The Offer
Direct link to offer (you may need to open this up multiple times in incognito mode to make it appear. Mine showed up the first time I opened it in incognito mode)
- Receive 50,000 American Express membership rewards points when you spend $1,000 or more on your American Express Premier Rewards Gold card within your first three months of card membership
The Fine Print
- If you’re identified as a current or former American Express card member, this offer may not be available to you. In the past this has not been enforced at all.
- You can only get the sign up bonus on every American Express card once per lifetime.
- Annual fee of $175 is waived for the first year
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 3x points on flights booked directly with airlines
- 2x points on purchases made at U.S gas stations & U.S supermarkets
- 1x points on all other purchases
Our Verdict
The same offer was available back in January, but stopped working. It’s now working again, although you may need to open a new window in incognito multiple times for the offer to show up. I’m still holding out for a 75,000 point offer on this card (which has been offered in the past) as you can only get this bonus once per lifetime, that being said 50,000 points is double the standard bonus so it might make sense to pull the trigger on this bonus instead.
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I'm not really gonna apply, just like to play, but I've tried more than 20 times in Incognito, all 25K!! So devastated :(
i got mine to work on chrome but not firefox.
worked second time
weird - got the offer to show, then it asked me to login to continue and then went back to 25000 points
I just applied and was approved for the PRG 50K, $2K spend, AF waived first year. Hurrah! I did have to try Chrome incognito twice, but it showed up the 2nd time so I went for it.
I received an offer for the PRG in the mail for 50k/$2k without the lifetime language. But this $1k incognito deal sounds better. Any thoughts? I've never had an American Express card and I'd like not to mess up on my first one.
If you've never had the card before, then it doesn't matter if there's lifetime language.
If you can get the offer to show for 50k/$1k take that one. Otherwise, go with the 50k/2k offer.
June 23rd: I managed to get the 50k/2k offer. Applied and accepted.
I also wasn't able to get this to work. Is it no longer available?
Looks like there are still some success stories out there http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-express-membership-rewards/1645738-revived-amex-premier-rewards-gold-card-50k-points-after-1-000-spend-31.html
Trying this today with a bunch of different browsers and devices but no luck, only getting 25k points after $2k spending. Anyone else have a different experience? I'm thinking they updated the offer with the changeover in card benefits.
Spouse got a pre-screened offer for Blue Cash Everyday ($250 after spending $1000 in 90 days). After going through my saved feedly posts I saw this one - I realized that we might go for 2nd card from AmEx on the same day.
Luckily she was instantly approved for the 2nd card as well (Gold 50k pts). There were a couple of hours between the requests.
Should add: Like many others on Flyertalk, I had success on Macbook + Safari. Interestingly, got it on the first time there vs. private/incognito on a PC or my mobile phone. Perhaps coincidental. But a few of us had a similar experience.
Yup, just keep trying different browsers/computers and something should work eventually.