Amex / Foursquare – iPads, laptops, prams etc available at half-price via ‘Debenhams Plus’

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• trickster says:

  8 Mar8 March 13:33

  No comments (other than, “ooh, that’s a nice gift”) when I asked yesterday to put £150 on a gift card, and split it across 3 credit cards. I actually volunteered the reason why (watered down) due to a slight puzzled look. Then today, I topped the same card up with another £150, split across my wife’s 3 cards – again no queries. all very easy.

  Therefore, when I called up Debenhams Plus, I was actually using a single gift card worth £300, which made the process much more painless. I would not expect them to query your use of 4 gift cards – they are legit methods of payment.

  • Nick Burch says:

    10 Mar10 March 18:07

    Topping up a gift card with several amex’s isn’t a quick process (I’d say it’s a bit over a minute per card), so make sure you find a quiet till to do it at. I got a very strange look when I asked, but after explaining it was for an Amex offer they just shrugged and started the slow process of adding 50 quid per card

    • Trickster says:

      11 Mar11 March 07:20

      On the contrary, it was easy as anything for me, and I got no strafe looks. I topped up the card ONCE with £150, but did 3 separate payment transactions.

• Gill says:

  8 Mar8 March 15:29

  Sorry to appear thick.
  So I buy several Debenhams gift cards from tesco, get the 150 points for each, go online and use my synched Amex card to buy something fromDebenhams plus over the phone with my amex and giftcards.
  Does the £25 credit for each card appear automatically?

• Gill says:

  8 Mar8 March 16:11

  I think I may have got it now – I have to use different Amex cards to buy £50 gift cards, because each card can only have one £25 credit.
  Does the £25 then get credited because it goes down as a Debenhams spend even though I bought the giftcard in Tesco?
  Or is it credited when the giftcards are spent at Debenhams?

  Thanks, (trying to work out how many Amex cards are in the household)

  • Rich says:

    8 Mar8 March 16:23

    Hi Gill,
    No you need to make the purchases from Debenhams, buying a debenhams gift card at Tesco will not be eligible spend for te £25 cash back!

    So first you need to link each amex card with a unique Foursquare account, then check in to debenhams and load the offer to card on each foursquare account.
    Once you have done that, make £50 spend at debenhams on each card, which can be on a debenhams gift card as this post refers to, and about 3-5 days later you will get a £25 statement credit appear.

    Hope that helps!
    Rich

• Gill says:

  8 Mar8 March 16:37

  thx, So I have to load the offer onto the card from a store. But then I can use the card to spend online.
  I don’t see how the Amex link works though. I could have bought the giftcard with any card or cash.

  • Rich says:

    8 Mar8 March 17:05

    It is Amex that give you the £25 rebate for spending £50 on your Amex card. Debenhams don’t give you a refund in store.

    The idea is to buy £50 Debenhams gift card(s) from Debenhams, using your Amex card. You will pay £50 there and then. If the offer is loaded correctly as mentioned previously, when the £50 hits your Amex card statement a couple of days later, it will automatically refund you with £25, another couple of days later.

    This can only be done once per card, so talk on this post is referring to using multiple Amex cards to buy multiple £50 gift cards which in turn will give you multiple £25 rebates on your Amex statement(s).

    Rich

    • Rich says:

      8 Mar8 March 17:11

      It may be worth checking out one of raffles’ earlier posts to understand the whole Foursquare/Amex set up. Try this one:

      https://headforpoints.com/2012/11/29/i-have-jumped-on-the-amex-foursquare-bandwagon/

• Gill says:

  8 Mar8 March 18:22

  Got it, thanks for your patience. I’m usually quite good at this sort of thing but this one had me baffled.

• James67 says:

  9 Mar9 March 06:55

  Thanks to all for helpfull responses. Good news though, myrefunds have now posted, it justook couple of days more than previously. So still 100% for 4sq promos.

• Craig Shaw says:

  9 Mar9 March 07:07

  Has anyone tried this at a Debenhams Travel Money counter? Or does anyone know why this wouldnt work? (And I’m aware i’d incur a charge from Amex for using a credit card)

  • Trevor says:

    13 Mar13 March 22:09

    Hope I’m not too late to save ya bacon… If you use your Amex at the travel money counter, it’ll go through as a cash transaction, not a purchase, and you are therefore very unlikely to get the refund (if you check the sync websites T&C’s, it might even say as much). I thought of trying this route at both Harrod’s and HoF, but realised that using the card itself would incur the cash charge and wouldn’t work, and having enquired about use of giftcards, neither store would accept them at the travel money counters as that’s effectively a “refund” and they don’t allow refunds on gift cards 🙁

• Colin A-B says:

  9 Mar9 March 08:28

  To make creating alternative 4SQ accounts easier you might find using gmail (if not already using) will help. This is because you can append your normal gmail address & any email connected with it will still end up in your main gmail inbox.

  eg: say my email address is colin@gmail.com – For my Virgin Amex card I’ve synced I used the email address colin+virginamex@gmail.com & for my Starwood Preferred Guest Amex card I’ve used colin+spg@gmail.com to register. Basically you can put anything after the name of your email, as long as it’s prefixed with +.

  I hope this has made sense & helps someone a little – certainly makes it easier for me when I’m switching between 4SQ accounts to checkin.

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