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The Offer
It’s that time of year: check your Amex logins for the Amex gift card offer. It’s usually available via Twitter with #AmexGift, but not (yet?) this time.
- Get a $10 statement credit when you spend $200 or more on Amex gift cards at americanexpress.com/gift and pay with your registered Amex card
The Fine Print
- Expires 12/31/17
- $200 can be spent in a single transaction or split across multiple transactions
- Valid online only at americanexpress.com/gift. Not valid for in-store purchases. Excludes purchases made at third party websites.
- Excludes Logo Gift Cards and Gift Cheques. Excludes Prepaid Reloadable Cards.
- Not valid on orders over $100,000
- Offer not valid for any purchases made by using American Express Membership Rewards points
- Use Gift Card only at US merchants that accept American Express® Cards, except cruise lines and recurring payment
Our Verdict
Let’s take a quick look at the fees:
- Shipping fee of $8.95, but if you have the premium shipping plan with Amex, the shipping is free. Alternatively, you can use promo code:Â FREESHP17A for free shipping.
- Purchase fee of $3.95. There’s currently a promo code: SEPT09FEE which waives this fee until 10/15/17. There’ll probably be more codes in the future.
I don’t think they offer anymore the free trial on the premium shipping plan, so realistically most of us will have to choose a promo code to waive one of these fees and obviously the free shipping code makes more sense. Amex gift card purchases of $200 or less do trigger portal rewards. It’s not supposed to work when you use a promo code, but a reader says TCB has been working even with a promo code.
- A better option is to choose the Personalized Gift Card option which allows customizing the gift card amount. Choose $198 and shipping will be just $2 and will bring you up to the $200 threshold. Then use the purchase fee promo code to waive the $3.95 purchase fee.
Overall, with the portal it’ll be a net $11 per Amex card ($10 + $3 – $2), though you might be losing some credit card rewards by using your Amex card vs. your preferred high-earning everyday card. Won’t be worth the hassle for a lot of people, but someone with a consistent way of unloading will find this deal interesting.
I’ll probably make use of the offer to help meet my OBC $6500 spend threshold. You can also use it for minimum spend requirement or other spend thresholds and it should count.
Check out these Things to Know about Amex Offer Deals.
