[Dead] American Express Delta Gold 75,000 Miles + $50 Offer – No Lifetime Language [PUBLIC LINK – 24th January Only!]

Update 01/25/18: Offer is dead.

Update 01/24/18: Really not sure how we missed this but reader Robert published this link that will work for anybody. Click here to use that link. Keep in mind this offer expires on January 24th, 2018 so you don’t have long to apply. I’m not sure what timezone American Express goes by, or if the expiration date will be enforced.

Update 01/23/18: Reposting as this is due to expire tomorrow. Try this link or this link to see if you are targeted.

Update 01/07/18: There is now a new link and more people seem to be targeted as well. Probably worth trying both links (other one here).

Originally posted on November 14th, 2017. Reposting on December 20th this because it seems like a new batch of people have been targeted for this promotion. Check your e-mails or try the link below. You should also try logging into your Delta account as some people are seeing it directly there.Hat tip to FuRyluzt

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The Offer

Targeted bonus sent out via e-mail. Subject line is Earn up to 75,000 Bonus Miles and More with this Special Offer. You can also try this link to see if you’re eligible.

  • American Express is offering a sign up bonus of up to 75,000 miles + $50 statement credit on the Gold Delta Skymiles Personal & business credit cards. Bonus is broken down as follows:
    • Earn 50,000 bonus miles after you spend $2,000 or more in eligible purchases with your new card within the first 3 months of card membership
    • Earn an additional 25,000 bonus miles after you make an additional $1,000 in eligible purchases within your first six months of card membership
    • Earn a $50 statement credit after making your first Delta purchase within six months of being a card member

Card Details

Our Verdict

The best public bonus has been 60,000 miles + $100 statement credit with the annual fee waived. This is $50 less but an additional 15,000 miles so significantly better. This is the best offer we’ve seen on this card. Officially American Express doesn’t match sign up bonuses if you’ve recently applied, but they do sometimes offer courtesy points. For your best chance it’s recommended to call and escalate to a manager if necessary. For more tips when it comes to American Express please read this post.

If you have a need for Delta miles then this is a good offer and I don’t see it getting any better than this in the short term so I’d recommend applying. I won’t be adding this to the best credit card bonus page due to it’s YMMV nature.

Hat tip to readers elegua, rct12345, Mitchell W, Justin S, Jeffrey H & brodouevenchurn

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Jame
Jame (@guest_586049)
April 24, 2018 23:51

applied via this link on 01/24. met the spending requirement in ~ a month. Never got the welcome bonus. talked with CSR earlier today, was told that I would not receive the points as I had this product before.

Kai
Kai (@guest_597717)
May 22, 2018 09:46

I’m in the same boat. I had a pdf of the terms of the application which does not have the lifetime language in it (i.e. once, before). The rep insisted that I refer to the T&C from the current app link, and the welcome bonus is not available for cardholders who have had the card before. Has anyone had any success receiving the bonus after being initially denied?

zizaozi
zizaozi (@guest_599771)
May 27, 2018 14:14

I have exactly the same issue. I haven’t received any bonus for this right now. I also have the terms and conditions saved but it didn’t help. I even called them and they once told me that I was eligible for this bonus but later when I chatted with Amex they told me that it was a miscommunication. My guess is that they tried to not honor it for most people.

Mike
Mike (@guest_602206)
June 4, 2018 14:10

Hi,
Having the exact same issue, but I was able to finally get a manager who promised that if I could send in a screenshot of the offer T&C that don’t show once per lifetime language, she would honor the offer. Unfortunately I didn’t take a picture of this part myself. If you (or anyone) has the full screenshot or cached webpage including the T&C, I’ll be happy to share the rep’s info, assuming she follows through on the promise with me. Thanks much!
-Mike

zizaozi
zizaozi (@guest_603378)
June 7, 2018 22:56

Yes, I can share the screen shot with you. But let me know how.

Mike
Mike (@guest_603404)
June 8, 2018 02:21

Thanks so much. You can email it to [email protected] if you like, or if you want to upload it to dropbox or similar and post a read-only link here that should be fine too.
If you happen to have screenshots that cover the entire T&C that would be even more helpful. Feel free to send as many screenshots related to the offer as you took; can’t hurt.

Mike
Mike (@guest_602741)
June 6, 2018 06:59

Hi Kai,
Any chance you (or any other readers) still have this PDF of the terms and conditions? Or a screenshot? As I commented further down this chain, I have a rep who promised to honor the signup if I could provide the T&C for this offer, showing the missing “if you’ve had this product” line. If she follow through I’ll share her contact info on this post so you guys can give it a try too.
Thanks!

