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The Offer
No direct link, targeted offer
- Get 20% back as a one-time statement credit by using your enrolled Card to make a single purchase of $19.99 or more on any Google One annual plan online at one.google.com/u/1/plans by 11/27/2021
The Fine Print
- Limit $20 back
- Valid online only at one.google.com/u/1/plans and app via Android devices only.
- Valid only on purchases made in US Dollars.
- Excludes all other Google products and services.
Our Verdict
I recently signed up for Google One as I needed the extra storage space, so this is a nice discount for me. Really only useful if you’re using Google One already.
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I’ve been on a monthly plan for a long time just to keep activity on my oldest card, but switched it to annual for this.
I have this Amex offer on 3 of my 4 Amex logins and I currently have a Google One 200GB $30/yr subscription.
P1 this appears to be available on my Gold, BCP, BBP, Marriott, Hilton Aspire and Hilton NAF cards.
P1 Amex Business Platinum
P1 Amex Personal Platinum
P2 Not available on their Hilton Aspire, Amex Plat AU, ED and EDP cards.
A few questions for DoC readers:
1) Regarding first P1 listed above where this appears to be available on all 6 cards listed, its really only available for a single use? After it’s used on one card does it disappear from the others?
2) What about the separate Business Plat and Personal Plat cards? Are those considered separate and not affected since they’re own their own unique Amex logins or does it not matter and it’s based on SSN? My “Business” Plat is a sole prop using my SSN.
3) If my math is correct, I may have a total of 3 offers for up to $60 back which I’d like to maximize by extending my existing Google One subscription, is that possible by prepaying for future years? To max this out I’ll need to spend $100 per charge which is perfect for the 2TB $99.99/yr plan, it would be nice if I could get that for 3 years straight.
How would you use multiple cqrds to spend on the annual plan? Don’t understand how you would do that
Make separate payments? Assuming of course Google One allows it and would auto extend my subscription towards 2022, 2023, 2024, etc.
I may just call Google One and ask their customer service.
How do you make separate payments on a Google One subscription?
Good luck with that, google has pretty shit customer service. It seems like they do not charge until you need to renew, prepaying does not look like an option.
I have not test it but most likely you will get credit just reload your Google play balance….given that the google one and google play use the same merchant ID to process their payment.
Amex offer will disappear once you add to anyone of the card UNLEES each card has a different login.
Amex changed their system a few years back which eliminated adding offer to multiple card
I’d like to share a few data points and answer some of the questions above and below.. First of.. right now on some Amex cards there is an active offer for 30% back Google One data plan purchases, which expires on 2/18/23. It seems to be one time, as the language on my offer states: “Limit of 1 statement credit, up to a total of $30 per Card Member.” And before adding it to one of your cards think which card you want it activated on. You can’t add it to multiple cards even though it might be listed there.
Now, considering all the limitations when making payments for google subscriptions (such as not being able to select initial pre-payment amount or off-schedule payments), THERE IS a way to PREPAY your Google One subscription while taking advantage of these Amex offers. Here is the how-to:
1. Make sure your Amex card is set as “Primary” for Google One subscription (and Amex offer was activated on the card)
2. Upgrade to any plan of your choice costing more, say Premium 2TB for $99.99. You will be charged this amount immediately upon confirming your selection and hence redeeming your Amex offer.
Since the subscription payments are non-refundable you can only downgrade the plan or keep it till it expires, if you’d like to cancel at some point.
3. Now, go ahead and DOWNGRADE to your plan of choice and it will prorate and recalculate your combined credit balance accordingly, showing you next renewal date in a distant future. Congrats, you’ve renewed your subscription for a few more years with 20-30% discount. Btw, when downgrading it will not charge you for an extra period, it’s smart enough to apply freshly created account credits. One more tip, downgrade options are available via Google One app and I was unable to downgrade in the regular browser/webpage. Good luck and enjoy!
Yes, if you have this 30% Amex offer on your card you will get full 30% (up to $30) when your Amex card gets charged 99.99+tax for 2TB plan. And since it’s a non-refundable transaction, downgrading will not cause a refund. Once you downgrade Google will see you have more than enough credit to cover 200Gb plan and will simply prorate your entire prepaid balance (99.99+previous balance) to recalculate the number of months it now covers. So, your next renewal date will be at some point in 2026. And you will get a notification from Amex right away that your offer has been redeemed.
Can you do this multiple times with different Amex cards?
It works, thanks!!
Next payment: $19.99 on Jun 24, 2028 🙂
I’m always glad to contribute 🙂 AND I have another interesting data point – I chose to redeem this offer on my Blue Cash Preferred and it turns out I’ve got some extra cashback besides $30. System credited me extra $5 towards another offer “Spend $75, get $5 on Cable and Internet bill”, and qualified this transaction as a 6% Cashback for Select US Streaming Subscriptions. All in all I got 30+5+6.53 = $41.53 cashback for this deal. If you guys have those offers available, add them to the card as well before doing upgrade/downgrade for Google One.
Also, for those curious – it codes as “GOOGLE *GOOGLE STORAG.CO/HELPPAY# CA” as someone mentioned that simply reloading your google play balance would trigger the cashback with this deal – I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Maybe someone is willing to give it a shot and report back.
Worked for me immediately. Upgraded to 2 TB $99.99 plan. Was charged. Then downgraded in the Google One app. Next payment date is 2027. Thanks!
You’re very welcome Avi! Glad you were able to take advantage of the offer and found a way to downgrade in the browser. I’m hoping this prepayment allowed us to lock the price for several years and when the price will go up Google will not charge us more until the next renewal period 🙂
Just so everyone is aware this glitch has been fixed by Google. Now when you try to downgrade it does not go into effect until the date your upgraded plan expires (i.e. 2024).
That’s unfortunate. Thanks for letting us know!
Wish I had seen this sooner. It’s true. You can downgrade now but it will only go in effect at time of renewal.
Unfortunately the Plat Digital Entertainment credit doesn’t include this.
Already subscribed to annual plan several months ago…how can I get this offer to work? I think it doesn’t make sense that I just cancel current subscription and repay the annual plan because there is no refund for the remaining plan period…