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Has ‘£5 back on a £20 Amazon purchase’ appeared on your American Express accounts?

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American Express and Amazon have launched another of their occasional offers.  And it is a generous one.

If you are targeted, you will receive £5 cashback on your next £20+ purchase on Amazon made with your American Express card.

To see if you are targeted, you need to log into your online American Express account and look at the offers tab for EACH card you have.  You should also look under any supplementary cards which you have registered.

If you see the Amazon offer, click ‘Save To Card’.  The offer is “only” valid for the first 74,000 people who save it.

We have the offer on:

  • my Platinum
  • my wife’s supplementary Platinum
  • my wife’s Gold

I do not have it on:

  • my BA Premium Plus
  • my Starwood Amex
  • my wife’s Starwood Amex (which now has no offers at all)
  • my wife’s BA Premium Plus

…. which means £15 of free money for us.

Here are the official rules, but it may not work this way in practice:

  • Offer intended for UK Cardmembers only.
  • Offer only available online
  • Offer only applies to spend made in Great British Pound (GBP) on the Card to which the offer is saved, including an American Express Card loaded into a mobile payment wallet.
  • Offer does not apply to spend on other Cards you might hold and is not valid for transactions made using Payment Aggregators.
  • Only one £5 statement credit per UK Card.
  • Rewarded credit may be reversed if qualifying transaction is refunded or cancelled.
  • Offer only available to the first 74,000 Cardmembers who save the offer to their Card.
  • Credit should appear on your billing statement within 5 days from qualifying spend but may take up to 90 days from 9 December 2018.
  • Offer not valid on orders paid on finance.
  • Offer is only intended for the targeted recipient of this offer.
  • Spend must be billed to your Card account by 9 December 2018 to be eligible for this offer. If Amazon does not charge your Card during this period, e.g. because of a delay in dispatching your goods, you may not be eligible for this offer.
  • Offer not valid on purchases made with Amazon Prime or subscriptions to Amazon Prime.
  • Offer only valid on orders delivered to the UK.

I am unsure about the ‘not valid on purchases made with Amazon Prime’ rule.  I don’t know how American Express can tell the difference.  That said, for 100% security you may want to have it delivered normally instead.

Do gift card purchases work?

The easiest way of triggering the bonus should be to purchase a £20 e-gift card, emailed to yourself and then applied to your account.

It should also work if you top-up your Amazon account with £20 of credit.  Topping up your account means that you end up with a £20 balance at Amazon and, next time you buy something, the £20 is used first before your credit card is charged for the balance.

I ordered a £20 e-gift card for myself and it appeared to work.  I got an immediate confirmation from American Express that I had triggered the offer ‘if your transaction meets the offer terms’.  I should know in a few days if the £5 credit will be applied and will report back.

You can buy an e-gift card for yourself, or top up your balance, via this page.

The Amazon home page is here.

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Comments (163)

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  • Adey says:
    10 Oct10 October 06:48

    Not available on my Centurion card.

  • Mike L says:
    10 Oct10 October 07:44

    Not on any of our 4 cards (2 gold and 2 BAPP) however my wife has 7000 mr points for a £250 spend at Curry’s. As a tumble dryer purchase is imminent, it eases the pain of not having the Amazon offer.

    • Shoestring says:
      10 Oct10 October 07:56

      Check eligibilty for the other 2 Amazon free £5/ free £6 links above

  • Susan says:
    10 Oct10 October 07:47

    Amex Plat – 3 offers only, none of which are remotely of interest or related to my spending patterns
    BA Amex – identical to Plat
    Plat supplementary- identical to Plat
    Amex CC – NO offers

    Am starting to feel rather unloved.

    • Alan says:
      10 Oct10 October 08:06

      My BA blue card has one, useless, offer.
      My wife’s gold card has nothing and hasn’t had a single offer since opening her account

    • Jonny says:
      10 Oct10 October 12:31

      Amex SPG – 3% off at Prezzo… struggling to contain myself
      Amex Gold Business – £20 off £100 spend at Gordon Ramsey (would be great if this was on the personal card)
      Share the sentiment that offers have really dried up of late.

      • Lumma says:
        10 Oct10 October 12:48

        I’ve got a really old “(Product)Red” Amex which I only keep cause it seems to get all the good offers mentioned on here – Had this one on the main card and the supplementary in my name that I only got for Shop Small last Christmas. I also seem to get the Amex travel money off deals too.

        My Gold and BA blue cards seem to get pretty much nothing useful or seem to be deals not really in line with what you’d think American Express stands for – Dominos, Nandos, Deliveroo

      • TGLoyalty says:
        10 Oct10 October 16:28

        Amex Connect site has the Ramsey offer you can add it to any Amex

  • Matt B says:
    10 Oct10 October 08:03

    A bit OT – I have a BAPP, my wife has a Platinum and we have a supplementary card of each others. However I don’t seem to be able to register either of the supplementary cards under our respective Amex accounts and so can’t get any of these offers unless they are on the main card.

    When I try I just get an error message saying not possible. Do I have to create a new Amex account for each? Or could it be because the addresses don’t match as we still each have our own places our main cards are registered to.

    • Nate1309 says:
      10 Oct10 October 08:29

      you have to make new accounts for supp cards, I have successfully registered supp cards to my account on the phone in the past but have had no success with that in the last year

      • Prune says:
        10 Oct10 October 09:03

        I have found that once the first monthly bill has been generated then you can add the supplementary to your account.

    • Rob says:
      10 Oct10 October 09:06

      Probably the address thing as the supp is technically registered to the address of the main cardholder.

      • Genghis says:
        10 Oct10 October 13:17

        I don’t understand the “adding card to an account” logic. Can’t be an address thing as it happens to me and my wife and we live together. Sometimes I can add cards to an existing account (including multiple supps of same type on one account sometimes), sometimes not at all. Weird.

        • BJ says:
          10 Oct10 October 14:01

          I got the feeling it is something to do with the weekend, as crazy as that sounds. When I try adding at card to existing account at weekend it has never worked but I’ve never had a problem during the week.

    • Mr dee says:
      11 Oct11 October 00:16

      Usually have to create a new login just for supp cards, never been able to add to a supp to my main account

  • xcalx says:
    10 Oct10 October 08:39

    OT sorry no bits.

    Does an Avios booking for IB express short haul MAN-MAD get a checked bag, usually book for cash but silly price for date I require. Thanks

    • Chris says:
      10 Oct10 October 18:22

      Pretty sure I had baggage included with the base fare for LGW-MAD on ib express back in the summer if that’s any help

  • Combat Johnny says:
    10 Oct10 October 08:43

    I got it on my nectar but not my ba card (mid cycle for Marriott and gold)

  • Roger1* says:
    10 Oct10 October 09:33

    We’re down to one AmEx account at the moment – BAPP + Supplementary: £5 credit on both (yesterday).

    I made a Prime purchase for £29.99 yesterday, the SMS ‘used’ message arrived almost immediately. The item was 5 miles away at 6:30 this morning and will be delivered later today.

    • James says:
      10 Oct10 October 17:45

      I think the Ts & Cs said something about Prime purchases not counting.
      …………
      Yeah, there it is in Rob’s article:
      “Offer not valid on purchases made with Amazon Prime or subscriptions to Amazon Prime.”

      Hope it still works for you anyway.

  • r* says:
    10 Oct10 October 09:55

    Which is the best curve card to have, the free or the black for probably lowish use? The black looked like theres nothing really that makes it worth paying for?

    Also, does anyone know if there are any hotel groups with sales for Hong Kong in Nov currently running?

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