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DEAL DEAD: Register for £10 American Express cashback on £30 Amazon spend

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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 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 Amazon 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.

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Want to earn more points from credit cards? – April 2024 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit card, here are our top recommendations based on the current sign-up bonuses.

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

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Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

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You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

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Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

15,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers:

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback on your spending.

Barclaycard Select Cashback Business Credit Card

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Comments (150)

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  • BlueThroughCrimp says:

    Thanks, registered and spent.
    Confirmation email back.

  • Oliver says:

    Done it. Thanks Rob 15:39 BST

  • Adam says:

    Brilliant, purchased a gift card for £30, email received from Amex with confirmation of reward.:)

  • Brian says:

    Should there be any issues buying say three gift cards under the same Amazon account but using three different cards?

    • Joey Essex says:

      Try it – no trouble here using 12

    • pj says:

      I hope not – I have got 2 orders completed (cards 1 & 2) but 3 orders (cards 3, 4 & 5) sitting in Amazon orders, scheduled.

      Assuming it’s Amazon who are paying for this promotion, I can’t foresee any difficulties but why haven’t mine completed?

      • pj says:

        I meant Amex paying

        • Rob says:

          Amex is paying. The rules say ‘Amazon is not responsible for this promotion’ which implies to me that they aren’t paying for it. Perhaps it is part of the bigger Amex / Amazon relationship now that you can pay with MR points for your stuff.

  • Joey Essex says:

    Thanks @Hilton – 12x Amex cards registered, £120 free wonga!

  • USATB says:

    Thank you for the free money Rob. Was going to place a circa £100 order on Amazon tonight, so have bagged £30 egift voucher on each of two registered cards and got the confirmation emails from Amex… £20 saved.

    Thank you.

  • de rebbe says:

    a lot of cards registered. Top man rob
    I am not going to get a confirmation email, am i?

  • Anders says:

    Excellent – Ordered a steam mop.

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