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The Deal
- There are two versions of an Apple Pay Amex Offer:
- Spend $5 and get $2 back.
- Spend $5 and get 200 Membership Rewards.
Key Terms
- Expires September 30, 2019.
- Limit of 1,000 additional Membership Rewards points (or $10) per Card Member.
- Offer valid only for a qualifying purchase made with your enrolled American Express Card using Apple Pay on your eligible mobile device.
- Offer valid at in-store and in-app merchant locations that accept the American Express Card in the fifty United States, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands with point-of-sale terminals that process Apple Pay transactions.
- If you cannot use Apple Pay for the purchase for any reason, your purchase will not qualify for the offer.
- Purchases to meet the spend requirement of this offer do NOT include fees or interest charges, purchase of travelers checks, purchase or reloading of prepaid cards, purchases of gift cards, person-to-person payments, or other cash equivalents.
Tips & Ideas
I’m an Android person, so I have zero experience with Apple Pay. The terms state that gift card purchases are excluded, but I don’t see some inherent reason as to why this offer couldn’t be used to buy $5 gift cards and get $2 back or 200 Membership Rewards.
One of the nice features of this deal is that it can be used five times, so you can earn up to $10 or 1,000 Membership Rewards, or both if you have both versions of the offer. While that’s a little bit of hassle, the offer’s valid for another few months so there’s plenty of time to take advantage of it. Just buy $5 Starbucks gift cards in store and then load them to your Starbucks account to ensure you get the stars.
Thanks to Stefan of Rapid Travel Chai for reminding me about this offer. I found it on some of my cards a couple of months ago but forgot to post about it here until he mentioned it in an email.