Update 12/6/21: This is being sent out again. This time for Ippolita.
Hat tip to reader Tiffany
American Express has a program called #AmExAppreciates and every now and then they send out gift cards to Platinum cardholders thanking them for being a cardholder. It looks like another round of these gift cards have been sent out, this time $250 cards to John Hardy Jewelry.
There doesn’t seem to be any specific way that American Express targets cardholders (e.g. it’s not based on spend as some people have reported receiving a gift card with lots of spend on the card and others have reported receiving one with no spend at all).
Hat tip to reader Tiffany
I just received what looks like an oversize expresso cup from Amex
Probably based on jewelry purchases
So amex, even when sending gift, it has to be some never-heard-about vendor that nobody uses.
I gotta wonder, do they actually want people to use their “gift”?
I agree. You get a $250 credit towards a handbag that sells for $1700 from a company you’ve never heard of. Yet they won’t even give the most loyal of customers a retention offer.
How come I have 2 personal Amex platinum cards and I never even once have gotten any of these “free amex gifts” it kind of sucks… I actually use them ALOT and spend at least 75% of my monthly expenses on them. Any ideas? Lol maybe they just hate me
Why would you put 75% of your monthly spend on a 1x card
“i eat PAPER all the TIME” energy
Sounds like you’re not treating Amex the way they like to be treated. They prefer customers with at least 3 plats, who only spend the minimum MSR to get a SUB and then close after a year. That’s the way.
Ironically, useless as a jewelry designer. I could make anything on there for 1/10th – 1/15th of the price. Not like I’ll have to worry about it though.
Amex is already planning RAT claw backs on these.
I think the economy is heading downhill. I see lot of influx from Amex and others to make me to spend my money,
Really? The restaurants closing, people not being able to pay rent, jobless hospitality workers didn’t give it away?
At least _you_ got richer.
At least you know how to use markup.
Un-relentless greed is a major problem.
Bernie, do you clean all 3 of your houses or do you pay someone for cheap labor to do that while you lecture people about greed?
Bernie probably has like 10 slaves working for him
So they call this a gift card but it’s not a true gift card.
They call their airline credit and airline credit but not really.
They call their restaurant credit on the gold card a restaurant credit but again not really a true restaurant credit.
Much appreciated.
I got an empty box in the mail. Lol. JK
Nothing
I was able to buy an item with the gift card to resell on ebay making $200 profit