Save 20% or More on Your Amazon Purchases with These American Express and Discover Credit Card Deals
Targeted credit card holders can enjoy savings on Amazon purchases when points and associated credit cards are used to make the purchase.
These credit cards, once added to your Amazon Wallet, may make the deals below available to you.
American Express Membership Rewards Earning Cards
- Amex EveryDay
- Amex EveryDay Preferred
- American Express Gold
- American Express Platinum (all varieties)
- American Express Green
Discover Cashback Bonus Points Earning Cards
- Discover it
- Discover it Gas and Restaurant card
- NHL Discover it (?)
Unfortunately, as has been the case with previous deals like these, availability for any one card holder is very hit or miss. Some have been targeted for all deals, while others are shown no love when they click the activation page link, instead seeing the dreaded “Thank you for your interest in this offer. Unfortunately, you are not eligible for this invitation-only offer” message.
For those who haven’t received these deals previously, give them another try. There are reports that those who weren’t targeted for one, or more, of these savings offers in the past, are now seeing them as available on their Amazon accounts.
If you still don’t see availability, try the trick below.
Sometimes removing a credit card from your Amazon Wallet, adding it back, re-enrolling it in Shop with Points and checking availability the next day will result in the deal becoming available. Sometimes not. But it’s worth a try if one or more of the deals listed below is of interest.
Now on to the deals themselves.
American Express Membership Rewards / Amazon Deals
There are two American Express / Amazon deals that may be available. All require an American Express Membership Rewards points earning credit card be added as a payment method to your Amazon Wallet and enrolled in Amazon’s Shop with Points.
Amex $20 Off $50 or $40 Off $100
The only way to know which of these dollars-off deals – if either – is available to you is to click the link below.
These promos follow the usual pattern, save a specific dollar amount on an Amazon order of a specific dollar amount when at least one Membership Rewards point is used to pay. Of course, items must be sold and shipped by Amazon.
How to take advantage of this deal.
- Click the “Click to activate” button on the promotion activation page.
- Add $50 or $100 of eligible items to your Amazon shopping cart. Items must be sold and shipped by Amazon to qualify.
- Checkout with your American Express card and use at least one Membership Rewards point to pay a portion of your order. To maximize points value, use the smallest amount possible…$0.01 as an example…to trigger the savings.
- Discount will be reflected on the final order page.
Amex $20 Off $50 or $40 Off $100 Link
20% Off Promo
There’s currently another promotion available to targeted Amex cardholders that provides 20% off your Amazon purchase when at least 1 Membership Rewards point is used to pay a portion of the order.
Like the other promotions, this is a targeted offer. To check if it’s available to you, you must:
- Click this link to the promotion activation page. If you see the 20% off promo banner, click the “Activate now” button.
- Add eligible products sold and shipped by Amazon.com to your shopping cart.
- Checkout with your American Express card and use at least one Membership Rewards point to pay a portion of your order. To maximize points value, use the smallest amount possible…$0.01 as an example…to trigger the savings.
- Discount will be reflected on the final order page.
There’s a maximum discount of $50 associated with this promo.
You can check to see if you were targeted for this Amex deal at the link below.
Amex 20% Off Promotion
Activation links in this post are Amazon affiliate links. Any purchases made via these links (after activation) would provide Savings Beagle a small commission. Affiliate links do not change product pricing.
Discover Cashback Points / Amazon Deals
The Discover/Amazon save $20 off $50 or more promo was supposed to end March 31, 2020, but there have been some reports of it still being available.
If you have a Discover card linked to your Amazon account and set up with Shop with Points, it might be worth checking the link below to see if it’s available to you.
Discover Save $20 Off $50 Amazon Promo Link
If you have been targeted, activate the deal, add eligible products to your Amazon cart, using at least one Discover Cashback Bonus point to pay. You should see the appropriate discount reflected at checkout.
The restrictions on these promos are the same as the American Express promotions. Eligible products must be shipped and sold by Amazon.com.
Activation links in this post are Amazon affiliate links. Any purchases made via these links (after activation) would provide Savings Beagle a small commission. Affiliate links do not change product pricing.
Amazon Purchase Ideas
Obviously, during these challenging times, everyday household essentials would be a great purchase on which to save.
Many items that fall into the paper towels, toilet paper, laundry supplies, etc., categories are “sold and shipped by Amazon.com,” and thus would qualify for the discount promos listed above.
The problem – finding those items in stock.
It’s worth a look every once in a while to see if the household essentials you need have become available. If so, add them to your cart quickly and take advantage of the savings opportunities…if you’ve been targeted…on the items you need most.
Here are a few other suggestions – coronavirus related and not – on which you might use these savings promos.
I’ve done my best to ensure the linked items are “sold and shipped by Amazon.com,” but please double check before adding to your cart.
Most times you’ll be able to find the “sold/shipped by” language near your “deliver to” address link on the product’s page.
These credit card savings promos used to work on gift card purchases, too. There have been reports that for certain deals that’s no longer the case. You could always load the gift card(s) to your cart, using the steps above to see if the discount is given for a particular gift card purchase.
This can be used, for example, to save on a Netflix gift card that can be loaded to your account, effectively saving you on your Netflix subscription costs.
Or, to save on purchases from any other retailer from which you’ll be purchasing goods or services.
You can see all the gift cards Amazon offers at this link.
Just make sure the specific savings are actually deducted from your total before purchasing any gift cards with these credit cards promo deals!
A Caution
For the deals that require points to activate the savings, a caution.
Be VERY CAREFUL to limit the number of points used to pay.
It can be easy to mistakenly use all points to pay, which would lower your price-to-pay significantly, but completely wipe out your valuable rewards points balance.
As we mention in the specifics of each deal, it’s best to use the least amount of points necessary to trigger these types of deals.
So when checking out, be sure you’re NOT using all your points to pay unless that’s what you really want to do.
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