Update 10/29/24: New offer for 100k points + 15x restaurants (YMMV). Doesn’t show for everyone
Update 11/6/22: Offer was lowered down from 125,000 to 100,000. Everything else is the same. (ht Shri)
The Offer
- American Express is offering a new sign up bonus on the Platinum personal card:
- Get 125,000 points signup bonus when spending $6,000 within 6 months.
- 15x points per $1 spent at restaurants worldwide on up to $25,000 in spend within your first six months month (that’s 9x bonus points on top of the standard 1x point)
Card Benefits
- Annual fee of $695 is not waived the first year
- Authorized Platinum cards are $175 for three user (then $175 per Platinum)
- Authorized Gold cards are free
- Full details here
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5x points per $1 spent on purchases made with airlines or with American Express Travel
- 5x points per $1 spent on hotel & airline bookings made directly from the American Express travel website
- 1x points on all other purchases
- $200 airline incidental credit per calendar year
- $200 Uber credit ($15 per month and additional $20 in December)
- Lounge access:
- Centurion lounge access
- International American Express lounge access
- Delta SkyClub lounge access
- Priority pass select membership
- Airspace lounge access
- $240 digital entertainment credit. This is a credit of $20 per month and can be used on Peacock, Audible, SiriusXM and The New York Times.
- $200 hotel credit. This can be used on select prepaid bookings (Fine Hotels + Resorts® and The Hotel Collection) when using American Express Travel
- $179 Clear credit
- Walmart+ monthly credit. Cardholders will receive a $12.95 credit (covers the full cost of membership).
- $300 Equinox credit. This is a $25 credit each month
- Global Dining Access by Resy
- The Global Lounge Collection
Our Verdict
We once saw a better version of this offer with 15x back on dining and shop small. I wouldn’t hold my breath for that one to come back, and this is still a monster offer with up to 375,000 points bonus potential if you max out the restaurant part.
I’m not sure if the recent 150,000 bonus on the personal Platinum card is still available. Regardless, a lot of people will prefer this Resy offer for 125,000 + up to 250,000 points. A downside of the Resy offer is that you can’t use a referral link to signup.
We’ll add this to our List of Best Credit Card Signup Bonuses. Check out these Things To Know About American Express before applying.
Throwback when I hit 500k points due to the 15x Small Business offer + 125k SUB. Flipped a rav 4 at a small locally owned dealer while paying 3% extra fee for using the card.
How are people even maxing out the restaurant spend? $25k in 6 months? Would love ideas lol otherwise that’s not in my budget
Ms
Duh lol but who’s buying 25k in gift cards
You’re underestimating what we do lol
Naturally, as an Amex Platinum cardholder, I spend roughly $25,000 every 6 months at Dunkin Donuts.
Granted with the new lucrative monthly credit, my spend has been reduced to $24,958.
I will have to find some other way to make up that $42.
That will about cover your burger at 5 Guys
how are you people MSing 25k in dining spend?
I have a friend who I swear eats at Flemmings Steakhouse every single day. I bet he could hit $25k in dining spend.
Is your friend’s name Stanley?
looool
CB
Can you combine business MR and personal MR or are they separate? P2 has biz checking and plat right now sometime be good to cash out that way for us.
They are combined for everyone.
Thanks!
Do you have to use same login (can you even do that for biz and personal?) or does it not matter?
It is same account, same log in.
Ok thanks. I’m still in habit of doing individual AmEx accounts from back in day when could add same Amex offer to multiple cards this way. I guess will have to have both biz plat and personal plat and biz checking on same login then.
You can add the same offer to multiple cards using an app like CardPointers. I pay for premium to support the developers and it’s totally worth it to be able to add all the offers in a few seconds via the extension and search all the offers using the extension or the app.
The app also works for BofA, WF, Chase, US Bank, and Citi offers.
Ok thanks. Didn’t realize could still add and use multiple iterations of same AmEx offer to multiple cards. Will check it out
With a little research and tricks, one should be able to pull up the much better 175k after 8k spent in 3/mo offer.
How can I pull the 175k?
Available through referral. Cant share here
Not better if can MS 25k dining
how does one MS 25k dining?
It is not open to new signups anyhow
Own a restaurant
You can MS dining?
Same question. Not sure how to MS dining, they also for $18k!!
Yup although haven’t tried with Amex and clawbacks etc
How?
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That’s not a better offer if you can max out the dining spend.
If i subscribe for the dinsey/hulu/Max package disney has will that be covered by this $20 credit benfit this card has?
Yes, have been usinh max/hulu combo for years. As long as those are “addons”, the charges are posted as Hulu
Yes – that’s what I did ($19.99/mo) and it covers it within a day or two after the charge posts each month.
Able to get this still if I’ve had plat Mercedes, delta plat and plat business?
Ymmv
Resy is showing 100k + 10x restaurantsfor me; not 15x.
Considering the 150k even 175k MR offer is available pretty easily through referral, I’d pass this offer. I agree if one can max out the restaurant spending, Resy offer is better, but for that one has to spend insane amount on food. Even to match 175k offer, one has to spend $8333 on restaurant (extra 9x points) in 6 months!!
I’ve added YMMV to the post now, thx
Try opening it in incognito mode, worked for me.
“Food”
Retention offer for P2: 35K points for $4000 spend in 3 months
I did a simple google search for “no fx fee amex”
and first link to their page w/150k Plat 90k Gld and
$400 Bcp 1st yr waived…and yes got dreaded the pop up.
Many elevated offers on their cards, used brave w/ shields up.