Did you catch the American Express Membership Rewards / Tesco deal yesterday?

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• PanGalactic says:

  4 Jan4 January 20:07

  Surprisingly 😉 I happened to be reading Flyertalk at the time.

  I dithered for about 20 minutes or so, then ordered £850 worth of (£50) Tesco vouchers on my account and another £1400 worth on the wife’s.

  My £850 are showing as completed but the £1400 are still “in progress” as of today.

  There’s a good argument for NOT posting things like this to blogs as when it suddenly ends up in everyone’s inbox at the same time the “glitches” soon die. This is a perfect example of that.

  I’ll lay my money on Amex honouring this, rather than having to face 100s of trading standards cases.

  Their losses on this are mere peanuts in the big scheme of things.

  Lastly, as someone mentioned earlier Raffles does provide this site for free for us and we should all be very grateful.

  If you missed out, don’t be too disappointed, this deal is OK but it’s certainly not “deal of the century” by any stretch of the imagination.

• I love miles and points says:

  4 Jan4 January 20:51

  I am one of the thousands who read and rarely, if ever, comment on blog or forum posts. I have read your blog avidly since i first discoved it a few weeks back and have beem meaning to say thank you for some time. Motellgamzol’s comment was the incentive i needed. News of mistakes etc are inevitably time sensitive and unless one is a full time 24 hr 365 day a week writer or part of a large team inevitably some will be missed or moted elsewhere first. Your forte is analysis with a uk emphasis and I, for one, am very grateful that you take the time you do to enlighten us. People are very quick to complain and tardy in saying thanks. So a belated thanks from me

• g2-c74d428b3fe4991fc2f2089b312fa3f9 says:

  5 Jan5 January 09:55

  My Dysons are still ‘in progress’ as of this morning.

  I note that the glitch items have now all re-appeared at the correct ‘prices’.

• John O'Sullivan says:

  6 Jan6 January 22:28

  I’ve been looking for an explanation of the crazy offer (thanks, it makes sense now). I signed up for a gold preferred rewards card last august and got 20,000 free points once I’d spent £2,000. Plan was to exchange points for a free kindle for my daughter. Had 26,500 points when I by chance spotted the offer. £550 worth of gift cards on way, showing as completed on my MR account.

• Neil Spellings (@neilspellings) says:

  8 Jan8 January 11:26

  Two boxes of Red Wine just arrived courtesy of Amex and Raffles! Cheers!

  I missed the Tesco gift cards, but my two Dyson orders are showing as pending still.

  I’m guessing that Laithwaites probably have a much larger inventory available to fulfil the large order volume generated by this mis-price than whoever is shipping the Dysons.

• Richyo says:

  8 Jan8 January 11:32

  Various reports of gift cards arriving today for those that managed to get in on it!

• seenoevil says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:52

  I actually found the ‘glitch’ by chance when looking through my account, initially ordered a couple of Tesco cards and then about 10 minutes later went back in and ordered another few (every little helps…). Got the first 2 cards through the post yesterday am hoping batch 2 comes off as well. The first order showed as completed the following day, as of this morning my second batch still shows as In Progress. Not sure what this means for people whose orders are still ‘In Progress’. Fingers crossed.

• dommer says:

  9 Jan9 January 22:20

  I spotted the deal on the rewards site and just thought it was a good deal and didn’t realise it was an error. I bought £2000 of giftcards for 80,000 miles. All my giftcards arrived yesterday by post in a nice thick padded envelope. Very happy! Also got a case of red wine for 2,920 points.
  Credit to Amex for honouring now that I understand it was an error!

  • Raffles says:

    10 Jan10 January 10:29

    Mine are still showing as ‘In Progress’, presumably (hopefully) just awaiting new stock.

    • dommer says:

      12 Jan12 January 17:00

      I tested the cards out at Tesco today and there is no restriction on using the tesco gift cards to buy other gift cards in store! So this amazing deal can be ‘swapped’ in store for loads of other gift cards (eg itunes, house of fraser, etc etc). Not wanting to sound greedy or ungrateful, but I’m really wishing i’d used all 200,000 points on tesco gift cards.

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