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Great BA Amex / Amex Gold / Amazon offer: 500-1000 easy Avios or Membership Rewards points

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American Express and Amazon have launched a generous offer for many – but not all – British Airways American Express, Amex Gold and Amex Platinum cardholders.

It is limited to 20,000 people, so I strongly suggest you register as soon as possible.  To put this in perspective, HFP gets 25,000 unique visitors daily and the number of BA Amex cardholders, let alone Gold and Platinum, is well into six figures.

You will find this offer on the ‘Offers’ tab of your British Airways American Express / Amex Gold / Amex Platinum statement page online, or in the app.

There appear to be a couple of versions.  Both my wife and I have:

Get 500 Avios when you spend £25 at amazon.co.uk before 17th September using your BA Amex

However, a reader sent me:

Get 1,000 Avios when you spend £25 at amazon.co.uk before 17th September using your BA Amex

There is also:

Get 500 / 1,000 Membership Rewards points when you spend £25 at amazon.co.uk before 19th September using your Amex Gold / Platinum

It isn’t clear who gets what and you may have got nothing if you are very unlucky.

It is limited to the first 20,000 people to register.  The only rule is that “purchases made with Market Place Sellers, Amazon Prime or subscriptions to Amazon Prime” do not count.   Does this mean that if you are an Amazon Prime customer, like myself, it does not count? (it seems not – see below)  Or is it a typo, meaning that purchases via Prime Now do not count?  Or only purchases made using Prime next day delivery, which you can opt out from?

I did a test purchase on my own Amazon account for a £25 gift card.  I AM an Amazon Prime customer.  Within 2 minutes of making the purchase I got an email from American Express saying “Congratulations, you have earned 500 bonus Avios – if your transaction meets the offer terms”.  Assuming that it does, since Amex has picked up the transaction and has no idea what I bought, this means:

gift card purchases do count

even Amazon Prime customers still earn the bonus on gift cards

This offer should be a no-brainer for qualifying BA Amex / Amex Gold / Amex Platinum cardholders, especially if you have the 1,000 points version.  £25 is a ludicrously low purchase limit for earning 1,000 Avios or Membership Rewards points.

As I found, purchases of Amazon e-gift cards seem to count.  These can be bought online via this link and added to your personal Amazon account via this page.  The balance is used automatically on your next purchase.

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Comments (407)

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  • Graham Walsh says:
    7 Aug7 August 18:53

    Ordered a network switch for work using Prime and email received for the 500 bonus points.

  • jason says:
    7 Aug7 August 18:57

    Just start a chat session – i have just added to 3 cards

  • Billy says:
    7 Aug7 August 19:03

    Well this turned out to be an interesting evening.

    My partner and I have 6 cards between us (4 Golds and 2 blue BAs) Initially only one card had the offer (Gold 1000 MR £25 spend). Went on chat and asked if he could add the offer to my BA Amex card.
    ‘No problem sir, oh and by the way I’ve also added it to your supplementary card’
    Then i take the pee and say ‘would you be so kind to add the offer to my other 3 cards?’ – ‘No problem Sir’

    Long story short 6 cards – 6 offers – 6000 points. No one does it like Amex

    • Chris says:
      7 Aug7 August 19:07

      Yes, but which Terms & Conditions will you adhere to?

      • Billy says:
        7 Aug7 August 19:19

        I just bought e-gift cards and 3 have gone through so far with no problems

        • Chris says:
          7 Aug7 August 19:20

          “gone through” – have the points/avios actually arrived?

          • Alan says:
            7 Aug7 August 19:35

            No, they always take a day or two at least to appear.

          • Chris says:
            7 Aug7 August 20:28

            Thanks Alan, That is the answer I know. Until they post, no-one truly knows, as the T&C’s (whilst very possibly erroneous) do conflict.

          • Rob says:
            7 Aug7 August 21:35

            What’s the downside? I’ve spent £25 on an Amazon gift card with no return, but which I know I can easily use within a week or so.

            If you’re concerned, register today – to ensure you’re in the first 20k – and then wait a few days to see what happens to the rest of us.

