The Offer
Amex released today a great Amazon offer.
- Spend $60 or more on Amazon.com with a registered Amex card and receive a $15 statement credit.
This offer does not have a Twitter hashtag and is not showing on prepaid Amex accounts, but it seems to be showing on all cards in the Amex login. If you haven’t saved this one yet, I’d recommend saving it right away as we don’t know how long it will last.
Important: As always, be sure to open a separate tab for each card before saving it on any so that you’ll be able to get it on all cards, more details here.
The Fine Print
- Valid until 12/31/15.
- Offer valid only for purchases made directly at Amazon.com or smile.amazon.com.
- Offer valid only for purchases made with the US Dollar. Offer not valid for purchases made with foreign currencies.
- Purchases made through other merchants or third party sites using “Checkout by Amazon” or other Amazon payment methods do not qualify for this offer. Not valid at international or non-English versions of Amazon.com or websites affiliated with/linked to from Amazon.com. Also excludes Corporate gift Cards, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Local, Amazon Home Services, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Supply, Amazon Local Register, Amazon Coins, Kindle Direct Publishing, Go-Go and Amazon Payments.
Our Verdict
This is really a great offer. If you don’t want to spend $60 on each of your cards now, you can buy $60 Amazon e-gift cards on each registered card and lock in the 25% discount for the future.
If you don’t think you’ll need that you’ll need that much Amazon credit, you can buy third-party gift cards sold on Amazon instead. There are lots of options, including Nordstrom, Southwest, Staples, Office Max, Whole Foods, Starbucks, and many more.
Note: Amazon e-gift cards and some (or all?) e-gift cards can be purchased in exact $60 denominations. Physical gift cards usually skip from $50 to $75.
This is also a good opportunity to support your favorite blogger. Gift cards on Amazon do not earn cashback from any portals, but they do pay out to referring websites. We included our link to Amazon gift cards and third-party gift cards above and we appreciate if you use them.
I had it on the account, but now it disappeared (hadn’t it added it yet).
Is there a backdoor ?
This may help https://www.doctorofcredit.com/amex-offers-15-off-60-amazon-now-available-on-costco-cards/
so what is everyone buying with this offer? $60 Amazon GC’s mostly?
Smashburger!
I have a ton of cards all with this offer added but amazon won’t let me buy more then like 4-5 3rd party gc’s (staples etc.) Any way around this?
Sounds weird, dunno why
I just received a deal from offers.com
“Free $10 Amazon Credit w/ $50 Amazon Gift Card purchase”. I’m wondering if anyone has had any luck stacking that with this Amex offer deal?
Yup, that would work
The small print says no corporate gift cards
Don’t think it’s offered on the co-branded cards. Wasn’t on our First National Bank or Wells Fargo nor the Serve cards. On everything else other than Costco
Anyone know if this can work with a Fidelity AMEX? I can’t see it on my Facebook AMEX offers or Twitter AMEX offers…is it only on the AMEX website? I can’t connect to that with my Fidelity card.
wow. This is great. Makes up for the botched Shop Small Saturday… Plus I don’t have to go anywhere…
This offer has a language that differs from many other Amex Offers: “Get a one-time $15 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to spend a total of $60 or more online at Amazon.com by 12/31/15.”
Which means no need to spend all $60 in one transactions.
So most of the talk here about gift card and e-gift card denominations is pointless.
I don’t believe this to be true. Examples of multiple purchases that combine to meet requirements:
amextoysrus:
“spend a minimum of $25+ in one or more transactions in-store or online by 12/31/15”
amex newegg:
“Get a one-time $25 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to spend a minimum of $200 in one or more transactions online”
amex staples:
“Get a one-time $20 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to spend a minimum of $100+ in one or more transactions in-store at Staples or online ”
So yeah, the wording of this Amazon offer leads me to believe it’s to be done in one purchase. Even if it wasn’t, I still disagree with your assertion that gift card discussion is pointless. Your maximum value will be spending exactly $60 as everything thereafter is wasted purchasing power earning only whatever your credit card provides you.
It is true. Maybe likely due to Amazon shipping and charging orders in part. I just did a $70 order billed as $25 & $45. Offer triggered. Relevant terms: “Must add offer to Card and use same Card for one or more transactions in order to redeem. In order to receive your statement credit, all qualifying purchases must ship on or before 12/31/15.”
Ah, that’s awesome to hear. Thanks for that data point.
On my terms and conditions page I don’t see anything about “one or more transactions” but either way that’s great news for us. Happy to be wrong on this one!
Weird they sent it out two ways. Good to know for next time, thanks for the DP. My order was $50 in gift cards and $20 of goods. So that is why mine got split. $25 Smashburger gift card FTW! 🙂
Can confirm. Amazon split a physical gift card and purchase of mac nuts into 2 payments despite them being in 1 cart and one checkout. $35 and $26. Had to do with the GC in the cart I’m sure. Triggered the confirmation e-mail within minutes of going pending on the Amex site.
Not offered on my Amex Delta Skymiles card.