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American Express has launched another giveaway for holders of The Platinum Card.

This is presumably to convince them to keep paying the £575 annual fee for a lot of – admittedly very good – travel benefits at a time when no-one is travelling …..

It will only appear on your main card, not any supplementaries. It will not appear on Business Platinum cards.

American Express Amex Platinum card

IMPORTANT: I have the offer in the Amex app on my iPhone but it is NOT showing on the website. If you can’t see it in one spot, look in the other. Amex has confirmed to us that all cardholders will receive it.

What am I getting?

You will receive 100% cashback when you spend up to £175 (so basically £175 cashback) at:

  • Waitrose
  • Deliveroo
  • Harvey Nichols
  • Selfridges

Apart from Deliveroo, they are valid online or instore (when they reopen).

The offer runs to 18th July. This implies that it may be the last offer of its type that we see.

As a reader pointed out in the comments, it is a bit odd that Amex didn’t choose to make this ‘£30 per month for six months’. It would have done wonders for card retention.

How does the offer work?

The good news is that you don’t need to spend the £175 in one transaction, or even at the same retailer.

Each purchase you make at the above retailers will be refunded, 100%, onto your card within 2-3 days. This keeps on going until you hit the £175 cap.

Are all Platinum cardholders receiving this?

American Express says ‘Yes’. That said, I assume it won’t appear for people who are locked out of offers because they are in default or took advantage of the covid payment holidays.

If you do not see it – perhaps you are one of those people who haven’t received any offers for months due to IT issues – then I would call Amex to have it added.

Don’t forget to register before doing any spending.

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Comments (252)

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  • Zara says:
    20 Jan20 January 08:37

    Strangely I downgraded my card to green a week ago but it has shown up and I have saved the offer. Are they likely to refute it if I try and avail the cash back or does it being saved mean they need to honour it? Thx

    • Andrew says:
      20 Jan20 January 10:15

      They will probably honour it – they did on the first time this type of offer was around last year and they accidentally added it to all the supps before pulling it, so early birds got several hundred pounds of credit which was all honoured. And unless you read HFP, how would you reasonably be expected to know that you weren’t supposed to have it – it’s an offer that’s arrived on your list and you’ve saved it.

    • Jack says:
      20 Jan20 January 11:02

      If you had the Platinum card on the 6th January, then the offer would still be made available I’m told.
      Unfortunately I downgraded a couple of days before.

  • Keith says:
    20 Jan20 January 08:38

    If you buy £175 worth of stuff, then return £10 of it as it’s not suitable but then buy something else for £10 will you still get the statement credit? I see that it’s cumulative spend until you reach £175, but can you hit £175, then go under £175, then go over £175 and still get the statement credit?

  • CB says:
    20 Jan20 January 09:04

    Had to reach out to AmEx via chat to get this added. Oddly, this time they dismissed me at first with the “targetted offer” bullshit.

  • tony says:
    20 Jan20 January 09:29

    I’ve just got off chat with them. They added it but my browser (Chrome) was being a bit screwy. So if you don’t have this it might be worth trying another browser first.

    The dialogue with AMEX seemed to suggest that they could see the offer so only had to activate it for me – it went straight into my saved offers, so I think there might be an underlying tech issue. Wondering if that’s why I missed out on the Marriott deal, too?

  • Phil says:
    20 Jan20 January 09:29

    Hi All,
    Does Amex sometimes propose an offer to upgrade from Gold to Platinum?
    Have been tempted to upgrade for a while now…

  • FlightDoctor says:
    20 Jan20 January 10:13

    I also had to use Chat to get it added today. I was worried that, because I had threatened to leave and accepted a switch to a monthly payment, that they were going to say that it was only eligible for people paying annually. Luckily no issues and that’s the family food shop sorted for the next couple of weeks!

  • Tim Tinsley says:
    20 Jan20 January 10:16

    Not visible on account (neither web or app), so contacted by chat and was added without any issue

  • Kirsty says:
    20 Jan20 January 10:49

    With a qualifying spend in Waitrose does that mean you can purchase John Lewis gift cards?

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