A rare American Express cashback offer at John Lewis

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• Andrew J says:

  13 Feb13 February 05:01

  Gift cards online absolutely won’t work as when you go to buy one it redirects to a third party as Selfridges does – it’s quite obvious as the domain URL changes.

• Matt says:

  13 Feb13 February 05:12

  I have £20 back for spending £100 at John Lewis opticians, I assume they don’t sell Waitrose vouchers…

  • Andrew J says:

    13 Feb13 February 06:54

    Operated by Luxottica Retail UK (as is David Clulow which is why the offers are identical) so likely to have a separate POS system.

    • Tariq says:

      13 Feb13 February 09:29

      They do have separate POS. However you can spend JL gift vouchers in the opticians – they just go and cash them out at a regular till before settling on the opticians POS.

      • Andrew J says:

        13 Feb13 February 09:51

        Ah like Nespresso at Selfridges.

• Lale says:

  13 Feb13 February 05:18

  I got quite excited reading this as I always shop at John Lewis! Quickly discovered that it isn’t available on my card. Oh well

• Sandgrounder says:

  13 Feb13 February 06:58

  Can you use multiple gift cards online for a single purchase?

  • Bryan says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:08

    Yes you can.

  • John says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:17

    Yes but if you refund anything the refund can only be used online, no longer in store

    • Simon says:

      13 Feb13 February 09:08

      Really? I bought something with a gift card last month and they refunded me onto a new digital gift card. I think this is new – I remember getting online only credit before.

      • John says:

        13 Feb13 February 13:40

        Oh ok, that seems to have changed for the better then

        • Chris says:

          13 Feb13 February 16:04

          Yes this has been fixed now. The old way forced spend at JL and disallowed spending at Waitrose.

• BJ says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:06

  A bit redundant given the 10% Morrisons offer on anything over £30 which is also on a wider range of cards. I didn’t even bother saving it.

  • John says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:18

    Yes it’s not useful, I haven’t spent directly in John Lewis or waitrose for years

  • Andrew J says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:20

    Does the Morrison’s offer track? I’ve heard so many reports on here that it doesn’t I didn’t even bother saving it.

    • Paul Pogba says:

      13 Feb13 February 08:21

      The latest one tracked with email notification before I left the store yesterday. All my Christmas transactions paid out a few weeks ago.

    • BJ says:

      13 Feb13 February 08:41

      100% success for me so far, longest I ever waited for a Morrisons offer to track was a week or so. Last year the Virgin in store 8x did not track at all unfortunately.

    • Alan says:

      13 Feb13 February 09:30

      @Andrew J – I had to call Amex about 2 that didn’t automatically come through last time. Were both at the same store. Email confirmation re spend every time but only automatic credit from some stores IME.

      • BJ says:

        13 Feb13 February 11:35

        @Alan, if you’re still in Edinburgh, I did all of mine at the Ferry Road branch. All worked fine regardless of attended or self checkout.

    • RussellH says:

      13 Feb13 February 12:00

      Yes and no.
      Never had any problems with Morrison’s before, but the last two had to be chased.
      On my gold, I spoke to a very understanding agent, who promptly credited me with twice my missing credit. The real credit turned up six weeks later.
      🙂

    • John says:

      13 Feb13 February 13:41

      I had a Curve offer for Morrisons, spent before Christmas and it only paid out last week.

  • David says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:21

    For me, the Morrisons one was only 5%, so the best deal will be to spend £100 directly on amex at JL and the rest buying JL gift cards at morrisons

    • Jordan D says:

      13 Feb13 February 11:05

      I’ve got a combination of 5%, 7% and 10% on various cards at Morrisons. Only one of the 10%s, so that’s the card that will be used.

  • Alan says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:28

    Only 5% here although I have made good use of the 10% off previously.

    • RussellH says:

      13 Feb13 February 12:01

      My partner has 10% on her Rewards Amex.
      I have 7% on Gold and 5% on my BA main + 2 supps

• Nick says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:14

  I have it on my Amex Platinum credit card.

• Matty says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:31

  I used this at the time across a number of cards – £20 back for £50 spend. This time, as it’s only £10 per £100, the Morrisons offer of 10% is more generous, so it makes better sense to get JLP gift cards via that route.

  • Andrew J says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:59

    The John Lewis offer is as generous if you’re spending £100. The Morrison’s offer also requires you to go to a Morrison’s shop which not everyone might want to do, whereas the JL offer can be used directly online. Both offers have their advantages depending on how much you’re going to spend and if you’re going to Morrison’s.

• KF says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:37

  On my Amex Platinum also

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