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If you have an American Express Platinum card you should have received the latest emailed edition of Platinum Life yesterday.

Tucked away at the bottom, so you might have missed it, was a mention of a £20 discount for discount homewares site Achica.

The good news is that this is a ‘clean’ £20 discount with no minimum spend.  The voucher even discounts the postage cost – so if you spend £15 or less, you will have nothing to pay.

Taittinger

If you’re in need of socks, bedding, shower gel or other household bits and pieces then you should find a way of spending your £20 easily enough.  Personally, I’ve ordered this half-bottle of Taittinger with an ice bucket, which comes to a grand total of £6.75!

The promotional code you need for the Achica website is ACHICA20AMEX.  If your order is less than £20 including postage, the payment options disappear entirely when you enter the code, as there is nothing to pay.

This offer is targeted at Amex Platinum cardholders although they do not ask for a card number if you spend under £20 and if you spend over £20 you can use any card to pay the balance.

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  • squillion says:
    20 Sep20 September 08:25

    While you’re here Raffles: report (only 1 so far) that 29K T CC points deducted for inks abuse, will monitor.

    • Brendan says:
      20 Sep20 September 08:41

      Oh oh. 29k was chancing it a bit though. I have a feeling they might start to investigate when people get near the 30k limit

      • AviosNewbie says:
        20 Sep20 September 08:51

        Would you mind clarifying this please? I couldn’t follow the context – who is monitoring and what??

        • squillion says:
          20 Sep20 September 09:01

          Sure, we’re talking about report elsewhere that Mr T has likely seen over-ordering of the 750 points on 2 HP inks as abuse (ie not for personal use) and deducted the points. So far still waiting on more info.

        • Rob says:
          20 Sep20 September 09:14

          Sorry, different conversation, nothing to do with Achica!

    • Rob says:
      20 Sep20 September 09:13

      Yes I saw that. But that was off a huge number of HP ink purchases. I am always ultra cautious in what I recommend when plugging Tesco deals, and for good reason.

  • JStatt says:
    20 Sep20 September 09:01

    I don’t seem to be receiving the Platinum Life mailshot with my Amex Platinum. I go to the marketing preferences in “My account” and I see everything says yes and in fact it says “You are currently receiving all our marketing communications.”. Is there somewhere else I am supposed to sign up for this?

  • MARMALISER says:
    20 Sep20 September 09:05

    Another sheep here went for the champagne 😮 , didn’t have time to find anything else
    Used a referral link from here and have rec a £10 code as well 🙂

  • AviosNewbie says:
    20 Sep20 September 09:08

    I wonder how many £££’s will Achica spend before pulling the plug! i’m sure the marketing guys didn’t envisage such a flood of orders when they planned the promo code.

    • mrtibbs1999 says:
      20 Sep20 September 09:14

      I cannot see this lasting or even being honored. it is a compound screw up on the retailers part

      Step 1 – setup account one and order gift cards with £20 off
      Step 2 – use account one to refer oneself
      Step 3 – order gift cards with £20 off
      Step 4 – Repeat Ad Nauseum until you have lots of free gift cards and an account full of free credits……..

      Not exactly sustainable is it.

      • Neil Spellings says:
        20 Sep20 September 09:53

        I don’t see gift cards to order on their site anywhere?

      • Trevor says:
        20 Sep20 September 10:52

        Your accounts full of “free” credits aren’t so free – you need to spend min £20 for it to accept your £10 voucher code. If you order £12 worth of goods and need to pay £8 postage, there’s your £20 min spend to achieve £10 discount. Therefore you are repetitively paying £10 for £12 worth of goods.

        No exactly sustainable is it 😉

    • squillion says:
      20 Sep20 September 09:15

      Looks like their margins are sky high and Amex will be footing at least part of the promotion cost, so might last a wee whiley.

    • Rob says:
      20 Sep20 September 09:17

      There are probably a five-figure number of Amex Plat cardholders.

      Their problem is that, if you spend under £20 and pay nothing, they cannot verify if you have Plat or not!

      They should have a) not let the voucher deduct postage costs so you had to pay something and then b) only allow cards starting 3791 to be accepted. Not rocket science.

      • mrtibbs1999 says:
        20 Sep20 September 09:22

        Once this hits HUKD I think it’ll end pretty fast 🙁

        • Rob says:
          20 Sep20 September 09:59

          Not many Amex Plats over there though!

        • Sideysid says:
          20 Sep20 September 12:02

          Heres hoping it doesn’t get to HUKD or MSE.

          All it needs is the usual crowd taking the mick and creating multis to order up the entire stock (under £20) to sell on the fleabay in order to make a few quid.

          I think then Achica would pull it, before even the ‘half legit’ Amex users on here get their orders.

          • YL says:
            20 Sep20 September 20:17

            I think it did get to MSE..
            Glad I did my legit shopping yesterday! I hope they will honoured it!

      • Alan says:
        20 Sep20 September 19:37

        Well 37xx at least, but they don’t all start 3791 😉

        £6.75 showing on my pending transactions for my Plat, so far so good!

  • pazza2000 says:
    20 Sep20 September 09:35

    I can see already most of the sub £15 (therefore free) items are gone. I ordered the Champagne with a non-Plat Amex, hopefully it will be honoured. I wonder how they could identify the difference between a Gold and a Plat Amex?

  • Jamie says:
    20 Sep20 September 09:36

    Looks like the website has been raided this morning, managed to pick up some olive oil but not a lot left in the food section now.

    Thanks for posting this, I’m sure the offer will be pulled in a couple of hours so good to get in early for once…

    • Rob says:
      20 Sep20 September 09:58

      The food section was empty yesterday, I think they keep stuff up to make the site look fuller!

  • Apoorva Sinha says:
    20 Sep20 September 09:49

    I bought a £25 Achica gift card for £5 ( no delivery charge) as I couldnt figure out what to buy !

  • Sam says:
    20 Sep20 September 09:51

    Took advantage of something costing £40 – now £20 when I know £50 (rrp £80) was a reasonable price to pay.

    Depending on how wide and fast this has gone I certainly wouldn’t expect anyone ordering <£20 worth of champagne / chocolates / coffee for free to have their order honoured.

    It's a genuine screw-up by a small company (not an airline!) that could cost them a fortune (if this was on mse it would expose them to millions of buyers looking for something for nothing!).

    So let's wait and see!

    • mrtibbs1999 says:
      20 Sep20 September 09:59

      It’s an easy database operation to find and remove all zero cost orders. Can’t imagine they will be able to afford to honor them.

      • Rob says:
        20 Sep20 September 10:02

        But they don’t make any money on ‘genuine’ orders either like mine!

        Best they can do is suspend orders until you supply an Amex Plat card number … or potentially go back and ask you to pay postage.

        • mrtibbs1999 says:
          20 Sep20 September 11:08

          I suspect they would be happy to honor genuine orders. Amex Plat holders are their demographic. Buying your goodwill for £20 is a fab deal for them!

          They are gonna have to do something about the rest of us. I’ve got a massive amount of orders!

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