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NEW: Get £100 per year of Harvey Nichols credit with Amex Platinum

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If you have an American Express Platinum card, an interesting new deal has launched today.

You will receive £100 per year to spend at Harvey Nichols stores.

This offer is valid instore and online (click here) and includes selected store restaurants.

Amex has signed a three year deal with Harvey Nichols, meaning that you are guaranteed to receive the credit in 2022, 2023 and 2024 if you retain your Platinum card.

Your credit arrives in two £50 chunks. You will receive £50 back on your Harvey Nichols purchases between January and June, and £50 back between July and December.

The credit is cumulative (within each six monthly period) so you don’t need to spend £50 in one transaction. You can’t carry unspent credit over from one half year to the next.

The credit is only available on primary cards and not supplementary cards. Spending by a supplementary cardholder will not trigger the cashback on the primary card, according to the small print.

You must opt in to this benefit

This is NOT an automatic offer.

You must visit the American Express website or app, go to your Platinum account page, find the offer and click ‘Save to Card’.

Where can I use my £100 Harvey Nichols credit?

Harvey Nichols currently has UK stores in London, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester and Liverpool.

The Oxo Tower restaurant in London is also included in the deal as is Zelman Meats, Burger & Lobster and Madhu’s 2 Go in the Knightsbridge store. All Harvey Nichols-branded restaurants are included.

Note that “HN@HOME (OXO at home, Leeds at home and Edinburgh at home)” is excluded, as are purchases from the Oxo Tower restaurant’s website.

If you don’t live near a store, your best bet is probably a purchase of cosmetics or wine from the website. The cosmetics section is here and the ‘food and wine’ section is here.

There is also a ‘gifts’ section here which may be more relevant for a one-off purchase at around the £50 mark.

Don’t forget to register for the offer before making a purchase.

Harvey Nichols American Express platinum £100

Get 30,000 points with The Platinum Card

If this offer tips you over into getting The Platinum Card, you can find our more in our review here.

The card currently comes with a 30,000 Membership Rewards points bonus, which converts into 30,000 Avios amongst other things.

The £100 per year of Harvey Nichols credit sits alongside the £120 per year of Addison Lee taxi credit as a ‘pseudo cash’ benefit. Other benefits include travel insurance, 2 x Priority Pass airport lounge access cards (good for a family of four), Eurostar lounge access, the impressive Fine Hotels & Resorts hotel booking programme and full car rental insurance. You can find out more here.

If you find the card isn’t for you, you can cancel at any point for a pro-rata fee refund.

You can apply for The Platinum Card here.


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Comments (98)

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  • tony says:

    Oh, well that’s better than a kick in the teeth… Decent wine & spirits selection if I recall correctly, although happy to admit it’s not a frequent haunt of mine.

    Also see the BAPP has 2000 bonus Avios with a £1k BA spend on it.

  • Sandgrounder says:

    Good news, now if they’d just swap the AL credit for Uber….

    • K says:

      Everytime I try to book an AL car, it says none available. Everytime. It’s a useless benefit, in my area perhaps. I’m inside the congestion charge zone, so wonder if that is the problem.

      • Rob says:

        They have got pretty useless for ‘on the spot’ bookings as opposed to pre-bookings. They are desperately short of drivers and have been offering some crazy cash incentives to get people to sign up – you are guaranteed to earn £5k in your first month.

        • tony says:

          I find AL are fine in the mornings to get from West to East across town, but hopeless in the afternoons when trying to make the return journey.

          And wow was I surprised at the surge pricing Uber hit me with back in November when I needed to get somewhere quick & couldn’t see a black cab… That £10 credit would have barely touched the sides…

          • Stu_N says:

            I’ve not managed to use my AL credit in the last few trips to London, almost given up on them. Even trying to book a car from Heathrow three weeks ahead gives you “none available” message.

          • Kipto says:

            I recommend signing up to ola cabs. They work the same as Uber. Get quotes from Uber and ola. The drivers prefer ola as they only take 15% off them whereas Uber take 25%.

