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The Amex / Amazon ‘£25 off £40’ coupon is working again – even if you’ve used it before

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For the last couple of years, Amazon has been offering a generous bribe to anyone with an American Express card which offers Membership Rewards points.

You may not be aware that Amazon lets you pay for your purchases on the UK site with Membership Rewards points.  I absolutely do not recommend this, because you are only getting 0.45p per American Express point, but the feature exists.

Have you already registered for the Amazon / Amex offer?

If you have signed up for this feature at some point in the last couple of years, there is some interesting news.

A new Amazon discount code – AMEX25OFF – seems to get you £25 off a £40 order when you part-pay using Membership Rewards points.

For absolute clarity, this code works even if you already got a £15 or £25 discount when you originally linked your American Express and Amazon accounts.

To get this to work:

You need £40-worth of items in your basket which are ‘Sold by: Amazon’ 

For absolute clarity, anything sold by a third party, even if it is ‘Fulfilled by:’ Amazon, won’t count, neither will digital content or gift cards

If your basket contains multiple items, they must all have identical shipping times and be delivered to the same address

You need to select your Membership Rewards-linked American Express card to pay

You MUST select the option to fully pay with points (bad idea due to the poor value you get) or ‘part pay with points’ (a good idea, redeem 10p-worth as I did!)

You add promo code AMEX25OFF

All sorted, as the screenshot above shows.

Does this work if you have not already linked your Membership Rewards and Amazon accounts?

We don’t know.

This is what to do, assuming you have not done this offer in the past:

Link your Membership Rewards account with your Amazon account by visiting this page on the Amazon website – note that this discusses a poorer offer, worth £15 off a £40 spend, which has now closed anyway

Buy £40 of items on amazon.co.uk following the guidelines I listed above

Qualifying credit and charge cards would include:

…. plus Green, Centurion and various cards now closed to new applicants.

You MAY find that the AMEX25OFF code then works.  Or it might not ….

If you are reading this via email, I suggest you pop over to the HFP website during the day to take a look at the comments on whether this is working or not.

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  • honestsausage says:
    26 Apr26 April 05:30

    Thanks just tried this and it worked for me. May also be worth pointing out if someone did want to use their MR points on amazon that you get slightly more per MR point (0.5p instead of 0.45p) if you just buy amazon gift cards from Amex instead of spending your points directly.

  • Chopin says:
    26 Apr26 April 05:36

    I tried the day before yesterday and it’s worked.

    Actually, you only need to pay with the point the lowest amount (£0.01) to qualify the promo code, which is equal to 2.2MR(they will deduct 2 MR Exactly at your account, confirmed today). This saves you 20 MR comparing pay with £0.1(which cost 22MR, consider you need to spend £20 to gain 20MR, this little saving worth it)

  • Combatjohnny says:
    26 Apr26 April 05:36

    Ive been trying since December and never got it to work. When i speak to customer service they just tell me all the codes are used up.

    • Shoestring says:
      26 Apr26 April 06:19

      The codes are not used up – & as mentioned in the article, this is a new bite at the cherry.

      I don’t like pointing to user error so check:
      – items are eligible (sold by Amazon) and over £40
      – you linked your Amex card to Amazon so that you can pay on MR points
      – you paid a small amount on MR points and the rest on your Amex card
      – you used the AMEX25OFF code

      Some sold by Amazon goods do seem to fall foul, to check your eligibility you could fill your basket with various sold by Amazon goods, each over £40, maybe put together a random basket of £200+ (ie testing 5 different sold by Amazon goods) and do a dummy run, if the £25 off appears you know you are eligible.

      Newish Amazon a/cs won’t be eligible, there’s always a cut-off date to stop people opening up new a/cs to take advantage of the offer.

      • Shoestring says:
        26 Apr26 April 06:23

        OK here’s an item I know for sure works (when sold by Amazon):
        Felix 7+ As Good As It Looks Cat Pouches Mixed In Jelly 100g (40 Pouches)

        So stick £40 of that in your basket, get the other points right & do a dummy run.

        • Mike says:
          26 Apr26 April 07:14

          Harry – is it really “As good as it looks” ?

        • Shoestring says:
          26 Apr26 April 07:30

          Cat seems to like it. Put it this way: she turns her nose up at any other wet food than Felix or Whiskas now (2 of the dearer ones!) Won’t eat the others unless she’s starting to starve & by that time it’s close to chucking away time.

          Which is why getting a year’s supply on the £25 off £40 deal made sense: made it cheaper than supermarket wet food.

          Still happy with Lidl 85p/ 950g dry food though 🙂

        • Spurs Debs says:
          26 Apr26 April 07:37

          I have to cook fresh chicken for one of my cats, she turns her nose up at wet cat food but gives me the stare of death if I’m late with her cat herion aka dreamies.
          The other one will eat wet food but doesn’t like Felix which I find bemusing because he chomps away on several live mice a week, he’s a prolific mouser!

        • Alex says:
          26 Apr26 April 11:17

          My cats go crazy for Felix wet food, thanks for the tip.

      • Shoestring says:
        26 Apr26 April 07:44

        not sure that date is accurate – pretty sure it worked on one of our a/cs opened maybe 9 months ago

      • Worzel says:
        26 Apr26 April 17:59

        @ Shoestring 07:30.

        Squills you old softie! Thought you might have relocated the cat somewhere along the M4 en-route to your place in the sun by now. A bit harsh though I suppose if travelling with the kids……….. 🙂 .

    • Peter K says:
      26 Apr26 April 07:19

      It was not working earlier this year but is again now.

  • The Original Nick says:
    26 Apr26 April 05:42

    This didn’t work for me unfortunately when Shoestring mentioned it last week. I will try it again today.

  • TripRep says:
    26 Apr26 April 06:09

    Cool, must try it, a good bottle of Single Malt springs to mind.

  • Binks says:
    26 Apr26 April 06:17

    Just used the offer via the HfP link – and got it working. Bought a swing chair for my newborn baby for £45 inc discount. Will now return the one I bought from John Lewis for £80. So an overall £35 saving for me.

  • Shoestring says:
    26 Apr26 April 06:28

    good call if you haven’t got it already

  • Judy says:
    26 Apr26 April 06:36

    Is there an easy way to find out what is sold by Amazon sarl EU? I struggle to find products I want that qualify. Thanks.

    • Shoestring says:
      26 Apr26 April 06:58

      Not really. Try clicking the [Free UK delivery by Amazon] box as it narrows it down.

      Remember: not *all* sold by Amazon goods seem to qualify, it is a bit hit & miss.

    • Peter says:
      28 Apr28 April 14:20

      Yes, filter down your product by category, then it will give you an option to select seller – you can then find Amazon in there

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