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My Economist subscription is ending next month and I was thinking to cancel in favour of using PressReader via the library, but I do like having the print copies.
Going through the usual cancellation dance, I was offered a year of Print + Digital for £209.30, which I didn’t accept.
But then I remembered I have a £65 Amex cashback offer, which makes it more palatable. I assume I can call to ‘un-cancel’ but note a term in the Amex offer terms stating that renewals are not eligible.
Wondering how they’d know? There is a specific link in the offer terms but unclear that it must be used to trigger the cashback.
Anyone have experience of this? Have renewals triggered the cashback for you?
Can confirm that renewals don’t track for the offer, it seems that they go through a different merchant name. I queried this with Amex a few months ago when my renewal failed to trigger the offer and they insisted I would have needed to subscribe through the link in the offer description to be charged by the relevant merchant.
Can confirm that renewals don’t track for the offer.
Ahh, that’s a shame, but thanks for the confirmation. Guess I’ll have to go through with the cancellation and see what they offer later in the year. Thanks again!
Why not let the current sub expire and get a new one on player 2’s name using the offer?
I always alternate between the accounts and wait for the offer.Why not let the current sub expire and get a new one on player 2’s name using the offer?
They already offered me a discount of £209 for the year vs the normal £270. Was hoping to use the Amex cashback to take it down to £150-ish. Could certainly wait and let it expire then sign up again, but that would be against the full price sub.
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