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American Express has launched a new targeted offer for spending at Amazon and while it’s not quite as good an offer as one we saw around the same time last year, it should be an easy offer to make the most of with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the December Holidays all coming up.
Earn Bonus Membership Rewards Points At Amazon
Headline Details
Get 5 additional Membership Rewards points for each dollar spent on eligible purchases made using your enrolled Card online at Amazon.com by 12/26/2021. Limit of 2,500 Membership Rewards points.
Key Terms
- Enrollment limited.
- Must first add offer to Card and then use same Card to redeem.
- 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 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 12/26/2021.
- 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.
- 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 2,500 additional Membership Rewards points per Card Member.
- Additional points will be credited to your Membership Rewards program account within 90 days after 12/26/2021, provided that American Express receives information from the merchant about your qualifying purchase.
Full terms and conditions can be found on the targeted offer.
Thoughts
The last Amazon offer that I recall Amex publishing was for 8 bonus points per dollar for a maximum of 3,000 points so this offer requires a bit more spending to earn a slightly lower maximum number of points.
Another difference between this offer and the last Amex Amazon offer that I remember may be that this offer is only targeted at consumer Membership Rewards cards – my Blue Business® Plus Credit Card from American Express hasn’t been targeted while two other consumer cards have been – but YMMV. Nevertheless, regardless of whether or not business cards are being targeted, this is still a very nice offer to get and one that a lot of cardholders should be able to max out.
The total number of points/dollar you’ll earn by using this offer will depend on the Membership Rewards card to which you load the offer but all targeted cardholders can only earn 2,500 bonus points which will require $500 of spending.
- Amex EveryDay Preferred Credit Card will earn up to 6.5 points/dollar**
- Amex EveryDay Preferred Credit Card will earn up to 6.2 points/dollar***
- All other consumer Membership Rewards Cards will earn 6 points/dollar.
**Assuming a cardholder also makes 30 transactions in each billing cycle the card is used for this offer (terms apply)
***Assuming a cardholder also makes 20 transactions in each billing cycle the card is used for this offer (terms apply)
As far as I can see, there’s no reason to think that Amazon gift card purchases and reloads will not trigger this offer as the terms and conditions only rule out corporate gift cards and custom-designed gift cards and that should make it even easier to make sure that you don’t leave any points behind.
I value Membership Rewards points at 1.5 cents each (based on the value that I know I can get out of them with limited effort) so the bonus points on offer here are the equivalent to a 7% rebate. If you factor in that rebate on top of the savings we should be able to make in the upcoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, the holiday spending season just got a little bit cheaper.
Bottom Line
American Express is currently targeting cardholders with an offer of 5 bonus points per dollar spent through Amazon.com with a maximum of 2,500 bonus points on offer. Cardholders should choose which of their targeted cards they load the offer with care to as some cards will offer a better return than others.
