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Update 4/13/19: Acorns is up to $20, valid through April 14th. Also, now get $20 Sam’s gift card by signing up at this page (better than $10 via referral). Dosh is down to $10 (down from $20).
The Offer
Check your American Express login for the following offer:
- Register your card and get $25 off a $45 Sam’s Club membership purchase at samsclub.com/JoinAMEX
The Fine Print
- Valid through 5/15/19.
- Offer valid only on a new Sam’s Club Membership purchased online at US website (SamsClub.com/JoinAMEX) and not valid on memberships purchased in-Club, via mobile app or by phone.
- Excludes membership renewals, upgrades, add-ons or additional membership or any purchase of Sam’s Club Gift of Membership or Prepaid Sam’s Savings Membership.
Stacking the Deal
- Register your Amex card for this Amex Offer to get $25 back.
- Link your Amex card with Dosh and get
$20$10 back when you buy a Sam’s membership + 2% back on purchases. (If you are new to Dosh, you can signup with my referral code CHUCKS2 and get $5 when you link a card.) Wait 24 hours from time of linking card to time of making purchase. - Link your Amex card with Acorns and get $20
$10back to your Acorns account when you buy Sam’s membership (new Acorns members can signup with Swagbucks for a $7 bonus or use my referral link and get $5 when you start investing). [Previously, I’d written that Dosh and Acorns can’t stack since they both run on Empyr, but readers in the comments indicate that in this case they’re both able to work.] - The Scan and Go deal which gives you $45 value is still working (despite showing a March 7th expiration date on the original landing page – you’ll see the updated date in the email they send) – see also this comment.
- Signup through a referral link and get a
$20$10 Sam’s gift card – here’s my Sam’s referral link. (It shows $20, but it really only works for $10.) See also this comment. - Click through a shopping portal, Topcashback is currently at 7%. It may not track since you’ll be using a special referral link, but it worked for me. Just click through and then go to the referral page and hopefully the browser cookies will retain the tracking.
- New Sam’s members can get a slew of freebies by playing their treasure hunt.
Our Verdict
I believe that buying membership without going through the official Sam’s/Amex link has worked in the past to trigger the offer credit which. If it works this time, that would mean you can signup with any special offer page too, e.g. that Scan & Go deal or any other gift card offer.
All in, you can pay $45 and get back: $25 from Amex + $20 $10 from Dosh + $10 $20 from Acorns + $45 value from Scan & Go + $10 referral $20 signup bonus + some value from the treasure hunt + hopefully portal tracking.
All in, could be a nice moneymaker with free Sam’s membership. Please add whatever stacks we’re missing to the comments below.
Hat tip to reader Feb
I got an email from Discover.
Earning a $25 Statement Credit is easy
1. Buy a new Sam’s Club membership with your Discover® Card using the link below, or bringing promo code 12056 to your nearest Sam’s Club.
2. Get a $25 Statement Credit automatically.
How many of these offers still works?
Thanks.
No longer see Acorns offer
I’m seeing in the Dosh app that cashback for signup is now down to $5. :/
Do you think that it is still working? I found this offer too late.
Anyone had success getting the $45 off $45 after 4/21?
Can confirm that the $45 off $45 and $20 gift card both still stack from via the steps outlined on this guy’s page below. Yes, it has his referral link included in step 4 (so he gets a $10 GC I believe), but the steps are clear and it works.
I am still pending the AMEX offer (will take a day or two, just did it this morning), and the potential additional $10 GC from the referral link (may take an additional day). I also have not seen Dosh or Acorns go pending yet, but again no surprise as I just did this a couple hours ago. I don’t anticipate any issues with those two, nor the AMEX offer.
Steps below (again, includes this guy’s referral link in step 4, which I used because his instructions were clear and seem to have worked):
https://www.reddit.com/user/or2nges/
Can you explain how to get the $45 scan and go offer now that it’s not showing on the landing page?
