New Amex statement credits

[NoName]

Woke up and went to the registration page I already had loaded (with the countdown timer) only to see it say "registration capped". Was spewing until I reloaded it and it was fine. Registered 10 cards no problem. Now off to load up some GoCards before sending them in for a cash refund.

 

[kpc]

Manual link for Shop Small;

Enrollment Site Page

Thanks. Cards registered...Now to run around Sydney.....

 

[deka2]

10 cards this year for us
I woke up at 3.30 this morning and decided to register and then go back to sleep,

 

[albyd]

Manual link for Shop Small;

Enrollment Site Page

Thanks for posting the manual link SydneySwan - much appreciated. No offers showing for me this morning. registered my cards manually. Let the shopping begin

 

[SydneySwan]

Thanks. Cards registered...Now to run around Sydney.....

Nost so fast ..... it doesn't start until tomorrow!

 

[Mr_Orange]

Woke up and went to the registration page I already had loaded (with the countdown timer) only to see it say "registration capped". Was spewing until I reloaded it and it was fine. Registered 10 cards no problem. Now off to load up some GoCards before sending them in for a cash refund.

Is there a list of Amex-friendly Go-card merchants?

 

[Dr Ralph]

Shop Small offer is open for registration. Only managed to register on 5 of my 8 cards so far. The old gold cards don't have the offer available yet. As expected only 5 credits per card.

Indeed it is. It's just happened as I tried it at 3am and it wasn't working.

Manual link here:

Enrollment Site Page

 

[SOPOOR]

So out of curiosity and since it s my first time
What's everyone using their small shop for. Admittedly I'm struggling to find too many merchants.

I'm thinking
- chemist's to buy $20 worth of meds
- casual restaurants where I can eat for $20 per person

 

[Happy Dude]

I go to a little butcher that sells ripper bacon and snags and stock up. We also eat a lot of mangoes this month.

Just poke around on the shop small map for some inspiration. Split payments are the "fun" part.

 

[get me outta here]

Quite a few I get 'gift cards' / credit notes to the value of the quantity of cc ($20 each) I have and then spend the gc later. I am doing this with a local restaurant, a bakery and the pub - restaurant, and others as I think of it.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Perils of only having the one card. But I got my 100,000 credited today so all is happy.

It's quite nice being in Melbourne, no shortage of burger joints. Two for the price of one suits for November

 

[NoName]

Is there a list of Amex-friendly Go-card merchants?

I haven't looked closely at the list of merchants yet but there should be a few newsagents around.


EDIT: I just put "news" and Brisbane city into the search and several options come up. Whether they actually take AMEX will be determined on Thursday.

 

[kpc]

Nost so fast ..... it doesn't start until tomorrow!

Yup! I will need a spreadsheet to manage this across all our cards ...in some ways, I'm glad it is only 5 per card, not the previous 10!! As we are going OS on Nov 20, we only have 19 days to use up this offer

 

[moa999]

In my area in Sydney at least a lot less vendors than previous. Most of the small cafes are gone, it is more the mid-high priced restaurants on the list

Edit -- Ah they appear once I zoom in a bit closer

 

[get me outta here]

Looking at the map, I see some little dots and some large numbers for the merchants. So, are only certain shops taking part, or how does it work with the dots / numbers? I have played safe and just gone with the numbered merchants in the past.

 

[jbman]

All dots and numbers are part of it. The numbers are 'member favourites'

 

[whatmeworry]

So out of curiosity and since it s my first time
What's everyone using their small shop for. Admittedly I'm struggling to find too many merchants.

I'm thinking
- chemist's to buy $20 worth of meds
- casual restaurants where I can eat for $20 per person

I have found quite a few bars, pubs and bottle shops on the list.
It seems 8bit burger is off the list.

 

[SydneySwan]

So out of curiosity and since it s my first time
What's everyone using their small shop for. Admittedly I'm struggling to find too many merchants.

I'm thinking
- chemist's to buy $20 worth of meds
- casual restaurants where I can eat for $20 per person

I use it for OPAL top-ups, chemists, cafes and restaurants. There are a few cafes where we eat regularly where I usually pick up the whole bill but in November I tend to feel pretty stingy and insist on paying the bill off in $20 chunks.

 

[Jurahn]

So out of curiosity and since it s my first time
What's everyone using their small shop for. Admittedly I'm struggling to find too many merchants.

I'm thinking
- chemist's to buy $20 worth of meds
- casual restaurants where I can eat for $20 per person

I use quite a few pharmacies during Shop Small, and would reach $20 stocking up on their specials such as toilet paper, soaps, cleaning products, toothpaste etc and buying a couple of non-prescription items if they were on special as well - or at least I used to. Unfortunately there seem to be far fewer participating this year according to the map. One of our big shopping centres has 3 Wizard pharmacies, all of whom were part of Shop Small in previous years, but not this time, and many others have gone MIA as well.

 

[SOPOOR]

Thanks everyone. It seems everyone is also looking at pharmacies.
I've also found a few bottle shops which are no doubt overpriced but might make it slightly cheaper.
I've also found a few butchers as well.
Couldn't find any post offices