Amex Platinum cardholders – are you getting mysterious double and triple points?

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• James67 says:

  29 Jul29 July 07:09

  Dad is getting 3x points on supermarket spend on his new gold card. I just assummed this was limitted time promotion as new cardholder? He’s a happy bunny though and is kept busy in his retirement at moment visiting tesco for 3V and homebase giftcards, banking 3x MR, cc and nectar points at rates of 1000s per week. His only grumble is the labours involved in crediting his 2V cards to NS&I.

  • Sideysid says:

    29 Jul29 July 08:10

    Can you confirm that getting the Homebase giftcards from Tesco work for 3V? I had been planning on trialling this out, but was unsure if Homebase would accept gift cards to pay for gift cards?

    • Mr Bridge says:

      29 Jul29 July 08:44

      one poster did say that they tried this at homebase, and after a debate with the supervisor they said no. But we know not all branches of shops or even staff follow the same rules, just buy 1 card and give it a try, if not stock up on light bulbs

    • James67 says:

      29 Jul29 July 08:46

      I think it is not supposed to work according to T&C. Seems to be down to individual staff in individual stores from what I read here earlier so treat carefully.

    • Rob says:

      29 Jul29 July 10:23

      Homebase gift cards say on the back ‘cannot be used for gift cards’. I know some people have got away with it, and some have not. Too risky in my view unless you would buy other stuff in Homebase as a fallback.

• Jack says:

  29 Jul29 July 07:18

  I have Amex Gold, and most of my travel spend is going through at triple points (posting as 2 pts per pound, plus 1pt per pound bonus for travel spend) – for once this is an anomaly which I will be keeping quiet about as it works in my favour!

  Was very helpful when I booked some stuff through Amex travel to make the most of their 2500 bonus points as well, making for 4 pts per pound (includimg 1pt extra per pound for using Amex Travel) plus the 2500 on top.

  Long may this continue!

• v8gaz says:

  29 Jul29 July 07:25

  Just got this months statement, and I’m showing 2011 points on a 1900 pound spend, most of which is travel. So it looks li,e I’m not getting any special deals. Not happy!

• Phillip says:

  29 Jul29 July 07:27

  What I have been noticing on my Gold card is how the bonus travel spend seems to be added on as base points instead of double. So any travel purchase automatically shows double points and zero bonus.

• stoph says:

  29 Jul29 July 07:38

  what i am seeing is that the couple of bars/restaurants i visited up to about the 20/21 july have not credited bonus points – HOWEVER the “Shop Small” statement credits have been posted BUT are taking off 15 membership rewards rather than only 5? These have posted to the statement around the 24th onwards so perhaps it is an auto glitch and spending since this point would have attracted the increased earning? Either way i need to chase this one down – only 20 points but daylight robbery nonetheless!

  • YL says:

    29 Jul29 July 10:15

    It has happened to me, too! Some random shop small restaurant spent got me 3x points, but not all of them..then when the credit hit, I got 15 points taken off.
    However another shop small £10+ spent that I was only given 1x points, but the £5 credit took of 15 points….

• MW says:

  29 Jul29 July 07:41

  I’ve noticed that since June I’ve been getting double MR points on my Amex Corporate card for travel expenses. Which is fantastic because I’ve been traveling almost continuously since then 🙂

• Alan says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:02

  I’d love to think they’d decided to change the earning rate to offset the forex fee or to match gold, but sadly I doubt it. More likely a promo they forgot to tell us about! Not had any increased points for BA bookings, although I have for train tickets.

• claire says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:07

  I just hit the 3000 in 3months spend on my ba amex prem plus card on a £103 hotel spend. So attributed to the hotel spend is the 25000 avios bonus, 115 for the hotel spend and then a mysterious 12,000 which I have no clue what for….happy days!

  • Rob says:

    29 Jul29 July 10:21

    This is a common bug with new BA Premium Plus Amex cards!

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