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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

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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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  • Gb says:
    10 Jan10 January 18:05

    Nothing on Centurion – disappointing!

  • Cranzle says:
    10 Jan10 January 19:40

    I welcome the addition of this card benefit, however, it should be noted that Addision Lee is unuseable (I’ve also tried to book 24 hours in advance). Priority Pass is also not worth it with so many lounges with restricted hours, little or no food etc and also being turned away from lounges.

  • merlin90 says:
    10 Jan10 January 19:46

    Buying gift cards (if you can’t find anything you want to spend £50 on before a six-month period is up) will very likely trigger the offer if you do it in store but may not if you make the purchase online, so bear that in mind! That’s certainly the case with the US Platinum which has an equivalent offer with Saks Fifth Avenue.

  • TJ says:
    10 Jan10 January 20:54

    Popped in HN today…put together a very nice little ‘hamper’ of wine, port, cheese and snacks for £50. Happy days.

  • Alan says:
    11 Jan11 January 00:38

    Better than nothing but given how overpriced they are it’s more like £50/yr rather than £100/yr. AL credit basically unusable too – wish they’d add some actually useful credits!

    • Andrew J says:
      11 Jan11 January 08:07

      Why not just got to one of the restaurants if the alcohol isn’t competitively priced. All the cosmetics and fragrances are the same price as everywhere else and the clothes are all priced the same as other department stores.

      • Alan says:
        11 Jan11 January 08:12

        Can’t think when I last bought cosmetics/fragrances! Clothes still seem overpriced too, but I’m not a big brand name shopper. Wish the credit was for something like M&S where there are more of them about and they’ve got a wide choice of food, etc.

    • RonnieB says:
      11 Jan11 January 08:33

      Can’t believe the amount of whiners on this thread, if you feel cheated by getting a £50 free credit please keep it to yourself

      • Andrew J says:
        11 Jan11 January 08:42

        Or buy a gift card and give it to a member of your staff as a thank-you.

      • Alan says:
        13 Jan13 January 00:38

        Sorry but it’s not for you to decide what is a permitted comment, RonnieB. It’s yet another underwhelming benefit and some of us want to discuss it.

    • Thegasman says:
      11 Jan11 January 14:03

      Amex won’t be paying the full £50 to HN I guarantee it. Due to their “premium” margins they’ll have cut a deal on the basis most Platinum holders aren’t HfP penny pinchers (I include myself in that category) & will therefore comfortably spend more than £50.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        11 Jan11 January 16:24

        Others will just let it lapse aswell.

        • Rob says:
          11 Jan11 January 16:39

          I think take up will be fairly high. Unlike, say, the Business Platinum Dell credit which IS tricky to use (Rhys got a free spare laptop charger for Christmas!) Harvey Nicks is a lot easier. It’s 10 minutes effort to order 3 bottles of wine for home delivery.

        • CH says:
          12 Jan12 January 00:26

          Does Rhys know that it didn’t cost you any money?! 😂

  • SammyJ says:
    11 Jan11 January 08:58

    Will gift cards definitely be eligible, or will they have some way of knowing and refusing, as it does explicitly say they’re not included in the offer T&Cs?

  • James Wyatt says:
    11 Jan11 January 09:09

    My Platinum Biz card shows 22 offers, but no HN. 🙁

  • ColinThames says:
    11 Jan11 January 12:03

    Got my personal Plat on 7 Jan, registered on the app the same day but there are still NO offers showing on it! Is this normal or do I need to contact Amex?

    • Rob says:
      11 Jan11 January 12:26

      It takes a couple of weeks, although the call centre should be able to register you for HN if you were down that way this week and wanted to use it.

      • ColinThames says:
        11 Jan11 January 12:35

        Done, thanks Rob. And no need for a trip to London – we’ve got a Harvey Nicks in Edinburgh, so there! Though Amex rather unhelpfully say “Available in participating UK store(s) and online at http://www.harveynichols.com” but don’t say which stores are participating. But at least the Edinburgh restaurant is on the list.

        • Biki says:
          11 Jan11 January 16:04

          In the AMEX app, when you click on the offer it says “view participating locations”. click on there and it opens a document which lists which ones are included, including Edinburgh.

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