New Amex statement credits

[liuyz]

I have a few Amex offers.

Some example of offers: (Qantas and Freedom expiring in the next few days)

Lumo Spend $100, get $30 back
Qantas $350, get $50 back
Freedom Spend $250, get $75 back
Sony Spend 300, get $50 back
David Jones $300, get $50 back
David Jones $200, get $30 back

I also get the two David Jones offer. Just wondering, what will be the cash back if I spend $300, should I get a total of $80 ($50 + $30) statement credit?

 

[lilkid28]

I also get the two David Jones offer. Just wondering, what will be the cash back if I spend $300, should I get a total of $80 ($50 + $30) statement credit?

If you have both under one account, then it should be Spend $300, get $80 back.

 

[liuyz]

If you have both under one account, then it should be Spend $300, get $80 back.

Thanks and yes, both offers under the same card. Also the Qantas one as well.

 

[Mr_Orange]

And I have quite unexpectedly used the QF offer. Taxes on some reward seats and the card payment fee left me 68c short so I paid the carbon offset. More than 68c, but worth it for the $50 statement credit.

 

[SydneySwan]

Country Road - 100 / 20
Winedirect - 100 / 30

 

[edman]

Has anyone had anything unexpected happen with Shop Small today? Everything was ok on weekend, but I've noticed that the offer has dropped of on all my cards where I hadn't fully utilised the offer yet, and no immediate email acknowledging the transaction either, just today.

 

[albyd]

I’m looking to have one more go this afternoon so will report back if I don’t get my emails.

I did just got to one of the newsagents (Pavillion News on Philip St Sydney) and when I last went on Friday, would only do one Opal too up ‘per say’ on Amex. Today had a sign ‘no Amex for opal top up’. I could see there was no one in the shop so wasn’t like he was trying to avoid unprofitable activity while normal customers were waiting to be served.

 

[blackcat20]

Has anyone had anything unexpected happen with Shop Small today? Everything was ok on weekend, but I've noticed that the offer has dropped of on all my cards where I hadn't fully utilised the offer yet, and no immediate email acknowledging the transaction either, just today.

Worked fine for me today, emails as expected.

 

[SOPOOR]

I’m looking to have one more go this afternoon so will report back if I don’t get my emails.

I did just got to one of the newsagents (Pavillion News on Philip St Sydney) and when I last went on Friday, would only do one Opal too up ‘per say’ on Amex. Today had a sign ‘no Amex for opal top up’. I could see there was no one in the shop so wasn’t like he was trying to avoid unprofitable activity while normal customers were waiting to be served.

Maybe the shop owner was a former harvey norman manager?

 

[andye]

Maybe the shop owner was a former harvey norman manager?

Did make me laugh.
However I understood the HN offers were funded by HN while Shop Small is underwritten by Amex, so newsagent attitude less explicable. I could be wrong of all the above

 

[SOPOOR]

Did make me laugh.
However I understood the HN offers were funded by HN while Shop Small is underwritten by Amex, so newsagent attitude less explicable. I could be wrong of all the above

I find that some of these people, it becomes an ego and power game, where they get joy and pleasure in rejecting people,
obviously the margins of opal/myki top ups are going to be small

 

[edman]

I find that some of these people, it becomes an ego and power game, where they get joy and pleasure in rejecting people,
obviously the margins of opal/myki top ups are going to be small

They forget they provide these low margin products to get people in the door and the flow on effects this hopefully creates.

 

[albyd]

I reckon he wasn’t the owner and couldn’t be bothered to put the extra work in. Thought, another agent did tell me they make no money out of it and had a reasonable daily limit acknowledging it gets foot traffic in the door. They were in a busier location at Westfield Sydney.

 

[zig]

Has anyone had anything unexpected happen with Shop Small today? Everything was ok on weekend, but I've noticed that the offer has dropped of on all my cards where I hadn't fully utilised the offer yet, and no immediate email acknowledging the transaction either, just today.

Emails received as usual for my afternoon purchases.

 

[albyd]

Emails received for my purchases this afternoon.

Thought the newsagent I went to (St Martins Tower Sydney bear QVB) would only accept those cards that were in my name and tap didn’t work for Amex on his old Suncorp eftpos machine so couldn’t use Apple Pay.

 

[edman]

still no emails on some, but emails on others. Offer has dropped off on all my cards, whether fully utilised or not. Online chat says they were dropping off after first use this year (not in my case) so I'll push on hoping everything works as intended.

 

[SydneySwan]

still no emails on some, but emails on others. Offer has dropped off on all my cards, whether fully utilised or not. Online chat says they were dropping off after first use this year (not in my case) so I'll push on hoping everything works as intended.

My offers definitely were dropping off after first use this year. All SS purchases completed now. Not all received emails but all have received credits.

 

[Mr_Orange]

I have just completed 7 more susccessful card topups at the newsagents around Brisbane CBD. Surcharge varied between 1% and 2% but on this occasion I have no issue with it.

Emails received for all transactions.

 

[Saltywings]

I can't believe I didn't find this earlier: Amex Shop Small Guide - OzBargain Wiki

Basically a crowdsourced database. No more 'figuring it out for myself' next year!

 

[Silvia]

Can someone help me just clarifying with the spend $350, get $50. If I use a QF voucher to void the CC fees, would that still trigger the promo?
I tried calling today the Amex offer service and the lady was extremely rude and unhelpful.