New Amex statement credits

[SydneySwan]

bought $150 (~$190 - $40 first order code) of wine through the Australian wine yesterday. received emails saying i'd met the requirements for both Australian Wine and Laithwaites $50 back.

Hoping this means i get $100 back effectively meaning 12 bottles for ~$50

As a follow-up to this. I purchased 15 wines for a cost of $165.84 including delivery and after first order discount of $40.

Amex credits received from both Laithwaites and The Australian Wine. Net cost now $65.84.

Today cashback was confirmed for $25.18 so new net cost $40.66.

Cost per bottle = $2.71.

I never expected the cashback to be paid out but you win some / lose some. I wouldn't have bought the wine without the valuable information posted here regarding 2 Amex cashbacks on the same purchase.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Spend $60 or more in one transaction at EG Ampol and get $5 back (up to 3 times).

Got this on my primary and supp cards for AMEX explorer.

 

[Comoman]

Spend $60 or more in one transaction at EG Ampol and get $5 back (up to 3 times).

Got this on my primary and supp cards for AMEX explorer.

Not for me on my Plat

 

[muppet]

I got spend $60 get $20 back from EG Ampol (up to 3 times) on the Plat Charge.

 

[knagelli]

Spend $60 or more in one transaction at EG Ampol and get $5 back (up to 3 times).

Got this on my primary and supp cards for AMEX explorer.

I got it on my Reserve card but not on my Platinum Charge.

 

[bernardblack]

I got it on my Reserve card but not on my Platinum Charge.

Likewise, we got it on our Reserve and supp but not the Edge or Plat which would pay more points on the same dollars for fuel.

 

[SYD]

Spend $60 or more in one transaction at EG Ampol and get $5 back (up to 3 times).

Got this on my primary and supp cards for AMEX explorer.

On my Gold CC but no Biz card.

It wasn't there earlier today!

 

[Doctore1003]

I got spend $60 get $20 back from EG Ampol (up to 3 times) on the Plat Charge.

Just make sure you read that right. My QU offer is spend $60 three times (ie total $180) to get $20 back (once)

 

[zig]

I got spend $60 get $20 back from EG Ampol (up to 3 times) on the Plat Charge.

I got spend $60 x 3 times and receive one $20 credit. So not really a great deal.

 

[Steady]

I got spend $60 get $20 back from EG Ampol (up to 3 times) on the Plat Charge.

Mine reads that I need to spend $60 x 3 times to get 1 x $20

Save the offer to your eligible Card and spend $60 or more, in one transaction, 3 times, in-app or in-person at EG Ampol by 31/03/2025 to receive one $20 credit.

 

[muppet]

I got spend $60 x 3 times and receive one $20 credit. So not really a great deal.

Just make sure you read that right. My QU offer is spend $60 three times (ie total $180) to get $20 back (once)

Ah yes me too, didn’t read that correctly. Rubbish offer as usual. Glad you noticed and pointed that out for me!

 

[Happy Dude]

Spend $60 or more in one transaction at EG Ampol and get $5 back (up to 3 times).

Got this on my primary and supp cards for AMEX explorer.

Not on my Explorer. Annoyed.

Easy to pick this one off with GCs.

 

[SydneySwan]

Adina Hotels - 400 / 100
Special GCs - 10% up to $20 credit
MILKRUN - 60 / 10 up to 3 times.

 

[muppet]

Pullman Hotels - 400 / 80

 

[DejaBrew]

Pullman Hotels - 400 / 80

Sadly not here. Not yet, at least

 

[Legoman]

Ah yes me too, didn’t read that correctly. Rubbish offer as usual. Glad you noticed and pointed that out for me!

Correct, but the strategy has worked because the responses in here prove that people don't read carefully enough and mistake the terms of the offer for those that sound more realistic and reasonable.