Step 6 on that page above has a direct link (i.e. there’s nothing to click through and no indication of the $45 off $45 that I saw) that you finally sign up through after opening the first 2 links without submitting. It’s a little tricky, but it seems to possibly trigger/save something in the browser’s cookies so that each subsequent registration page keeps the previous data.
So, I’m not entirely sure how it works on the application side, but I followed those steps exactly and I was able to place an online order (store pickup) for $45.xx and had $45 taken off at checkout (this is what step 6 gets you). I can confirm, however, that gift cards do not trigger this discount–my first attempt was a discounted iTunes gift card and some food, and no discount appeared. When I replaced the gift card with a bunch of food, it worked.
I then received an e-mail about an hour later with the $20 gift card information (this is what step 5 gets you).
I am now only waiting on the additional $10 gift card that step 4 supposedly should get me (and of course the AMEX/Dosh/Acorns credits as well).
Thanks
Also, here is what the “instant savings” area of my account shows (I have been a member for all of 2 hours so far): https://imgur.com/0vMsyBg
THANKS! My head is swimming but that worked for me too. Can confirm despite everything saying I’d get a $20 gift card I just got $45 off an online purchase. I immediately went to make my purchase after the membership confirmation page and it showed a $45 instant savings discount. Will be interesting to see what other gift card/s show up!
If this errors out clear your cookies. I had been logged into a sam’s club account a week ago or so that didn’t have an active membership and that seems to have been enough to trigger errors despite using a fresh email. Cleared my cookies and was then able to sign up with my new email address.
$20 gift card through just under an hour later.
I can also confirm that (as of the evening of 4/15) these steps worked for me. I received the $45 off (though it is a little wonky–I had to play around with adding/removing certain items before it finally showed up) and the $20 gift card via email a couple of hours later. I’m also still waiting on the Amex Offer, $10 GC from referral, and the $10 cashback from Dosh.
Update: AMEX offer posted next day, but I had to reach out to Dosh for them to manually credit my account with $10. Acorns has not posted (reached out to them today to inquire), and I never got the additional $10 gift card for the referral link mentioned in the link above…
Once Acorns posts, this will end up as a net $10 profit + $45 worth of food + $20 gift card. Not a bad haul.
Does Acorns signup require SSN?
Yes
So I’ve just opened up my dosh account and added my amex card so I’ll be doing this purchase tomorrow. I’ve also reinstated my acorns account so I’ll be waiting for that to open back up.
So I want to make sure I do this right
1. Opened Dosh and added amex card. Will get $10 for this.
2. Added Amex $25 Sam’s Club offer to card.
3. Open acorns account, add amex card, and automatically get $20 for opening up Sam’s Membership. I don’t have to do anything else for this right? Is there a link I have to go through to buy the membership?
4. Go through referral link and get $20 Sam’s Club Gift card.
5. Get cashback from dosh, acorns, and my amex card.
Another thing I was confused about was the scan and go, it doesn’t show up when I click on the referral link from the “Sam’s Club: Become A Member For $45 & Get $45 Off Your First Scan & Go Order – Stack For Massive Discounts” page, I just get the link to the $20 gift card. The scan and go in addition to the gift card would land me a nice bonus.
I believe you have to save the offer in Acorns, but can’t remember off hand. I’m not sure if Scan & Go is still valid, someone was saying it is, but I’m not sure how as I don’t see it on the landing page.
DP: Signed up via scanandgo.com. Amex offer didn’t track
Don’t count it out yet if you just did it. I signed up that way and didn’t get an email, credit was issued within a week. For some odd reason, Sam’s offers never seem to get the Amex emails.
Thank you for the datapoint. I didn’t get the usual Amex offer e-mail but crossing fingers.
“Our verdict” still says “$10” from Acorns instead of $20 now
I did this a couple months ago..
Can I do this deal again?
A lot of the deals may be limited to one, e.g. Amex Offers typically only works on one card per person. Not sure about Dosh and Acorns, seems to me like Acorns would work again (I did it already and it’s showing me the new $20 offer), but hard to say for certain.