American Express Membership Rewards - Gold Card Promotion: Spend $50 at Amazon.com & Get 1000 Bonus Points

Just use your American Express® Gold Card at checkout, and you can earn 1,000 bonus points for a purchase of $50 or more at Amazon.com now through March 31st.1 That’s in addition to the points you can normally earn
for purchases.2

No matter which of the millions of items available at Amazon.com you choose, use your Card at checkout to take advantage of the protection, benefits and rewards American Express provides.

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(1) To be eligible purchase must be made at Amazon.com between March 18, 2008 and March 31, 2008. A minimum single transaction of $50 with your American Express® Gold Card is required to earn the 1,000 bonus points. Credit will be awarded to your account 6-8 weeks after promotion ends. Offer valid for a single purchase only. Offer is good for solicited Card members only. Charges for payments made via PayPal and other online payment intermediaries do not qualify. Purchases made at IMDb and ShopBop do not apply. Credits for purchase returns will result in a corresponding reversal of the 1,000 bonus points.

(2) Terms and Conditions for the Membership Rewards® program apply. Visit membershiprewards.com/terms for more information. Participating partners and available rewards are subject to change without notice.

Hmm, I got a green (AMEX) card and got a similar promotion email:

Just use your American Express® Card at checkout, and you can earn a
$10 statement credit for a purchase of $50 or more at Amazon.com now through March 31st. That’s in addition to the points you can normally earn
for purchases.

No matter which of the millions of items available at Amazon.com you choose, use your Card at checkout to take advantage of the protection, benefits and rewards American Express provides.

(should have similar t&c)

Just use your Platinum Card® from American Express at checkout, and you can earn 1,500 bonus points for a purchase of $50 or more at Amazon.com now through March 31st.1 That’s in addition to the points
you can normally earn for purchases.2

No matter which of the millions of items available at Amazon.com you choose, use your Card at checkout to take advantage of the protection, benefits and rewards American Express provides.


(1) To be eligible purchase must be made at Amazon.com between March 18, 2008 and March 31, 2008. A minimum single transaction of $50 with your Platinum Card® from American Express is required to earn the 1,500 bonus points. Credit will be awarded to your account 6-8 weeks after promotion ends. Offer valid for a single purchase only. Offer is good for solicited Card members only. Charges for payments made via PayPal and other online payment intermediaries do not qualify. Purchases made at IMDb and ShopBop do not apply. Credits for purchase returns will result in a corresponding reversal of the 1,500 bonus points. POID K569:0003. Bonus ID 0851.

(2) Terms and Conditions for the Membership Rewards First(R) program apply. Visit membershiprewards.com/terms for more information. Participating partners and available rewards are subject to without notice.

I just bought a $50 gift card (had the 1k MR points offer)... Couldn't find anything in the T&C that prevented this.

Where are you guys seeing this deal? BonusPointsMall or directly on Amazon?

Ethan

Where are you guys seeing this deal? BonusPointsMall or directly on Amazon?

Ethan

It came as a targeted email to me this morning (arrived 1:23am EDT) from American Express.

Just use your Blue Card from American Express at checkout, and you can earn 1,750 bonus points for a purchase of $50 or more at Amazon.com now through March 31st.1 That’s in addition to the points
you can normally earn for purchases.2

No matter which of the millions of items available at Amazon.com you choose, use your Card at checkout to take advantage of the protection, benefits and rewards American Express provides.


(1) To be eligible purchase must be made at Amazon.com between March 18, 2008 and March 31, 2008. A minimum single transaction of $50 with your Platinum Card® from American Express is required to earn the 1,750 bonus points. Credit will be awarded to your account 6-8 weeks after promotion ends. Offer valid for a single purchase only. Offer is good for solicited Card members only. Charges for payments made via PayPal and other online payment intermediaries do not qualify. Purchases made at IMDb and ShopBop do not apply. Credits for purchase returns will result in a corresponding reversal of the 1,750 bonus points. POID K569:0003. Bonus ID 0855.

(2) Terms and Conditions for the Membership Rewards First(R) program apply. Visit membershiprewards.com/terms for more information. Participating partners and available rewards are subject to without notice.

you have to sign up for the email promotions on the amex website

Where are you guys seeing this deal? BonusPointsMall or directly on Amazon?

Ethan
you have to subscribe to the promotion emails at the amex website. These offers come thru email ...

My girlfriend also got the 1000 point offer for her Blue card.

RATZ. Amazon *never* has promos; they're never on BonusPointsMall, AAdvantageEshop, etc., and apparently I'm only signed up for AmExcursions via email. Sigh.

