New American Express offers: £25 off £100 at Eurostar and £25 off £50 at Argos

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• waribai says:

  22 Dec22 December 18:26

  Hi,

  Did this a few times last week on my cards.amex posted without any problems but the MBNA one registered via foursquare didn’t.
  Any chance of getting the credit? I know itch amex cards you can call their customer centre but I guess that doesn’t work with mbna issued cards?

  • pazza2000 says:

    22 Dec22 December 18:38

    Yes the same case at my end. I also have some small shop credits waiting to post on my MBNA, I think it takes them a little longer. I’m guessing you would comtact MBNA.

• MagicByNature says:

  25 Dec25 December 23:54

  Has anyone successfully used the Visa giftcard from Argos to pay off Amex/MBNA bill? I tried both, and it doesn’t work for either. I have registered on the website given on the giftcard. How can I even know if my card is active? On the packaging, it seemed a portion of it was supposed to be torn off by the seller in order to be activated, but it hasn’t been done in my case.

  • Alan says:

    26 Dec26 December 00:07

    The packaging also has a magnetic strip on the outside which they probably swiped instead – as long as they gave you an activation slip along with your receipt the card will have been activated. Some financial transactions seem to be blocked – I paid in to my NS&I savings account without an issue but I don’t know if anyone has had success paying off their Amex bill with it.

  • Andy says:

    26 Dec26 December 00:22

    You can not pay off your credit card with the gift card,. Argos do not have hand held scanners which is what you need to use for the tear off strip. They run the brown strip at the bottom of the card through their card reader. You should have been given a receipt with an “activation successful” slip

  • MagicByNature says:

    26 Dec26 December 01:47

    From what I remember, I got a standard receipt and a card payment receipt. Was there supposed to be a third one? Nevertheless, the card got added to the online account and I can see the balance, so hopefully that’s okay. I’m out of the country for now so can’t test it if it works in any store.

    A bit of a pity about not being able to pay a CC bill, but I suppose it’s understandable from the credit card supplier viewpoint. I guess I’d have to use it all up on regular in-store shopping.

    • Alan says:

      26 Dec26 December 09:13

      There’s no separate credit card slip with Argos, that’s part of the main receipt, so the second slip was probably the card activation receipt!

• mark2 says:

  26 Dec26 December 09:33

  I bought an Amex gift card for the Argos £25 back and have used it at Tesco and House of Fraser. I was amazed that it was refused at Waitrose and John Lewis. Has anyone else had this experience at these usually exemplary retailers please?

  • Pid says:

    4 Jan4 January 09:19

    I had an issue redeeming an Amex giftcard, bought from Amex not Argos, last year at Tescos. Strange it worked straight away when then the girlfriend used it in a shoe shop.

  • mark2 says:

    4 Jan4 January 16:26

    I have just hade a reply from Waitrose customer services stating that the gift cards should be accepted.

• Simon P says:

  4 Jan4 January 08:45

  Does anyone know if the Eurostar offer is valid for purchases of Eurostar vouchers?

  • Simon P says:

    4 Jan4 January 08:46

    Sorry ignore that, just re-read the post that states it may not post.

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