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Another FREE £100 for American Express Platinum cardholders

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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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In February 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:

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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.

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

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American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

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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:

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

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American Express Business Platinum

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Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

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For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback on your spending.

Barclaycard Select Cashback Business Credit Card

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Comments (127)

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  • Chris says:

    Nice of AMEX to offer this as a gesture of good will, however on another note some flights that I had booked using the AMEX Plat card last year I had to receive vouchers because of COVID. I was informed by AMEX today that any flights booked with the vouchers wouldn’t be insured under their policy! Bummer!!

  • Lou Lewis says:

    Can you use it to buy wine in Waitrose?. The T&C’s say excludes Cellar, but you can also order wine under the Grocery section on their website.

  • Jonathan says:

    I have it and just bought a new garmin!

  • Mike says:

    The usual palaver for me. I never get offers showing online on either of my cards. I phoned, usual line of “targetted offers” but they went to find a “lead” who can try and add it manually. It’s now appeared under saved to card.

  • Adil says:

    I keep seeing comments on how people have received 40k MR points.. i was only given 20k earlier this year.. have i missed out on something?

    • Rob says:

      Seems to have gone up in recent weeks.

    • Craig says:

      Wonder if it’s worth another call?

    • Andrew says:

      But remember when we all got 20k they sold it to us as having a £180 value as the cash in rate was doubled at that time. 40k is also worth £180 at today’s rate. If you prefer transferring to a FFP then yes it’s better today than in May.

  • Jason Hindle says:

    I just received the offer email. Attempted to added it to my card and got an “already added” error.

  • Shaun Ferguson says:

    No M&S this time?

  • Nick Burch says:

    Any news on Amex tweaking the insurance rules, to allow cover to places on the FCO naughty list?

    StaySure only wanted an extra fiver for a year’s cover to EU + some north African countries on the FCO advise against travel list, total cost for a couple for a year for EU+certain nearby was just £60

    Surely it wouldn’t cost Amex too much to just cover it, or too much hassle to let us pay a small fee. I can see them not wanting to insure everything on the FCO naughty list, as some places do have real non-COVID risks! Forcing card members to pay extra to someone else just to be covered when heading to another EU country is very very annoying…

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