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If you’re like me, you’ve placed your fair share of Amazon orders over the last few weeks. Not only have they announced they will hire over 200k people, but Amazon stock is soaring to record highs. Many have been able to get 20% orders by applying a single Amex point, and I was watching STTP insta story and saw you can now get 5x on purchases. Whether you’re getting 5 pounds of sour patch kids, a new vlogging camera, or getting a kindle to do some quarantine reading…this is a great opportunity.
What are Amex Offers?
These are targeted offers that populate in your card account after log in. Typically they come in these variants
- Spend a certain amount, get a statement credit
- Spend a certain amount, get bonus points
- Get bonus points on purchases with a certain retailer
- usually capped a specific total, but not always
We keep 6 Amex cards
Here are the 6 American Express Cards that I keep and links to why we have them in our wallet and recommend your consideration. The combination of Amex Offers and Referrals essentially give us a net positive when looking at a benefit to annual fee ledger.
- American Express Platinum
- American Express Gold
- American Express Green
- American Express Business Platinum
- American Express Blue Business
- American Express Blue Business Plus
Amazon 5x Offer
- 5 additional points on Amazon.com orders
- Expires 7/22/20
- Not valid: Amazon Go, Amazon Local, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Home & Business Services, Amazon Currency Converter, Home Services, Prime Photos, Amazon Inspire, Amazon Video Direct, Amazon business, Amazon Global, or Amazon Drive
- Capped at 2k points
- My Blue Business Plus was targeted
OFFER TERMS
ENROLLMENT/ELIGIBLE CARDS: By enrolling and making an eligible purchase, you consent to American Express sharing with Amazon the fact that you redeemed this Amex Offer. Amazon’s use of this information will be subject to Amazon’s privacy policies and practices. Enrollment limited. Must first add offer to Card and then use same Card to redeem. Only U.S.-issued American Express® Cards that are enrolled in the Membership Rewards® program at the time of purchase are eligible. Limit 1 enrolled Card per Card Member across all American Express offer channels. Your enrollment of an eligible American Express Card for this offer extends only to that Card. Your enrollment does not extend to any other Cards that may be linked to the same Membership Rewards program account (such as Additional Cards). Offer is non-transferable. ELIGIBLE PURCHASES: Offer valid only for purchases made at Amazon.com and via the US Amazon mobile app using your enrolled American Express Card after enrollment and prior to 7/22/2020. Excludes corporate gift card and custom-designed gift card purchases. Not valid at international sites owned and/or operated by Amazon or websites affiliated with/linked to/from Amazon.com. Offer not valid for Amazon Go, Amazon Local, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Home & Business Services, Amazon Currency Converter, Home Services, Prime Photos, Amazon Inspire, Amazon Video Direct, Amazon business, Amazon Global, or Amazon Drive. See Amazon.com for shipping policy. Amazon may not ship to all areas. Purchases may fall outside of the offer period in some cases due to a delay in merchants submitting transactions to us or if the purchase date differs from the date you made the transaction (for example, the purchase date for online orders may be the shipping date). If American Express does not receive information that identifies your transaction as qualifying for the offer, you will not receive the additional points. For example, your transaction will not qualify if it is not made directly with the merchant. In addition, in most cases, you may not receive the additional Membership Rewards points if your transaction is made with an electronic wallet or through a third party. EARNING POINTS: You will receive 5 additional Membership Rewards points per eligible dollar spent using your enrolled American Express Card in accordance with the terms of this offer. Limit of 2,000 additional Membership Rewards points per Card Member. The enrolled Card account must be active, not be past due, canceled or have a returned payment outstanding to receive the additional Membership Rewards points. Any additional points you receive through this offer are in addition to the points you would normally receive for purchases charged to your Card, but the number of additional points you receive will be based on the purchase price after any credit or other discount is applied. When we calculate the additional points benefit for Amex EveryDay® Card products, points awarded under this offer will not be included. Additional points will be credited to your Membership Rewards program account within 90 days after 7/22/2020, provided that American Express receives information from the merchant about your qualifying purchase. We may not credit additional points to, or we may take away additional points that have been credited to, your program account if the qualifying purchase is returned/cancelled. Terms and conditions for the Membership Rewards program apply. Visit membershiprewards.com/terms for more information. Participating partners and available rewards are subject to change without notice. The value of Membership Rewards points varies according to how you choose to use them. To learn more, go to www.membershiprewards.com/pointsinfo. By adding an offer to a Card, you agree that American Express may send you communications about the offer. Bonus ID: B6CS POID: K0R2:0001
@Miles,
Why do you still keep an old Blue Business card? I would cancel it in favor of opening another Blue Business Plus card. The Plus is superior to the old Blue Business card in all ways.
No fee and I use it for referrals…I have a blue biz plus as well – amazing card
I got the +5MR/dollar on my Gold. Only thing I wish were these would apply to purchases from international Amazon sites as well.