The Offer
- Enroll in American Express’ Extended Payment Option (EXPO) and receive 5,000 Membership Rewards for doing so.
The Fine Print
- You’ll need to log into your account, not everybody is eligible. Seems to be YMMV if you are or aren’t.
- Valid until March 31st, 2015
- You can also try calling on 866-281-4438
Our Verdict
To have some chance of being eligible for this offer, you’ll need to have an American Express charge card. Usually charge cards need to be paid in full every month, by enrolling in extended payment options, you’ll be given the chance to carry a balance. Much like you can with a credit card. You don’t have to use EXPO to qualify for the 5,000 bonus points and I’d never recommend carrying a balance on a credit card or charge card.
American Express regularly runs this promotion and sometimes offers up to 10,000 points. If anybody else knows of any other working links, please let me in the comments. If you were eligible for this offer, also list what cards you have with American Express.
Here are the charge cards American Express currently offer, I’d recommend checking if you have at least one of these offers:
Personal Cards
- Platinum Card from American Express
- American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card
- American Express Green Card
- American Express Gold Card
Business Cards
- The Plum Card
- Business Gold Rewards Card
- Business Platinum Card
- Business Green Rewards Card
Thanks to Rapid Travel Chai for letting me know about this offer via e-mail. If you know of any other promotions you think I should cover, please contact me. It’s the best way of saying thanks and helps me to grow this site.
I have the same problem. I can get to the page, but it doesn’t mention 5000 points anywhere.
Should it?
Hopefully RTC can chime in, personally I wouldn’t do it unless it showed the 5k offer on page or I received an e-mail about it. But if it didn’t show the bonus for people that received an e-mail then you’re probably safe and will get the bonus.
I was targeted. Do you know if it will be a hard or soft credit pull? I can’t find any language in the fine print to indicate one way or the other. Thanks!
Don’t believe they do either.
I was able to enroll in my account (my wifes apparently didnt qualify) but didnt see anything about a 5,000 point offer for enrolling. Hopefully I’ll get the points anyways.
what if i have already enrolled in expo? there seems no way to cancel it and if i can cancel it, is it possible to be targeted the offer?
I get taken to a log-in page and when I enter my log-in information the next page never loads. is there any way to navigate to this from my acct page or do I have to go through the direct link?
Have to go through the direct link, I was hit with a redirect loop which I imagine means I wasn’t targeted.
Can you please post the direct link? I can’t seem to find it on my account (not sure if it’s supposed to be obvious)
We already did, it’s the clickable link that says “direct link”. Here it is again: http://americanexpress.com/enrollinexpo5k
Thanks.. but didnt work for me:
“We’re sorry but we are unable to approve your request. If you have questions, please call the customer service phone number on the back of your Card.”