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Another £175 of free money for American Express Platinum cardholders

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American Express has launched another giveaway for holders of The Platinum Card.

This is presumably to convince them to keep paying the £575 annual fee for a lot of – admittedly very good – travel benefits at a time when no-one is travelling …..

It will only appear on your main card, not any supplementaries. It will not appear on Business Platinum cards.

American Express Amex Platinum card

IMPORTANT: I have the offer in the Amex app on my iPhone but it is NOT showing on the website. If you can’t see it in one spot, look in the other. Amex has confirmed to us that all cardholders will receive it.

What am I getting?

You will receive 100% cashback when you spend up to £175 (so basically £175 cashback) at:

  • Waitrose
  • Deliveroo
  • Harvey Nichols
  • Selfridges

Apart from Deliveroo, they are valid online or instore (when they reopen).

The offer runs to 18th July. This implies that it may be the last offer of its type that we see.

As a reader pointed out in the comments, it is a bit odd that Amex didn’t choose to make this ‘£30 per month for six months’. It would have done wonders for card retention.

How does the offer work?

The good news is that you don’t need to spend the £175 in one transaction, or even at the same retailer.

Each purchase you make at the above retailers will be refunded, 100%, onto your card within 2-3 days. This keeps on going until you hit the £175 cap.

Are all Platinum cardholders receiving this?

American Express says ‘Yes’. That said, I assume it won’t appear for people who are locked out of offers because they are in default or took advantage of the covid payment holidays.

If you do not see it – perhaps you are one of those people who haven’t received any offers for months due to IT issues – then I would call Amex to have it added.

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Comments (255)

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  • Ste Cox says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:05

    This came at a good time for me as I had some myWaitrose vouchers come through the other day for spend £60 and get £12 back even more free money for me 🙂

    • Ste Cox says:
      19 Jan19 January 09:09

      and before anyone says anything. Yes, I know its not really free money.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        19 Jan19 January 10:50

        Considering it’s £50 a month and you can cancel as soon as you do some shops it’s still a significant amount of “free money”

    • Paul says:
      19 Jan19 January 09:21

      I have the same and my son works for them. Its Christmas in January in our house!!

    • Craig says:
      19 Jan19 January 09:46

      I never seem to get any Waitrose vouchers?

      • Oli says:
        19 Jan19 January 10:11

        Me neither. I’m thinking about getting a new Waitrose card, I think they come with more offers

  • Rupert says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:08

    Anyone have it on the main card and supp?

  • Geoff says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:14

    Nothing on my main card 🙁

    • Ben says:
      19 Jan19 January 09:43

      It also didn’t show up on mine. Just contacted them through chat and was told that the offer has now been loaded onto my account.

  • Jonny O says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:30

    i dont have the offer on my plat card or supp card. I called amex and they said it is a targeted offer. Moreover, I have not gotten any offers since last oct / nov…. (and i am a customer in good standing with amex)

    • Aaron says:
      19 Jan19 January 10:21

      Same here, probably got 5 offers in total since aug/sept last year across all my cards. Amex said there’s nothing in the system causing that and it’s not fixed even after few phone calls.

    • Jen T says:
      19 Jan19 January 10:22

      I have the same problem – October was the last time I saw an offer on any of my three cards. Have contacted Amex who are looking into it, but it’s an arduous process.

    • Stephan says:
      19 Jan19 January 10:58

      Also stopped receiving offers on my Platinum Card – seemed to be around the time I changed address in November last year. Have held the card for over ten years and never any issues getting offers untill now…

      • Aaron says:
        19 Jan19 January 11:09

        I have a feeling that this is intentional and requires insider knowledge to find out why.

    • Luke says:
      19 Jan19 January 13:19

      Same here for my BA black card during Jan to November2020…. called a few times but no help

    • Jonny O says:
      19 Jan19 January 13:54

      now added manually by the chat service. this is the second time i had to call amex to get an offer added (first time was shop small…)

    • Conor Megaw says:
      20 Jan20 January 09:14

      I had an 18 month stretch where no offers appeared on any of my Amex cards. I had to call up to get things like this or shop local added manually.

      Often I was told it was targeted and I’d say I’d read an article quoting a a PR saying it was for all members and miraculously it would get added.

      Eventually I found an agent who took the issue of no offers showing as serious and he managed to get it sorted out for me. Overnight dozens of offers appeared on each of my cards and all of these type of offers have showed up.

      • Aaron says:
        20 Jan20 January 10:15

        Called three times and apparently the case was submitted to “back office”. If offers like Shop Small wouldn’t even appear then something is very wrong with their system!

  • babyg says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:30

    On my main card (went via website) – thanks rob/team.

  • raoul says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:34

    £400 for centurion!

  • bill says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:38

    i dont have it on either mobile app or website

  • Zack says:
    19 Jan19 January 09:44

    Didn’t get it this time 🙁
    I’m thinking it’s because I recently had a Financial Review from Amex.

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