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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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Earning miles and points from small business cards

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Comments (406)

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  • Jake says:
    8 Aug8 August 09:32

    O/T…can someone clarify if the 2-4-1 voucher on the premium BA card is valid for travel up to 35 months from award i.e. the voucher is valid for 24 months from issue but you can book for date of travel up to 11 months later?

    Thanks!

    • Jake says:
      8 Aug8 August 09:33

      P.s. I havent got this offer so guess they’ve hit the limit.

      • the real harry1 says:
        8 Aug8 August 09:34

        they’re still applying it as of a minute ago 🙂

    • David says:
      8 Aug8 August 09:42

      I think travel has to be within the validity of the voucher. Hence the benefit of the 2 year expiry on the BAPP

      • Jake says:
        8 Aug8 August 09:53

        Thanks David. I wasnt sure if it worked in the same way at the Virgin upgrade voucher where you could book up to 11 months ahead.

        Cheers, Jake

      • Rob says:
        8 Aug8 August 09:59

        The OUTBOUND must be taken by the expiry date, so – unless you’re planning a mega-trip – validity is effectively 2 years and a couple of weeks.

    • Kinkell says:
      8 Aug8 August 09:55

      Outbound Needs to be booked before the expiry date. In bound can be after

  • the real harry1 says:
    8 Aug8 August 09:33

    I like the way Amex deal with these requests – they have worked out that £10 is brilliant marketing tactics, ie a small amount to pay for a lot of goodwill

    I certainly feel very positive about Amex right now! 🙂

    • JamesB says:
      8 Aug8 August 10:09

      Yes, but I’m sure your goodwill has cost amex a lot more than £10 over the years 🙂 The downside is that they must soon hit the limit and there will then be quite a bit of badwill because many of us have got multiple offers while others will not have got one. Quite a vicious hobby at times, remember the days when people were hiding 3V cards all over Tesco stores!

      • Polly says:
        9 Aug9 August 00:07

        Those were the days….wishful thinking an alternative to 3v will return sometime in the future…

  • Ann says:
    8 Aug8 August 09:52

    Just called and they said they couldn’t add it for me as it had reached its limit

  • linda says:
    8 Aug8 August 10:01

    Thanks Rob,
    Did it this morning at 6.30 on Hubbys account not mine the 1,000 miles offer.

  • Evgeniy says:
    8 Aug8 August 10:01

    Didn’t get an offer with my Gold Amex card, just called them and was told that the offer is available only to those, who haven’t used any Amazon related offers with Amex in 2017. Since I’ve already used mine a month ago with a 15% discount from Amazon, I guess I’m ok with the ‘unlucky’ title 🙂

  • Kinkell says:
    8 Aug8 August 10:04

    Chat busy.. No offers on any cards for me or husband. Seems a bit lopsided to add offers to one person’s many cads and none to other folk.
    Generally useless offers anyway on my cards. Ooh, the grapes are sour the morning!

    • Mike says:
      8 Aug8 August 10:23

      I have about 15 offers on my gold rewards account and they are all pretty useless. The grapes must be out of Tesco as they’re always sour

  • Tom says:
    8 Aug8 August 10:25

    If you’re a supplement card holder on a BA cars and get the 1k avois credited for the £25 spend, can you request those avoid to be sent to your BA acc or must it go to the main acc holder?!?

    • John says:
      8 Aug8 August 17:06

      Always the main Amex account holder’s Avios account. It doesn’t matter for me because my wife and I are in a household BA account.

  • Alex says:
    8 Aug8 August 10:26

    10:25 this morning, no offer online but spoke via chat and they managed to add the offer manually 🙂

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