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

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On Saturday I ran through the latest run of American Express cardholder offers – including a generous £50 cashback on a £500 Apple purchase – and surmised that this would be it for the year.

I was wrong.  A very generous offer with Argos turned up yesterday.

You can find the offer on the cardmemberoffers.co.uk website under ‘Shopping’.  If you go via this route you will need to register via the Foursquare smartphone app.  Alternatively, you may find it on your American Express online account on the statement pages of one of your cards.

You will receive £25 cashback when you spend £50 at Argos before 31st December.

Only 20,000 registrations are available.  I recommend registering all of your American Express cards sooner rather than later as this target is likely to be hit.  Head for Points readers are likely to take 2,000 or so.

What should you buy at Argos?  Gift cards!  Most Argos shops stock a range of gift cards for other retailers.  Some even stock the £53.95 Visa gift cards which come with a £50 Visa credit you can pay into a bank account, to HMRC, to a utility etc.

Note that this is an ‘in-store only’ offer.  Transactions on the Argos website will not count unless they are ‘click and collect’ and you pay in-store.

You can only register one American Express card per Foursquare account.  If you open multiple Foursquare accounts, each requires a different email address.

Meanwhile, a new Eurostar offer is about to launch.

The deal is worth £25 cashback on a £100 Eurostar sale (either online or at a Eurostar ticket office in the UK) before the end of January.  There is no limit to the number of people who can register for this.

Eurostar no longer sells gift vouchers online.  You can buy paper vouchers via the phone but this could well be run by a third party and not trigger the cashback.  Your best option to maximise the bonus is to break down a trip into chunks of £100, potentially booking each passenger separately.  As you can select seats after booking there is no risk of your party being split up.

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  • Nick says:
    16 Dec16 December 10:00

    It seems that the foursquare website is down? Pity if so.

  • Max says:
    16 Dec16 December 10:08

    Does Argos stock any Apple/iTunes card?

  • TimS says:
    16 Dec16 December 10:09

    The offer “exclues gift cards and in-store concessions” so MAY not work.

    Still worth trying, but don’t be surprised if it doesn’t track.

  • Kirill says:
    16 Dec16 December 10:35

    Some even stock the £53.95 Visa gift cards which come with a £50 Visa credit you can pay into a bank account, to HMRC, to a utility etc.

    Can someone explain which accounts allow you to deposit the visa to your bank account?

    • Rob says:
      16 Dec16 December 11:16

      National Savings Direct Saver accounts definitely work. It is hit and miss with other accounts, but if your account allows you to make deposits online via a debit card then you can try it and see what happens.

  • Aeronaut says:
    16 Dec16 December 10:59

    Argos has lost some of its allure since they stopped the Elizabeth Duke brand…

    • Rob says:
      16 Dec16 December 11:21

      Did they stop that? I do remember wandering around Argos as a small child and looking at all the ED stuff!

  • Andrew says:
    16 Dec16 December 11:13

    Good luck buying Visa and Amex cards! They had plenty in stock today but left empty handed after 3 members of staff spent 20 minutes trying to work out how to sell them! Issue seemed to be that they don’t have barcode scanners on the till and the Visa/Amex cards are sold by scanning the barcode rather than swiping a magnetic strip like the other gift cards they sell.

    If anyone does manage to buy one, can you post so that I can train the staff to sell me some!

    • Kiran says:
      16 Dec16 December 12:23

      the VISA ones certainly have a strip on the back of the packaging (looks like a brown strip against the red/blue colour from the front). I always ask the Tesco cashiers to use this as they get very confused before they realise they have to peel off the cardboard strip.

      • Andrew says:
        16 Dec16 December 12:35

        We tried all of that, still couldn’t work out how to sell them. Ridiculous that they stock an item they don’t know how to sell!

        • Louie says:
          16 Dec16 December 14:02

          I just bought 2 x £25 VISA cards and the staff managed to swipe the strip at the bottom OK without too much head scratching and the receipt does say “transaction successful”, I checked! No need to peel off the cardboard strip.

      • Alan says:
        19 Dec19 December 00:22

        Yep no issue with them swiping the magstrip on the outside of the packaging of the £53.95 Visa for me today – email confirmation by Amex before I’d even left the store!

  • Alastair Davidson says:
    16 Dec16 December 11:14

    Registered two cards and made a purchase for just over £100. Argos allowed the purchase to be split over two cards. Happy days.

  • chris says:
    16 Dec16 December 11:23

    Hi,

    I’ve probably previously used offers at Argos (last year) and can’t seem to get the offer to appear on Swarm – is is because It doesn’t want me to have access to an offer again? This Swarm app is a nightmare.

    Any help appreciated as I have 5 cards I want to register.

    Cheers

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