[Targeted] American Express Platinum 75,000 Points Upgrade Offer + 5x at Supermarkets, Gas, Restaurants

The Offer

Check your American Express login for the following upgrade offer. You might see it as an offer or as a pop-up:

  • Get 75,000 Membership Rewards points after you spend $6,000 in purchases on the American Express Platinum Card in the first 6 months from the date your account is upgraded.
  • You’ll also get 5x points on Supermarkets, U.S. Gas Stations, and Restaurants for the first six months on up to $15,000 in spend.

 

Card Details

  • Annual fee of $695 is not waived the first year
    • Authorized Platinum cards are $175 for three user (then $175 per Platinum)
    • Authorized Gold cards are free
    • Full details here
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 5x points per $1 spent on purchases made with airlines or with American Express Travel
    • 5x points per $1 spent on hotel & airline bookings made directly from the American Express travel website
    • 1x points on all other purchases
  • $200 airline incidental credit per calendar year
  • $200 Uber credit ($15 per month and additional $20 in December)
  • $100 Saks Credit (two $50 credits)
  • Lounge access:
    • Centurion lounge access
    • International American Express lounge access
    • Delta SkyClub lounge access
    • Priority pass select membership
    • Airspace lounge access
  • $240 digital entertainment credit. This is a credit of $20 per month and can be used on Peacock, Audible, SiriusXM and The New York Times.
  • $200 hotel credit. This can be used on select prepaid bookings (Fine Hotels + Resorts® and The Hotel Collection) when using American Express Travel
  • $179 Clear credit
  • $300 Equinox credit. This is a $25 credit each month
  • Global Dining Access by Resy
  • The Global Lounge Collection

Our Verdict

Great deal if targeted. We’ve seen other similar offers, and this one is quite good as well. You can normally get the upgrade bonus even if you’ve held the Platinum card before. If you have any questions about upgrade offers, please read this post before asking any questions. General American Express questions are likely answered here.

Hat tip to reader Moshe
    Chuck
  • On January 28, 2022, 15:03
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View Comments (15)

  • Can anyone confirm that there is no language concerning requesting an upgrade and getting the bonuses if you have previously had an Amex Plat? I grabbed one in the last year or so when they had the previous bonus on grocery stores and gas. I didn't see any language in the terms about not being eligible. FWIW, my offer is 25k points on 2k spend plus the grocery and gas bonuses

  • Got 100k offer on my gold a month ago. 6k in 6 months. Juicy. 5x restaurants and grocery. Forget the cap, 25k maybe?

    • Assuming we got the same offer, the cap is $15k for the 5x on grocery, gas, restaurants. I bit the bullet for 100k upgrade

  • Does anyone know how long this offer stay in your account usually? My gold card get targeted but don't want to upgrade until closer to the anniversary date (November), otherwise I will have to pay almost 2x AF (Fed 2022 - Nov 2022 and Nov 2022 - Nov 2023) until I can cancel it without getting the upgrade bonus clawed back..

  • P2 did double dip platinum recently with similar upgrade offer

    Green to platinum upgrade offer at 100k pts for 6k spend in 6 months and 5x on shop small

    And normal resy platinum 125k pts for 6k spend in 6 months with 15x shop small

  • I asked for a retention on my anniversary, got none so downgraded to the Gold. A day later I get an upgrade offer with 100K points + $150 statement credit for spending $6,000 in 6 months. Took it and points and statement credit posted the second I reached the $6k mark. Thanks Amex for not offering a retention :)

    • Me too, but this time I am actually seeing this offer in my list of offers. Not really sure I want to do this though, but at first glance there seem to be no lifetime language. After the annual fee this comes to roughly doing 6000 spend for maybe a total of ~500 of benefits. But there should be no hard pull so that is a plus.

  • I see this in my account but I also had 100k + $150 statement credit targeted a couple weeks ago. Shame that it went down.

  • If I already hold 1 vanilla plat, could I still upgrade my gold card to this if targeted? Or would Amex never target me in this case?

    • Wondering the same about my Schwab Plat. My gut tells me probably not. But they have done crazier things.

      • I had Schwab Amex platinum and got an upgrade offer on my gold thru the app to upgrade to a vanilla platinum. Amex seems to be giving out a variety of offers in all sorts of situations. Wouldn’t discount them offering upgrades for multiple vanilla platinums.

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