Use Your American Express Credit Card to Save on Amazon Purchases
Thanks to the American Express Membership Rewards program, targeted individuals will be able to use as little as $0.01 of your Amex Membership Rewards points to save on your Amazon purchase.
We’ve seen a number of different savings offers over the past few months, all of which are targeted.
To see if they’re available to you, you just need to check.
If you’re familiar with how these American Express / Amazon savings deals work, here are the links of currently available deals you can use to check.
American Express / Amazon $20 Off $80 Promo
American Express / Amazon 30% or 40% Off Promo
American Express / Amazon $20 Off $50 of $40 Off $100
If you’re not familiar with these promotions, here’s an overview of how they work.
How It Works
First, you need to have your American Express Membership Rewards earning card added as a payment method to your Amazon Wallet.
Then, if you haven’t already, you need to link your American Express Membership Rewards earning card to Amazon’s Shop with Points program.
Membership Rewards earning cards include:
- Amex EveryDay
- Amex EveryDay Preferred
- American Express Gold
- American Express Platinum (all varieties)
- American Express Green
Then check to see if you are one of the lucky recipients of this Amazon deal by clicking the link below.
American Express / Amazon $20 Off $80 Promo
If you are eligible, you’ll see the following:
If you’re not, you’ll see this message:
Those lucky enough to have been targeted need to click the Activate button, and the promo deal will automatically be added to your account.
Add eligible products to your Amazon cart – eligible products is defined as products sold and shipped by Amazon.
When checking out, you need to use the American Express Membership Rewards earning credit card you linked to your Amazon account to pay.
And, you’ll need to use at least $0.01 of your available Membership Rewards points to trigger the Amex discount.
Once completed, you’ll see a final checkout screen similar to this:
In this example, a cool $40 savings thanks to American Express.
Here’s the deal’s Fine Print:
Additional Promo Info
Each promo has its own end date. Although, some are extended past the original end date for an indefinite period of time.
For the $20 off $80 offer the end date is the earlier of 7/31/2020 or when 37,500 customers have redeemed the offer.
It’s important to remember, only items “shipped and sold by Amazon.com” are eligible for the savings deal. Luckily, many products fall into this category.
Just look on a product’s page, usually near the “add to cart” section or “deliver to” section for the wording “Ships from and sold by Amazon.com Services LLC.”
And if you’ve recently added an American Express Membership Rewards earning card to your Amazon account, it may take a few days to show this promo…if you’re targeted.
If you’re not targeted when you first check, try again in a few days, new accounts seem to be added periodically.
And, some have had success getting the offer to show by removing the Amex card from Amazon and adding it back as a payment method attached to the Pay with Points program.
Purchases
While any product “shipped from and sold by Amazon.com” will qualify for this deal, it’s good to know many gift cards qualify, too.
Meaning, you can save on your Netflix, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Best Buy and more, purchases by buying a gift card, using this savings deal and then using the gift card to make your purchase at the retailer you’ve chosen.
I’ve used similar Amazon / Amex deals in the past to save 50% on my Netflix subscription costs. I’ve bought a $60 Netflix gift card for $30, loaded the gift card to my Netflix account and had it pay $60 worth of monthly charges. Not a bad deal.
Wrap Up
These American Express / Amazon savings promotions come along fairly regularly.
And they’re a great way to save on Amazon purchases.
Just keep in mind, items must be shipped from and sold by Amazon.com to qualify.
But with a little imagination, it’s pretty easy to find ways to save on even your everyday purchases with these promos.
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