A new £20 Eurowings American Express cashback deal has launched

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• Nigel Williams says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:33

  I’ve been hearing that Amex are classing the Gold Credit and Plat Charge as “differing products” and therefore someone on a Gold credit can apply for the Plat and *still* receive the welcome bonus. I know this breaks the traditional ruleset for Amex, but…

  1. Anyone here done that successfully (Applied for Plat whilst holding Gold credit)?
  2. Any reason to believe it woudlnt work for the opposite (Self-refer for a Gold credit from Plat) to get the gold welcome bonus?

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 12:39

    Complete rubbish, because the trigger is not the product but whether you have a Membership Rewards account.

    • Nigel Williams says:

      11 Jan11 January 13:36

      My thoughts – but there are incidents out there on the web of Gold Credit users getting the Plat welcome bonus, as there is no current “upgrade offer” on the credit version of the PRG so they are honouring it.

      TBH the 18K self referral for me is enough, I just need a new Amex bonus to point my sepnding at (since I dont want to churn the Plat)

• Henry T says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:38

  OT – I think I am right that if I hold a platinum card and refer someone and they decide to apply for a different card (say BA, Nectar or SPG), I would still get the 18,000 referral bonus? Please could someone confirm?

  • Genghis says:

    11 Jan11 January 12:40

    Correct

    • Henry T says:

      11 Jan11 January 12:52

      Thanks – and I suspect I know the answer to this, but are you able to refer to yourself…?

      • Steve-B says:

        11 Jan11 January 13:04

        Technically you can do it. Some have been successful getting the bonus, others have not, but obviously not in the spirit of the offer so entirely at your risk. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Amex are tightening up on this.

      • Tom says:

        11 Jan11 January 18:51

        I’ve had 100% success so far doing approx twice per year.

      • Alan says:

        11 Jan11 January 21:52

        Generally works but don’t go complaining to Amex if it doesn’t!

    • Alan says:

      11 Jan11 January 21:53

      Indeed – I’ve always viewed it as you’re bringing them the business, it’s not your fault if the person taking out the card changes there mind as to which card to opt for.

• AndyGWP says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:53

  haha – (at least it made me smile Mr. AC)

• Victor says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:04

  It was effectively 50% off oyster top-ups last month 😉

  • AlexT says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:17

    Not really… I accounted for time and effort (significant, and I didn’t have a free weekend to devote to that) spent chasing (ever fewer) shops that accept topups sometimes at rather crazy conditions (asking for a 3 GBP charge to do a 10 GBP topup just so one can get 5 GBP back…)

• James carp says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:04

  OT: I purchased some tesco Christmas saver and tried the trick of using some to purchase an item and then returned it for a refund into clubcard vouchers, however, they put the refund onto a gift card.
  How does one use this work around to be the refund into points so can purchase avios?
  Any help gratefully appreciated.

  • Bazza says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:13

    You took a punt and lost, looks like you gotta cut your losses and do your best with the GC

  • Genghis says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:18

    From recent reports now not possible. You pay your money and you takes your chances.

    • Lady London says:

      11 Jan11 January 18:40

      If its any consolation, even our beloved Harry hinted he’d had a glitsch on that one.

  • Scallder says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:30

    Haven’t used any of mine yet, but reckon I won’t bother trying now. Although between my wife and I the £744 should pay for our petrol for the year.

    • Jeremy I says:

      11 Jan11 January 14:32

      Ahh a shame – Im in the same boat and will now need to find something to spend the vouchers on… not the end of the world and happy to have taken the risk.

      By the way, on topic, I havent found any ex-ARN destinations on Etihad in business which are as little as 1400 EUR except Delhi. I would be very grateful if anyone could post any decent ex-Scandi Etihad deals they come across. I have found very cheap ex-Bud to Tokyo fares but nothing else.

• bsuije says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:11

  I think I’ve previously seen comments that if you call Amex to book, then offer won’t trigger, because T&Cs state it needs to be booked online, or something like that.

  Haven’t seen any comments on cumulative spend.

  • AndyGWP says:

    11 Jan11 January 15:29

    Cummulative spend is confirmed by those who have split the transactions

    Having had difficulty making use of the spend online myself, Amex (and Amex Travel) do insist that the terms state it is on a “single spend” (they don’t but I’m not rocking the boat by making that argument on this particular occasion)

  • Alan says:

    11 Jan11 January 21:46

    Cumulative spend definitely OK – commented a day or so ago that I got the email immediately upon doing my second transaction (a day after the first one) that pushed me over the threshold.

• Benylin says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:33

  OT: Email from BAEC to my parner saying sign up to BA blue amex and get 10,000 pts on £1k spend in 3 months.

  • Scallder says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:45

    But you won’t get any referral points, so still likely better for you to refer her if you can

    • Benylin says:

      11 Jan11 January 14:00

      Yeah agree, just sharing for the intel

• John says:

  11 Jan11 January 14:22

  Curve – I was charged for my “free” £1000 Amex topup this month. Complaint submitted.

  • the_real_a says:

    11 Jan11 January 14:34

    Who charged you? Did you receive a cash advance fee from AMEX?

  • Mr. AC says:

    11 Jan11 January 18:10

    Just to clarify – you’d waited for 31 calendar day since your last 1000 topup, topped up on or after the 32nd, and were charged the 0.65% fee?

    • John says:

      12 Jan12 January 08:44

      30 days. But only waited 10 days between Nov and Dec topups and was not charged. Also (as with previous topups) it confirmed there was no fee for £1000 and there would be a 33p fee for £1050, but pending charge on Amex now says £1006.50

      • Alan says:

        12 Jan12 January 09:29

        I think they’ve had issues with the spend calculator and also think the second fee free topup was a happy fluke.

  • John says:

    12 Jan12 January 08:47

    30 days exactly this time, but previous times were 30 Nov and 11 Dec and was not charged.

    There is a sort of “tracker” though. On 9 Jan app said there would be a fee for any amount then on 10 Jan £1000 became free again, so I pressed the button but was still charged.

    • Alan says:

      12 Jan12 January 09:31

      Definitely worth trying to challenge with support given this…

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