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News in brief:

Get a free Uber ride up to $65

If you are heading to the US between now and New Year, American Express and Uber are running a holiday season promotion giving you two free Uber rides up to $65 each from selected US airports.

Simply enter the code AMEXAIRPORT before ordering your Uber and select an American Express card for your payment.  The code is accepted OK on UK registered Uber accounts.

This offer is valid for Uber rides before 31st December 2016 from the following airports:

LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD)
Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW)
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
McCarran International Airport (LAS)
George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)
Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)

Harrods

Decent Harrods / American Express promotion launched

Finally, Harrods has launched a new cashback promotion with American Express.

This may – or may not – be showing under the ‘Offers’ section for one or more of your Amex-issued Amex cards on the online statement page.  If it is there, you need to load it to your card.

You will receive £30 cashback when you spend £100 in one transaction before Christmas Eve.  The offer terms state that gift cards are excluded but I’m not sure if that would be correct in practice.  Airport stores are excluded.

Whilst you’re in Knightsbridge, many people will have an offer for £20 back on a £100 transaction at Harvey Nichols.  This offer also runs to Christmas Eve.  I believe that there is also a House of Fraser cashback deal out there.

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Comments (105)

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  • mark2 says:
    20 Nov20 November 08:54

    Only if they have got a separate merchant ID for gift cards which is possible but unlikely.

  • Stu_N says:
    20 Nov20 November 09:07

    Thanks Anika – that will do me very nicely on a US trip next week.

  • Paulthetaxman says:
    20 Nov20 November 09:19

    Is the Apple concession counted as Harrods spend?

    Can you split a purchase across multiple cards?

    If yes – merry Christmas for me!

    • Tom H says:
      20 Nov20 November 09:37

      I d be interested in this, any one tried it? And is it available just once per card or can you do multiple transactions

    • BLT says:
      20 Nov20 November 09:40

      When they ran this offer 3 years ago, I went in to harrods and bought 8 x £50 gift cards then bought an ipad with the gift cards. Got the statement credits from Amex and therefore a half price ipad.

      • Paulthetaxman says:
        20 Nov20 November 09:45

        I think the difference here is they say gift cards are excluded from the offer (although I don’t see how they can track this via an onsite purchase).

        Maybe someone can confirm if they’ve bought gift cards using this offer specifically and if it worked.

        • BLT says:
          20 Nov20 November 10:00

          It says the same in all Amex promotions. If you buy the gift cards in store Amex have no way of tracking the transaction different to a normal purchase. This is the same for Harvey Nics, HoF, Currys, Amazon etc

          • Andrew says:
            20 Nov20 November 10:51

            I can confirm that gift cards sold in store do count as I did this yesterday.

  • SLS says:
    20 Nov20 November 09:37

    Thanks. Heading to NY in two weeks will definitely be taking advantage of the uber offer!

    • roberto says:
      20 Nov20 November 14:20

      FWIW of you’re coming into EWR and staying midtown do your self a favour and let the train take the strain. The traffic is a nightmare and the airtrain/path option is so much quicker.

  • lucinda says:
    20 Nov20 November 09:43

    Used the harrods offer yday. Worked perfectly – bought 4x £100 gift cards on 4x amex at a quiet til then walked to menswear and bought a new moncler jacket
    In fact by the time i’d walked to the menswear section i’d already got 4 emails confirming the offer had been accepted.

    They also scanned my harrods loyalty card for the gift cards and obviously later for the jacket so maybe i double dipped there.

    • Andrew says:
      20 Nov20 November 10:54

      The Harrods rewards card swipe for gift card purchase is just to link it to your account so if you lost the gift card they could find its number, then cancel and reissue.

      • Rob says:
        20 Nov20 November 11:01

        You will get Harrods Rewards points for spending the gift card but not for buying it.

    • Cristiano says:
      20 Nov20 November 11:36

      I’m quite new to the Amex and their offers. I received recently the offer for harrods 30£ back on 100£. But to get this offer 4 times you have 4 Amex, right? or am i missing something?
      Thank you!

      • Alan says:
        20 Nov20 November 11:38

        Yes, most of the offers are only for use once (Shop Small a notable exception), but if you have multiple cards you can often get it on each one.

  • Tom says:
    20 Nov20 November 10:02

    Will the Amex / Uber offer work with Uber family accounts?

    Family accounts work like ITunes family accounts, whereby the ‘head of the family’ pays the bill.

    So if one of my family members enters the promo code, and chooses the Family profile which is my Amex card,any thoughts?

    Tks

  • Bryan says:
    20 Nov20 November 11:15

    Slightly OT – but it looks like Amex are sponsoring Black Friday on Amazon, but there are (as far as I know) no Amex/ amazon offers.
    Are we expecting anything from them? Or am I being a bit too hopeful?

    • Genghis says:
      20 Nov20 November 11:24

      Is it not part of the +3% cash back on Amex cash back platinum card at Amazon?

      • Rob says:
        20 Nov20 November 11:31

        Yes, it is linked to that offer which I mentioned last week.

        • Alan says:
          20 Nov20 November 15:26

          Thanks, Rob – past my first 3 months now on that card so of no use to me know – much have realised that when I first read it and put it out my mind!! Cheers though.

    • Frank says:
      20 Nov20 November 13:29

      Not related to credit cards, but I’ve got two offers in my Amazon account. One is £6 back for spending £40+ on a gift card (just bought one for my self online), and the other is £5 for topping up the account balance with £100+. So basically spend £151 but pay £140… not the best deal but it’s still money!

      • Alan says:
        20 Nov20 November 13:41

        Interesting, where do you see these? I’ve never had any offers like this from Amazon, but they sound decent!

        • the real harry says:
          20 Nov20 November 13:47

          giftcard page, hang on I’ll get you a link

        • the real harry says:
          20 Nov20 November 14:08

          we’ve got 4 Amazon a/cs going – wife & 2 of the kids – it seems that if you get a giftcard offer once, it rules you out for a few months – but nothing like the 2 years some people say – bit hit & miss so not sure how Amazon work out eligibility

          £3 per £60 is OK but does tie up your cash

          there are far better Amazon offers out there, didn’t we get 16% through Morrisons recently?

        • Alan says:
          20 Nov20 November 14:29

          Ah I missed that one, shame – mind you Morrisons a bit of a pain for me to get to so having vouchers with them wouldn’t be that handy!

  • Michael_S says:
    20 Nov20 November 11:29

    Just woke up to get to newark from manhattan and first thing I saw is this e-mail basically telling me I’ll be getting there for free! Thanks!

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