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I just tried to use this Avis offer on my Platinum card:
“20% back every time up to £50.”
In the offer terms it says:
“Available online at http://www.avis.co.uk/car-hire-offers/uk-offers/amex-loyalty-offer”
That page also has “Terms and conditions” that look much like the terms in the Amex app, but says:
“Get 20% off up to £50 when you spend £200 GBP or more cumulatively.”
Which is presumably a leftover from an earlier offer, but doesn’t inspire confidence of positive result should the offer not credit automatically.
Worse, the prices I’m quoted on this “amex-loyalty-offer” page are about 15% higher than when I use the normal Avis page.
Logged into the same account in both cases, and using a clean browser session.
This means that the actual saving is around 8%, and that is very much less than 20%. (And still less than 20% even if my maths is wrong!)
Given that my booking is for less than £200 I’m not inclined to take the risk of paying 15% more by trying to save ~8%.
But is it actually necessary to start at that “amex-loyalty-offer” page?
I think these offers work by finding the corresponding merchant name in the card transaction, so it shouldn’t matter which part of the Avis website you start from. However, when you do start from that offer page it says:
Your promotional code has been applied
which makes me wonder.
I’ve used that link for the offer as well but it showed the same price for my dates as had been on the regular Avis site. The cashback site I mostly use is showing 8% for Avis at the moment so if the price for you through the Amex link is still 15% higher you’d be better off going through the cashback site with the potential bonus of getting the Amex statement credit if they do only go on the merchant name showing up on your account.
My assumption however is that they want you to use the link to prevent double dipping by using a cashback site or similar link, so I’d expect them to put some tracking on the link similar to those on the cashback sites so they know when you’ve used it for a purchase and not via a different route.
But is it actually necessary to start at that “amex-loyalty-offer” page?
I think these offers work by finding the corresponding merchant name in the card transaction, so it shouldn’t matter which part of the Avis website you start from
Be careful.
I’ve successfully used Hertz statement credit offers across a few cards the past 14 months or so, until the most recent one came along around November.
Used the same process as always (go to the Hertz.co.uk website, login, select car, pay with the relevant card) however, the statement credit across all 4 cards was declined. They claim I didn’t click the link in the offer t&cs (which basically takes you to the very same hertz.co.uk site…..).
This is technically true.
I’ve since retrospectively had 2 of the statement credits applied (my card and my supplementary on Mrs Aston’s card) but they won’t do it for her card or her supplementary card. No idea why.
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