(EDIT, 8pm. Well done everyone! We have successfully exhausted the majority of the 8,000 registrations between us in just 6 hours and the deal is now closed.
Please do ensure that you spend £30 on each of the Amex cards you registered, even if you just buy a £30 gift card and add the credit to your Amazon account for later in the year.
If people register for the offer but do not make the necessary spend then Amex is likely to introduce restrictions on the numbers of cards that can be registered per person in the future. Merchants such as Amazon are also less likely to want to participate again.
If you have saved some money through this deal, please consider using our Amazon affiliate link – half-way down the right-hand margin of every HFP page – when you are making your £30 spend. We make a very small commission.)
American Express has, literally, just launched a very generous new promotion in association with amazon.co.uk.
Only 8,000 Amex cards can be registered for this offer.
The regular readers of Head for Points have around 50,000 British Airways, Gold, Platinum, Starwood, bmi etc Amex cards between them, at a rough guess, so we could wipe out this offer ourselves if we so wanted.
You will receive £10 cashback on your Amex statement when you spend £30 at amazon.co.uk before June 9th.
The easiest thing to do, to be honest, is buy a £30 Amazon gift card and add it to your Amazon account. The money will then sit there until you buy something, with no time pressure. There is nothing to suggest that gift cards are excluded – all that matters is that ‘amazon.co.uk’ appears on your card statement.
You can register every Amex-issued Amex card that you hold. Lloyds / MBNA / Barclays and Amex supplementary cards seem to register OK.
Whilst the offer is advertised in a way which promotes Amazon’s fashion pages, ANY £30 purchase from the UK site will qualify for the cashback.
This is what you must do IMMEDIATELY to ensure that your cards are in the first 8,000 to register:
Step 1: You can see details of the offer and the rules here on the cardmemberoffers.co.uk website If the page is slow to load due to demand then skip to Step 2.
Step 2: Visit this page and register your American Express card details
There is no rush to do Step 3 – once registered, as long as your purchase is completed by June 9th, you will get the cashback:
Step 3: Visit www.amazon.co.uk and spend £30 in one transaction. If you want to buy a £30 e-gift card, go to the Amazon UK gift card store here and have one emailed to yourself. There is a link in the e-gift card email which allows you to instantly add it to your Amazon balance.
That’s it. Please get onto this ASAP if you want to take part, because all 8,000 will disappear very quickly once this offer reaches hotukdeals, moneysavingexpert etc.
The Amazon links in Step 3 include our affiliate details, and Head for Points will receive a small referral commission on anything you buy. Thank you for your support.
(Thanks to JT)
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All gone now. Just tried to register an Amex I found down the back of the sofa :o)
My Small Business Gold Amex worked.
I registered and spent on three cards, got my three congratulations emails and now feel greedy and guilty.
Greedy & guilty? Alien concepts AFAIAC 🙂
You’ve got to be in it to win it.
If you missed out, try this one which I probably should have remembered yesterday but you know how it is…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_758171_70421651_pe_hero/?node=5225073031
Buy £20 in Amazon Gift Cards, Get £5 to Spend at Amazon.co.uk
I tried it on our a/cs and no go, but plenty reporting that it has worked. I guess I had something similar last year which probably rules me out this time.
thanks rob, 7 cards enrolled, all spent via HFP link
£10.50 coming your way.
i hope you got all 8000, that would be a cool£12k …well deserved too.
That isn’t going to happen! If I was after the money I would have hold people to buy a gift card NOW instead of reminding them that they could wait until June 9th and there was no rush. The Amazon cookie is only 24 hours so I only get something on immediate purchases.
No you just used the word IMMEDIATELY in capitals directly below the banner and then any mention of Amazon and links to them (not just the banner) is with the HFP affiliate link. Nicely done…
No he was perfectly clear!
Move on Adam…..
It’s easy enough to set up your own bookmarks on your browser bar and click on that. I have one each for the UK and US sites, as Amazon is my go-to shopping place.
£180 of Amazon credit for £120! Thanks Rob!
Confirmation emails arrived immediately after purchase, and the credit will just sit on my account until used (which won’t take long!)
Thanks Rob!
If you got the successfully registered page you have nothing to worry about. You can just phone Amex if the £10 credit doesn’t appear and they’ll set you right.
Thank you!
Hmm! Registered my own Amex plus my wife’s supp. yesterday – both were acknowledged as successful. Used both this afternoon for £30 gift cards, but only one “Congratulations” e-mail (came through within minutes). Nothing from the same transaction with the supp. card – should i be worried?
[Great offer – many thanks to HFP!]
Sounds like mine (above).
Look in your Amazon ‘Orders’ section & you’ll probably find that your second order is sitting there waiting to be finalised, automatically detected as dodgy duplication (whilst Amazon get round to OK-ing it).
A little bit disgusted at those that registered on all 4,5,6,+ amex cards – hardly fair for the rest of us. Used to have a great deal of respect for this site and it’s users, now not so much.
Time is a great healer. You will get over it.
Adam, why are you still here…..
5 x £10 already showing in my a/cs 🙂
Amex are getting really good at this!
I feel a bit sorry for Amex – I hope they weren’t planning a general email to cardholders to promote this new deal!
I have missed out on plenty of deals, the feeling will pass…..
£10 credit already showing on my statement!
And on mine, what a deal 🙂
Got my credit, although it just slipped on to the transactions list, no congrats email or showing as an offer used as yet
just to say thanks Rob, I got 3 registered, and have just redeemed them now, with 3 amex confirmation emails come through at the same time. Muchas Gracias.
Is there anyway of checking which cards I registered?