Amextravel earnings

gen-specific · ‎04-17-2018

Hello, do I earn Amex membership points when I USE membership points on the Amextravel site? This would be very different from other portals, but I'm honestly not sure because the wording makes it seem like you are always earning

Anonymous · ‎04-17-2018

@gen-specific wrote:
Hello, do I earn Amex membership points when I USE membership points on the Amextravel site? This would be very different from other portals, but I'm honestly not sure because the wording makes it seem like you are always earning

Here’s what I think happened for us, but someone may come along and tell me that I missed something. I’m on my phone only, not computer. Historically AMEX hasn’t made it easy to see points earned etc but it appears on mobile at least that they’ve changed that.

We used MR for 4 plane tickets (2 there, 2 back). What they do is charge your card and then issue a credit. It charges for each ticket separately when booked. Here’s what one ticket purchase looked like MR-wise.

MEMBERSHIP REWARDS POINTS

Base235

Bonus (5X - AIRFARE)940

Total1,175

The credits, however, came thru as 2, not 4. So the two $235 tickets resulted in a $470 credit. The transaction with the credit only clawed back the 470 MR points. As far as I can tell, they let the 940 bonus stand for each ticket.

Now i I have to see how it worked with Chase. Used them for 2 hotel nights on this trip to see how that worked. (Transferred points to Hyatt for the other two.)

MrDisco99 · ‎04-17-2018

No you do not earn points from spending points. Purchases paid with points is one of the categories listed as excluded from point earning in the terms (membershiprewards.com/terms).

Affinity Cash Rewards VSig $25,000 prime +9.25%

Amex Hilton Surpass $20,000 prime+17.49%

Amex Blue Business Plus $30,000 prime+12.99%

Barclays Wyndham Earner VSig $22,800 prime+11.99%

Cap1 Quicksilver WEMC $10,000 prime+14.74%

Chase Freedom Flex WEMC $10,000 prime+17.49%

Chase Freedom Unlimited VSig $10,000 prime+17.49%

Chase IHG Select WMC $5,000 prime+19.74%

Chase Sapphire Preferred VSig $10,000 prime+12.74%

Citi DoubleCash WEMC $10,000 prime+16.24%

Citi Custom Cash WEMC $11,200 prime+12.74%

Renasant (Elan) Max Cash Preferred VSig $25,000 prime+11.24%

Renasant (Elan) Everyday Rewards+ VSig $4,000 prime+11.24%

Synchrony Verizon VSig $15,000 prime+18.49%

Anonymous · ‎04-18-2018

@MrDisco99 wrote:
No you do not earn points from spending points. Purchases paid with points is one of the categories listed as excluded from point earning in the terms (membershiprewards.com/terms).

I think it must depend on how you spend points or which card we're talking about.

Now that I'm at my computer:

When I looked on my phone the 'normal' points and point credit show on the transaction. Those didn't make it to the summary.

K-in-Boston · ‎04-18-2018

That is my experience as well. Because of the way buying through Amex Travel works, and because buying through Amex Travel is a 5x category for Platinum, the charges are regular Amex Travel charges that get bonused, then a credit is issued to the account for redeeming MRs. Other places like Amazon or Newegg where you pay with points just offsets the amount actually charged.