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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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  • MrEgg says:
    8 Aug8 August 13:43

    Just got told the same. Its targeted for people who has not redeemed an offer in 2017.
    I did point out, I have not redeemed an offer – since I get targeted with useless places that are not near me or places I dont shop at.

  • RTS says:
    8 Aug8 August 13:50

    “However, It is a targeted offer extended to BA and MR card members who have not redeemed an Amex offer before or in 2017.”

    apparently…

  • Frankie says:
    8 Aug8 August 14:14

    Hi Rob. I know that periodically you ask for some ideas or thoughts about enhancements to the site. Is it possible for the following to be considered please when you next look at possible changes/enhancements?
    A functionality that allows one to jump to the start of the comments. That would be very useful for times, (like on this occasion), when there are hundreds of comments. I like to read from the start rather than start reading the most recent.

    • Rob says:
      8 Aug8 August 14:50

      Noted, such software may exist.

      • the real harry1 says:
        8 Aug8 August 14:56

        a change to 8 recent comments vs 6?

        • RussellH says:
          8 Aug8 August 15:04

          Are you referring to the thread depth here? Assuming that you are, yes please! Clearer indication of the threading would be very helpful too.

          • the real harry1 says:
            8 Aug8 August 15:14

            no, to the Recent Comments list on the right

            thread depth never really bothered me as you can always just reply as available & people will work out what’s going on

          • the real harry1 says:
            8 Aug8 August 15:14

            see what I just did? 🙂

        • Frankie says:
          8 Aug8 August 17:07

          No. I mean a change to having to scroll to the bottom of the page and click on older comments and repeat that a number of times (depending on how many pages there are) to get to the very first comment.

          • Rob says:
            8 Aug8 August 18:14

            But it gets silly otherwise when you get 200 comments ….

          • Alan says:
            8 Aug8 August 21:21

            See my comment below for an easy way to do it manually. There might be a way to enable ‘Oldest’ or ‘Earliest’ comment as a an additional link to save that workaround though.

          • Rob says:
            8 Aug8 August 21:48

            That doesn’t seem easily doable.

            Comment editing does seem possible, but as with all these things you need to trade off the benefits against the fact that any extra functionality slows down the site (which hurts Google rankings) and injects extra security vulnerabilities.

          • Alan says:
            8 Aug8 August 21:54

            Ah, fair enough. It’s pretty easy to jump to p1 with changing the URL from the user-side so for the small number of pages not sure it’s worth doing. You could always manually edit the article itself to include a link to p1 of the comments if it proves a really popular one?

            Agree re comment editing too – at most perhaps only should be allowed for a few minutes after posting, otherwise it can get confusing if folk reply to a comment that is then subsequently edited!

        • Polly says:
          9 Aug9 August 06:44

          I too asked for 8 comments but Rob then increased it to 6 when he redid the site last time. Remember it used only be 4! Said he has restricted space on right side bar. But l def think we need an 8 comment view bar also.

      • RussellH says:
        8 Aug8 August 15:01

        Even having the link(s) to older / newer comments at the **start** of the comments as well as at the end would be a big impovement. But I have no idea of how configurable to software that this site runs on is (or even what it is called!)

        • Alan says:
          8 Aug8 August 21:20

          Wordpress is the name of the software 😛

          I just scroll down to the bottom of the page to see if older pages – if so go to p1, if not the read from the top down 😀

      • Briandt says:
        8 Aug8 August 17:54

        As the the subject has been raised, an Edit button as well please.

    • RussellH says:
      8 Aug8 August 14:57

      +1

    • Alan says:
      8 Aug8 August 21:14

      This has been an unusual thread with so many comments, but I find the easiest way it to copy the link for ‘Older Comments’ at the bottom of the page then paste it into the address bar and change the page number to 1 – this will put you back to the first page of comments 🙂

  • Anna says:
    8 Aug8 August 14:15

    Can’t fault Amazon though, my gift card has arrived and the payment is still in the “pending” box of my Amex account!

  • RTS says:
    8 Aug8 August 14:24

    Some off topic advice please. I intend to fly LHR to HKG on virgin metal 787-9. I have flown in their economy cabin in the past but I am just wondering is there a stark difference between E and PE? As the price difference in terms of taxes and miles is E=12.5k/£181 vs PE=22.5k/£305. Is it worth the additional £120 and 10k miles?

    • Geoff says:
      8 Aug8 August 14:35

      Personal choice but it would be worth the difference to me. Bigger seat. More legroom. Footrest. Better food, drink and service. Even more so if your are tall and/or broad.

      • RTS says:
        8 Aug8 August 14:46

        Thanks – do you recall whether the recline is far back enough for a decent sleep? From memory the economy recline is pretty turd.

        • Geoff says:
          8 Aug8 August 15:31

          The recline is much better in PE. Enough for a decent sleep? Depends on how you sleep and how much alcohol / nytol you take!

        • John says:
          8 Aug8 August 17:04

          I can’t sleep in any airline’s PE because I still need to bend my knees and all the pressure is on my bum. On very empty flights I have often wished I was in Y if it would be possible to take up 3 seats and lie flat. This includes VS as well as BA, CX, LH.

          • RTS says:
            8 Aug8 August 17:55

            I find BA’s PE to be alright for a decent nights sleep as the reline is good with the thigh rest bit.

          • Gavin says:
            8 Aug8 August 20:27

            I slept better on A380 premium economy than I did in Club world! A light load on the plane must have helped a bit along with never getting off London time

    • Alan says:
      8 Aug8 August 21:16

      Personally I’d definitely go for it on a long trip like that, but depends how much you value the extra legroom!

  • Craig Strickland says:
    8 Aug8 August 14:39

    The Avios/MR posted today across 3 accounts, 2000 in total. This was for Amazon gifts cards, my Amazon account is now £75 in credit which will get used over the next few weeks.

    • Anna says:
      8 Aug8 August 14:59

      Got my first 1,000 also, so the Ts & Cs on gift cards are definitely misleading.

      • Craig Strickland says:
        8 Aug8 August 15:03

        I think the T&Cs from the link are general ones, i.e. not just for this offer.

  • Jon says:
    8 Aug8 August 15:11

    Just refused to add for me via chat.

    “I understand that you are looking for Amazon offer, however, our marketing team use to send the offer time to time and this offer is valid until 17th sep please wait …Since the offer depend on card type, spending and payment history.”

  • h1tvd says:
    8 Aug8 August 15:29

    refused to add via chat for me too

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