          • the real harry1 says:
            7 Aug7 August 20:40

            live a little? – we’ve been here so many times, it’s pretty obvious what qualifies and what doesn’t – the giveaway is the success email plus failing that your disappointment, voiced, if you follow the basics then don’t get anything – will be swiftly remedied by Amex

    • James says:
      8 Aug8 August 07:02

      Thanks very much for noting this! I have the BA Amex and the Gold card but no offer on either. Chatted with them and got the 1000 Avios offer and the 1000 AMR pts offer.
      And thanks Rob for the heads up!

  • BA says:
    7 Aug7 August 19:15

    Just trying to get through to chat, but it is ‘busy’. Has anyone recently got through, or is what they put when it is closed for the evening?

    • Billy says:
      7 Aug7 August 19:20

      you have to keep refreshing the page till it turns blue, took me about 8 goes

      • BA says:
        7 Aug7 August 19:25

        Just got through and had it added to my account! Thanks HfP

        • the real harry1 says:
          7 Aug7 August 19:48

          chatty agent has just added it to 2 BA cards for us

          after a wee protest that it was just 1 offer per account

  • Dave Barron says:
    7 Aug7 August 19:38

    The Amazon offer appeared on my free BA Exec card for 500 Avios.

    Nothing on my wife’s Gold and was going to send a secure message online but as a few of you have commented this feature has been removed and online chat currently “busy” – I wonder why?!?

    Will try again later. Thanks once again Rob – you’re a legend

  • Axel h says:
    7 Aug7 August 19:48

    Alan

    Whats the benefit of holding both plat. cards?

    • Crafty says:
      7 Aug7 August 21:09

      Looks like today is its own answer!

      • Alan says:
        7 Aug7 August 21:19

        Haha good point – handy for ShopSmall too, although not worth the year two fee for me to hold it. Will go and churn SPG instead.

  • Andrew says:
    7 Aug7 August 20:20

    Successfully added 1,000 MR offer to both my gold charge and gold credit cards via online chat, pretty painless!

  • Dave R says:
    7 Aug7 August 20:44

    OT.
    A bit of advice required please..

    I need to book an avios redemption for my family of 4 (me, wife & 2 kids).

    My wife and I each have a BAPP companion voucher and just over half the amount of avios needed for this booking in our BAEC accounts.

    If we create a household account, can I use both companion vouchers (one from each of our accounts) on the same booking?

    If so, how do I do this? Will both vouchers show up on my account once I have set up the household account?

    • Anna says:
      7 Aug7 August 21:12

      You will have to log into each account separately, I think, and use each voucher for one parent and one child. As far as I know, you can only use 2 vouchers on one booking if they are in the same name, i.e. earned by the account holder in consecutive years and both still valid.

      You’ll need to find a flight with 4 redemption seats available, and maybe do both bookings as near as possible at the same time (e.g. on 2 different devices simultaneously) to make sure no-one snaffles any of your seats in the meantime. Good luck!

      The only other solution I can think of is to call BA and both of you speak to the call handler to confirm you want to use both vouchers – they may be able to make a booking for the 4 of you at the same time, avoiding the risk of losing any of the seats during the booking process.

    • Rob says:
      7 Aug7 August 21:33

      You will need to do 2 separate bookings (this happens in our household all the time). This is not a problem – the only downside is if you have status, since free selection will only go to you and one kid and not your wife and the other kid.

      You can only do it in 1 booking if both 241 vouchers belong to the same person.

      You can still form a HHA in order to have all of the Avios in the same pot but it won’t change the fact that two bookings will be needed.

    • Dave R says:
      7 Aug7 August 22:10

      Thanks. I suppose there is no real reason in forming a HH account then as we both have enough avios for each half of the booking.

      It’s a bit of a shame as I had hoped to make a single booking to gaurantee we are all kept on the same flights in case BA move/cancel a flight (as they always seem to fo for me).

      • Anna says:
        8 Aug8 August 06:38

        This has happened to us – the benefit of a household account is that you can have one email and mobile number as the point of contact so all changes go to the same place. We called BA and they moved all our flights onto the same alternative one.

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