Post your American Express Gold retention offers

[pelicanicecoffeeolaf]

I just accept 12k points for 1k spend in 3 months, but it looks like the 12k points have already come through anyway! Anyone else had this?

[JDB]

pelicanicecoffeeolaf wrote:

I just accept 12k points for 1k spend in 3 months, but it looks like the 12k points have already come through anyway! Anyone else had this?

Yes, it’s been reported before that the conditions don’t even need to be met, so it’s a straight fee discount. They most commonly offer 20k MR without conditions, so 12k with a spend target seems quite measly.

[Nachmon9]

You can earn 25,000 Membership Rewards® points if you spend £1,000 within the following 3 months from enrolment. This is on top of the points you already earn. You don’t need to take any action, if you accept this offer I will enrol you now

Just got this, had the card for 9 month now

[JDB]

Nachmon9 wrote:

You can earn 25,000 Membership Rewards® points if you spend £1,000 within the following 3 months from enrolment. This is on top of the points you already earn. You don’t need to take any action, if you accept this offer I will enrol you now

Just got this, had the card for 9 month now

Interesting – that’s the highest retention offer reported here in over two years. The most recent ones have been 7k, 10k or 20k but not usually conditional on spend. At least they are upping the retention ante as well as the annual fee.

[Super Secret Stuff]

Nachmon9 wrote:

You can earn 25,000 Membership Rewards® points if you spend £1,000 within the following 3 months from enrolment. This is on top of the points you already earn. You don’t need to take any action, if you accept this offer I will enrol you now

Just got this, had the card for 9 month now

I had a conditional spend offered the other day for 12k points for 1k spend. But am focusing on VA + now so cancelled anyway

Between the priority pass price increases for additional visits, bad cashback offers, fee increases and upcoming pro rata fee changes I’ve jumped over to virgin, who offer me as a (usually) solo traveler better flexibility with their upgrade voucher

That’s before I even mention customer service…

[Kraut]

Did it yesterday, 12k points for £1k/3 month spend

[Tim416283]

Just had an offer for 12k points for £1k spend over 3 months, due to renew in a couple of weeks

[Justin]

Just got offered 25k MR for £1k spend within 3 months. Yearly spend is above £50k on it.

[NZAvios]

Just got the same offer: 25k MR for £1k spend within 3 months, with yearly spend on it of c£30k.

Tried to cancel as just got the BA platinum to focus on Avios. Will still cancel after I convert that extra 25k into Avios, unless they offer again….. hmm.

[Will787]

Only got 7k MR for £1k spend in 3 months (possibly as I only spent £4k on the card last year as most spend is on BAPP).

[MikeP]

Just got offered 12k MR for £1k spend in 3 months.

I downgraded to the free card. Most of my spending now is on Barclays collecting Avios – only real reason for keeping it was I had a number of MR points still.

I might revisit this later, but given I’ve got HSBC Premier to earn Kris Flyer points also, I was struggling to justify £160/annum.

[chigu]

Just got the same 25k MR offer, for a £1k spend within 3 months. Yearly spend ~£25k. I asked to be put through to the retention team via online chat.

[Harrods]

In first free year and barely spend on the card and got offered 7k MR points for GBP 1k spend…

[points_worrier]

Month 10 of year 1 fee-free year. Spent between £5-10k. Offered 12,000 points if I spend £1000.

[Maples]

Got offered 12K MR points for £1K spent in the next 3 months. Have had the Gold card since 2022 and this is the first time I asked if there was a retention offer. Renewal is in April, and spendings this past year has been just over £20K.

[ee]

Annual fee just charged, and offered 7k points for £1k spend over 3 months. Annual spend is about £10k on the card.

[Harrods]

Record low of 5k points for £1k spend lol, first year of the gold card with minimal spend (I’m currently on month 10/11). Probably 2-3k spend so far.

[JDB]

Harrods wrote:

Record low of 5k points for £1k spend lol, first year of the gold card with minimal spend (I’m currently on month 10/11). Probably 2-3k spend so far.

Oh dear! Either there’s a problem with your chat up lines or they have spunked the whole retention budget on the posh Platinum folk. You should be getting at least 12k and really the current ante is 20k.

[ee]

ee wrote:

Annual fee just charged, and offered 7k points for £1k spend over 3 months. Annual spend is about £10k on the card.

Maybe worth adding here that this is my partners card, and her income is just below the new £20k minimum. Amex know this but still happy to offer some retention.

[redethernet1]

12k points for spending £1k in 3 months

[Skellig]

Another data point for 25,000 points. I’ve had the gold card for almost one year. I was offered 25,000 points for 1k spend over the next three months. I’ve had various different Amex cards over 25+ years- not sure if that makes any difference.

[JDB]

Skellig wrote:

Another data point for 25,000 points. I’ve had the gold card for almost one year. I was offered 25,000 points for 1k spend over the next three months. I’ve had various different Amex cards over 25+ years- not sure if that makes any difference.

At last, well done for not putting up with the measly 12k or even 7k some are accepting.

[dmm27]

Just asked about retention offer and offered 7K points for £3k spend. Declined as already in the 2nd year and used up all the lounge passes last week!

Interestingly, the chat offer included “And this offer is applicable if you agree to keep your current card active and use it because it’s a retention offer.” So they might be getting more strict about keeping it for the full 3 months

[Vit]

Approaching the end of (free) 1st year after downgrading from Plat.
1st retention (Sep 2023) — 20k (unconditional)
2nd retention (Feb 2024) — 25k (for 1k spend)

Undecided re-approach going forward as totally agreed with @JDB that this is the best AMEX card to hold on to (in my personal opinion) especially with FX & airfare spending.

[Cranzle]

Vit wrote:

Approaching the end of (free) 1st year after downgrading from Plat.
1st retention (Sep 2023) — 20k (unconditional)
2nd retention (Feb 2024) — 25k (for 1k spend)

Undecided re-approach going forward as totally agreed with @JDB that this is the best AMEX card to hold on to (in my personal opinion) especially with FX & airfare spending.

What’s so attractive about the FX on the Gold card?