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DEAL DEAD: Register for £10 American Express cashback on £30 Amazon spend

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American Express has, literally, just launched a very generous new promotion in association with amazon.co.uk.

Only 8,000 Amex cards can be registered for this offer.

The regular readers of Head for Points have around 50,000 British Airways, Gold, Platinum, Starwood, bmi etc Amex cards between them, at a rough guess, so we could wipe out this offer ourselves if we so wanted.

You will receive £10 cashback on your Amex statement when you spend £30 at Amazon before June 9th.

The easiest thing to do, to be honest, is buy a £30 Amazon gift card and add it to your Amazon account.  The money will then sit there until you buy something, with no time pressure.  There is nothing to suggest that gift cards are excluded – all that matters is that ‘amazon.co.uk’ appears on your card statement.

You can register every Amex-issued Amex card that you hold.  Lloyds / MBNA / Barclays and Amex supplementary cards seem to register OK.

Whilst the offer is advertised in a way which promotes Amazon’s fashion pages, ANY £30 purchase from the UK site will qualify for the cashback.

This is what you must do IMMEDIATELY to ensure that your cards are in the first 8,000 to register:

Step 1:  You can see details of the offer and the rules here on the cardmemberoffers.co.uk website  If the page is slow to load due to demand then skip to Step 2.

Step 2:  Visit this page and register your American Express card details

There is no rush to do Step 3 – once registered, as long as your purchase is completed by June 9th, you will get the cashback:

Step 3:  Visit Amazon and spend £30 in one transaction.  If you want to buy a £30 e-gift card, go to the Amazon UK gift card store here and have one emailed to yourself.  There is a link in the e-gift card email which allows you to instantly add it to your Amazon balance.

That’s it.  Please get onto this ASAP if you want to take part, because all 8,000 will disappear very quickly once this offer reaches hotukdeals, moneysavingexpert etc.

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Comments (149)

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  • Tom C says:

    FYI my corporate AMEX did not work, yet my others worked fine.

  • Ian says:

    Got 5 of them… now I can’t think of anything I actually need to buy haha

  • nerd. says:

    Registered my Amex Amex, but couldn’t register the MBNA one. I assume this is restricted to direct Amex-issued cards?

    • pj says:

      Try a different link (above) – MBNA works fine

    • Rob says:

      Alan posted earlier that he’d registered him BMI MBNA card. The T&C’s says that MBNA cards can be registered too.

  • pj says:

    Nobody else in the same boat, I suppose?

    Ie multiple different Amex orders of £30 Amazon gift cards – but some orders having gone though, others sitting in Amazon’s ‘scheduled orders’.

    • Rob says:

      May be a security issue – Amazon has world class security filters and your behaviour does look a little odd!

      I think (and I could be wrong) that as they don’t ask for your CVV code – as it slows down the order process – they are responsible for fraud and not the card company. This makes them more cautious.

  • Jan Cross says:

    2 cards registered and 2 £30 Amazon cards bought ready to spend when required.
    Thanks for the tip. Jan

  • Rob says:

    Great – free money ! Just registered 2 cards. Thanks Rob !

  • DANIEL says:

    Having registered 4 cards…any idea how to cash out other than e-gift cards.. not a bad deal but wondered if I can really ‘cash out’…any ideas?

  • Lawro says:

    Still working-just registered 3! Cheers rob!

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