Can someone give me a link or point me in the direction to get signed up to these promo emails?

Once you log in, on the right side of the page is the Account Services box, and in it is a link for "Update Email Settings". From there you can enable offers via email.

I'm signed up for email offers but I didn't get it. Bummer.

I'm signed up for email offers but I didn't get it. Bummer.

Yes, but is it only targeted Gold card members or anyone using a Gold card? If you simply make the required purchase and checkout using your Gold card it seems like you'd get the bonus, no?

Yes, but is it only targeted Gold card members or anyone using a Gold card? If you simply make the required purchase and checkout using your Gold card it seems like you'd get the bonus, no?

The fine print explicitly states that the offer is good for "solicited card member only." I wouldn't expect the bonus points if you didn't get the offer directly.

Just received the offer this morning spend $50 or more and get 1500 bonus points on my platinum card

Yes, but is it only targeted Gold card members or anyone using a Gold card? If you simply make the required purchase and checkout using your Gold card it seems like you'd get the bonus, no?

No, it says "targeted only."
Amex is pretty good at discriminating non-targeted purchases.

I just was offered a $10 statement credit for a purchase of at least $50 at Amazon...I'd rather have the MR points :rolleyes:

I just was offered a $10 statement credit for a purchase of at least $50 at Amazon...I'd rather have the MR points :rolleyes:

isnt that effectively 20% a $50 purchase though? Not too bad.

I also received this. Coworker just got a similar offer for SPG Amex, and I'm crossing my fingers that I get one for that too

isnt that effectively 20% a $50 purchase though? Not too bad.

I also received this. Coworker just got a similar offer for SPG Amex, and I'm crossing my fingers that I get one for that too

Yeah but the cost of 1000MR is 25. So MR would have been a better value.

I just was offered a $10 statement credit for a purchase of at least $50 at Amazon...I'd rather have the MR points :rolleyes:

Ditto for my gold card.

1500MR for $50 on Plat.

1500MR for $50 on Plat.

Yep, just got the email regarding PLAT, $50 or more purchase equals 1500 MR

I wonder if you can buy items sold by other vendors on the amazon.com site and receive the bonus? For example, stuff sold by target.

I got the offer as well finally but not for my gold card, Delta Card or Starwood Card but instead for my Hilton HHonors card which I haven't used in several months. My offer is 1000 hilton hhonors points for $50 in spend by March 31, 2008 at amazon. Clearly the membership rewards or cashback offers are more attractive then the Hilton HHonors points but I will probably still take advantage of this offer as I have several things I need to buy at amazon anyway.

No email for me. I didn't receive this offer for any of my amex cards.

For those who haven't received this email offer, you still might. I just received the 1,500 MR offer for spending $50 at Amazon using my Platinum card.

Now if they'd only send me the same promo for my Starwood card!

I just re-read my email from Amex for the Plat 1500 MR offer and it ends on Monday March 31st! Thanks Amex for the last minute notice!

Does purchasing a gift card qualify for this promo?

So I received the 1500MR for $50 Amazon spend email on my Plat. And I placed an order from Amazon totaling $57. But Amazon has broken it into multiple shipments and has billed my AmEx separately for each shipment. So no charge of $50 or more appears on my AmEx. But if I go to Amazon and request an order invoice, it shows the full $57 for the total order.

The promo says "single purchase transaction", not "single item."

Has anyone obtained clarification from AmEx about this issue? I dread trying to get an answer from CS about this, so I'm hoping someone has done the hard work for me already :)

Has anyone obtained clarification from AmEx about this issue? I dread trying to get an answer from CS about this, so I'm hoping someone has done the hard work for me already :)

no--but since i know amazon does this all the time i just purchased a gift card for myself (which doesn't seem to be prohibited by the rules of the promotion) ...

I bought an item worth $50 @ amazon.com and the 1000 MR bonus points posted to my account today.

I bought an item worth $50 @ amazon.com and the 1000 MR bonus points posted to my account today.

Do they show up differently in the points statement?

I rarely look at my MR statement and I'll admit that I have no idea how it works, but I see two different postings for 4/5/08 and neither are for the total of my bill the previous month or anything else I can figure out. Oh well.

My points posted as well -- purchased GC.

Ah, shiznit- I'd forgotten about this! :mad:

My $10 posted.

I made my purchase the 30th of March. Amazon charged about 1/2 on the 30th and the the balance on the 2nd April on my Plt. I wonder if they will give me the 1500 MR? I forgot Amazon did charges that way.

I thought the MR points did not show up until after your statement closed?