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News: £5-£10 Amex credit at BP garages, 100% bonus buying IHG Rewards points

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News in brief:

Get an American Express credit at BP garages

American Express has launched a series of cashback offers with BP garages.

There appears to be two different versions:

  • £10 back on a £30 spend
  • £5 back on a £30 spend

The good news is that, if you have multiple Amex cards, you might find – as I was – that you are targeted for both across different products.

All offers expire on 29th August. There is a 51-page list of participating garages provided. It isn’t clear if the credit triggers on food or gift card purchases from the shop but I suspect that it will.

EDIT: 9am – this offer may now have reached its registration cap

BP American Express cashback

Get a 100% bonus when you buy IHG Rewards points (again)

IHG Rewards has launched another short 100% ‘buy points’ bonus, which is as generous as you ever see.  It ends TONIGHT, 30th June.

The page to buy points is here.

You need to buy at least 15,000 points to trigger the bonus. With a 100% bonus, you would be able to buy up to 300,000 IHG points for (at current exchange rates for $1,500) £1,083.

I usually value IHG Rewards points at 0.4pYou are paying 0.36p here so from that point of view you shouldn’t lose money. The skill is to use them at hotels where you can get substantially more than 0.4p per point of value, although this got a little harder since IHG moved towards revenue-based redemption pricing recently. There are definitely deals to be had, however.

You can buy points via this link.


IHG One Rewards update – April 2024:

Get bonus points: IHG One Rewards is offering 2,000 bonus points for every two cash nights you stay (not necessarily consecutive) between 1st April and 31st May 2024. You can read our full article here and you can register here.

New to IHG One Rewards?  Read our overview of IHG One Rewards here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our article on ‘What are IHG One Rewards points worth?’ is here.

Buy points: If you need additional IHG One Rewards points, you can buy them here.

Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from IHG and the other major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.

Comments (59)

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  • mark2 says:

    £10 on my and wife’s Platinum plus two supps on each total six cards.
    But we usually spend less than £30 per month on fuel.

  • Will says:

    I loaded BP on one card last night. The second one was not available when clicked on. I suspect mine was the 15000th and no more appeared on other cards.

  • AndyQ8 says:

    I still have my Harrods Amex. The only deals I seem to get are for LNER, (I live in the south west!) and various hotels. Never anything so useful as this. 🙄

    • Andrew says:

      You can buy train tickets for any route in the country on LNER and it triggers the offer, not limited to LNER services.

  • John says:

    2FA is so annoying because I can’t log on to my wife’s account to save her offers any more.

    • Andrew says:

      Change the mobile number on her account to yours then you’ll get the text.

      • John says:

        I use email 2FA as I can’t guarantee what SIM I will have in my phone, and Gmail makes it annoying to log in and out of one account while having the other accounts remaining signed in.

        Anyway i got 2 out of 4, but there are two ways of looking at it, I can be pissed that I missed 2 offers or happy that I got 2 offers at all because I was busy all day yesterday and wouldn’t have known about it until today except that I was waiting for a train at 5am when the first comment on yesterday’s thread was posted.

        • SteveKicks says:

          You could have one gmail account logged in on the Gmail app, one in the Outlook app and another in the default Mail app, all at once 🙂

  • Doog1000 says:

    Does anyone know if the offer is cumulative – say 3 £10 spends at BP?

  • Craig says:

    Saved across 5 cards, it will make filling up the gas guzzler a bit easier even if the only BP near me is about the most expensive locally.

  • Aston100 says:

    I have the £10 for £30 spend version on 4 cards.
    I currently do not have a car.

    Would be good to hear if spending on M&S goods in a combined M&S / BP petrol station would trigger these offers.

    I’d try it myself but the nearest such place is a car ride away.

    • The Streets says:

      It has done for me in the past

    • Nick says:

      IMHO I don’t see why not if it’s on the participating stores list.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      It will. It’s the exact same till and card machine.

    • flyoff says:

      A local large BP always has good stock of M&S giftcards that previously have triggered the offer. I can’t see why things have changed. It is a shame though the M&S shops at BP do not accept M&S giftcards so you need to spend at M&S in store or online

  • David D says:

    I saved the £30 offer to my PRG last night.

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