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Looks like I got $30 for $300 on both my Cash Magnet and my BCP.
I don't usually shop Best Buy but I'll have to keep them in the back of my mind if I do any shopping before the year is out.
Here is a free $10 for buying gas with Amex and BP/Amoco
@mikesonthemend wrote:Here is a free $10 for buying gas with Amex and BP/Amoco
I have that but BP and Amoco don't exist in the areas I'm currently in. I *do* still have the 10% up to $100 back at Exxon/Mobil on SC+ which I've used $80 of.
Love Amex offers. I have them on my Propel too, although most are different from my Amex card. My opinion is Amex offers are by far the best of the 4 major payment networks.
Propel has their own offers in addition to their Amex offers. Just a few offers a month (you can count the number on 1 hand). Their best was 15% off gas, up to $40 cash back, in June. Then ran 10% off gas in July up to $40, then 10% off gas, 1 purchase only in August. Did all gift cards each month and got $120 cash back plus normal $30 back from 3%. $150 cash back to prepay gas for about 6 months.
On my Amex card, so far this billing cycle, I got Starbucks and 10% off my cell phone bill, up to $10. Next is 10% off insurance bill up to $10. That's over $20 this month on offers. On a yearly basis, they outpace reward dollars by a large margin.
Offers are great when I remember to use them. Most recently, I applied and used the InstaCart Offer on my Gold Card last weekend. It was a nice point earning potential, however I wouldn't rate the overall interaction very high. The experience is greatly dependent upon your shopper's ability to select high quality items, particularly meats! The order was different than the items I selected for my cart, but in the end I made it work.
This was the offer:
Points earned so far from one usage:
@ChargedUp wrote:I have that but BP and Amoco don't exist in the areas I'm currently in. I *do* still have the 10% up to $100 back at Exxon/Mobil on SC+ which I've used $80 of.
Fortunately my Bonvoy has an offer for just any U.S. Gas Stations, I no longer have any Shell, Amoco, BP anything like that around anymore. Everything seems to be mom & pop run, or "store" run like Safeway and fred Meyer.
I also have email offerson Bonvoy 12K points for $6K spend.
$250 resort credit to use on dining, entertainment, and more when you book a stay of two or more consecutive nights at Wynn Las Vegas or Encore and pay with any American Express® Card. Simply book from now until February 22, 2020, and stay by February 29, 2020.
Also, what's instacart?
@grower1 wrote:Offers are great when I remember to use them. Most recently, I applied and used the InstaCart Offer on my Gold Card last weekend. It was a nice point earning potential, however I wouldn't rate the overall interaction very high. The experience is greatly dependent upon your shopper's ability to select high quality items, particularly meats! The order was different than the items I selected for my cart, but in the end I made it work.
This was the offer:
Points earned so far from one usage:
Wow, if they are dependent on items purchased, that's hard to track or keep up with. Mine are straight forward. For cell phone or insurance bills, I use phone reminders to pay before auto payment kicks in or when I would normally pay just to remind me what card to use.
Agreed, this was a simple supermarket order, but for some items that I selected the shopper didn't get it quite right lol. For example, I selected prime cuts of New York Strip and he delivered very thin slices of New York Strip, almost see thru. I thought, what can I do with this?!?
I ended up making a version of Philly Cheesesteaks with them. Certainly not the dinner I was planning
Somehow I managed to double the points earned for 1 order (5,500 points for 1 order).
Best Buy offer says:
Get a one-time $30 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to spend a minimum of $300+ in one or more transactions in-store at Best Buy or online at bestbuy.com by 12/31/2019. See terms for exclusions.
Sounds like it does not have to be a one time purchase of $300+, but multiple smaller purchases add up to $300+ work too, right?
@eastsea wrote:Best Buy offer says:
Get a one-time $30 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to spend a minimum of $300+ in one or more transactions in-store at Best Buy or online at bestbuy.com by 12/31/2019. See terms for exclusions.
Sounds like it does not have to be a one time purchase of $300+, but multiple smaller purchases add up to $300+ work too, right?
A lot more of the offers (and the ones offered by Visa) give up to a total $ amount of rewards back, which is nice. I think the Lowe's offer runs that way too, as well as Starbucks. More and more of them are for multiple purchases now. Get up to $5 back on Starbucks until the expiration date.