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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 8:42:40 GMT -5
American Express has special offers, and one of them is a $15/$60 purchase at Amazon.
It was ironic because I have spent a few hundred on Amazon for Christmas presents for the grandkids, but I've run out of things to buy. It's DH's fault because he starts Christmas shopping on November 1 and wants to be finished before Thanksgiving. I had to tell him to slow down when he came home with these really cute decorate-your-own-slippers sets for the oldest granddaughters (7 and almost 5). I like to shop, too!
So I have nothing to buy. And I won't buy something just to get a discount.
Then I discovered (on Fat Wallet) that you can simply buy a gift certificate . . . even reload your own giftcard balance with $60 to get the credit. I was skeptical, but I tried it. It worked, and the credit appeared on my statement today. Now I can wait until I really want to purchase something. The only caveats are that you can't buy corporate gift cards and that the offer isn't good on the Costco American Express.
Isn't it ironic that they got rid of the Small Business Saturday credit but are now giving the Ultimate Big Business credit? 
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Post by wvugurl26 on Nov 21, 2015 9:49:04 GMT -5
I don't think my Amex gets those offers. Mine is a Macy's one. I can always find something on Amazon.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 10:03:56 GMT -5
I can always find something on Amazon. Yeah, me too. Even if it's just toiletries, household items and cat food... |
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Post by bobosensei on Nov 21, 2015 10:32:02 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip. I never search for offers that way, but I added that to our cards. We will certainly spend 60 at Amazon between now and the end of the year.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Nov 21, 2015 10:42:38 GMT -5
I've been keeping an eye on these Amex offers since brake advantage of the Target one last summer. Amex gave a $30 statement credit for every $100 spent and you could use it 5x. I went in and bought 5x $100 Target or Amex g/c.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 10:54:30 GMT -5
I don't think my Amex gets those offers. Mine is a Macy's one. I can always find something on Amazon. I have a Fidelity Amex and I don't get them, either. Do you have to sign up for them? |
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Post by Baby Fawkes on Nov 21, 2015 12:50:23 GMT -5
I don't think my Amex gets those offers. Mine is a Macy's one. I can always find something on Amazon. I have a Fidelity Amex and I don't get them, either. Do you have to sign up for them? For my Amex i can see a list of offers if I sign into the Amex website or if you have the Amex app on your phone / tablet then you can click on the offers button at the bottom to view them all. You just have to click to add them to your card. |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Nov 21, 2015 13:52:11 GMT -5
I don't think my Amex gets those offers. Mine is a Macy's one. I can always find something on Amazon. I have a Fidelity Amex and I don't get them, either. Do you have to sign up for them? I don't get them with my Costco Amex, just my regular one. |
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Post by Baby Fawkes on Nov 21, 2015 21:45:34 GMT -5
I have a Fidelity Amex and I don't get them, either. Do you have to sign up for them? I don't get them with my Costco Amex, just my regular one. You must do. I have that offer on my Costco Amex right now. Unless there is something different about my Amex ?!? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 21:55:44 GMT -5
The way I heard it via Fat Wallet was that you didn't get it with third party Amex card. You also only get it on ONE of your Amex cards unless you take the one you already got it on off the online site. Way too much intrigue for me. I saw it first on my Everyday Blue or whatever it is called. If the Costco is my ONLY card, it might be available. But it isn't so I don't know.  |
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Post by cktc on Dec 2, 2015 10:01:35 GMT -5
I'm really aggravated with Amazon on this one. I ordered 4 things for just over $60, they credited me back $15, but then shipped the 4 things separately. When one of the packages got lost they wouldn't resend, only refund, so my order no longer qualified and they charged me $15 again. I'd have been better off pretending I got the stupid $10 item.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Dec 4, 2015 19:21:21 GMT -5
I did get the $15 statement credit. Thanks for the heads up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 22:01:40 GMT -5
There seems to be a similar credit if you use Visa Pay or whatever it is called.
A few of our presents came from Zulily, which I generally hate. One of those reasons that I hate it is shipping, which seems to negate, for me, any point of ordering from them. But that was one of the places that my DIL directed me toward. At checkout, i was offered free shipping if I registered for and used Visa Pay or whatever.
So I did. Today I was paying my Chase Freedom card and discovered that generated a $15 credit. I don't really know the details.
It was a pleasant surprise.
ETA: After reading Apple's post below about fees, I double checked. I didn't use Visa Pay; I used Visa Checkout. |
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Post by Apple on Dec 5, 2015 4:11:32 GMT -5
There seems to be a similar credit if you use Visa Pay or whatever it is called. A few of our presents came from Zulily, which I generally hate. One of those reasons that I hate it is shipping, which seems to negate, for me, any point of ordering from them. But that was one of the places that my DIL directed me toward. At checkout, i was offered free shipping if I registered for and used Visa Pay or whatever. So I did. Today I was paying my Chase Freedom card and discovered that generated a $15 credit. I don't really know the details. It was a pleasant surprise. I did the visa pay to take advantage of a $15 discount. However, visa pay charges $1. No big deal this time, because I still got a $14 discount on something I was going to buy anyway, however, I won't use visa pay in the future, since normal checkout is free. Just a detail to watch out for. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2015 10:21:26 GMT -5
There seems to be a similar credit if you use Visa Pay or whatever it is called. A few of our presents came from Zulily, which I generally hate. One of those reasons that I hate it is shipping, which seems to negate, for me, any point of ordering from them. But that was one of the places that my DIL directed me toward. At checkout, i was offered free shipping if I registered for and used Visa Pay or whatever. So I did. Today I was paying my Chase Freedom card and discovered that generated a $15 credit. I don't really know the details. It was a pleasant surprise. I did the visa pay to take advantage of a $15 discount. However, visa pay charges $1. No big deal this time, because I still got a $14 discount on something I was going to buy anyway, however, I won't use visa pay in the future, since normal checkout is free. Just a detail to watch out for. Thanks for the head's up. I thought the idea of a fee like you mentioned was odd because this service was competing directly with PayPal.
I didn't use Visa Pay, which I take it allows you to pay using your phone or something. I used Visa Checkout, which is a service like Paypal. You don't have a service charge for that . . . at least according to their TOS and the purchase I made.
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Post by Apple on Dec 5, 2015 15:52:02 GMT -5
Sorry, I was tired... It was visa checkout, but I was still charged $1. I'd look very carefully before using it again.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2015 18:46:00 GMT -5
Sorry, I was tired... It was visa checkout, but I was still charged $1. I'd look very carefully before using it again. You were probably charged, then, by the vendor who is allowed to add fees to cover their transaction costs. Visa Checkout itself doesn't add a fee. At least that was my understanding when I did some quick research this morning. That research did mention that the vendor could charge, though.
In any case, I didn't pay a fee. I checked that as well. So the fee isn't universal.
If they actually charge $1 every time you use it, it won't catch on. There are too many free alternatives, such as Paypal, even if you don't want to enter your CC information.
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