We just posted about a furniture store signup bonus for those who sign up for a new American Express card using a referral link. Separately, there’s an offer for the referrer as well showing on some AmEx cards:
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The Offer
Check your American Express login to see if you have the following offer:
- Refer A Friend to apply for a new American Express card by May 5th; once they’re approved, you can earn 4x/4% extra bonus per dollar on your eligible purchases at select U.S. home furnishing stores, on up to $25,000 in combined purchases for three months.
The following stores are eligible: Anthropologie – Home & Furniture, Bed Bath & Beyond, CB2, Crate and Barrel, Crate and Kids, The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Terrain, and The Container Store.
Our Verdict
I found this on two of my AmEx cards. Maxed out, this could be worth 100,000 points or $1,000, but it obviously depends whether using that card is the best for the given store. In any case, earning 5x/5% at places like Home Depot and Lowe’s will be enticing to many people.
And this comes as an added bonus on top of the regular referral bonus being offered by American Express which varies from 5,000/$50 all the way up to 35,000 points.
You can find referrals in this dedicated thread. Do not share your referrals in the comments below.
Hat tip to bunintheoven2
RAT food
Kinda strange not including IKEA as they had just got an Amex offer
see two of my cards too!
Anyone know how to check if this has been applied to your account? I referred P2 yesterday and they were approved but there’s been no notification on my end of anything. I know the points will just appear one day, but what about the spending bonus?
I got an email confirmation I was enrolled shortly after referral approved
I got an email from Amex the next day after successful referral was done and P2 was approved for card. Subject line: “Your American Express referral bonus”. However, the email only pertains to the extra 4% offer and does not mention the $100 referral credit I am entitled to.
Update: my Amex BCE quietly gave me the $100 referral bonus as reward dollars. I was looking at statement credits. Also, looks like the reward for new referrals is down to $75 now instead of $100? That was quick.
If it were good at any furniture store, this would be more enticing. I have a custom built desk coming next month from a local furniture store that would be great to earn extra rewards.
Beware of the RAT if you plan to max out VGC from any of the stores listed in the offer…
prophetic words
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/american-express-clawing-back-some-for-their-4x-home-improvement-referral-spend-offer/
From the terms on this offer: “You should not publish or distribute your referral links in locations where the audience is likely to include individuals you do not know or who may not be interested in the Card Offer.”
Not that Amex can necessarily determine or enforce this, but I guess good luck to everyone posting links in the other story?
Sweet! I’m gonna self refer a new Amex card, and then head down to Home Depot and Lowes to load up on gift cards.
I can confirm that a GC at Lowe’s (bought also with a Mother’s Day card) yielded the 1+4% cash back. Despite the AmEx terms for this offer precluding gift cards.
Yep, saw on one of my personal cards. Interesting offer.
I have it on my plat and gold. Is it possible to refer P2 to this and get it to stack with the resy offer or 75k gold offer? P2 can get either 75k, resy offer, or this now which is 30k referral to me and 60k to her plus the 200 furnishings credit which we can use easily.
I think the last option is the best obviously regardless for us both combined, but it’d be great if I could combine the 30k referral with either the 75k or the resy 60k +$250 offer?
Resy offer not available through referrals
You wish. That would be amazing if you can use the referral and stack it on top of the Resy offer. Its one or the other unfortunately. For me, I used the Resy offer in mid December for the Platinum which was great since alot of the credits reset in January. Love that 20% cash back on food!
You’d rather have 20% on food than 50k or 25k MR?