The Offer
- Get approved for the Amex Platinum card and receive 100,000 Membership Reward points after spending $3000.
The standard offer is 40,000. To get this offer, you need to go to the above link incognito. After a number of incognito sessions, you should get it to show. Be sure to verify that the offer is still showing on the main application page as some report that after clicking ‘apply now’ the offer on the screen changes to the standard 40k offer.
The Fine Print
- Must spend $3,000 within 3 months
- $450 annual fee, not waived the first year
Our Verdict
This offer has been circulating the blogosphere for a few hours now (I was offline for the past while). I just tried it out now (8 PM EST) and was able to get the offer to show. (Instant approval. Yay!)
If you can get the offer to show, it’s really unbeatable. The standard offer is just 40 and the occassionally higher targeted offers usually have a higher spend threshold.
The card also has an airline reimbursement of $200 which you can easily get twice within the first year (2015 and 2016) and this can help offset the annual fee.
We’ve also written about a similar way to get the Business Gold 75k offer to show by going incognito. People have been having success with that one as well recently.
HT: Rapidtravelchai
Got the 100K offer yesterday using cardmatch. Patience paying off.
Nice
They asked for an RCP. Saying that was an offer code that I would receive on my mail.
Any idea about this?
Thanks.
Data point
I was able to get this offer online today.
The deal is on again
Very interesting. I tried multiple incognito windows and can’t get it to show. Just the 40k offer.
Anything? Not for me
You have a link for it? Shoot it to me, [email protected]
Thanks
Does anyone know how often this 100K offer comes along? Has there ever been a better offer for this card?
Tried 3 times today, all “That offer just ended yesterday.”
Last week I applied for Citi prestige as well which is a better deal I think …but I could not help grabbing the 100k points from AMEX with 100k points (after 5 HUCA though). Here is the deal with Citi Prestige in case you want to compare:
By earning 50,000 Bonus ThankYou Points you can redeem for travel or rewards even sooner with:
$800 toward a flight on American Airlines or US Airways®
$665 toward flights on any other airline
$500 in gift cards from a wide range of merchants
Other great rewards
Automatically receive an annual $250 Air Travel Credit, to be applied to flight-related expenses charged to your card, including airline tickets, baggage fees, upgrades and more
Extend your trip with a complimentary 4th night stay at any hotel of your choice
Enjoy complimentary access to American Airlines Admirals Club® lounges, plus hundreds of VIP lounges through Priority PassTM Select
Complimentary greens fees at more than 2,400 public and private golf courses around the globe
….
So no delta sky club but we can buy gift cards and the credit can be applied to the statement between Dec-Dec meaning if you get the card now, you can get the credit twice before the 2nd annual fee hits your account. Also you can transfer the thank you points without any charge.
By the way, Both for American Express PRG Card and AMEX Platinum as well as Citi Prestige care, how does one maximize the $100/Yr and $200/Yr Or $250/Yr incidental charges Reimbursement?
Can i Just Buy Airline GC’s directly from their websites, and will be Reimbursed?
The $200 incidental fee/year, how can it be accomplished? Can one buy airline giftcards from the website directly (aka SW GC’s) and be reimbursed for them twice (once this yr and once again next yr)?
If that can be done it would almost wipe out the annual fee which would make this promotion a much better deal. Has anyone bought SW gc and gotten reimbursed? I know it works for my WF.
I just registered the card and see what this below (insert from the Terms) says about the incidental fee:
Good to Know
This benefit doesn’t offer credit toward airline tickets, mileage points purchases or mileage points transfer fees, gift cards, upgrades, duty–free purchases, or award tickets.
Eligible purchases made by both the Basic and any Additional Card Members are covered. However, statement credits for eligible purchases can’t exceed $200 on the Card account per calendar year.
Also, if you read it carefully its says we need to choose the airline whose cost we try to expense with AMEX…and you can only change that once a year.
I will try to buy the delta electronic gift card and see if AMEX Platinum takes that as an incidental fee:
https://www.delta.com/egift/eGiftPurchase.action?Log=1&mkcpgn=SEzzzGGgc1&s_kwcid=TC|22019|%2Bdelta%20%2Bgift%20%2Bcard||S|b|45818384868&clickid=76e6b3ca-5312-4d15-9e5f-070c974162fb&tracking_id=313×5856
Definitely call again. I got approved at 4pm EST today
They said the offer over the phone was only until yesterday 🙁
Called in 3 times and gave them the POID #.
No luck, all of the reps keep asking to get the rsvp number along with the POID.