Update: Better offer found – American Express Platinum 125,000 Points + 15x Shop Small/Restaurant For 6 Months (Resy Offer)
The Offer
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- American Express is offering a new sign up bonus on the Platinum personal card, as follows:
- Get 100,000 points signup bonus when spending $5,000 within 6 months.
- 10x points per $1 spent when you Shop Small in the U.S. and restaurants worldwide on up to $25,000 in spend within your first six months month
You can find which establishments are considered Shop Small using this map locator from AmEx.
Card Benefits
- 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)
- 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
We’ve just seen American Express increased the annual fee to $695 from $550 and add some new benefits to the card. This offer is the same as the previous offer apart from those changes and the 10x is on Shop Small/restaurants instead of Gas & Grocery. Gas & Grocery are much better categories in my opinion but everybody is different. Hopefully people caught Chuck’s post yesterday warning of these changes.
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Does food delivery service count for the restaurant spending bonus?
Same question here. FWIW Amex rep said no. Haven't tried it yet.
How long would his offer last? There is a Amex Business Platinum for 150k as well.
Guy on a forum I go to is reporting he got a special offer for 150k MR... still with only $6k spend... crazy... Wish I had that luxury. Provided a screenshot proof as well.
I think the 10x Grocery is still better for many people as groceries sell gift cards for other places and the grocery bill is many people's highest normal spend they use a credit card for.
I found a better offer thru Resy: 125k MR points after spending $6k in 6 months, 15x back at restaurants and Shop Small up to $25k in spend. One odd thing is that the application page says up to $25k in spend but the actual Offer Terms T&C say up to $6k, so idk which one Amex will honor. Resy hasn’t updated their site, but Amex did on their end. See for yourself: https://resy.com/amex-offers?date=2021-07-01&seats=2
Thank you! Posted now https://www.doctorofcredit.com/american-express-platinum-125000-points-15x-shop-small-restaurant-for-6-months-resy-offer/
Gas and Grocery were 15K in spend, Shop Small and Restaurants are 25K. And I think you’re underestimating just how broad the Shop Small map is… it’s virtually any non-massive store you shop at.
Title still has the gas/grocery category, but should be changed to restaurants/shop small.
What actually codes as shop small? Any non-large retailer basically?
Pretty much, you can check any store on the map to confirm first.
The nearest-to-me Kohl's, National Car Rental (at the airport..), and Lowe's are on the shop small map.. (plus a gazillion actually small shops)
Amazing.. Had no idea Lowe's would code, thanks for mentioning that! Any idea if a purchase from the lowes website would work as well...?
https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/maps
Search your area and there will be a “Shop Small” icon next to eligible stores in the results.