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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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Comments (187)

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  • signol says:
    16 Dec16 December 13:53

    Another flash deal: buy a £10 Amazon gift card for £5 from Bespoke Offers. One person account / email.

  • mucky says:
    16 Dec16 December 14:13

    It says on the T&C’s on AMEX website that:

    Offer only applies to spend on the Card to which the offer is saved. It does not apply to spend on any supplementary Cards or other Cards you might hold.

    Does this mean the supplement cards, although you can register the offer the credit will not be applied?

    How can you check which Amex is registered to a 4 square account….i may have forgotten the email address i used for a card

    • Rob says:
      16 Dec16 December 14:31

      No, it doesn’t mean that. It means that if you register a main card, the bonus is not triggered if you spend on a supplementary card to that main card.

      • Will says:
        16 Dec16 December 14:41

        my supp cards dont have it in the offer section but main cards do. can i register supp cards and how?

        • TimS says:
          16 Dec16 December 16:43

          Yes you can register supp cards, but you will need to do it via foursquare. You need a separate foursquare account for each card.

  • James says:
    16 Dec16 December 14:38

    On HUKD it states that from tomorrow spend £50 get £5 voucher. Spend £100 get 10.

    • Michi says:
      17 Dec17 December 15:38

      I asked about this in-store today, and apparently it’s not valid for gift card purchases.

  • PJK says:
    16 Dec16 December 14:57

    3pm now and I’ve just registered without a problem … impressed that some card slots were still available 🙂

  • sandgrounder says:
    16 Dec16 December 16:00

    To those of you who have used the Foursquare version of the offer, did you receive any sort of communication after making the purchase? I can’t remember if they fire off an email, Amex-style (or a notification on the app?) as soon as you use the card when you have an offer loaded. I didn’t get anything through.

    • d4ve says:
      16 Dec16 December 16:08

      I used one Amex issued card and one MBNA issued card today and only got an email for the Amex issued card.

      • Rob says:
        16 Dec16 December 17:16

        This is normal for MBNA and Lloyds cards. The credits also take longer to arrive on these cards.

  • philipb says:
    16 Dec16 December 16:08

    Brilliant, Raffles – thanks.
    Today we needed a new iron and were going to Tesco. Having read your post I looked at the Argos website, found the right iron (Bosch) reduced from £54.99 to £34.99 so we bought this plus a £25 gift card. The net cost of the £54.99 iron will be £9.99 when the statement credit arrives!!!

  • Andrew S says:
    16 Dec16 December 16:17

    The Red Visa card could not be sold at 1pm as the till would not allow a sale to be processed, but the blue version went through fine. Im not sure if this was a deliberate action to prevent the sales. has anyone had sucess this afternoon?

    • Andrew S says:
      16 Dec16 December 21:22

      I managed to find a stash of blue cards at the other store in town, so all good!

  • Andrew S says:
    16 Dec16 December 16:20

    Raffles you havent covered the Primark £5 back on £15 spend 🙂

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