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American Express has launched another £100 giveaway this morning for holders of The Platinum Card.

You will receive £100 statement credit when you spend £100 at a combination of Waitrose, John Lewis, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Deliveroo.

Based on how the offer worked last time, you don’t need to spend the full £100 to get the credit. If you spend £25 in Waitrose tomorrow, you will immediately get a £25 credit. This continues until you hit the £100 cashback cap.

Get £100 cashback on your American Express Platinum card

The offer is only available on primary cards, not supplementary cards.

Both online and in-store purchases count.

You have until 22nd December to spend your £100.

You MUST register, it seems

Looking at the American Express website, it seems that you need to save the offer to your Platinum card for it to be valid.

Go to the Amex website here, log in to your Platinum account, find this offer under your ‘Offers’ tab and save it. You’re sorted!

The small print

There are a few exceptions to what you can buy, but nothing major:

  • Waitrose & Partners exclusions: Cellar, Florist, Garden, Pet, Cookery school, foreign currency, Gift Section
  • Harvey Nichols exclusions: International delivery, gift cards, vouchers and dining within restaurant
  • John Lewis & Partners exclusions: Finance and Insurance products, Parking and John Lewis Opticians
  • Selfridges exclusions: International delivery

The most inconvenient of those is probably the inability to use the credit in the restaurants at Harvey Nichols. However, I assume that 95% of people will redeem the credit at John Lewis / Waitrose or Deliveroo anyway.

You can also get around the Harvey Nichols restriction by buying a gift card elsewhere in the store and then spending it in the restaurants! Gift cards are, in reality, only excluded when ordered online.

Don’t forget to register before you buy.

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Comments (126)

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  • Jonathan says:
    23 Sep23 September 08:34

    Any idea how to access offers on the Plat ICC?

    • Alan says:
      23 Sep23 September 09:22

      Last time they did a separate specific offer on ICC – there’s not the same general offers section in it.

  • Steven says:
    23 Sep23 September 08:36

    No sign of this offer on the Business Card. Guessing it is personal card only?

  • The Streets says:
    23 Sep23 September 08:41

    Anyone received the offer on business platinum?

  • Vit says:
    23 Sep23 September 08:43

    Great — just after I and my partner cancelled the cards! Urghhh!

  • pinperl says:
    23 Sep23 September 08:53

    Can I buy a gift card at Waitrose?
    or it’s excluded as gifts section?

  • n_g says:
    23 Sep23 September 08:59

    Nice! Feels like my fee for this entire pandemic ridden year has been covered by the combination of offerings I got from AMEX over the past 6 months,

    • Andrew says:
      23 Sep23 September 09:05

      I think that’s sort of their idea – almost doing a BA style status extension for a year. They don’t want to give us a free year as such but through these incentives it equates to that. However with this all stretching long into the horizon, I am still wondering if I really need the card for the next couple of years.

      • n_g says:
        23 Sep23 September 09:17

        I think if I was to base my decision entirely on logic and reason I’d be cancelling when renewal comes around next April for me.

        Unfortunately things are more complicated than that and a decision to cancel is an acknowledgement of the fact that recreational travel has changed for the foreseeable future and I’m not quite sure that I’m willing to wrap my head around that for now, especially considering both sides of my family are based overseas.

        • Roy says:
          23 Sep23 September 22:17

          Remember there are pro-rata refunds, so there’s no particular advantage in cancelling around the annual fee. It makes just as much sense to cancel (or not) now, or next summer, as it does in April.

  • Geoff says:
    23 Sep23 September 09:11

    It’s tempting to think “wow! what a great benefit…” but one must remember that this is barely two months of annual fee. We’re still paying £47 a month for a card with very limited usable benefits under current conditions.

    Those who are angry “FFS I just canceled” will still be better off by November than anyone sticking with this card into 2021

    • tony says:
      23 Sep23 September 09:39

      Yep, I think AMEX understand the frustration of many cardholders here. With insurance products now easy to access for FCO no-go zones like Spain whilst AXA stick fast by the bare minimum and business travel on hold, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another one of these along by January.

      • Andrew says:
        23 Sep23 September 09:59

        Yes they need to do more than these offers really – Geoff is right, they are just effectively refunding two months fee. I think they need to look again at the long term package of benefits for the card and align it to the US model which has wider benefits than travel such as Netflix and an annual credit to spend at Bloomingdales, similar to these £100 things. Travel is going to be limited for the foreseeable, the insurance offered is becoming less fit for purpose, many PP lounges aren’t open, and hotels aren’t always offering the benefits that the hotel cards are supposed to. But Amex do value customers and want to keep those who are paying a high fee for the card and so I’m sure will be looking at all of this.

        • n_g says:
          23 Sep23 September 11:16

          Agree that the above has made it worthwhile to stick with the card for another year but I also agree with others when they say that the benefits need to change to fit with the current climate.

          There’s only so long they can offer £100 credit and double points values before.

        • Lady London says:
          23 Sep23 September 14:32

          If Amex doesnt change its insurance underwriter and terms I think it’s got to the point where it will harm them.

          For the profile of Amex’s backbone customer, and not thr trendy young things they think their brand is fit to chase, the Amex Plat travel insurance and the way claims are being reported to be handled is not fit for purpose.

          Amex’s mainstay customer is likely to be older, definitely richer, and expects decent service and value for loyalty. They’re just not the sort of people you deny claims on spurious grounds to, not if you want to keep them. And they are quitely to have age-onset rich-onset pre-existing conditions. They are used to just paying a tariff to have most of them included.

          I think Coutts Bank might have learned similar lessons about the level of service required after NatWest took them over. Customers didnt all leave immediately but droves of them did when the service offering no longer met that client base requirement.

          The lounge issue on the Plat can be finessed by making different commercial arrrangements and by some lounge consolidation but the insurance quality needs sorting and an option to lift the age cap otherwise Amex will be losing profitable customers faster.

          • DV says:
            23 Sep23 September 15:11

            NatWest (then the National Provincial) took ownership of Coutts in 1920, so it learnt that lesson quite a long time ago!

          • Mzungu says:
            23 Sep23 September 18:26

            Good summary. I’ve been holding onto Plat as I had a couple of trips which were booked pre-Covid, so I was waiting to see if they cancelled as the insurance could still be beneficial. Now both trips have cancelled, I’m ready to cancel the card. I’ll just collect the £100 first.

            The insurance has proved worthless – tried to make 2 claims following a trip in January. One medical – rejected; the other – delay flight cancellations etc., they claimed to lose it twice, and failed to call back. I’ve given up, and will buy a decent policy when we are next able to travel.

  • Scott says:
    23 Sep23 September 09:12

    Got this on the Personal Plat.

    Also surprised to see the Hilton offer showing up today when it didn’t a couple of days ago. So maybe there is still hope for those who haven’t got the Hilton offer…..

    • Harry T says:
      23 Sep23 September 09:20

      Yes, that happened to me yesterday. I’ve not had an offer arrive on a card a few days after it lands on others.

      • tony says:
        23 Sep23 September 09:39

        ditto me on hilton. Was on my BAPP but not my Amex. Figured it was because i’d stayed at a Doubletree a couple of weeks back and paid on that card but clearly not.

    • MinR says:
      23 Sep23 September 11:07

      +1. I also have the Hyatt offer saved. Is it true that historically, Hyatt offers have worked with hotels even if they aren’t in the Participating Hotels list?

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