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The Offer
Targeted offer, no direct link
- Select American Express cardholders are receiving an AmEx sync offer as follows: Get an additional 5,000 Membership Rewards points one-time by using your enrolled card to spend $99+ on an annual Amazon Prime membership at Amazon.com by 3/2/2018
The Fine Print
- Valid until 1/31/2018
Our Verdict
So normally there are a few different ways to get discounted Amazon prime:
- Low-income households can pay $5.99 per month
- Amazon: $79 for New Prime Membership with Alexa
- Students can get six months free thanks to Sprint
These obviously won’t work for this promotion as you need to spend $99+. The question then becomes will using any of the three following offers still trigger the 5,000 Membership Rewards? Keep in mind these are for new Amazon prime customers only
Ibotta offering $20 Amazon gift card(confirmed as not working)- Topcashback is offering $15 cash back (reader Papas confirmed this is coding as Amazon Prime and also received the congrats e-mail. Others are saying it codes as amazon.com & another)
- Swagbucks is offering $15 Amazon gift card
My guess is yes, but that is purely just a guess. I’d personally just wait for datapoints to come through to confirm this (or be the datapoint you want to see) in the comments. If they do work then Ibotta would be your best bet, in the end you’d be spending $99 getting an Amazon Prime membership, a $20 gift card and 5,000 Membership Rewards points. If you don’t want to risk it and want to sign up for Amazon prime directly you can do so here (our affiliate link, thanks for supporting the site). If you got the 2,000 Membership Rewards points for spending $50+ at Amazon earlier in the year then you should also be able to stack that offer with this.
I also wonder how well American Express/Amazon have set up this offer and if purchases other than prime would work or not (Update: Amazon Prime shows up as Amazon Prime in the transaction description so won’t work). I’d be very surprised if other purchases over $99 did work, but you never know I guess. I’d strongly recommend reading our full guide to saving money on Amazon if you haven’t already. Gifting Prime membership also doesn’t work.
View more Amex offers here & if you have any questions abut American Express offers then read this post.
- AmEx Offers: An Introduction & Profitable Examples
- How To Sign Up For Multiple American Express Sync Offers
- Amex Offer Credit Not Posting, What to Do?
- How Does American Express Decide Who Receives What AmEx Sync Offer?
- Do I Need To Make A Single Purchase For AmEx Offers, Or Is It Cumulative?
- What Happens When You Have Two Active AmEx Offers For The Same Store?
- Amex Offers: Do Electronic Wallets Trigger the Offer Credit?
