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New American Express offers: £25 off £100 at Eurostar and £25 off £50 at Argos

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On Saturday I ran through the latest run of American Express cardholder offers – including a generous £50 cashback on a £500 Apple purchase – and surmised that this would be it for the year.

I was wrong.  A very generous offer with Argos turned up yesterday.

You can find the offer on the cardmemberoffers.co.uk website under ‘Shopping’.  If you go via this route you will need to register via the Foursquare smartphone app.  Alternatively, you may find it on your American Express online account on the statement pages of one of your cards.

You will receive £25 cashback when you spend £50 at Argos before 31st December.

Only 20,000 registrations are available.  I recommend registering all of your American Express cards sooner rather than later as this target is likely to be hit.  Head for Points readers are likely to take 2,000 or so.

What should you buy at Argos?  Gift cards!  Most Argos shops stock a range of gift cards for other retailers.  Some even stock the £53.95 Visa gift cards which come with a £50 Visa credit you can pay into a bank account, to HMRC, to a utility etc.

Note that this is an ‘in-store only’ offer.  Transactions on the Argos website will not count unless they are ‘click and collect’ and you pay in-store.

You can only register one American Express card per Foursquare account.  If you open multiple Foursquare accounts, each requires a different email address.

Meanwhile, a new Eurostar offer is about to launch.

The deal is worth £25 cashback on a £100 Eurostar sale (either online or at a Eurostar ticket office in the UK) before the end of January.  There is no limit to the number of people who can register for this.

Eurostar no longer sells gift vouchers online.  You can buy paper vouchers via the phone but this could well be run by a third party and not trigger the cashback.  Your best option to maximise the bonus is to break down a trip into chunks of £100, potentially booking each passenger separately.  As you can select seats after booking there is no risk of your party being split up.

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Comments (186)

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  • Julie says:
    16 Dec16 December 17:30

    I can’t even get the four square app to download and work, tried mobile and ipad but both are “unexpectedly quitting”, bummer

  • Dale says:
    16 Dec16 December 17:31

    This site is becoming a poor mans HUKD – can we get back to travel stuff?

    • squills says:
      16 Dec16 December 17:45

      That’s why Andrew said Primark and you took it H, L & S.

      You can hardly deny Eurostar is relevant.

      And since the Argos deal [er.on Amex = Avios] can lead to a £50 Visa card, costing £25 or so, = subsidised travel, I can’t see it’s not relevant to points people.

      Some readers got a broomstick up their nether end 😉

    • Andrew S says:
      16 Dec16 December 21:17

      Haha i was winding up Raffles, but i just made 100quid profit over lunch due to this post so cannot complain.

      • squills says:
        16 Dec16 December 21:28

        It was pretty funny. Good result. I merely made £25 + £15 today on this one = £40, I sure need to get a smart phone to do the 4SQ stuff.

        Got a nice beef joint out of it, though 😉

    • Rob says:
      16 Dec16 December 23:03

      Don’t worry Dale, I am constantly aware of this and try to balance it. As most of the key travel cards are Amex cards these deals make sense. I did not, for example, do an extra post on the Argos deal yesterday – which I could have done – because it was not core.

      It is being constantly monitored though.

      • Samantha Shillabeer says:
        17 Dec17 December 01:08

        Please don’t stop publishing AMEX deals, you’re helping to save me a fortune! 🙂

  • JoecCluskey says:
    16 Dec16 December 18:06

    Thanks for the tip

    Went to the Argos near Victoria – they had no gift cards left on the racks. When I asked, she went out in the back to get some. In case you dont see any in the store.

  • Andrew says:
    16 Dec16 December 18:19

    Does anyone know if you can buy gift cards for the Apple Store in Argos?
    Cheers

    • Trevor says:
      16 Dec16 December 20:21

      Yup, like everywhere else, Argos stock them. But different stores stock different selections of gift cards, with the refurbed clinical and soulless stores generally stocking very little choice.

  • Stuart says:
    16 Dec16 December 18:30

    3 x £50 Visa cards, over 3 Amex cards – £63 profit after £12 fees deducted. Not bad for 5 minutes work 🙂

  • Daniel says:
    16 Dec16 December 19:03

    My MBNA issued Amex has the same card number as my girlfriend’s supplementary card. Presumably therefore if we set up two separate Foursquare accounts, this won’t work twice as it will treat them as both the same card?

  • Simon says:
    16 Dec16 December 20:56

    Bah – went to Argos (Stratford), no sign of the fabled Gift Cards, only the own brand Argos ones. Perhaps they were sold out.

    Is there a catalogue number for the gift cards or are we dependent on the shop stocking them?

  • Matthew says:
    16 Dec16 December 21:32

    Got 3 x £50 Visa cards paid with 3 Amex cards at Argos Bishop’s Stortford this afternoon, plenty left on the shelf 😉

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