Amex Offers: Sam's Club Get 2,500/$25 with $45 Membership Purchase, Stack with $20 GC Bonus [Targeted]

Contents

1 The Offer
2 The Fine Print
3 Our Verdict

The Offer

Check your Amex logins for this targeted offer:

Get a $25 statement credit by using your registered Amex card to purchase a new Sam’s Club Membership online at samsclub.com

The Fine Print

Expires 1/31/18
Offer valid only on a new Sam’s Club Membership (Savings, Business or Plus) purchased online at US website (samsclub.com) and not valid on memberships purchased in-Club, via mobile app or by phone
Excludes membership renewals, upgrades, add-ons or additional membership or any purchase of Sam’s Club Gift of Membership or Prepaid Sam’s Savings Membership

Our Verdict

I’d have preferred to get this offer on my points cards since 2,500 points is worth $31.25 for me; but I only found it on my Cash cards so it’s just $25 off. Remaining cost is $20 + sales tax.

However, we can stack the deal to make it better. There are numerous signup bonus offers from Sam’s Club to get a free Sam’s e-gift card for signing up. Here are the best offers:

Get a $20 Sam’s e-gift card when using a referral link – here’s one such referral link (note: these don’t seem to have been working properly, I contacted Sam’s to find out why)
Get a $15 Sam’s e-gift when using this signup link (top-left it shows the $15 bonus)
If you have a student email address, there’s a way to get a $25 Sam’s gift card
Frequentmiler notes you can instead get 1,500 American Airlines miles for signing up if you prefer

Aside from that, you can use a shopping portal:

Topcashback is currently offering 7% back on Sam’s membership purchases; that’s another $3.15 back

I especially like that this deal is can be done completely online. I just did the deal using a new email address to avoid any doubts about it being considered a continuation of an expired Sam’s membership on my regular email address.. So far there hasn’t been any instant confirmations, not from Amex about the offer credit, nor from Sam’s about the $20 referral bonus. Hopefully, it’s just a matter of time.

It might be a good idea to immediately turn off auto-renewal in your Sam’s login in case you forget next year. Once you have Sam’s membership, you’ll be able to take advantage of a different Amex Offer to get 5x points for in-club purchases until year’s end.

Please do not leave your referrals here in the comments, head over to this dedicated page to do so. You can try forming a conga line there too since the referrer also gets a $10 bonus, just keep in mind these conga’s don’t usually work well.

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PJM (@guest_555063)

January 28, 2018 16:51

#555063

Never received usually instant email showing offer was used. Had to call CS for Amex offers to post. It showed up a few days after the call.

Has anyone received the $20 dollar e-gift code from Sams after signing up using a code? https://www.doctorofcredit.com/sams-club-referrals/

JB (@guest_554713)

January 26, 2018 16:23

#554713

I got the $15 gift card almost immediately, but no sign of the $25 Amex offer after three weeks. Just called AMEX and was told by an offshore call center that I had to wait 90 days to get the credit. They could not explain why other offers get credited very quickly bu this one might take 3 months. They also seemed totally unfamiliar with this offer (I had to read them the POID code) and could not confirm this code was on my account, even though I saw it it clearly.

Now I remember why I don’t use Amex much anymore except for the occasional offer. Customer service has really been rock bottom the past few years.

JB (@guest_554716)

January 26, 2018 17:02

#554716

Eventually did a chat online, at least this time they realized there was an issue and opened an investigation on it.

Ray (@guest_561617)

February 18, 2018 00:21

#561617

Did anything ever come out of the investigation? They opened an investigation and even “escalated” it on Jan 29th, but jack sh*t has happened. Worst Amex offer ever.

JM (@guest_551877)

January 18, 2018 10:53

#551877

so it’s been almost a month, and no one has gotten the referral credit $20? I think this was not legit at this point,unless someone says different I’m assuming that credit isn’t coming at all.(?)

jimmy (@guest_553515)

January 23, 2018 17:39

#553515

How long does it take to get the $25 GC from Unidays on Signing up for the membership.

I signed up for a new membership – 2 days ago – on 21st Jan – but i have NOT gotten the $25 Unidays gift card yet.

Anyone know who to contact? Thanks in advance.

atsdump (@guest_550543)

January 13, 2018 19:53

#550543

How long it is taking to get $20 gift card after opening the membership? I know $10 referal is coming in minutes but didn’t get $20 for a day now

_here_ (@guest_549961)

January 11, 2018 18:44

#549961

I used this on 1/3 but didn’t get the credit. Chatted with CSR and they said there was some issue and made me send them my new membership email. I used the Unidays offer with it. I wonder if it screwed it up. They said to check back in 7 days

Kapil (@guest_549579)

January 10, 2018 18:19

#549579

Anyone got the $20 referral egiftcard?
I sent email using contact us on samsclub and they responded to contact them by calling , called them and after some wait a rep told me to wait till 12th Jan( 20 days from membership purchase date), she also said system showed gift card issued but might take some time.
Today is 10th and so far nothing so wanted to check if anyone had success.

Catapult (@guest_549879)

January 11, 2018 13:46

#549879

Kapil

Nope. But thanks for following up. I’ll report here when I get mine

AL (@guest_549890)

January 11, 2018 14:17

#549890

I’m over 20 days. I signed up the date of this post. I was gonna wait another week. Im still waiting for my GC too.

AL (@guest_557884)

February 5, 2018 23:28

#557884

I emailed them yesterday using the “contact us” on thier website. Told them I didn’t get my $20 egiftcard. Today, they emailed me the gift card. I guess that was a quick turnaround even though I had to ask them for it.

Kapil (@guest_552498)

January 19, 2018 14:29

#552498

I followed up yesterday (01/18) by calling sams club on referral egiftcard,Initially she said it has to be 21 business days , but then I asked is there any way to check status on that- she looked up with my details and said it says completed, she created a ticket and said someone will reach out to me.
Today(01/19) I see an email from sams for $25 egiftcard(not sure how it ended up to be $25 instead of promised $20 )

AT (@guest_547018)

January 4, 2018 10:22

#547018

I had two sam’s offers added to my card when i bought the membership with Uniday’s deal last week. The $30-$15 credit posted today but $45-$25 offer is still in my added to card and no credit yet.

JM (@guest_546463)

January 3, 2018 09:01

#546463

chatted with Amex, they said to wait- $25 finally posted ,maybe 6-7 days to post to acct- but where’s the referral gc? I have no idea what that’s even supposed to look like,and still waiting

dave (@guest_543439)

December 29, 2017 15:55

#543439

Has anyone received Amex offer credit AND student $25 gc? Sams is off the beaten path for me and only worth jumping on if it is free/ small profit to join. Thanks!