Kai
Kai (@guest_609254)
June 27, 2018 15:28

This is turning out to be a saga. Was told by agent no, elevated to a supervisor, who requested for the document. Responded 48 hours later and said that the marketing department (paraphrase) determine that the language in the terms and condition shows that the document is NOT from the website. I was pretty astounded — the marketing department is basically implying that part of the doc is fabricated. She went on and referenced the need for offer code to receive the welcome bonus for a card that you already had before. Was offered/given a 5k miles for my inconvenience. The only recourse now is to write in a snail mail to the headquarter. I plan on continuing to pursue. I do wonder can they flat out deny this is a T&C from their site, and if there’s recourse to challenge that.

David Michigan
David Michigan (@guest_566217)
March 2, 2018 20:41

I called up customer service since I applied and was approved on January 1st, after having been targeted with mail, for the bonus and statement credit. It’s now March 2nd, and have not received either bonus promotion even though I met the terms. Customer support said he will open a support ticket, and I should call back, and maybe I’ll get bonus, maybe I won’t. And do I have the promotion number, and I didn’t keep it. I have a screen shot about the promotion terms when I applied online using the promotion number I was targeted with.
So I have opened up a complaint with the CFPB.

zizaozi
zizaozi (@guest_599773)
May 27, 2018 14:17

Did you get the bonus now?

tassojunior
tassojunior (@guest_563552)
February 23, 2018 21:27

With most of the banks, including AmEx you can call a CSR and they will look and see if it shows you had the card and when. Just did this with AmEx when I was solicited for The Biz Gold which I knew I had already had. It had the once language too.

Also did this with Citi and marked my calendar for 24 months since closed.

bo knows
bo knows (@guest_558038)
February 6, 2018 14:13

has anyone gotten 75k posted using the public 75k offer link?

usernamechuck
usernamechuck (@guest_560702)
February 15, 2018 03:02

I just chatted with Amex, they say acquisition was declined because I previously had the card. Hmm. Hoping I have some screen shots…

bo knows
bo knows (@guest_563545)
February 23, 2018 20:54

my statement just closed for the first month…50k+2k showing up on the statement…I made 2k purchase, but hasn’t been posted to my mileage on Amex front page, hasn’t been transferred to Delta . not sure if I will get this 50k or not.

a friend of mine has the same application situation as mine, but his first statement shows only 2k miles for the 2k spending, no 50k showing up. we both owned Delta cards before and both applied the 50k+25k public offer w/o the once life time bonus offer language.

usernamechuck
usernamechuck (@guest_573065)
March 22, 2018 15:44

I’m wondering if anyone else has received the miles… We only met the min spend recently, but the 50K did not post (yet).

larry
larry (@guest_574311)
March 26, 2018 21:13

I applied and got approved early morning (about 240am est) of 1/25/2018, i thought i missed the 24th deadline but to my surprise, my miles posted today for 77,381 which include 75k bonus miles, but i never got the 50$ bill credit even i bought a egift card from delta online 10 days after i got the credit card. not sure what happened, may try again to buy something from delta to get the 50$ credit since i still have 4 month to do it. Thanks for the public link, now its time to figure out what/how to use the 78k miles. Btw, 80% of my spending was from gift card at walmart mixed with some bananas, lol

Miller508
Miller508 (@guest_555116)
January 28, 2018 21:29

Update:
Got 75k points after $3k in spend.
Took about a week for points to come in after I charged just over the minimum spend.

Notes: I had the card last year, I think 60k points then canceled.

Don
Don (@guest_554232)
January 25, 2018 12:41

Approved two weeks ago using this link after having this card about two years ago. $50 Delta e-cert was purchased about 10 days ago but still no $50 credit from Amex. Either I ran into a glitch or Amex is cracking down, despite the lack of lifetime language.

Spencer
Spencer (@guest_554195)
January 25, 2018 11:26

I got the 60k offer a month ago and figured I would try this 75k offer and was approved. I just received the 60k points and will be shocked/super happy if I get both sign up bonuses.

usernamechuck
usernamechuck (@guest_554189)
January 25, 2018 11:10

Hey DOC, correct me if I’m wrong, I can only use Delta miles like pennies if I’ve got one of their cards…? If that’s so, it seems like a significant benefit to those cards, given (a) Delta’s frequently awful award availability / pricing, and (b) the increase in good sale prices. A $700 flight to Europe is 35K each way using points as pennies, and of course the flexibility is much greater.

harry nguyen
harry nguyen (@guest_554162)
January 25, 2018 09:42

I got a friend, he has a referral link of 70K but he has to get approved first and then he will send me his link.

Joe
Joe (@guest_554144)
January 25, 2018 04:18

All links are dead