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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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  • Pid says:
    19 Jan19 January 23:15

    So glad I did not cancel two days ago when I called up. Managed to get a further 35k points which was after 20k earlier in the year. What with the Harris’s and the previous Waitrose offer not a bad haul. Just annoyed I did not get the Marriott.

    • Zara says:
      20 Jan20 January 10:04

      Did they offer that as a retention? They just downgraded mine without asking any questions or offering anything to stop me from doing so.

  • Tony says:
    20 Jan20 January 00:17

    Nothing for me on chat. No option to add.

    Just a £2.50 credit to account for “my time”

    🙁

  • P4D says:
    20 Jan20 January 04:47

    Not on my card. Was told by chat that it’s because my card is new (only 2 weeks old), disappointing but understandable

    • DT says:
      20 Jan20 January 05:18

      Try give the plat line a call, two weeks is close to the reported Jan 6th cut off date and they might be generous, always worth a shot and there’s never a wait time to get through these days

  • Gareth says:
    20 Jan20 January 07:14

    If I were to apply for this card now would I still get this offer or is it only likely to be for existing members when the offer was posted? I had opted against getting this card but this could tip the balance. Thanks.

  • Gareth says:
    20 Jan20 January 07:15

    Apologies- have just seen post above which answers the question.

  • Ian M says:
    20 Jan20 January 07:35

    No offer for me. But Amex hate me. Not had any offers for about 6 months

  • Paul says:
    20 Jan20 January 08:26

    Just told by them it’s not available to business platinum

    • Andrew says:
      20 Jan20 January 08:28

      Which is what Rob says in the article.

      • Guernsey Globetrotter says:
        20 Jan20 January 09:44

        But at least two people have reported they got it added to bus plat in these comments (page 5) so there does seem to be an inconsistent approach…

        • Rob says:
          20 Jan20 January 10:50

          Nothing inconsistent between a) what the rules say and b) what you can bully the call centre into doing.

          • John says:
            20 Jan20 January 12:29

            No bullying required. Just phoned up spoke to a lovely lady who as soon as I mentioned it said yes straight away. Whole call took about 30 seconds

  • Zara says:
    20 Jan20 January 08:37

    Strangely I downgraded my card to green a week ago but it has shown up and I have saved the offer. Are they likely to refute it if I try and avail the cash back or does it being saved mean they need to honour it? Thx

    • Andrew says:
      20 Jan20 January 10:15

      They will probably honour it – they did on the first time this type of offer was around last year and they accidentally added it to all the supps before pulling it, so early birds got several hundred pounds of credit which was all honoured. And unless you read HFP, how would you reasonably be expected to know that you weren’t supposed to have it – it’s an offer that’s arrived on your list and you’ve saved it.

    • Jack says:
      20 Jan20 January 11:02

      If you had the Platinum card on the 6th January, then the offer would still be made available I’m told.
      Unfortunately I downgraded a couple of days before.

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