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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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  • Mco says:
    19 Jan19 January 10:43

    Rob what if you take out the card in the next couple of weeks? Considering it’s till the summer and for everyone does a new card qualify? Could you ask your contact? I was going to take one out anyway in the few weeks.

    • Sina says:
      19 Jan19 January 10:47

      You can ask for these offers to be added manually, these are targeted at Platinum card holders. Customer service will do this for you.

      • Guernsey Globetrotter says:
        19 Jan19 January 18:20

        +1 also – added via online chat within a couple of minutes just now 😀

    • Mo says:
      19 Jan19 January 10:51

      +1 to what Sina has said

      4 people I referred for a platinum card last year got this offer manually added as they had applied for the card after the offer being released.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        19 Jan19 January 11:39

        If amex have any sense they’ll restrict it to customers on a certain date.

      • Dan says:
        19 Jan19 January 12:32

        Looks like no based on the comments below – need to be CM from 6th Jan.

  • Phil says:
    19 Jan19 January 10:54

    Not on my Amex Plat, either on the website or app. Called up and the lady said they would manually add it to my account in the coming 2 days.

  • Mark says:
    19 Jan19 January 10:59

    I have a business account and it’s not on there, so presumably, this is personal account only, which makes sense given the offer.

    Still a bit pissed off at Amex for the Dell “offer” last year where the magically split up my order into separate transactions so the offer didn’t go through.

  • Mike says:
    19 Jan19 January 11:11

    Does anyone know if using this to buy a JLP gift card on the Waitrose website is likely to work? For some reason JLP isn’t on the current offer and I could do with buying a new computer monitor…

    • Mike (the other one) says:
      19 Jan19 January 11:30

      You can certainly buy a JLP-Waitrose gift card at a Waitrose store. Can confirm this has triggered similar Amex offers for me in the past.

      Whatever you do, do *not* buy a JLP-Waitrose gift card online – it’ll likely be processed by a third party and the payment won’t register with Amex as Waitrose spend.

      • Mike says:
        19 Jan19 January 11:51

        Hmm, looks like I’ll have to get on my bike then! My nearest Waitrose is about 5 miles away and I SORNED my car at the beginning of lockdown due to working from home and having everything delivered anyway..

  • DJ says:
    19 Jan19 January 11:20

    Just phoned Amex, they said it is open for any Amex Plat account opened by 6th Jan. I opened on the 12th, so I’m not eligible ..

    😑

    • ChrisA says:
      19 Jan19 January 11:30

      Frustrating – I was approved on 28th Dec, received and activated card on 12th Jan, which I think in fairness probably was on the 10th business day.

    • Radiata says:
      19 Jan19 January 12:21

      I would call again..

      • ChrisA says:
        19 Jan19 January 12:24

        Yes I might do – I did ask in chat to no avail (he claimed it was targeted), but as we know responses from CS can vary!

    • Lee says:
      19 Jan19 January 12:24

      Had same reply through chat, I applied on 9th

  • Dan says:
    19 Jan19 January 11:42

    I know this it’s a busy day for Platinum folk but spare a thought for Gold members. No effort or gesture to show that they value out membership. I know year 1 is free but I’m sure there are folk out there who are paying £140 for a travel benefits that are not really usable now.

    • babyg says:
      19 Jan19 January 15:00

      first year is free… and there are numerous benefits that are not travel related, either upgrade or downgrade… problem sorted.

  • Chris says:
    19 Jan19 January 12:08

    Since cancelling my Plat card in December I’ve saved about £50 in fees, but now missed out on £175….. hmmmmm

  • Crispr says:
    19 Jan19 January 12:16

    I too have not had any offers across any of my 3 cards (Platinum + Harrods + Gold credit) since November and this was not showing unsurprisingly but got it added via chat.

    Have there been any Harrods card offers worth mentioning as of late? I got the £75 off £200 @ Harrods manually added last year after learning about it on here on the chat threads otherwise I would not have known.

    • KBuffett says:
      19 Jan19 January 15:18

      Harrods are closed at the moment, so I don’t think they will launch an offer. I’d guess they want people to spend more instore once they open

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