Giftcard purchase to meet minimum spend requirement?
Jan 14, 2015, 3:31 pm
#17
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: YYZ
Programs: AMEX AC CX UA AA DL
Posts: 3,008
When You Will Not Earn Points You will not earn points for the following:
- charges processed, billed or prepaid to your Card prior to your enrolment in the program
- interest
- Card fees
- purchase of American Express Travellers Cheques and Gift Cheques [and gift cards?]
- Program enrolment fees
- balance transfers and credit card cheques
- cash advances
- loading prepaid cards
- the purchase of foreign currency
- any other transaction we tell you is excluded from earning points
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If you buy gift cards through a 3rd party, they don't know that it's gift card. But from their own website....
- charges processed, billed or prepaid to your Card prior to your enrolment in the program
- interest
- Card fees
- purchase of American Express Travellers Cheques and Gift Cheques [and gift cards?]
- Program enrolment fees
- balance transfers and credit card cheques
- cash advances
- loading prepaid cards
- the purchase of foreign currency
- any other transaction we tell you is excluded from earning points
==================================
If you buy gift cards through a 3rd party, they don't know that it's gift card. But from their own website....
Jan 14, 2015, 6:26 pm
#18
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: West
Posts: 3,357
When You Will Not Earn Points You will not earn points for the following:
- charges processed, billed or prepaid to your Card prior to your enrolment in the program
- interest
- Card fees
- purchase of American Express Travellers Cheques and Gift Cheques [and gift cards?]
- Program enrolment fees
- balance transfers and credit card cheques
- cash advances
- loading prepaid cards
- the purchase of foreign currency
- any other transaction we tell you is excluded from earning points
==================================
If you buy gift cards through a 3rd party, they don't know that it's gift card. But from their own website....
- charges processed, billed or prepaid to your Card prior to your enrolment in the program
- interest
- Card fees
- purchase of American Express Travellers Cheques and Gift Cheques [and gift cards?]
- Program enrolment fees
- balance transfers and credit card cheques
- cash advances
- loading prepaid cards
- the purchase of foreign currency
- any other transaction we tell you is excluded from earning points
==================================
If you buy gift cards through a 3rd party, they don't know that it's gift card. But from their own website....
Last edited by 1Newflyer; Jan 15, 2015 at 9:14 am
Jan 15, 2015, 9:28 am
#20
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK
Posts: 223
I bought 10k worth of amex gc via befrugal.com to meet the business gold spend and it posted and I got the 75k points and I'm waiting for my statement to cut for the other 10k.
it does work, but maybe not through amex site directly. you should always be using a cashback portal anyway for amex gc, you get 1.5% back (variable)!
it does work, but maybe not through amex site directly. you should always be using a cashback portal anyway for amex gc, you get 1.5% back (variable)!
Jan 15, 2015, 9:44 am
#21
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada
Programs: Aeroplan, Bonvoy, Alaska, Avios
Posts: 1,290
I bought 10k worth of amex gc via befrugal.com to meet the business gold spend and it posted and I got the 75k points and I'm waiting for my statement to cut for the other 10k.
it does work, but maybe not through amex site directly. you should always be using a cashback portal anyway for amex gc, you get 1.5% back (variable)!
it does work, but maybe not through amex site directly. you should always be using a cashback portal anyway for amex gc, you get 1.5% back (variable)!
Jan 15, 2015, 11:21 am
#23
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,956
The site has changed since the last time I looked at it, which is not very recently. I think that there used to be a FAQ section with a straightforward disclosure that gift card purchases do not earn Membership Rewards, but I find nothing like that now. I don't know how the customer is supposed to know. As noted earlier the card terms do not explicitly prohibit gift cards only gift cheques, which are essentially travellers cheques.
Last edited by mia; Jan 15, 2015 at 11:40 am
Jan 16, 2015, 7:38 am
#29
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,956
Membership Rewards points do not post until the a few days after the next statement is generated. You should see the base points (one per dollar) in the pending category. The bonus points may, or may not ever, appear in the pending category.