The Offer
American Express rolled out a new referral offer on the American Express business Platinum card. The referrer gets 15,000 points, while the new members gets the following:
- Get 50,000 Membership Rewards points after you spend $10,000 within 3 months of signup.
- Get an additional 35,000 Membership Rewards points after spending an additional $10,000 within 3 months of signup.
Card Details
- Annual fee of $595 is not waived the first year
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5x points per $1 spent on purchases made with airlines or hotels booked directly from AmericanExpress Travel website
- 1.5x points on qualifying purchases of $5,000 or more
- 1x points on all other purchases
- $200 airline incidental credit per calendar year
- Lounge access:
- Centurion lounge access
- International American Express lounge access
- Delta SkyClub lounge access
- Priority pass select membership
- Airspace lounge access
- Internet Access:
- Unlimited Boingo internet access
- SPG gold status (this will also give you Marriott Gold status)
- Hilton gold status
- Fee Credit for Global Entry or TSA Pre✓
- No foreign transaction fees
- View these other hidden benefits
- SoulCycle benefits
- You can only get the sign up bonus on American Express cards once per lifetime.
Our Verdict
This YMMV offer of 110,000 points might still be available, and there’s also the call-in method which offers (YMMV) 100,000 points on just $10,000 in spend; otherwise the 85k referral offer is the best around as the public offer is just 75,000 points. The referral offer also gets the referrer somewhere between 5,000 and 20,000 points, depending which card they refer from. There was recently a 100,000 offer on $25,000 spend, available both publicly and via referrals, that offer has expired.
As always you can read more about American Express cards here. Do not leave referrals in the comments.
Hat tip to reader Vic
I’ve been seeing lately an offer for 75,000MR with only $5,000 spend. It’s been mainly showing up under AMEX Offers with the title: “Earn 75,000 Points”. Then when clicking on “learn more” it shows pre-approved
What does everyone mean that MSing on AMEX is dead? I just MSed 7k recently for 2 signups, easy as usual. Besides Simon Mall (and maybe Staples), are there are other merchants with multiple confirmed DPs that gift cards there won’t count for minimum spend? Either way there are plenty of stores, local grocery stores, etc that sell VGC that haven’t posed any problems. I mean there’s a CVS basically everywhere…
It was my understanding that SUB clawbacks applied to any MS regardless if store gives L3 data, so long as their algorithm can detect it.
If Amex would let me MS this SUB, I’d be all over it 🙁
You can with creativity 😉
Is there a way to PM here so I can nicely ask for tips?
Have you considered attempting to do some research and not asking to be spoonfed?
From everything I’ve read here, FF, and r/churning, everyone recommends not to MS amex SUBs regardless of the stores providing L3 data due to clawbacks. No need to be like that mate
Have you tried being constructive rather than plain rude?
There are several stores that sell GCs. go to a Facebook group called Manufactured Spending. see you there.
https://i.imgur.com/vvfDDea.jpg
Sucks that MS is dead 🙁 impossible to get amex SUBs now 🙁 really unfortunate that the points and miles game has officially ended as of 2019 🙁
I did this on DEC easy 25ks. MS is dead if you want it to be.
Yeah it was sarcasm
big 🙁