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Get free Deliveroo Plus Silver status if you have Amazon Prime

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If you have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit 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 Preferred Rewards Gold, you should know that it partners 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.

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+.

There is a higher limit of £25 for free delivery on grocery deliveries.

Whilst the T&C say that your Deliveroo Plus Silver membership is for 12 months, mine seems to roll over from year to year. We do use Deliveroo once a month or so, however.

This doubles up with the Amex Gold cashback

Added to the £5 cashback you receive per order (up to two per month) from the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card and it makes Deliveroo more 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 orders of £10+ and grocery orders of £15+) 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 and grocery order of £25+). You would return to Gold status – and start paying again – after 12 months.

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

Comments (14)

  • Lumma says:

    The decline of civilisation will be traced back to the introduction of the “delivery app”

    Want to pay a higher price than sitting in the restaurant for cold, squashed food? Step this way…

    • Matty says:

      I agree. I only use Deliveroo when they try to tempt me back and give me a credit.

      Last night, I used a £10 Deliveroo account credit and £5 Amex credit on a meal that was £25 via the Deliveroo app, so it cost just £10. It would have been £21 if I’d ordered direct from the restaurant.

    • conspicuous-capybara says:

      If we’re tracing the decline of civilisation back to the introduction of a modern technology I’d say the history books are more likely to choose the technology that drastically slashed the cost of generating plausible-looking, syntactically correct text that will support any viewpoint and can be deployed at industrial scale with ease, not a service that will allow people to, if they choose, get delivery from the sort of restaurants that didn’t have the scale of delivery orders to support their own infrastructure for it.

      (that’s not to say I disagree with the premise that Deliveroo and its ilk are just a bit shit; without the continuous venture capital propping it up, the service is nowhere near good enough at a cost that people actually will pay in the long run—I’d say over half of my orders in the last year have been very delayed and, indeed, often cold and/or squashed, and that’s usually food that travels well and supported a healthy delivery ecosystem before The Apps: noodles, pizza, etc., I’m not the sort of plonker to order Salt Bae’s £500 gold leaf-encrusted steak to my home and expecting it to be the extravagant treat for the senses that it would have, allegedly, been in a restaurant)

    • Wally1976 says:

      Indeed. Have completely stopped using all these apps. On the rare occasion we want a takeaway we order from the restaurant itself.

    • Lou says:

      Why is everything an app these days?

    • Rich says:

      Agreed. Unhealthy inferior quality food, delivered by legal / illegal immigrants living in third world conditions in some hell hole back street.

  • Willie says:

    I refuse to them, they encourage the destructive people-smuggling of illegal migrants.

  • jj says:

    Deliveroo is essentially a criminal enterprise.

    The Home Office itself has found that 40% of delivery riders are working illegally in the UK. Almost all riders that I see are riding dangerous, illegally modified ebikes, often in pedestrian areas. No tax is paid on this black market economy and many of the riders are already housed in hotels or government accommodation. The riders therefore have no other living costs, and newspaper investigations have shown that much of the cash earned is remitted directly to the criminal gangs that Keir Starmer keeps promising to smash.

    I could not in good conscience use Deliveroo until it cleans up it’s actually. I do not want to support the criminal economy.

    • captaindave says:

      I was watching a YouTube video last night, couple of fellers were filming around Brum city centre. Part of the footage showed police stopping a delivery rider to check if his ebike was legal, hadn’t been modified to go over 15 mph etc. Apparently it was part of a crackdown which will be spread to other cities…
      In this case the riders bike was legal, and he was sent on his way.

  • Manya says:

    Some of the comments….

  • Jonathan says:

    I remember seeing one courier moped that had a sticker attached to the luggage compartment where food’s held, and read ‘send nudes’, incredibly inappropriate thing to be saying let alone plastering a sticker that says it, even if it’s just light hearted, still immature

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