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If you have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card, you will be benefitting from 2 x £5 monthly credits towards Deliveroo orders. This is worth £120 per year if used in full.

If you are using Deliveroo, whether or not you have Amex Gold, it has teamed up with Amazon Prime for a special offer.

Whilst this offer was well publicised when it launched I’ve not seen it mentioned for a while. It does still work – see the Amazon website here – and as of yesterday it is more attractive.

Deliveroo Plus Silver status for free with Amazon Prime

Via this link, Amazon Prime members receive 12 months of free membership to Deliveroo Plus Silver. Once you are signed up, you will not pay delivery fees on food orders of £15+.

Until yesterday, free delivery only kicked in on orders of £25+. This was fine for a family and possibly for a couple, but a bit OTT for a quiet solo night in. £15 is more achievable.

Note that the £25 limit remains for free delivery on grocery deliveries.

It’s not all good news. ‘Service fees’ have gone up slightly, but for anyone who struggled to spend £25 it is a very definite improvement.

This doubles up with the Amex Gold cashback

Added to the £5 cashback you receive per order (up to two per month) from American Express Preferred Rewards Gold and it makes Deliveroo very competitive.

Looked at the other way, of course, if you currently pay for Deliveroo Plus Silver but don’t have Amazon Prime, you could treat this as a (£3.49 x 12) £41.88 discount on your first year of Prime. You can sign up for Prime here.

To be clear, this is not a ‘have a free trial and then start paying the full price’ offer. The T&C are clear that you simply lose your status after a year if the partnership is not extended. You don’t suddenly wake up one day to find yourself paying £3.49 per month for Deliveroo Plus Silver.

To quote:

You will not be auto-renewed into a paid Deliveroo Plus subscription at the end of the offer unless you are switching to this offer from an existing Deliveroo Plus subscription. In the latter case, you will be switched back to your original Deliveroo Plus subscription at the end of the offer.

If you currently pay £7.99 for Deliveroo Plus Gold (free delivery on food and grocery orders of £10+) you will stop paying if you take up this offer but will drop down to Deliveroo Plus Silver (free delivery on food orders of £15). You will return to Gold status – and start paying again – after 12 months or whenever the Amazon Prime deal ends, whichever is later.

The T&C for the Amazon Prime offer are here if you want to find out more.

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Comments (22)

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  • His Holyness says:
    2 Feb2 February 03:23

    I’ve never used Deliveroo. What’s the tipping policy? When I lived in the US and used Uber, if you didn’t tip in advance no one would bring your food order.

    • Dayle says:
      2 Feb2 February 03:37

      On something as basic as food delivery we don’t tip, maybe a little if there’s an exceptional deal (50% off & 2-4-1 for example). Crazy to think that someone wouldn’t even deliver the food if you don’t tip, I’d be waiting for ages wondering what had happened! What happens to the food / charging if you don’t tip?!

    • David says:
      2 Feb2 February 06:07

      Not mandatory.

    • Ryan says:
      2 Feb2 February 07:16

      Always amazes me that drivers feel obliged that you must tip them? We never tip by standard, unless something crazy good happens

      Wondering, what happens to your food when you dont tip, does it get thrown away??

      • aseftel says:
        2 Feb2 February 08:42

        For US platforms like Doordash, drivers can see the tip offered when choosing whether to accept a job. So you might struggle to get a driver if you don’t offer a tip.

        • Rob says:
          2 Feb2 February 08:54

          The reason for this is that tips have come with a reduction in standard pay, so drivers need the tip in order to make the same money they used to make before.

    • LittleNick says:
      2 Feb2 February 07:36

      The US has a crazy tipping culture that’s got a bit out of hand in recent years, I go along with it (for the most part) for an easy life when there

      • Blair Waldorf Salad says:
        2 Feb2 February 09:20

        It’s got so bad I now seek out hotels with club lounges where I can reasonably expect to serve myself. It avoids any need to interact with the staff and there’s no provision of a zero charge bill to elicit a tip. Similarly I have a US Starbucks card I top up and use that to order to go – walk in, grab my waiting items, leave. Otherwise the Starbucks tills ask you for a tip if ordering whilst in store.

        • TooPoorToBeHere says:
          2 Feb2 February 09:47

          I will not ever tip in a “purchase something at a counter and have it handed to me there” situation and have never had any trouble whatsoever with this in the US. Zero – no sighing, looks, surliness – anything.

          Yes, the till prompts, but the “zero” button is there.

  • TimM says:
    2 Feb2 February 03:55

    There is no Deliveroo coverage where I live (Slaithwaite, Yorkshire).

    • WSN says:
      2 Feb2 February 07:32

      Thank you, I can add it to my a place to retire list.

    • Mike Hunt says:
      2 Feb2 February 09:50

      Tim M – I think Uber eats or Deliveroo do collect from Slaithwaite though as I once encountered a male shirtless very sweaty very tattooed driver on a summer day in Ashbys Deli cafe (next to Aldi) waiting to collect an order and the owner asked him to put a shirt on or wait outside and the driver got all sweary and shouty – saying “make me – I don’t have to – I work for my f……ing self”. When he did collect the order he literally just threw it in to the car, parked on and blocking the pavement outside , lit a cigarette and screeched away music blaring. I thought I wouldn’t want my food delivered by someone who looked like that or acted like that.

  • VinZ says:
    2 Feb2 February 10:10

    I usually add £1 to all my deliveries, maybe a little more if I order a lot (rarely). I feel bad for those cyclists and £1 doesn’t change my life.

    But yes, I hate tipping and the tip culture. I don’t get why we need to tip anywhere. I don’t get a tip at the end of my work day in the office! Tips are a stealth tax imposed on what it’s usually overpriced food… and the States have gone bonkers about it. In restaurants you now have service added on top of your bill and then waiters ask for a tip too. I mean…

    • Ryan says:
      2 Feb2 February 10:18

      The overpriced part is the most important. You can take the menu price, add 25% already, plus delivery (if you pay) and service fees. Usually turns out to +50% to actually eating in the place!

      • Roy says:
        3 Feb3 February 12:56

        None of that goes to the delivery driver, though. Even the inflated menu prices don’t really go to the restaurant – they’re just there to cover the huge commission percentage that the platform takes off the payment to the restaurant.

  • Kraut says:
    2 Feb2 February 10:16

    What happens with the Deliveroo offer if you cancel your Prime sub?

    • Maples says:
      2 Feb2 February 12:14

      For the Amazon offer, the Deliveroo Plus goes away. Not sure how quick, but I cancelled my Prime last week and it’s no longer showing the Deliveroo Plus stuff in my Deliveroo account.

      • Maples says:
        2 Feb2 February 12:16

        Actually, seems like it’s still there and it says I got free delivery for Five Guys for a random £15+ order I made. I do recall the Deliveroo Plus going away last year after I had cancelled for a couple of weeks.

  • Josh B says:
    2 Feb2 February 16:46

    Deliveroo status. LMFAO. Tell the work you have failed at life etc .

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