The Amex / Amazon ‘£25 off £40’ coupon started working again on Tuesday

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?

Comments last week suggested that the code DOES work with new Amazon accounts and it DOES work with existing Amazon accounts newly linked to Membership Rewards.

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:

• American Express Preferred Rewards Gold
• The Platinum Card from American Express
• American Express Rewards credit card

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

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

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Want to earn more points from credit cards? – April 2025 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit card, here are our top recommendations based on the current sign-up bonuses.

In 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

Get 5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

30,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large fee Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

18,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers:

American Express Business Platinum

50,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) plus good benefits Read our full review

Capital on Tap Visa

NO annual fee, NO FX fees and points worth 1 Avios per £1 Read our full review

British Airways American Express Accelerating Business

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review