I got this offer on my Amex card too, but I read it correctly the first time and was frankly astonished at just how cough of a 'deal' this was and how high the hoops are getting now. Even Amex is well into sh!tifying their product to a point of uselessness. For me, my local EG fuel outlet is never the cheapest anyway (even when paying with discounted gift cards), so the prospect of having to buy min $60 of fuel three times before end of March to get back just one $20 rebate is not even worth saving the offer to the card. This really is an offer designed to trick people into thinking they're getting a discount, when the reality is the best you could hope for would be level pegging with just going to the cheapest station and using your supermarket points 4c discount instead. ie. what you normally do week in week out.

 

[RB]

Correct, but the strategy has worked because the responses in here prove that people don't read carefully enough and mistake the terms of the offer for those that sound more realistic and reasonable.

I got this offer on my Amex card too, but I read it correctly the first time and was frankly astonished at just how cough of a 'deal' this was and how high the hoops are getting now. Even Amex is well into sh!tifying their product to a point of uselessness. For me, my local EG fuel outlet is never the cheapest anyway (even when paying with discounted gift cards), so the prospect of having to buy min $60 of fuel three times before end of March to get back just one $20 rebate is not even worth saving the offer to the card. This really is an offer designed to trick people into thinking they're getting a discount, when the reality is the best you could hope for would be level pegging with just going to the cheapest station and using your supermarket points 4c discount instead. ie. what you normally do week in week out.

Guess people could just take some responsibility & work out for themselves if is worthwhile

 

[JJS]

Anybody used the Expedia offer not specifically on the amex offers page it states?
Wondering if I could combine with some cashback.

 

[snabbu]

Correct, but the strategy has worked because the responses in here prove that people don't read carefully enough and mistake the terms of the offer for those that sound more realistic and reasonable.

I got this offer on my Amex card too, but I read it correctly the first time and was frankly astonished at just how cough of a 'deal' this was and how high the hoops are getting now. Even Amex is well into sh!tifying their product to a point of uselessness. For me, my local EG fuel outlet is never the cheapest anyway (even when paying with discounted gift cards), so the prospect of having to buy min $60 of fuel three times before end of March to get back just one $20 rebate is not even worth saving the offer to the card. This really is an offer designed to trick people into thinking they're getting a discount, when the reality is the best you could hope for would be level pegging with just going to the cheapest station and using your supermarket points 4c discount instead. ie. what you normally do week in week out.

Over on OzB the idea seems ot be that you can buy a Wish card from EG to the value of $180 and ask the attendant to split the payments into 3 x $60 to trigger the $15 back. If you can find the cards in store this approach seems like sound logic to me.

 

[Legoman]

Over on OzB the idea seems ot be that you can buy a Wish card from EG to the value of $180 and ask the attendant to split the payments into 3 x $60 to trigger the $15 back. If you can find the cards in store this approach seems like sound logic to me.

Hmm, yeah, just a few tiny little things about this hypothetical process that make it virtually undoable in the real world. Or at the very least, extremely inconvenient to the point of not worth the $20 rebate.
1. $180 is a LOT of fuel. You will need a car with an at least 100 litre fuel tank and for that tank to be bone dry empty and then have a couple of jerry cans as well, to buy $180 litres of fuel in one visit. If requiring multiple visits then this negates the convenience factor massively, so multiple visits is disregarded for that reason.
Now, fortunately or not, I have just such a car. A V8 BMW 740iL which is fitted with the same fuel tank as for a V12 750iL which is 100 litres capacity. I also have 3 x BMW jerry cans with 9 litre capacity each, so I'm all set, but this brings me to point two…
2. Buying fuel on the cheapest day of the week (which is obviously what everyone who pays for their own fuel does) means packed service stations, long queues, frustrated and deliberately overworked staff in hopelessly understaffed stores, deliberately so in order to slow down the purchase of fuel to limit profit losses. Paying with gift cards (which I have done many times) in this environment is not welcome and typically comes accompanied with eye-rolls and deliberately obvious exhaling - all while there are 10 people in the queue behind you lining up for the one and only operator on duty, while the other is mopping the toilets or restacking the cigarette cupboard under the counter with a 'next operator please' sign on their cashier work station.

Let me be direct here and say that asking the cashier to split a single purchase into three on a gift card, in this situation as described, would put you at serious risk of being beaten to death with blunt instruments right there in the shop. It is up the individual to decide whether this is worth $20.