[YMMV] American Express Personal Platinum 100,000 Points After $5,000 In Spend

The Offer

No direct link, see below

  • Earn 100,000 Membership Rewards points after $5,000 in spend on the American Express Personal Platinum card

How To Get The Offer

This offer isn’t available to everybody and is a bit difficult to do. Try to follow these instructions and hope for the best:

  1. Clear browsing history/open a new incognito window
  2. Go to Baidu.com & search for American Express
  3. Click cards > Charge and Credit Card Offers > Check for offers

You want it to show you the offers without having to log in (let me know if it shows when you log in as well). If you see the 60,000 link then keep trying, people have gotten it to work even after initially seeing that the first time. This comment is also insanely helpful.

Card Details

  • Annual fee of $550 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 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)
  • Lounge access:
    • Centurion lounge access
    • International American Express lounge access
    • Delta SkyClub lounge access
    • Priority pass select membership
    • Airspace lounge access
  • Internet Access:
    • Unlimited Boingo internet access
  • SPG gold status (this will also give you Marriott Gold status)
  • Hilton gold status
  • Fee Credit for Global Entry or TSA Pre✓
  • No foreign transaction fees
  • View these other hidden benefits
  • You can only get the sign up bonus on American Express cards once per lifetime.

Our Verdict

Will this be treated like the leaked Platinum links and accounts frozen? I don’t see why it would be, but you never know with American Express these days. This offer also does include the once per lifetime language unfortunately. American Express is currently offering all types of incentives to sign up/keep the Platinum card. We’ve seen 50,000 retention bonuses, 60,000 point upgrade offers and targeted 60,000 point offers with no lifetime language.

This offer is basically as good as it gets for the American Express Platinum card and if you can get it to show, I’d sign up as long as you’re comfortable with the annual fee. As always read through these things everybody should know about American Express cards first.

Hat tip to m_b_b_1027 on /r/churning
    William Charles
  • On April 24, 2017, 18:28
Tags: big

View Comments (273)

  • I just went into incognito and got a 150k with 6k spend, 5x flights, 200 uber cash, and lounge access

  • I got a 125,000 offer with 6k spend through the incognito + baidu route yesterday!! Couldn’t believe it. Signed up and confirmed that I got that offer with a quick chat with customer service.

  • RETENTION OFFER DP
    Card opened 12/19/20 - 125k MR / 5k spend 6 months - $19k spend since open
    $550 renewal posted 12/28/21
    Chat offer: 40k MR / 3k spend 3 months - accepted
    Digital credit + UBER eats credits + probably various offers puts me ahead of the NET AF

  • "Doctor" Jay- thank you so much!

    I tried several times to get the 125k offer, but ultimately settled for the 100k (especially when I repeatedly saw 75k or no offer at all.) Your techniques worked- thank you!

  • Thank you so much! Got approved for Platinum with 125K offer. Happy camper here! I wanted the Gold and got no offer for it but couldn't resist to have the Platinum...

  • I'm not sure if this has been reported yet, but I just received a targeted mailing for 125,000 MR points (on $5,000 spend in 3 months) and $200 in Uber savings per year (Uber Eats included).

    The mailing also included a scratch-and-sniff of the Centurion lounges' American Express Signature Scent, so... uh, interesting call by the marketing team on that. I suppose it did get my attention!

  • Just applied, had to try a few times but majorly fudged first name and dropped last letter of last name. Got APPROVED for 125k! thank you so much!

  • Tried it for 3 family members and got the same thing “we could not find Pre-Qualified Offers for you at this time

    Log In to access personalized offers from American Express.”
    We all have good credit score and income

  • This is amazing! I was skeptical, but after reading how you’re trying to bypass the Amex “existing cardholder” check while allowing your (or a family member’s!) credit report to still be identified I had luck! I entered my dad’s first name (who is not an existing Amex cardholder) and our last name and the 100k offer appeared. I applied and explained that it was my middle name. I explained to the rep that I’ve been with Amex for a long time, so she was able to identify my account and I was approved within minutes and she confirmed the 100k point offer if I spend $5k in 3 months. Great tip, thank you!!

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