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Great BA Amex / Amex Gold / Amazon offer: 500-1000 easy Avios or Membership Rewards points

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American Express and Amazon have launched a generous offer for many – but not all – British Airways American Express, Amex Gold and Amex Platinum cardholders.

It is limited to 20,000 people, so I strongly suggest you register as soon as possible.  To put this in perspective, HFP gets 25,000 unique visitors daily and the number of BA Amex cardholders, let alone Gold and Platinum, is well into six figures.

You will find this offer on the ‘Offers’ tab of your British Airways American Express / Amex Gold / Amex Platinum statement page online, or in the app.

There appear to be a couple of versions.  Both my wife and I have:

Get 500 Avios when you spend £25 at amazon.co.uk before 17th September using your BA Amex

However, a reader sent me:

Get 1,000 Avios when you spend £25 at amazon.co.uk before 17th September using your BA Amex

There is also:

Get 500 / 1,000 Membership Rewards points when you spend £25 at amazon.co.uk before 19th September using your Amex Gold / Platinum

It isn’t clear who gets what and you may have got nothing if you are very unlucky.

It is limited to the first 20,000 people to register.  The only rule is that “purchases made with Market Place Sellers, Amazon Prime or subscriptions to Amazon Prime” do not count.   Does this mean that if you are an Amazon Prime customer, like myself, it does not count? (it seems not – see below)  Or is it a typo, meaning that purchases via Prime Now do not count?  Or only purchases made using Prime next day delivery, which you can opt out from?

I did a test purchase on my own Amazon account for a £25 gift card.  I AM an Amazon Prime customer.  Within 2 minutes of making the purchase I got an email from American Express saying “Congratulations, you have earned 500 bonus Avios – if your transaction meets the offer terms”.  Assuming that it does, since Amex has picked up the transaction and has no idea what I bought, this means:

gift card purchases do count

even Amazon Prime customers still earn the bonus on gift cards

This offer should be a no-brainer for qualifying BA Amex / Amex Gold / Amex Platinum cardholders, especially if you have the 1,000 points version.  £25 is a ludicrously low purchase limit for earning 1,000 Avios or Membership Rewards points.

As I found, purchases of Amazon e-gift cards seem to count.  These can be bought online via this link and added to your personal Amazon account via this page.  The balance is used automatically on your next purchase.

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Comments (407)

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  • hearingdouble says:
    7 Aug7 August 13:34

    I have got an offer and added it to my BA card. Are supplementary cardholders able to sign up for offers separately?

  • Jon says:
    7 Aug7 August 13:48

    1000 point offer on my free BA AMEX. Thanks!

  • Keith says:
    7 Aug7 August 14:01

    Contacted chat and added 1000 avios to my BA card – good service.

  • Mark W says:
    7 Aug7 August 14:03

    1000 Avios on my BA, 500 MR on my wife’s Gold. Bought 2 gift cards.
    Thanks for the info!

  • Ronan says:
    7 Aug7 August 14:05

    The part about e-gift cards in the article needs altering. As a few people have already me mentioned I went and bought an e-gift card for £25 and the t&c’s in the confirmation email from Amex clearly state that purchasing any form of gift card or amazon credit will not count so I won’t get the 1000 bonus points now.

    • the real harry1 says:
      7 Aug7 August 14:27

      sounds like user error

    • Anna says:
      7 Aug7 August 14:28

      It’s all very confusing. I’ve also used the offer on my BAPP on a non-Prime, non gift voucher purchase but got no email!

      • Paulm says:
        7 Aug7 August 14:36

        If it’s non prime, I guess it’s likely to be a marketplace seller which won’t count! I always thought everything actually sold by amazon was available for prime!

      • the real harry1 says:
        7 Aug7 August 14:37

        giftcard is clearly working

        not getting the instant success email is not a biggy & Amex would sort it out later if necessary

        • Anna says:
          7 Aug7 August 14:42

          The email about the gift card states that you will get the points IF your purchase qualifies. T & Cs are quite clear that it doesn’t!

    • the_real_a says:
      7 Aug7 August 15:41

      Lol newbies are in the house. Take T&C`s with a pinch of salt.

    • Alan says:
      7 Aug7 August 19:32

      Just wait and see – highly likely the points will post, ignore the email wording for now…

  • Abi says:
    7 Aug7 August 14:21

    I can’t see any offers on my BA premium card though! 🙁 Either the card is not eligible or I am too late.

    • Anna says:
      7 Aug7 August 14:31

      We’ve got it on 3 out of 5 cards, but another reader mentioned earlier that Amex told him they were rolling it out over the next 48 hours.

  • the real harry1 says:
    7 Aug7 August 14:40

    this Chat process s a bit painful 🙂

    • the real harry1 says:
      7 Aug7 August 14:49

      getting fed up now – been thru to Chat & bounced off it through inactivity

  • Anna says:
    7 Aug7 August 14:47

    So according to the Ts & Cs, you can’t use this offer on Amazon Prime, Marketplace or gift cards. What else exactly does that leave?

    • the real harry1 says:
      7 Aug7 August 14:48

      giftcards

      • Anna says:
        7 Aug7 August 15:01

        C. Transactions that are not eligible                                                                                                                 
        The following transactions are not eligible and will not count towards your spend for the purposes of the offer:
        ·        transactions where you do not spend directly with the merchant (for example, if you buy the merchant’s goods through a third party department store);
        ·        transactions processed through a third party payment processor (for example, PayPal);
        ·        transactions that are subsequently cancelled or refunded;
        ·        transactions where the merchant does not pass on the information we need to process it properly within the offer period (for example, when their payment systems are down and they cannot process the transaction electronically)
        · *****************transactions where you buy a gift card, store credit or a voucher************

        • Rob says:
          7 Aug7 August 15:47

          Wouldn’t worry about that.

          If you are worried, wait a few days to see what posts for those of us who have already purchased.

    • mark2 says:
      7 Aug7 August 14:52

      all the touchable items sold by Amazon e.g. the water filter element which I just bought, books, DVD …..
      It needs to say ‘sold by Amazon’

      • mark2 says:
        7 Aug7 August 14:52

        and maybe gift cards

        • Harpo says:
          7 Aug7 August 18:26

          Top up works aka gift cards.
          Got 1000 on wife’s BA black card and 500 on my plat. Nothing on the Gold or on supplementaries. Wish I hadn’t been trigger happy and clicked the offer link straight away – could have tried the cut and paste trick for our other cards.

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