Use Your American Express Card to Earn 5x Points and Save 20% or More on Amazon Purchases
American Express recently loaded an Amex Offer that provides 5 additional Membership Rewards points for each dollar spent on eligible Amazon purchases.
Enrollment for this Offer is limited! Meaning, once a certain number of Offers have been added to Amex cards, it will no longer be available. Check your availability and load it NOW if interested.
The Offer provides 5 additional Membership Rewards points for each dollar spent on eligible purchases made using your enrolled American Express card online at amazon.com.
There is a limit of 2,000 Membership Rewards points that can be earned with this Offer.
Which means, if my math is correct, up to $400 of Amazon purchases will earn the additional 5 Membership Rewards points per dollar spent.
Purchases can be made at amazon.com and via the Amazon mobile app.
There are some restrictions, so be sure to read the Offer Terms before purchasing. Although, if your purchases are fairly traditional, there should be no problem earning the bonus points.
This Offer expires 7/22/2020.
Membership Rewards Earning Amex Cards
This Offer will likely only be available on the following cards.
- Amex EveryDay
- Amex EveryDay Preferred
- American Express Gold
- American Express Platinum (all varieties)
- American Express Green
There are a number of Amex business cards that earn Membership Rewards points, too. This Offer may be available on those business cards as well.
Stack with Amazon / Amex Savings Deals
If this Amex Offer is available to you, you may also be able to utilize one of the currently available – but targeted – Amazon / Amex savings deals to both earn extra Membership Rewards points and save money all in one purchase.
There are two American Express / Amazon deals to check. Both 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
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Wrap Up
If you’re an Amazon shopper, check to see if your American Express Membership Rewards points earning card has this Amazon Amex Offer available to load.
If it does, you can earn 5 additional Membership Rewards points per dollar spent on Amazon purchases up to 2,000 Membership Rewards points.
And if you do hold an American Express Membership Rewards earning card, it’s worth adding it to your Amazon wallet and enrolling it in Amazon’s Shop with Points program to take advantage of the savings deals that are regularly offered (but targeted).
Right now, targeted cardholders can save 20% or either $20 off $50 or $40 off $100 off certain Amazon purchases. And you may even be targeted for both the percent off and dollar off savings opportunities.
It’s nice that during these difficult times, both Amazon and American Express are offering promotions that not only let you earn more MR points, but potentially save money on your purchases, too.
