AMEX has a target offering for residents in the DFW and Boston area!!

"Now you can earn extra rewards when you shop with your American Express® Card from October 1 to October 31, 2003. From pet stores to drugstores and department stores, you can earn double points, double miles, or extra cash back."

DOUBLE


Looks like a great time to buy Savings Bonds. $20K on the Skymiles card and $20K on the Rewards Plus Gold.

Unfortunately Starwood Card is not in the promo.

Thanks for the link.

I tried to enroll, but it didn't like my card. Does anyone else have problems with enrolling?

I don't find Savings Bonds on the list of double-mile purchases, unless they count under "internet."

That's what I'm shooting for. Will probably call and confirm first.

Thanks - I'm in. I'll have to carry a printout of the T's & C's - I'll never remember what's on the list. But Costco qualifies!

It might be a good idea ask them via email so that you have the answer in writing.

It was not working an hour ago but it just took my enrollment

"Unfortunately, this Card is not eligible for this promotion. For assistance, please call 1-800-AXP-1234 (297-1234" Guess its really region specific or otherwise targeted.

Can you change your address to Boston or DFW area and get electronic statement in mail ?.

Thanks.

my registration took on the 2nd try last nite...1st said system down or equivalent.

Thanks for the link. I just got my promo piece in the mail today.

I too just registered (I was able to register not only my card linked with Membership Rewards but also my Cash Back card - it gives up to 5% cashback).

Now, the big question is - just purchase of Internet Savings Bonds count????? I don't know if the 'internet' catch all is going to exclude this.

I too am interested to know if it is going to include Savings Bond purchases....

Has anybody gotten the scoop yet?

Another *very funky* AMEX promo. Sigh. Sure gets old. I thought I had seen it all - now I think I'm getting there with this flawed scheme.

I live about 100 miles away from Dallas. Plan to be in the Dallas area this weekend and will be of course using both (either/or as I choose) my AMEX CENT or AMEX/Starwood Optima card.

Silly me - I had the notion I should register one or both and make use of them while in Dallas. Nope. Appears its not "good enough" to simply "spend money" and "charge" in the Dallas or Boston area. One must live there also, as the AMEX site presumably only allows cards to be registered if the CARDHOLDER ALSO lives in the area.

Geez...can these promos be more surgically specific, or should I say "restrictive" ? Let me guess - next time AMEX will specify the cardholder must charge only on Sundays...on a rainy day...while standing on one foot...eating a sour pickel...and the charges is only doubled in Kalamazoo, MI, or Macon, GA.

Does AMEX not *get it* as to how foolish they look with these inane promotions ? Oh, and how targeted was this ? AMEX took a full page ad in the Dallas Morning News to announce this screwed up scheme, a paper which is delivered right to my driveway 365 days a year...so I get to read about it in my daily paper, but apparently aren't eligible because of AMEX's "gotcha clauses". Who in the world thinks these up at AMEX ?

I fuilly respect the value, and power of, targeted promotions to an organization to test new product ideas, induce a desired consumer behavior, etc, but this AMEX promo seems to be a half-breed between a targeted promotion, and a poorly-thought out implementation of a regional promotion (hence the full page ad in the Dallas Morning News, and, I suspect, in the Bostom local paper also).

===> Would anyone care to speculate what AMEX is trying to accomplish with such a scatterbrained promotion as this ?

Anybody ever figure out if "Savings Bonds Online" purchases with AmEx card counts for this promo (ie: earning double?)