What to do with that $50 Saks Credit from Amex [Repost]

Update 12/30/18: Not much time to use your credit up for 2018, do this now if you haven’t already.

A lot of people are trying to figure out how to use up the new $50 Saks credit from American Express. We’ll do a quick recap of options here in this post.

As a reminder, American Express added a new benefit to the American Express Personal Platinum card offering a $50 credit towards Saks Fifth Avenue purchases. You receive a $50 credit on purchases made from January 1st until June 30th and another $50 credit for purchases made from July 1st until December 31st, 2018.

You need to enroll first at this link. You’ll see ‘Enrolled’ if already enrolled.

A few options (some affiliate links below):

Let us know what you’ll be buying in the comments or if you have a good idea. Only a month left for this credit, and worth doing it a few days early to ensure it credits in 2018. I’d recommend reviewing all the details about this Saks $50 credit in this dedicated post.

Remember to use a shopping portal for your online purchases. Also, there’s an Amex Offer to get 2x Membership Rewards points; worth adding that before shopping as well. You can use Shoprunner to get free two-day shipping.

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Sam
Sam (@guest_1103640)
December 5, 2020 15:31

Since there is no SAKS fifth avenue store where I live, is it possible to buy a SAKS fifth avenue physical gift card from a SAKS OFF fifth store nearby to trigger the $50 credit ?

Joey
Joey (@guest_711924)
January 25, 2019 15:06

Amex does claw back the credit if you return the online order (it took 2 months for my clawback to happen)

Sparky
Sparky (@guest_702405)
January 8, 2019 11:27

You can signup for emails for a 10% off online code here: If you’re using gmail you can also add a filter parameter for as many coupons as you need. For example: Signup with [email protected], [email protected], etc. The email code comes in about 12 hours and expires in about 30 days.
https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/html/email_popup/email_collect_popup_main.jsp

tom
tom (@guest_702281)
January 8, 2019 02:59

Does anyone know if the AMEX Platinum personal card has 100k sing up bonus of its mostly for AMEX Platinum Business?

Dante
Dante (@guest_701620)
January 7, 2019 13:04

How about 2019? or did this end in 2018?

Dante
Dante (@guest_701819)
January 7, 2019 16:19

tx, I enrolled last year and I see that there’s no need to re-enroll. Will to go to the store to purchase another $50 gc and together with my daughter’s $100 gc wiil buy her a $215 perfume for a net cost of $15. 🙂 I hope there’s no restriction on using gc’s.

https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/bond-no-9-new-york-saks-fifth-avenue-for-her/product/0426689857016?CAWELAID=1354178533&site_refer=GGLPRADS001&cagpspn=pla

JK
JK (@guest_700955)
January 6, 2019 02:09

My purchase from 12/26 posted on 12/31. The credit showed up 1/4. I guess I need to call them to verify that they applied last quarter’s credit…

Hank
Hank (@guest_879647)
January 17, 2020 15:33
  JK

Any word on if that was the 2019 or 2020 credit?

david
david (@guest_879655)
January 17, 2020 15:46

From my own experiences, I can say that it should definitely have applied for 2019. I made a purchase on 12/31 (I had needed a replacement card) and it was not credited for 2019 and they said there was nothing I could do to make it apply for 2019. Worse yet I had made another purchase on 1/1 and so I only got credit for one.

Bryan
Bryan (@guest_700616)
January 4, 2019 23:27

I made a purchase on 12/30 and it showed up as pending 12/30, but when it actually posted to my card, it showed up as 1/2. Bummer! Do you guys think I will have any luck in getting the credit back-dated?

CM
CM (@guest_698221)
December 31, 2018 23:06

I’m trying to buy some stuff with Shoprunner, and I’m getting the shipping charge as 15.00 when I select the free shipping, which doesn’t make much sense. Any ideas?

CM
CM (@guest_698485)
January 1, 2019 17:22
  CM

OK, to answer my own question, there appear to have some bugs if they think your IP address is outside of the US. You have to make sure that traffic to “www.saksfifthavenue.com” goes through a US-based IP address. What a nuisance!

Otherwise, you can still get free shipping with “FREESHIP”, but they supposedly charge $15 for the free shipping with Shoprunner.

usernamechuck
usernamechuck (@guest_698140)
December 31, 2018 17:14

My wife’s order (placed 4 days ago) still hasn’t shipped. Argh. Anyone know if placing order to pick up in-store would be more likely to post immediately?

anon
anon (@guest_698127)
December 31, 2018 16:54

I am pretty sure you are only getting one $50 saks credit even if you have multiple personal platinum card. I tried using my Mercedes and Morgan Stanley platinums to spend two $50 purchase, but I only got one “great news” email after the purchase. I think Amex treats this benefits like American Express offer now (I.e. only one statement credit per person) …..

dudeious
dudeious (@guest_698146)
December 31, 2018 17:25

wrong, you get $50 for each. you can confirm enrollment via rep on chat if you have to. source: have earned credit across 6 different personal plats all linked on same account. two vanilla, mercedes, schwab, morgan stanley, and ameriprise.