Yay!!! I Got My 10,000 Bonus Points - Just One Question.....

[Renato1]

..........WHY?

I just went to check how much money I owed on my Platinum Edge card, and saw that my Member Rewards points were up by around 10,000. I then checked the points history and saw that on 17 Feb 2016 I got 10,000 Bonus points.

I haven't referred anybody to earn the bonus points.
I checked my e-mails from Amex, and there's no mention of 10,000 bonus points.
I cancelled my Amex Qantas Discovery card back in May last year when I got the Edge card, and there was no mention of bonus points.
Amex gave me $100 or more back in June after I met the spend requirement.

So it is a complete mystery to me why I got these bonus points.

Maybe it's a mistake and they'll disappear?

Has anybody else gotten 10,000 bonus points for no apparent reason?
Regards,
Renato

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Has anybody else gotten 10,000 bonus points for no apparent reason?

Alas no....

 

[phamid]

Did the points history just say bonus points? How did you sign up your Edge card?

 

[jackthomas]

There is a 10,000 points sign up bonus with a minimum spend at the moment, would it be from this?
Is it your first directly issued AMEX?

 

[Renato1]

Did the points history just say bonus points? How did you sign up your Edge card?

Yes, it only said Bonus Points. I signed up for the Edge card at the $149 per annum rate at the Member Advantage site for Professionals Australia members (i.e. at the union and association members' site).
Regards,
Renato

 

[Renato1]

There is a 10,000 points sign up bonus with a minimum spend at the moment, would it be from this?
Is it your first directly issued AMEX?

I had signed up with the Amex Qantas Discovery card the year before, and had gotten its 2000 point bonus. There wasn't any mention of a 10,000 point bonus on the site where I joined, or I would have been nagging them for it many months ago. I've earned just over 60,000 points on the card since I got it nine months ago - which is pretty good going, as I didn't use it for the three months I was overseas. That translates to having put over $20,000 through the card during that time.
Regards,
Renato