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American Express has launched another £100 giveaway this morning for holders of The Platinum Card.

You will receive £100 statement credit when you spend £100 at a combination of Waitrose, John Lewis, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Deliveroo.

Get £100 cashback on your American Express Platinum card

Based on how the offer worked last time, you don’t need to spend the full £100 to get the credit. If you spend £25 in Waitrose tomorrow, you will immediately get a £25 credit. This continues until you hit the £100 cashback cap.

The offer is only available on primary cards, not supplementary cards.

Both online and in-store purchases count.

You have until 22nd December to spend your £100.

You MUST register, it seems

Looking at the American Express website, it seems that you need to save the offer to your Platinum card for it to be valid.

Go to the Amex website here, log in to your Platinum account, find this offer under your ‘Offers’ tab and save it. You’re sorted!

The small print

There are a few exceptions to what you can buy, but nothing major:

  • Waitrose & Partners exclusions: Cellar, Florist, Garden, Pet, Cookery school, foreign currency, Gift Section
  • Harvey Nichols exclusions: International delivery, gift cards, vouchers and dining within restaurant
  • John Lewis & Partners exclusions: Finance and Insurance products, Parking and John Lewis Opticians
  • Selfridges exclusions: International delivery

The most inconvenient of those is probably the inability to use the credit in the restaurants at Harvey Nichols. However, I assume that 95% of people will redeem the credit at John Lewis / Waitrose or Deliveroo anyway.

You can also get around the Harvey Nichols restriction by buying a gift card elsewhere in the store and then spending it in the restaurants! Gift cards are, in reality, only excluded when ordered online.

Don’t forget to register before you buy.

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Comments (127)

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  • barnaby100 says:
    23 Sep23 September 09:31

    Not on my personal platinum. I dont think I had the last one either. Double points at those stores was my last offer.

  • barnaby100 says:
    23 Sep23 September 09:33

    That said the IHG only came on mine today and not yesterday- so it may pop up

  • IslandDweller says:
    23 Sep23 September 09:46

    Thanks for the alert, just saved this to my card. Nice to see useful offers for a change, rather than 5% off some designer tat that I’m never going to buy

  • pinperl says:
    23 Sep23 September 09:48

    can you buy John Lewis gift card online?
    will it show on statement as JL?

    • pinperl says:
      23 Sep23 September 10:05

      will it?

      • Rob says:
        23 Sep23 September 10:23

        Bit risky – most companies use a 3rd party to process and despatch orders.

        You really aren’t going near a Waitrose store before mid December where you could pop in and buy a W/JL gift card?

        • Andrew says:
          23 Sep23 September 10:27

          And of course you would need to go to a JL or a WR at some point to spend said gift card, so if you’re not going to be able to spend £100 at either place in the next 3 months, then why do you want to buy a gift card anyway? JL sell pretty much everything they sell instore on line and free delivery for that value.

        • pinperl says:
          23 Sep23 September 10:29

          thanx Rob……

    • bsuije says:
      23 Sep23 September 11:02

      DO NOT BUY JL GIFTCARDS ONLINE! It does not come through as JL; it’s a 3rd party provider instead.

    • Harry T says:
      23 Sep23 September 11:11

      No, they use a third party. Buy in store if you want to trigger this offer.

  • Chrisasaurus says:
    23 Sep23 September 09:50

    Well now is as good a time as any to deal with this and fix or close the account.

    Does anyone have any insight on how best to get Brighton CS? (Eg time of day to call, options to pick) Or is asking outright the only option?

    • Andrew says:
      23 Sep23 September 10:02

      Any time of day they answer the phone on the first ring. If you don’t think they are in Brighton, ask if they are and then ask to be put through if not.

  • Sal says:
    23 Sep23 September 10:26

    Thanks for the heads up on this. Is it available to supplementary card holders or just primary card holder?

    • Rhys says:
      23 Sep23 September 11:11

      It’s in the article – only available on primary cards, not supplementary cards!

  • mr_jetlag says:
    23 Sep23 September 10:55

    It’s interesting that we are just now getting these offers as a “sweetener” for the annual fee – meanwhile US cardholders get up to 5x points on spend, as well as lots of “credit” for airline, restaurant etc spend… goes to show where Amex makes most of its money (hint: not the EU/UK!)

    • Adil says:
      24 Sep24 September 01:21

      Merchant/transactions fees are higher in the US, allows them to be more competitive on benefits e.g. no forex fee, bigger point bonuses & more points on spend

  • Rhys says:
    23 Sep23 September 11:09

    The offer is only available on primary cards, not supplementary cards.

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