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There’s a new Amex Offer out today for Best Buy purchases: spend $300 or more and get either 3,000 Membership Rewards points or $30 back depending on the card on which you find the offer. This is widely available, though likely somewhat targeted.
The Deal
- A new Amex Offer is out to get either 3,000 Membership Rewards points or $30 back when you spend $300 or more (see your offer for details)
Key Terms
- Expires December 31, 2019.
- Valid at any participating location in the US and US Territories.
- Not valid for e-gift card purchases.
- Excludes corporate gift card purchases.
- Excludes Best Buy Express, Geek Squad services made outside of Best Buy, Best Buy Parts Store, Best Buy Direct, Best Buy Education, Best Buy Ignite, Best Buy Secondary Markets, Best Buy Private Store & Auction, and standalone Pacific Sales stores.
Quick Thoughts
There has been a Best Buy offer for the past few holiday shopping seasons and it is great to see it come back in time to pick up holiday sales. If you see this offer on multiple cards, be smarter than me and remember to add it to the card where you added the ability to earn 1 additional Membership Rewards point per dollar on Best Buy purchases (an Amex Offer that came out earlier this year and is available through 12/31/19). Also keep in mind that you should be able to sync the points offer and statement credit offer once each across all of your Amex accounts, so you could use this offer two total times if you have both versions.
The terms exclude e-gift card purchases, though I don’t see an exclusion on physical cards. In the past, purchasing gift cards has worked. Best Buy has in some years stocked Visa Gift Cards around the holidays at some stores (YMMV). However, Amex has been getting very aggressive in clawing back credits for those who they view as abusing them, so tread carefully and consider your appetite for risk if you buy VGCs.
H/T: GC Galore
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Nick,
Have you noticed that if you add an Amex Offer that provides Membership Rewards (i.e., Spend $300 or more and get 3,000 Membership Rewards), which is typical for my Platinum Business Card, then the cash credit version will disappear across Membership Rewards earning cards? For whatever reason, my co-brand Marriott (oh how I miss my sweet purple SPG cards) cards seem to allow me to add the cash credit offer. This has happened on numerous occasions. Do you have similar experiences?
Off topic side note: I still appreciate your well-written articles about traveling with your child from months ago. I just recently returned stateside from a trip to London and Ireland with my 4month old. She was an angel on the flights, but the time change and unfamiliar hotel suites caused an absolute disaster at bedtime. My poor wife…she told me never again! How did you overcome the jetlag/time changes with your infant?
I have not noticed that. In this case, had the points version on all of our MR-earning cards, not the cash version.
As for jet lag, he’s mostly been decent. He’s been a champion sleeper from early on for the most part (we obviously went through our stretches where he didn’t sleep well, but mostly from like 4 months onward he slept pretty well through the night). Usually, the first day or two after a change is going to be a little rough — our pace has certainly slowed and we generally plan to do one main thing each day and know that “bed time” is going to be kind of dictated by when he’s tired and we’ll have to adjust to that also. Like I said, he’s mostly been pretty good, usually adjusting within a day or so.
However, after coming back from Asia on the 40K trip, it didn’t go so hot. He slept for more than half the flight from Hong Kong to Newark and by the time we landed and got to the hotel, it was maybe 11:30pm, so we probably got him to bed around midnight and he slept until 9am. I thought we were going to be back on track. I went off to the Chicago Seminars for the weekend and my wife said he was basically up and crying from about midnight until 3 or 4am each night for the next 3 nights. That was rough on her, especially since I wasn’t home to help. But after those 3 or 4 nights, we were back on track and pretty much good to go.
In terms of sleeping in new places, our son has no trouble with that at all. He loves hotels — we walk in the lobby and he gets excited. He sleeps as well in a pack and play as he does in his crib (we lay him down for his daily nap in a pack and play at home, so he’s pretty used to it). He doesn’t sleep particularly well in the same room as us — we’ve discovered that a suite with a separate room or at least a tucked away nook for his crib means better sleep for everyone. Luckily, we’ve been able to score a lot of suites this year.
Thank you for the reply. I’ll share your take with my bride.
Yes. I first notice this today on a BP mobile app offer that has $10 on $25 spend as well as 1000 pts on $25 spend on different membership reward cards. Added the 1K pts offer on the business plus and the cash statement credit offers on Gold and Everday are all gone.
No more double dipping even on different cards!
That “1 additional Membership Rewards point per dollar on Best Buy purchases” already ended on Oct 30, 2019
Hmm…we have an end date of 12/31/19 in our database, which is made by a direct copy from the Amex Offers, it’s not something we manually type in — so at least one of our accounts must have shown a 12/31 end date. That said, I actually don’t see this offer synced on any of mine….hmmm