      • Roosit says:

        We had no luck with pre-bookings in Greater London outside congestion charge zone either…

  • Andrew J says:

    HN is also relaunching its loyalty scheme this month with the teaser announcement of 10% off cosmetics/fragrances and own-branded food for its mid and high tier members, which would stack nicely with this. All members will also get free delivery for all online orders too apparently.

    • Rob says:

      My wife and I still seem to have HN Platium status from the Amex status match a few years ago!

      • Andrew J says:

        It’s all going to change this month. I’m on the Black tier which unlike the airline FFPs doesn’t reset each year so you just keep building and building until you reach black. But after 6 years of the programme they’ve realised this isn’t great so it’s all changing and everyone will be allocated a tier for this year with the relaunch, presumably in part matched to your existing status or last year’s spend, and then it’s like a standard FFP where you need to spend a certain amount to retain.

  • Bill says:

    Does the supplementary get it ?

    • Mike says:

      “Transactions made with a Supplementary Card or an Additional Card will not count as transactions made for the benefit of the Basic Cardmember, and will accordingly not be eligible for the Card Benefit.”

  • SammyJ says:

    Almost closed mine yesterday, but kept it open when they offered me 50k to stay. This makes another nice little sweetener!

    • john browell says:

      I’m a Platinum newbie, just 2 months in so far. Did they offer you the points automatically, or did you contact them ?

      • Triath5 says:

        And as a follow-up question, was this through the phone or website chat? I unsuccessfully tried both phone and chat last year but they wouldn’t budge.

        Am probably going to downgrade to the free Amex to keep the MR points and not cash them out, not sure if communicating this reduces leverage? Almost impossible now to justify this card’s fee…! Though the referral cap has reset this new year, so may try to hit 90k if possible.

        Anyone looking for a referral please let me know…!

    • Alex says:

      Did you receive a retention offer at some point last year well? If so, when approximately?

    • A says:

      Wicked – I got 20k last jan (card anniversary month) from retentions, so I’ll be trying for the 50k this month – nice to know it is still being offered.

    • SammyJ says:

      It was my first retention offer – only had Platinum 5 months, but since I referred husband we’ve now got 2x priority pass etc each so figured I don’t need it.
      I used livechat on the app, just told them I wanted to close and they asked why – said the offers were poor for such a high fee, far too London-centric and irrelevant to me. They offered 50k to stay, so I did!
      Will close husband’s instead (unless of course they offer similar on that!)

  • Richard T says:

    I’ve opted in to the Harvey Nichols credit, thanks for pointing it out. I don’t seem to have the Addison Lee credit in my offers – do you have to opt in to that or is it just automatic if you spend on AL using Plat?

  • Gulz says:

    Don’t see it on my biz platinum card 🙁

    • Aziz says:

      Same here. Looks like it’s personal cards only. But hey who needs Harvey Nichols when we get Dell discounts 😜

      • Rob says:

        Bus Plat has always worked in an odd way. Every month on my statement I get a printed warning about using the card for non-business purposes, and then online I am offered 10% off for using it at Sweaty Betty ….

        • James Wyatt says:

          Ha ha ha!!! Picture in your Sweaty Betty outfit please!

        • KK says:

          since you are the hfp director, assuming this is the business that holds your plat card, you can throw it out for a lucky someone at the annual DO

  • RonnieB says:

    The article for Platinum card says
    “….Other benefits include travel insurance, 2 x Priority Pass airport lounge access cards (good for a family of four)…”

    Is that correct – how do you get the other PP card?

    • Rob says:

      It goes to the first person you nominate as a supplementary cardholder – they get a free Platinum, which gets the Priority Pass plus all the hotel status cards.

      Any other supps you nominate get Gold unless you pay £295 per year. (This is actually a decent deal for some people – we pay for HfP staff to get a supp on the office Business Platinum as what passes for ‘staff perks’, so they get a Priority Pass and all the hotel status cards.)

      So … give your partner your first supp and you’re good for the two parents and two kids, albeit you need to hand over both Priority Pass cards whenever you enter a lounge and ensure they allocate just 1 guest to each card.

    • Chas says:

      Apply for a Supplementary card for your partner. Their card will come with a PP card, so when you are travelling together you can each guest in one of your children (or another guest).

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