Fee free code EMDECWER. Used today and worked fine.

Several months ago I was able to register an American Express gift card over the phone (a painful process, giving lots of information to someone with limited English fluency in a very distant nation). This evening I tried to register another Amex gift card (purchased locally), and the process completely failed.

Back when I was successful at registering the card, the secret was to press zero on the phone at every prompt. This evening that process finally got me to a recording asking for my "agent code." Dead end!

Of course, with the card un-registered, you can't buy anything online or purchase gasoline at the pump.

Does anyone here have a way to attach a name, address and ZIP to Amex GCs? Or, do you just use them for local in-store shopping?

Interesting. Did you use a cash back portal?

Yes, I did use BC.

Middle Seat...I can only suggest calling back. You will have success. Those reps are really hit or miss. They used to tell me to use the card in a retail setting to activate it somehow, but that was incorrect.

Was this for Personal or Business GC's?

The personal GC limit is, I think, $5000 per month. Which is not quite enough for my needs.

Do you still get cashback from sites like BigCrumbs and TCB if you use the coupon code?

I also know that using a Citi card may code the purchase as CA, but what about Citi AA Amex? Should be CA as well?

From BC:

Cash Back Details & Exclusions

Cash back not available on eGift Cards. Cash back is not offered on fee-free promotional codes.


So it may not work for cash back.

I used it for a personal photo gc. It works fine for cb.

I just tried using the EMDECWER code and it seems to be accepted on the AMEX website entered through bigcrumbs but when I go to buy 10 $100 gift cards they want to tack on $39.50 service fee and an $8.95 shipping fee. Does anyone know if there's a newer code or what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for the help.

When you click-thru certain shopping portals fee-free codes may not work depending what you are trying to purchase. Some people have had success purchasing the $3k personal gift cards with the fee-free code when using Bigcrumbs.

You are being charged $3.95 per card. You'd be better off going with a larger denomination girt card.

I gave it the old college try but even when I try to buy the $3K personal card I get the "Code is invalid or expired." If someone reads this and knows of a code that currently works please let me know. Thanks.

This may have expired or it may be a code that only works on personalized GCs which take about a week to ship.

In any event, for the small benefit ($3.95 off a $3000 order) I prefer to adhere to the BigCrumbs wording and not try it.

Here's $5.95 off code that works with BC.

http://www.thepointscollector.com/20...fort-and-time/

Right - but that's a shipping code.

Really, if you're going to start working this, you should take the free 90 day trial of the expedited shipping. It's UPS overnight. And you don't need a code, since there's no shipping to begin with.

Just put a note in your calendar for 80 days, work the GCs hard, and then cancel. Much better - less downtime.