New Amex cashback offers: Harrods, Boots, Uber Eats, FREE NOW

A number of interesting Amex offers have dropped over the weekend now that non-essential retail has been allowed to open.

I thought it would be worth running through some of them here:

£50 back on £200 spend at Harrods

A new offer on Harrods spend has appeared on many – but not all – card types. There appear to be two versions.

On the Centurion and Platinum cards the first 7,000 people to save the offer get “Spend £200, get £50 back” whilst on my BA Amex the first 5,000 people to save the offer get “20% back up to £50”.

It doesn’t look like either offer is on my American Express Rewards Credit Card (ARCC).

On the face of it the 20% offer is sightly worse: you would have to spend £250 to get the same £50 cashback, versus £200. However, it does allow you to earn money back if you don’t plan on spending £200, as you’ll get 20% back on all transactions.

This isn’t the case for the Platinum offer, which has a minimum spend of £200 to trigger the cashback.

It makes sense that Harrods is offering two different variants depending on the card type, with more premium cards such as The Platinum card requiring a higher minimum spend.

Note that giftcards are excluded from the offer, according to the terms and conditions, but this may not necessarily be the case in practice.

It is showing on supplementary cards as well as primary cards, for the Platinum version at least, so you can benefit twice if you register twice.

Boots: spend £10 or more, get 7% back

Boots is offering 7% cashback when you spend £10 or more to the first 22,000 people to save the offer.

This offer is only valid once per card, so you should think carefully how and when you wish to use it – and use another card if you need to shop in Boots in the meantime.

Boots is generally very good at stocking a broad range of gift cards which do not appear to be excluded from the offer …….

Boots Opticians and Hearingcare are excluded, as is baby milk, prescriptions and the carrier bag levy. This may not be true in reality, given Amex’s inability to see what you purchased.

Uber Eats: 10% back

This is another decent offer – albeit one that popped up a while back which we didn’t mention at the time – that you should have little trouble using in the coming month. Uber Eats is offering 10% back on an Uber Eats transaction.

This is another offer that is only valid once per card, although there is no upper limit on the cashback you can earn.

FREE NOW: Get 50% back up to £7

FREE NOW, the black taxi cab app owned by BMW and Daimler, is offering 50% back up to £7 for travel up to 13th July.

In other words, it’s half price up to £14 spend. This isn’t far in a black cab, admittedly, but should be good for a short trip.

The offer is valid once per card to the first 100,000 cardmembers to save it.

If you don’t already have a FREE NOW account, using my promo code ‘rhys.jon’ after downloading the app will earn you an additional £4 credit.

Get a 50% FREE NOW discount on top

Code YOUAREFREENOW, typed into the app in the vouchers section, gets you a 50% discount on your next ride within one month. The discount is capped at £6.

This would stack with the American Express cashback. A £20 ride would be charged at £14 after using the YOUAREFREENOW code, of which Amex would refund you £7 – meaning the ride cost just £7.

As we mentioned last week, there is also a ‘15% cashback on all rides’ offer available with competing taxi app Gett available too.

And, of course, if you are an American Express Platinum cardholder in London, you will have your £10 monthly Addison Lee credit to use as well. Decisions, decisions …..

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