Originally Posted by daveland
I just got off the phone with a supervisor at the company that handles this for AMEX.
He said if my rental was $120 and I had a $10 off coupon, I would NOT have AMEX CDW protection because $10 was not paid with the card.
Sorry, but I don't believe this for one second. Every rental car I've ever rented has shown some discount or other on the contract, and I would imagine the same is true for many other renters, if this were true we would have heard about it much much sooner than now.