Amex Business Platinum giving you £150 back when you spend £1,000 – in one go

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• ScienceTeacher says:

  23 Feb23 February 20:32

  You can indeed do £1k in one go in a Waitrose, you need to do 2x gift cars for £500 each in the same transaction. Can now be done from the self service tills too.

• Greenpen says:

  23 Feb23 February 23:09

  I am intrigued as to why Amex are pouring out offers at the moment. I assume that card users are quitting in large numbers so they are trying to get those who remain to stay loyal to their expensive card. I down graded from the paid BA card to the free one last August and I suspect loads of others are doing the same across the whole range of cards.

  • Track says:

    24 Feb24 February 03:20

    It makes sense to help tough it out, then things will open in April with spending and (limited) future travel booking — but at least Plat benefits will have some relevance ‘later in the year’ or people will hope so.

• Kieran says:

  24 Feb24 February 00:32

  I assume this just works for a single payment, then expires?

  • Rob says:

    24 Feb24 February 08:53

    Guess so.

• Chris H says:

  24 Feb24 February 08:36

  Can anyone explain what payment aggregator means?

  • Rob says:

    24 Feb24 February 08:43

    We believe it means PayPal and Curve but it is never clear.

  • Alex says:

    24 Feb24 February 14:31

    SquareUp, Sumup & Stripe are examples along with Curve.

    Small retailers may be paying 1.25% with Square whereas it would be 1.99%+ with Amex direct

• Chris H says:

  24 Feb24 February 08:38

  The transaction must be in GBP. How does this work if I book a hotel in USA and:
  a) pay in Dollars, but it is converted to GBP
  b) choose to pay in GBP on their website

  • Rob says:

    24 Feb24 February 08:42

    If pay in £ then it should be OK although this is never guaranteed because Amex may look at the country of the underlying charge and not the charge itself. I have seen cases where payment in £ to overseas businesses (eg in a hotel where you choose the rip-off £ equivalent and not the local currency) has still incurred the 3% FX surcharge, for example.

    • Chris H says:

      24 Feb24 February 09:46

      So it is really difficult to decide where to spend the money and get the rebate? Is there any chance that you can do an update post in a week or two once more is known from readers who actually try these methods?

• Sharon says:

  24 Feb24 February 08:41

  This is a really strange offer as it talks about “merchants who are open” and “travelling in line with government advice” – is this only for travel related purchases or can it be for any merchant. I need to buy a new iMac for business but there is also an offer for Apple!
  If I click both do I get both or only the Apple offer as that is less?
  Also, this “payment aggregator” thing – does that include Billhop for paying my VAT bill?

• Tord says:

  24 Feb24 February 10:13

  So happy I spent over £1k last night and saw this this morning………. 😂

  • Rob says:

    24 Feb24 February 12:08

    I spent £2k the day before and now have zero plans to make a £1k purchase, annoyingly.

• Colin MacKinnon says:

  24 Feb24 February 21:08

  Spent just over the £1000 with a company this evening via PayPal and got an email by return from Amex saying they were processing the offer, subject to its conditions. May be five days before it appears on my account.

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