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The Offer
Amex released another one of their twice-annual Best Buy offers. Here are the two versions of the offer:
- Spend $250 at Best Buy or bestbuy.com and get $25 back as a statement credit
- Spend $250 at Best Buy or bestbuy.com and get 2,500 Membership Rewards points
The Fine Print
- Expires 12/31/17
- Valid at any participating location in the US and US Territories
- Not valid for e-gift card purchases. Excludes corporate gift card purchases.
- Excludes Best Buy Express, Geek Squad services made outside of Best Buy, Best Buy Parts Store, Best Buy Private Store & Auction or at standalone Pacific Sales stores
Our Verdict
This offer isn’t (yet?) available via Twitter, it’s showing on many cards in the login. Personally, my cash cards got this offer, but none of my points cards got it.
This is from the more useful Amex Offers since Best Buy stores, and even bestbuy.com, sell numerous gift cards which make it easier to maximize the offer. Check out this comprehensive post Everything you ever wanted to know about Buying Gift Cards at Best Buy to learn more about which gift cards to buy at Best Buy in-store or online. Options include $200 Visa gift cards for $205.95, eBay gift cards, gas gift cards, restaurant gift cards, and more. The options are slimmer online, but they do now have eBay and dining gift cards (Starbucks, etc.) online. You can also buy Best Buy physical gift cards to trigger the offer (single $250 Best Buy gift card can be found here).
You can split up a charge with up to 10 different credit cards in Best Buy stores. Online you’re limited to using one card per order.
There aren’t any easy resell ideas here, but still useful for regular use at 10% off + points. And of course it could be useful for buying electronics too. Best Buy will usually match competitors prices so you can get a really good deal by adding this 10% off.
- Remember to Shopkick when you make Best Buy purchases
- Remember to go through a shopping portal for online purchases (might not work for gift cards)
- Get double MR points at Best Buy by saving a separate Amex Offer
- Get up to 2.5% back in Best Buy Rewards on your purchases, even gift card purchases
finally found a store which carries the $200 VGC, have to buy it at Customer Service desk, but only 2 cards are allowed to buy per customer…
No VGCs at my BB…
Conveniently, the GF needed a $200 Visa gift card as a wedding present. Added on a $50 Shell gift card for gas for the month at the local Best Buy. Instant notification from Amex that I had redeemed the offer. 3,000 points (including the bonus point per dollar on my Amex Plat) is a very healthy return!
Best Buy outside Boston said the the VGCs wouldn’t scan in when I tried to check out.
did you make sure that they scan the right barcode? in my experience, the cashier scans one of the barcodes on the packaging, which is why it doesnt work. they need to scan the barcode on the card. i just bought some today and all scan fine
I had this Best Buy offer on all of my MR earning cards yesterday and now they’re all gone? Call in?
Same thing happened to me. Will try to figure it out. Lmk if you get it resolved before I do. Will do the same for you. Love in Christ.
Anyone getting this on their Serve/Bluebird cards?
Found the 2500 MR offer on all MR personal card products. Not available on business cards.
Thanks a lot for the information. I just checked my AmEx Credit Cards, and I found that I have this offer for all of them (Four Cards): Blue Cash Preferred® Card, Blue Cash Everyday® Card, Amex EveryDay® Credit Card, and OBC. For the Amex EveryDay® Credit Card, the offer is “getting an extra point for each dollar spent in BestBuy.” For the other three cards, the offer is the same: Spend 250 dollars or more get 25 dollars.
No Fee Hilton and Surpass cards had this offer.
3/10 cards – SPG, Blue Cash Preferred, Blue Cash Everyday, Platinum
– only on of the above cards had both best buy offers available