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Amazing Deal: Spend $75 at Amazon and Get a $25 Amex Credit

December 2, 2013 by Brad 16 Comments  Richmond Savers has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Richmond Savers and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers.

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Update:  This sign-up for this promotion has now ended!  It was a limited promotion and they already reached maximum capacity.  If you managed to sign up before it closed, you still have until 12/31/13 to make your $75 worth of Amazon purchases.

We thought the American Express Small Business Saturday promotion was great, but they’ve managed to top themselves with this newest promotion for their cardholders:

Spend $75 at Amazon.com by 12/31/13 on your Amex card and get a $25 statement credit to your Amex account!

How to Enroll

The first thing you must do is register your Amex card at this enrollment link, which is free and takes about 30 seconds.  You will then receive a $25 statement credit (free money!) when you spend at least $75 at Amazon.com on that credit card by December 31, 2013.  This is a full 33% discount on $75 spent at Amazon, just free from Amex!

Amex Amazon Enrollment Screen

The even better news:  You can register every single American Express card you have for this promotion, including authorized user cards!  So for instance, Laura and I have five total Amex accounts and we each have a card for each account for a total of ten Amex cards.  We registered all ten, so we are eligible for $250 free if we spend $750 at Amazon by 12/31/13.

This would normally be extremely difficult to do considering it is already 12/2, but the thing that makes this doable for us is that you can purchase a $75 Amazon.com gift card with each credit card to be sent to you via email, and then you just apply the $75 to your account.  Once purchased and applied to your account, the gift card balance never expires!  You’ll just have this pot of money sitting in your Amazon account and every subsequent purchase will draw down this balance automatically.

Amazon Gift Card email screenJust purchase a $75 “Amazon Gift Card – Email” with your Amex card and send it to your own email account.  In a few minutes your activation email will arrive and you just click on “Your Account” and then “Apply a Gift Card to Your Account.”  It’s that easy!

You will have to purchase a distinct $75 gift card for each Amex credit card you registered for this promotion in order to take full advantage of the discount.

We actually just did this with all 10 of our accounts and we now have a $750 Amazon gift card balance which will probably last us all of 2014.  This is an example of what we’ve previously discussed on the site:  By having money saved up, you are able to take advantage of significant savings that aren’t available to people who have to stress about every single dollar.

Sure, we don’t particularly love spending $750 now (this is really only $500 out of pocket now, since these statement credits will likely apply before we have to pay our cards off for a net of $500 spent for a $750 account balance at Amazon), but it is such an easy decision because we’re getting a 33% discount on all our 2014 Amazon shopping!

Link to Amex Registration

Link to Amazon Search Results for “Amazon Gift Card – Email”

We want to give a big thanks for this tip to Daraius from one of our favorite sites, Million Mile Secrets (link to his article about this promotion, but we highly suggest you check out his entire site on travel rewards).  Thanks!

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Comments

  1. Mr. 1500 says

    December 2, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    I kid you not; I was just planning to go buy something on Amazon for about $250. What timing! Thank you for the wonderful tip.

    Oh, and how about those drones? I’d buy something from Amazon just to watch that thing come deliver it. Bezos is pretty incredible.

    Reply
    • Brad says

      December 3, 2013 at 7:17 am

      Nice!! Glad I could help save the 1500 family some money, that’s wonderful. It’s amazing how easy this is right?

      Laura and I couldn’t stop talking about that 60 Minutes story and the drones; it’s just the coolest thing! I don’t know if it’ll work in a year or two, but you can bet that’ll be reality in 5-10 years and I would imagine it would have more of a range than 10 miles too. Bezos has a mind that’s just so impressive. Can you imagine the day where you can order anything from Amazon and it shows up in under an hour??

      Reply
  2. Kim@Eyesonthedollar says

    December 3, 2013 at 1:54 am

    We have 5 Amex cards, which we used at Pearl Izumi on small business Saturday to get free stuff, then I found out about this offer. Amex is certainly my friend this month!

    Reply
    • Brad says

      December 3, 2013 at 7:47 am

      I know, right?? I’m a huge fan of American Express! It is easy to see why you should have at least one in your wallet…

      Reply
  3. Jen @ Frugal Rules says

    December 3, 2013 at 5:29 am

    I say WOW to this deal. At a time when many of us are so gung-ho at shopping for gifts, this could not have been offered at a better time. Glad that you shared this.

    Reply
    • Brad says

      December 3, 2013 at 7:49 am

      Great Jen, I hope you can take advantage of it! As you said, this is the perfect time for this wonderful promotion from Amex.

      Reply
  4. Andrew@LivingRichCheaply says

    December 3, 2013 at 1:03 pm

    We also used the Amex on small business Saturday. This is another reason to sign up for an Amex card! Maybe next time.

    Reply
  5. Done by Forty says

    December 3, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    It looks like the promotion might be over?

    Reply
    • Brad says

      December 3, 2013 at 7:40 pm

      Yeah, unfortunately it is done with; they must have reached their maximum sign-ups really quickly. Sorry for all who missed out…

      Reply
  6. Mom @ Three is Plenty says

    December 3, 2013 at 5:53 pm

    Not only did Dad and I get in on this – we found out about it at work, and we all used our company AMEX cards (not corporate) to buy a gift card for the company’s amazon account. Our boss mentioned something about christmas gifts….

    Reply
    • Brad says

      December 3, 2013 at 7:40 pm

      Nice!! That’s brilliant — sounds like a huge savings

      Reply
  7. Poor Student says

    December 4, 2013 at 10:27 am

    Pretty good deal. It’s perfect timing with Christmas and everything.

    Reply
  8. FI Fighter says

    December 6, 2013 at 12:32 am

    This was a pretty sweet deal! Too bad it ended so soon…

    Reply
    • Brad says

      December 9, 2013 at 10:42 pm

      Yeah, it really was amazing! I still can’t believe we got $250 completely for free; we already received all of our credits, so it was as easy as can be…

      Reply
  9. David says

    December 17, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    Wow, what a great deal.
    If only I could get a $25 credit to my bills and taxes.
    Thanks for the insight on the promotion. I’ll be on the lookout for other great deals.
    Thanks,
    David

    Reply
    • Brad says

      December 17, 2013 at 9:20 pm

      Yeah, it really was a great deal! I have to hand it to American Express — they’ve been amazing this year with this deal and their annual Small Business Saturday.

      I still can’t believe we have a $750 credit at Amazon for only $500 out of pocket…

      Reply

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