Originally Posted by
findark
I'm fairly sure the actual credit trigger is against a list of specific merchants by ID, but the process that keeps that list up to date could have fuzzy matching errors.
well it seems that, amex have difficulty identifying restaurants depending on how they process their payment
restaurants appear as chowbus
Gold $50 Resy Credits don’t work? : r/amex
while it seems people got the credit for non-resy restaurants due to chowbus
Got Resy $50 Credit using Amex Gold at Chowbus Restaurant?? : r/amex. in face someone even got credit for non-dining spend
known problem i got my $50 credit from buying clothing. idk if they’re gonna reverse my credit it’s been a few weeks and haven’t seen any reversal
btw, i only suggested the name matching because i cant see how using merchant id will lead to false positives, unless amex recycle their merchant id, which should not happen. but now it seems like identifying resy restaurants isnt a straightforward matter at all