New Amex Benefit!

[jdeleon]

Not sure if this belongs here, but looks like Amex has joined up with ShopRunner.com to offer unlimited free 2-day shipping at participating e-tailers for card holders. Looks like most, if not all cards are eligible as well.

• Unlimited Free 2-Day Shipping*

• Free Shipping on Returns

• No Minimum Order Size

• ShopRunner Member Deals

Enjoy free 2-day shipping* from over
80+ online stores, including:
• Brooks Brothers
• Toys R Us
• Lord & Taylor
• Drugstore.com
• FTD
• Shoes.com
• Kenneth Cole
• Blue Nile

I have used Shoprunner twice before and it was fast, easy and hassel free.They do not have tons of merchants yet, but they have grown steadily, besides who hates free 2 day shipping and returns when they come across something they need/want.

[MrPickleton]

https://www.shoprunner.com/terms/amex/

It looks like if you have a consumer or small business credit or charge card issued by Amex you are eligible for the free membership.  If you have a corporate or Amex branded card, or other cards carrying the Amex logo, you aren't eligible.  It looks like a neat feature that I may use.

[steve23111]

Two, maybe three Christmases ago, AMEX ran a promotion where you would win various "gifts" from making certain purchases with select merchants or something, I forget the details.  I got a few $2 bill credits and stuff, but I also got a free 1-year membership to Shop Runner from AMEX.  When that 1 year was up, I got an e-mail from Shop Runner saying that the membership was being automatically extended at no charge "compliments of American Express."

I guess now it's going to be permanently extended!

I get very little use out of this, except for Newegg and occasionally saving the $2 delivery fee at Domino's, as I do most of my online shopping at Amazon where I have a Prime membership (now THAT would be one heck of a perk and I would trade Shop Runner for Prime ANY day).  Still, it's great to have.  One more reason to love AMEX!

[Walt_K]

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@steve23111 wrote:

Two, maybe three Christmases ago, AMEX ran a promotion where you would win various "gifts" from making certain purchases with select merchants or something, I forget the details.  I got a few $2 bill credits and stuff, but I also got a free 1-year membership to Shop Runner from AMEX.  When that 1 year was up, I got an e-mail from Shop Runner saying that the membership was being automatically extended at no charge "compliments of American Express."

I guess now it's going to be permanently extended!

I get very little use out of this, except for Newegg and occasionally saving the $2 delivery fee at Domino's, as I do most of my online shopping at Amazon where I have a Prime membership (now THAT would be one heck of a perk and I would trade Shop Runner for Prime ANY day).  Still, it's great to have.  One more reason to love AMEX!

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Didn't they 1099 people with some bogus value for those shoprunner memberships and then reverse course. 

[steve23111]

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@Walt_K wrote:

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@steve23111 wrote:

Two, maybe three Christmases ago, AMEX ran a promotion where you would win various "gifts" from making certain purchases with select merchants or something, I forget the details.  I got a few $2 bill credits and stuff, but I also got a free 1-year membership to Shop Runner from AMEX.  When that 1 year was up, I got an e-mail from Shop Runner saying that the membership was being automatically extended at no charge "compliments of American Express."

I guess now it's going to be permanently extended!

I get very little use out of this, except for Newegg and occasionally saving the $2 delivery fee at Domino's, as I do most of my online shopping at Amazon where I have a Prime membership (now THAT would be one heck of a perk and I would trade Shop Runner for Prime ANY day).  Still, it's great to have.  One more reason to love AMEX!

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Didn't they 1099 people with some bogus value for those shoprunner memberships and then reverse course. 

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Not that I've ever heard of.  But you know how people are with their AMEX rumors...

[Walt_K]

http://thepointsguy.com/2012/02/amex-issues-revised-1099s-for-unclaimed-gift-chain-prizes/

[steve23111]

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@Walt_K wrote:

http://thepointsguy.com/2012/02/amex-issues-revised-1099s-for-unclaimed-gift-chain-prizes/

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Fascinating.  Well, they never sent me anything!

From Googling around a little bit, it seems that those who got 1099'd were folks who brought in a crapload of winnings in the promotion -- specifically, multiple Shop Runner memberships from multiple AMEX cards.  I didn't fall into that category.