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Some American Express cardholders are seeing targeted spending offers on various Amex-branded (Membership Rewards-earning) cards. The offers vary and not everyone is targeted, but it’s worth logging in to your account to look for an offer to add since some of them are pretty good.
The Deal
- Various Membership Rewards-earning cards are offering targeted spending bonuses that can be repeated up to 3 times. Some of those I’ve seen data points on include:
- Amex Gold
- Spend $2,000+, get 1,000 bonus points
- Spend $3,500+, get 2,000 bonus points
- Spend $4,500+, get 4,500 bonus points
- Spend $6,500+, get 3,500 bonus points
- Everyday Preferred
- Spend $1,500+, get 3,000 bonus points
- Everyday
- Spend $1,500+, get 3,000 bonus points
- Spend $2,500+, get 2,500 bonus points
- Personal Platinum
- Spend $2,000+, get 2,000 bonus points
- Amex Gold
Key Terms
- Must add offer by 2/5/21
- Once you add the offer, you have 90 days to meet the spending requirements.
Quick Thoughts
In most cases, these offers are not enough on their own to be very exciting, though I’d be happy to see an offer for extra points on an Amex Gold card since that card will see some use at the grocery store anyway this year (though I’d hold off on activating it for a while as I work at our new Freedom card’s 5x and you only get 90 days to spend toward these offers once activated). At least one person reported an Everyday Preferred offer that amounts to an extra 2x, and that would obviously be enough to put some spend on that card. In cases where the bonus amounts to an extra half a point per dollar spent, it probably isn’t worth the effort of tracking the spend to be sure you hit the thresholds on the button.
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[…] but reading the fine print I see that this applies to any spend. This is reminiscent of the targeted spend offers that we previously reported on some Amex Membership Rewards cards. Note that the offer details make it clear that this offer is only for primary cardholders of the […]
On my gold card I have spend $5500 for 3K up to three times for a total of 9K for $16500 spend. Not worth it unless MS as I’d get a lot more points with just my BBP.
DP: on my everyday preferred i got 3,500 w/ $6,500 spend (use up to 3x)
I got spent 3k+ get 3k pts everyday cc
DP: on my everyday pereferred i got 1,000 w/ $2k spend (use up to 3x)
On my Personal Platinum I have spend $3500 get 2k.
Nothing on mine
Does the offer come in the format of email/mail/offer tabs?
In the offers tab
On my Gold, I have spend $3k, get 1500. Nothing on my Schwab Platinum.
Given that you have 90 days to meet the spend threshold once you add it, I am holding off till October to add (hope it doesn’t go away). I am currently getting 5x on grocery spend with my United card, using up Hilton Aspire resort credits for restaurant spend until the end of August, and have 10x on restaurants with my Marriott card till mid September. My Amex Gold is not seeing a lot of use right now.