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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.

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Comments (39)

  • Lumma says:
    21 Aug21 August 04:50

    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…

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    • Matty says:
      21 Aug21 August 06:13

      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.

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    • conspicuous-capybara says:
      21 Aug21 August 06:22

      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)

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    • Wally1976 says:
      21 Aug21 August 06:43

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

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    • Lou says:
      21 Aug21 August 06:51

      Why is everything an app these days?

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    • Rich says:
      21 Aug21 August 07:44

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

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      • Simon says:
        21 Aug21 August 08:56

        Wow. Just so you know I am a completely legal delivery driver living in a very nice flat in London which admittedly could do with a hoover every now and then. Hardly a hell hole though. But don’t let that stand in the way of your prejudice. I’m a fully qualified accountant who delivers because I love cycling.
        Yes there is a problem with illegal immigrants delivering for these companies but the vast majority of us work very hard to get food to you all for very little pay.

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        • Ken says:
          21 Aug21 August 09:12

          Except us not just London where people are working illegally, it’s nationwide and it’s not just a tiny number.
          I’d say that it’s less than 20% of riders are now using a normal bike.

          Most are using e-bikes, chipped so they can go faster than 14mph and basically poisoning the well for us cyclists by using pavements, blocking pavements and ignoring lights and one way systems.
          Oh and driving down wages for those who are working legally.

          “Food to you all”

          Oh let’s stand in the road banging pots and pans for the hero’s of Deliveroo.

          It’s a service for the lazy and generally obese.

          Incredible that Sunak championed such crappy business. A business where almost no one wins.
          Low paid, low productivity, peddling unhealthy fodder. A blight on society.

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          • Novice says:
            21 Aug21 August 11:08

            @Ken I agree. I would rather just eat homemade fresh and if I want to eat from out go to a decent restaurant to sit in and enjoy my meal. I only make the exception for Pizza and Domino’s and other such pizza places deliver so I just order from the place for delivery. If I want a f&c I just go to the chippy myself.

        • DJ says:
          21 Aug21 August 09:42

          Respect! 🫡

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        • Novice says:
          21 Aug21 August 11:03

          @Simon, I am totally confused. Why would a qualified accountant who could be making a lot of money deliver food? Even if you love to cycle, surely you could to that as a hobby while working as an accountant. But to each their own I guess.

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          • The Original David says:
            21 Aug21 August 12:39

            Evenings/weekends when you’d otherwise be going to the gym or watching Netflix. I used to do the same, I was earning ~£70k/yr from my professional services job in Canary Wharf, but delivered for Uber Eats in my spare time. Fun gig tbh, although I was glad I didn’t need to do it to pay the rent.

          • Spaghetti Town says:
            21 Aug21 August 12:59

            @original david – were you paying 40% tax on the deliveroo earnings then? Up to you of course what you do with your time.

          • Simon says:
            21 Aug21 August 15:47

            Because I don’t need to make a lot of money. Sometimes we do things because we enjoy it.

          • The Original David says:
            21 Aug21 August 17:16

            @Spaghetti Town – no, there’s an HMRC trading allowance for up to £1,000 of self-employed income per year. I kept my Uber Eats earnings below that.

      • Spaghetti Town says:
        21 Aug21 August 12:56

        Stopped using these apps as they are a draw for illegal migration.

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  • Willie says:
    21 Aug21 August 07:50

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

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  • jj says:
    21 Aug21 August 07:59

    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.

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    • captaindave says:
      21 Aug21 August 08:36

      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.

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      • Novice says:
        21 Aug21 August 11:16

        These scooters and bikes have become dangerous for people with mobility problems. There should be 10k fine if a person is caught with such a modified bike/scooter. And, these fines should be slapped on to the riders straight away, no court hearings or appeals etc. There should be a system in place where how they capture vehicle registration etc for low emissions zones; each bike/scooter should have some barcode that can be captured by AI and then the owner fined.

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    • Spaghetti Town says:
      21 Aug21 August 12:57

      Agree Which Is why i don’t use them either

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  • Manya says:
    21 Aug21 August 08:07

    Some of the comments….

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  • Jonathan says:
    21 Aug21 August 08:08

    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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  • Mike Hunt says:
    21 Aug21 August 09:12

    I don’t use Deliveroo as I don’t want cold, squashed food delivered by an illegal immigrant using an illegal e bike

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  • LittleNick says:
    21 Aug21 August 10:04

    Explain to me how comes (not exclusive to Deliveroo I know) many delivery drivers have L plates on them? How can they be delivery drivers but not have a driving licence and be insured for commercial deliveries?

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    • Chabuddy geezy says:
      21 Aug21 August 10:08

      If you pass a CBT you can drive a moped but you need L plates.

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    • Inman says:
      21 Aug21 August 10:42

      Flaw in our legal system. Commercial riding is permitted without a full motorbike license. I’ve even seen emergency blood couriers riding with L plates. Imagine that.
      The law should be modified to permit only personal riding or even better, no form of motorbike/scooter/moped riding should be allowed without a full driving license. This should include all forms of electrically assisted bikes.

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      • Novice says:
        21 Aug21 August 11:20

        This is a bit like the American situation with guns. It’s easier to get a hold of these dangerous bikes/mopeds/scooters than rent a wheelchair or mobility scooter for some use.

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  • flyforfun says:
    21 Aug21 August 10:49

    I had a rare craving while out just towards the end of the pandemic restrictions for a McDonalds while passing one of their outlets. Had to queue single file for food on one side while delivery drivers got theirs from another. Got our food and went outside to eat in a park directly across the road and everything was lukewarm. Anyone getting a delivery from them would be receiving it stone cold. Burgers and fries go cold so quick I never understand why people order them online.

    My favourite Chinese restaurant changed hands a year or so ago. They used to have their own drivers and their own app, as well as being on the other sites – but I did notice they were dearer on there. Once sold, the new owners got rid of the drivers and only used Deliveroo et al. On the rare occasions that we use it, we find that with the dear online prices and “Service Fee”, it makes it worthwhile to walk there and it’s a 20 minute walk.

    Just had a look at my bills from Deliveroo. Delivery used to be £2.50 from this venue, and then a service fee of .49p. Now with the free Silver membership, the service fee is £2.99. They’re just getting their fee another way, along with the 30% of the order value from the restaurant. Deliveroo et al are the meal choice of last resort for us now – when there’s no cheese for cheese on toast!

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