Get up to £50 American Express cashback with PayPal

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• Magic Mike says:

  8 Jan8 January 11:30

  Possibly only on cards that have never used PayPal? Not on my Plat or Bonvoy cards but is on my Platinum Credit Card which I never spend on…

  • Bagoly says:

    8 Jan8 January 17:40

    We have both on both BAPPs – one that has been linked to Paypal and used regularly on eBay; one (the free one ) that has hardly been used.

    I am beginning to wonder whether Amex do this on some deliberately complicated logic, with a bit of randomness thrown in, just to keep forums busy! 🙂

    • Bagoly says:

      8 Jan8 January 17:41

      Sorry – the first “both” should be “the £15 off £70”

• Nathan says:

  8 Jan8 January 11:38

  £15 or £50 is way less that what Amex is offering in the US which is $30 PER MONTH for 6 months. That’s $180 or £132!!!

  Well at least it’s better than AMEX SINGAPORE which is offering zilch for a £950 annual fee!!!

  • Eric says:

    8 Jan8 January 13:59

    Amex Singapore has dangled lots of extra perks. Supermarket vouchers, nights etc.

    • Nathan says:

      8 Jan8 January 18:08

      The S$500 credit for “everyday essentials” back in May is similar to the two £100 credit offered in the UK. Other parts of the world had similar statement credits and they are roughly half of the plat annual fee.

      The one complimentary night has always been there but with no international travel, there’s less value to it.

      Furthermore, at the moment I am looking at a grand total of 3 offers on my app, none of which are useful. They’ve introduce the ability earn MR with Grabpay, there’s a 21% discount on petrol but I don’t drive and finally a $10 off $100 spend at Bacha Coffee whoch has TWO shops in SG (one at Ion Orchard and another at T1 Departure Lounge!) So I am struggling to understand what “extra perks” are you referring to?

      • BuildBackBetter says:

        8 Jan8 January 20:10

        Are you following milelion blog?

• kevbar says:

  8 Jan8 January 12:57

  Not on my ARC which was not linked to pp, so cancelled card.
  Not on my Business Gold which was already linked to pp. Spoke to commercial team about cancelling, no interest in retention…2 years in the wilderness for me!

• BJ says:

  8 Jan8 January 13:04

  After reading all that, I’ll be different just for tge eake of it and not bother revealing whether the offer is on my one amex card or not 🙂

  • BJ says:

    8 Jan8 January 13:06

    * the sake

• BriaNN says:

  8 Jan8 January 13:43

  Hi re Paypal does sending money to friends using a credit card count as a purchase or cash advance? Thanks

  • Rob says:

    8 Jan8 January 14:42

    Purchase.

    But PayPal will shut you down, freeze your payment and report you for suspected money laundering if you do more than a token amount, so don’t get carried away. £70 will be fine though.

• Harry T says:

  8 Jan8 January 13:44

  Has anyone managed to send money to their spouse/SO/friend/mistress via PayPal and trigger this offer?

  • sloth says:

    8 Jan8 January 14:08

    well I sent my mum some money and she was happy and so was i…

  • BJ says:

    8 Jan8 January 14:30

    I’ll give you my details if you want to try £700 🙂

    • Harry T says:

      8 Jan8 January 17:38

      But I already have a mistress, @BJ 😊

      • BJ says:

        8 Jan8 January 19:28

        Wow, what is HFP coming to 😀

  • RussellH says:

    8 Jan8 January 15:53

    How do I actually do that?
    I have offered to send my partner (different surnames, different addresses) £70 by paying into her PayPal a/c.
    But she has only ever used her PayPal a/c for paying others – she has no idea how to send me a bill that I would pay her for using Paypal?

    Help please!

    • Andrew says:

      8 Jan8 January 16:03

      Just by the email address they use to login to PayPal. You go to send money, enter that address, send it, it arrives and they can either spend from PayPal balance or transfer to bank account.

      • RussellH says:

        8 Jan8 January 16:36

        Many thanks Andrew, but you will need to explain further.
        Sorry for being thick, but “go to send money” where?

        My only good experience of Paypal is paying a local market trader with Amex or a cartoonist in Brighton via his website.
        First time was a Chinese scammer a few years years ago – Amex refunded the money almost instantly in that case.

        • The real John says:

          8 Jan8 January 18:06

          On the top bar do you not have a “Send and request” link? Or on the right hand side there is a circular button labelled “Send”. In the app it is on the bottom bar.

• Phil says:

  8 Jan8 January 14:27

  I’m not sure it is a sense of entitlement for all (though I agree for some that might be true). For some people, all new offers have stopped appearing, irrespective of prior propensity to spend with the merchant. In addition, some of the more generous offers (Marriott £400, Harrods, this PayPal series of offers) are part of Amex’s attempt to offset the current imbalance between Card Fee and Benefits.

  Amex has denied there is a technical issue but for this to happen to so many customers, around the same time, suggests something has happened.

  And, if you are paying £575 for a product whose benefits you can not realise, you are bound to feel frustrated when you are missing these offers as they may have helped justify the cost of the product and contributed to a feeling that your custom was valued.

  • Doug M says:

    8 Jan8 January 17:53

    “So many customers” but is it so many. Many comment here, but perhaps those posting here represent the block of customers Amex don’t much care about, too interested in leveraging everything out of the card. Maybe those who didn’t get the Marriott £400 are people Amex don’t care about losing. Ultimately if you think Amex doesn’t work for you then dump it, if the £575 for the Plat is not value for you dump it.
    Amex state the offers are targetted, so if you don’t get it you were not targetted. No matter why you were not targetted, whether through clever use of data, or systems failure or error, you still were not targetted. If that annoys you, and you feel there’s no value in the card then cancel. Rest assured Amex value the custom of the people they make money out of, not their customer base as a whole.

    • Sloth says:

      8 Jan8 January 20:12

      Some people are treating Amex as a long lost grandmother who is not doling out the £10’s out anymore when you go to visit as a child. Amex is a bank who provide a service and look to make a decent profit. If you can’t justify the fee then cancel the card. That’s what I did and use an Amex gold, and free ba card atm. Personally I feel a lot of people feel the need to be able to say they have an Amex Plat but know deep down, that at the moment, it’s a waste of money

• VinZ says:

  8 Jan8 January 15:31

  I have it on my Vitality Amex…

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