Most of us are aware of the limit which the American Express login has in showing just 100 AmEx Offers. It got even worse recently when they added dozens of these % cashback offers in partnership with Drop. It boggles my mind that a behemoth company like Amex hasn’t fixed this problem after all these years. And the special link to bypass the 100 limit doesn’t seem to work any longer.
To remedy this, we add garbage offers to one card and that causes the hidden offers to appear. While I typically peruse Amex Offers in a web browser, I noticed that adding them in the Amex app is much quicker. You can click on the + and then immediately touch anywhere higher on the screen to cancel out the pop-up and then quickly + the next offer, etc.
I’m sure many people knew this for long, but figured it’s worth sharing. (#firstworldproblems) I’ll typically add the garbage offers on a card not in use, and then save the good ones for active cards.
For those adding offers in a web browser, readers in the comments give a suggestion to add offers from bottom to top for smoother quick adding experience.
- Follow-Up Post: Free Chrome Extension Easily Adds All Available AmEx Offers
Excellent tip! I wasn’t aware of this. Thanks!
I used the script that is run from a Chrome Bookmark and it works great for me (Option 1 in this article): https://dannydealguru.com/quickly-add-all-amex-offers/
I couldn’t get the manual JS Script to work via Console.
I originally wrote the following comment yesterday on an Amex Offer for Kroger Supermarkets page on this site, but reading the above post by Chuck actually was what had started me down the route of looking anew at the offers section of my Amex account, so I thought I’d put my comment here in this discussion area: Last night, I learned from this site that the Amex offers number in the hundreds, but only show 100 at a time in your Amex account, so you have to load a gazillion offers to your Amex card in order to see what else is lurking behind the scenes. I can’t believe that I didn’t know that before – I had assumed that the 100 deals they showed me were the only ones that I was being offered at that time. I also learned last night that it takes forever on their site to click the little buttons (I had to do that for 330 offers), that the ordeal was almost* pointless since I didn’t see any offers in the “hidden” offers that I’d want to use at the moment, that minimizing the (laptop) screen to 33% made it more efficient to click the little buttons without much mouse movement, that it’s not just me who gets plied with multiple wine offers… and I realized with horror that apparently they send reminder emails when an offer you’ve added to your card is about to expire, so I can look forward to hundreds of those coming to my email account in the next couple of months. *However, it wasn’t totally worthless, because I think now that I have no current offers available for my card (that I haven’t already seen and added to the card yesterday in order to get rid of them), it will be a lot easier to skim through and clear out the new, incoming ones when they drop onto my account (unless Amex constantly adds scores and scores of them all the time to peoples’ accounts… if they do that, I’m not going to spend that much time mucking around with their stupid system). Basically, the few of these offers that I have used over the years, have been noteworthy enough that I have seen them mentioned online (on a savings/earnings site such as this one), or I have happened to notice them when I’ve been in my online Amex account for a different reason, and I’m fine having that low level of involvement. Anyway, I’m just posting here to give the data point that I didn’t have any Kroger (or other supermarket chain) offers in all 330 offers I went through last night on my lone Amex card. (Actually, I see that this posting must have just been posted an hour or something ago, since it has this morning’s date on it of Dec. 8, so maybe something new is from a supermarket in my Amex offers now… I will check… no, I don’t have any new offers.) —-… Read more »
there is a long time F12 + JS way to do this for most browsers
AMEX mobile app is used to let you delete useless AMEX offers. Now they remove that function : (
Chuck – You’re the best. great info!
There’s also a javascript code you can bookmark from Github that automatically adds them. It will run in a background tab while you do other stuff. It’s only a few lines of code. All it does is click the offer buttons for you. Search github for “American Express – Add all offers to card at once”. Not affiliated in anyway, I found it passed around another forum.
I recently did this and it has been an absolute game changer, it may appear intimidating but after spending 10 minutes to figure it out … it was so freaking cool. You click one button and your web browser automatically clicks and adds all existing Amex Offers. I love it.
There’s no known privacy implications when using that code? Just checking before I invest time. Ty!
It’s only a few lines of code. It looks for the offer add button and clicks it, then waits a random amount of time to search again. Really, that’s all it can do.
I’m no cyber security expert but as @devin stated it’s just a few lines of code and takes just a few minutes to implement. When reviewing the code I don’t see any websites where it’s sending your AmericanExpress.com login credentials to, no IP addresses, it simply searches for the add button and clicks it for you, non-stop, when you have 11 cards it’s a huge time saver.
https://milestomemories.com/this-cool-trick-lets-you-add-all-amex-offers-at-once/
Awesome username BTW, I love it.
I use an app called maxrewards, it lets me sync and activate automatically all offers across credit cards (including the hidden amex offers) so I do not even have to think about it. You need to have the premium version to do it, as the free one just shows the best credit card to use in different scenarios and track card benefits. I do not know if I can post this here but here is my link, we both get a free month: https://maxrewards.app.link/andreas82
Please tell me you don’t have to give your bank logins to this company?
They use Plaid which is something you’ve probably seen anytime you’ve connected a bank to another bank. Same API used by services like PersonalCapital
Maxrewards DOES NOT USE Plaid, they “bragged” in their Reddit AMA that they have a homebrew connection. From there it went as well as you would expect.
Literally LOL’d from your comment – thanks!!
Except MaxRewards has been having a ton of issues loading AMEX offers correctly lately. I would hold off on signing up right now because there’s a possibility AMEX found the exploit MaxRewards uses and fixed it. Without the multi-card add function, I’m not sure the app itself is worth the subscription.
I use card pointers to add the amex offers and I use max rewards to actually check which offers have been activated.
What exploit? Amex and MaxRewards have a business partnership
Do you guys register all your amex cards under the same online id or a separate one for each?
Separate but it doesn’t matter now. It used to work per profile.
Yup. I do bottom to top in browser and add much faster on the app.