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If you registered for the ‘£10 cashback when you spend £30 on amazon.co.uk’ offer two weeks ago, you have until Tuesday evening to spend your £30. 

Remember that you do not need to buy anything now.  The easiest thing to do is to buy a £30 Amazon gift card and add the credit to your Amazon account for later in the year.  That is what I did with the three Amex cards I registered.

The process is very simple and only takes a few minutes:

Step 1:  Go to the Amazon UK gift card store here and order a £30 gift voucher, to be emailed to yourself

Step 2:  Remember to pay with the American Express card which you registered for this offer

Step 3:  When you e-gift card arrives, there is a link in it. Click on it and the £30 credit will be automatically deposited into your Amazon account.

Step 4:  At roughly the same time as the e-gift card arrives, you will receive an email from American Express confirming that your £10 cashback has tracked.

The credit will sit indefinitely on your Amazon account and will be applied automatically towards future orders.

Please do ensure that you spend £30 on each of the Amex cards you registered.  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.

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Comments (25)

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  • Tariq says:
    8 Jun8 June 06:45

    Just spotted more offers added in my Amex account – House of Fraser (again) (10 off 50), Argos (10 off 70) and World Duty Free (10 off 70). Went on a spree around Birmingham yesterday and redeemed at Debenhams, Cafe Nero, Boots and Selfridges.

    • Brian says:
      8 Jun8 June 07:16

      The great thing is that the two are complementary and not mutually exclusive!

      • mark2 says:
        8 Jun8 June 08:21

        true about credit cards, but you do give up the chance to buy gift cards from Tesco at 7.2 Avios per £. I am going for the cash back at present.

        • Jason says:
          8 Jun8 June 09:20

          If you have Amex gold 1st year nudge it up to 10.2 avios per £ by using the tesco gift card option at petrol stations..

          • Liz says:
            8 Jun8 June 14:50

            Is there anywhere you can buy M&S gift cards and get points/miles – other than buying them direct at M&S and getting Amex points.

          • bob says:
            8 Jun8 June 16:13

            You could also subscribe to the Argos deal (£10 off £70) and buy M&S giftcards

        • Worzel says:
          8 Jun8 June 09:34

          Correct bob: avios collection on the “back burner” – BA take note!

        • mark2 says:
          8 Jun8 June 09:35

          I meant the Amex statement credit.
          so far have done 2 X £5 Café Nero
          3 X £10 HoF
          7 x £5 Boots
          8X £5 PO
          poss £50 travel
          just off to Argos

          I assume you mean Tesco credit card points

    • Jason says:
      8 Jun8 June 09:18

      I wonder why Argos is £10 off £70 🙁
      They probably ran out of the £50 visa gift cards on the last promotion 😉

      • Liz says:
        8 Jun8 June 19:07

        Bob, thanks for your help on the M&S question. I just tested it out with a £25 3V card and bought some vouchers! I spend loads in M&S – now need to go stock up on 3V cards! Continually learning new spending tricks on here!

        • mark2 says:
          8 Jun8 June 21:13

          True, but they do not allow you to use many 3V/pay.com cards

  • Magarathea says:
    8 Jun8 June 07:37

    The Post Office offer is now showing as having reached its maximum limit.

    • bob says:
      8 Jun8 June 07:56

      Maxed out

      Unfortunately the maximum number of Cardmembers have already enrolled in this offer

      Shame – I checked yesterday morning & it WASN’T there!

      • TimS says:
        8 Jun8 June 19:05

        It appeared there yesterday early evening. I did put a message on the Post Office article but I hink it got missed by most people.

  • Mark says:
    8 Jun8 June 08:02

    Thanks raffles for the reminder, i signed up when you posted the offer, but never spent it – i have now on coffee as Tassimo is not badly priced and i had run out…

  • Tom says:
    8 Jun8 June 09:18

    I signed up for this and it went through, but does not show as an offer loaded to my card. Anyone else have this?

    • Rob says:
      8 Jun8 June 09:33

      It won’t show. Only offers you sign up for via your statement page show.

  • Axel Heyst says:
    8 Jun8 June 11:31

    Check your inbox form Amazon. Yesterday they offered a £5 bonus on purchasing a £20 gift card order. I was able to use 3v card for the £20 purchase . £5 bonus arrived today – to be used by 15th August.

    Selected list email, unable to apply for multiple use.

  • Max says:
    8 Jun8 June 14:56

    Is there a quick way to find out what Amex cards I have registered for this offer?

  • Peter says:
    8 Jun8 June 18:41

    Thanks Raffles for the reminder post. Used four of our Amex cards on the offer, but couldn’t use the fifth as it would have triggered the BA companion voucher too early!

  • AndyGWP says:
    10 Jun10 June 12:48

    Spent last night at Amazon at around 10:30pm… not had an email confirming the spend yet, so worried I missed the boat 🙁

    That being said, the last few emails I’ve been receiving from Amex have been dropping through quite late (Ocado for example though appreciate that when they bill you has a questionmark over it!).

    At least the spend showed up in ‘pending’ almost immediately, so I should be able to argue it 🙂

    • Alan says:
      10 Jun10 June 12:50

      I still find the Amex emails a little inconsistent, although thankfully all the credits turned up without an issue 🙂

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