforth, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, NE3 5EH
      Derby Garage, Lancashire, Bury, BL9 9NS
      Old Mill Filling Station, 7A Glasgow Road, Clydebank, G81 6AU

• Danny says:

  31 Oct31 October 07:18

  I bloody love Amex

  The morrisons deal for 15 off last month and now these

  The pizza express and zizzi 10 off 30 on top of my taste card…. It just keeps giving 😉

  • grex9101 says:

    31 Oct31 October 08:14

    Hopefully this was intentional. Giving a week or so lead time for those of us who are loyal to amex rather than to those who just happen to have been given one by their generic big bank is a great way to reward our loyalty.
    Not that I’ve ever missed out on any of the card holder offers, but it could happen I suppose.

  • grex9101 says:

    31 Oct31 October 09:23

    What Morrisons offer was that (if you don’t mind me asking)?

    • Danny says:

      31 Oct31 October 10:14

      15 off 40 or 50 for online morrisons. Com shop

      58 laurent perrier down to 43

      • grex9101 says:

        7 Nov7 November 18:56

        Missed it. I wish HfP would cover these sort of things too..

        • squills says:

          7 Nov7 November 19:26

          Morrisons offer got fair coverage, down here at least 😉

          Personally I would like to see rather more than 6 entries in recent messages, then you’d be much less likely to miss good tips.

          More like 12. Not sure if that would b*gger up the look of the page, though.

        • Rob says:

          7 Nov7 November 22:18

          The focus of the site is frequent flyer and hotel loyalty schemes – ripples echo out from there to other things but they only go so far ….

        • grex9101 says:

          7 Nov7 November 22:22

          Ever considered a sister site?

        • Alan says:

          8 Nov8 November 03:07

          Head for Cash?
          Head for Moolah?
          Head for Spondoolicks?

          😀

        • Rob says:

          8 Nov8 November 09:11

          Yes. But I am never convinced enough. My concerns have been a) splitting the HFP audience and thus reducing my power with advertisers, competition providers etc, b) Tesco runs hot and cold on promos and when it is quiet there is no content, c) who pays? Travel ads pay a lot. General interest ads do not, d) Tesco stuff needs to appear here as well so the only extra content might be Nectar which seems to be on its last legs, e) if I repeat articles across 2 sites then Google deranks both of them.

• David says:

  31 Oct31 October 07:45

  One nice thing is that once you register a card where the offer was not previously targeted, the offer appears under ‘My Offers’ in your Amex online account so you can be reasonably sure it has been properly enrolled. This also works for supplementary cards. Helpful as there’s no enrollment confirmation email for this offer.

• JQ says:

  31 Oct31 October 08:06

  There’s a new offer for £75 off £750 on SAA

• David says:

  31 Oct31 October 08:13

  Just check your card for the contactless symbol. If it doesn’t have it, ask Amex to send you a contactless-enabled card.

• Fenny says:

  31 Oct31 October 08:18

  I’m not getting the TfL offer on my Plat Amex. If it does show up now, I’ll be annoyed, as I was in London last weekend and seemed to get charged a lot more for my contactless travel than the TfL page said was the max for a day. I only travelled in zones 1 off peak, but when I checked the website, it couldn’t show my my journey history for the contactless card.

  • Richard says:

    31 Oct31 October 10:10

    It probably means you didn’t touch in or out at some point and got a “maximum charge” for that journey, which is on top of the daily cap. In my experience if you call TfL they refund it without any quibbles (for Oyster at least, I don’t see why it would be different for contactless).

    • Fenny says:

      31 Oct31 October 16:06

      It’s taken me all week to finally manage to access my travel history. It didn’t register my touch in at Green Park, so I’ve applied for a refund. It’s just frustrating that I’ve checked several times and been unable to access the info due to “system problems”.

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