A new Amex / Foursquare deal is here

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A new Foursquare offer has been launched, in conjunction with Amex. This is not as good as some of the older ones, but may well benefit you.

Check in at a Shell garage via Foursquare, and you will be shown a ‘Check-In Special’. This gets you £15 back when you spend £50 at Shell on your Amex card.

The deal runs until 18th April.

You can do it once per Amex card you have. Supplementary cards, MBNA Amex cards and Lloyds TSB Amex cards also count, although you need to create a new Foursquare account (with a different email address) for each card.

I would imagine – if you don’t have a car – that you would also get £15 back if you spent £50 on food and drink in a Shell garage mini-mart!

If you are new to Foursquare, there are some more details on how to sign up and use the promos in this old HfP article.

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Johnny5a says:

20 Jan20 January 07:34

Thanks for this is great! we use Shell all the time. Represents 30% off your fuel!

Note also they have a small selection of giftcards you could use to top up your spend if you can’t reach £50.
- James says:
  
  20 Jan20 January 09:11
  
  What giftcards do they sell at Shell? Thx.
  - Johnny5a says:
    
    21 Jan21 January 10:06
    
    Last time I looked it was something like Next £10, Debenhams £10, they were fixed amounts not like the topup type you can get. Didn’t see any of the useful type cards such as supermarkets. I’ve asked my wife to take a look next time she’s in.
    - flyoff says:
      
      22 Jan22 January 16:47
      
      I noticed Debenhams, Next, Boots, B&Q, New Look and Itunes. There were others I can’t remember.
      
      I bought 2*£25 Argos vouchers twice (£100 total) so that I can spend them with the 2 * £10 non Argos giftcards for £15 or 2*£20 non Argos giftcards for £30 instore promotion.
      
      £45 for £100 of giftcards by combining the two offers.
      - James says:
        
        24 Jan24 January 02:53
        
        Thx Johnny and Flyoff. Boots giftcards provide interesting possibilities if these were used in 10x points weekend in conjunction with other offers like 3 for 2 or personal boots cards offers.
Neil Spellings (@neilspellings) says:

20 Jan20 January 08:33

Also worth remembering that the “Spend £10 get £5 back” deal at Starbucks is also still running (finishes 13th Feb)
- Andrew Seftel (@andrewseftel) says:
  
  20 Jan20 January 08:46
  
  Spend 30 get 15 at Pizza Hut also has some time on the clock
  - pazza2000 says:
    
    21 Jan21 January 21:36
    
    Is it? I can not find it on 4S, I had assumed it had finished with the rest of the offers in Dec.
    - Flyoff says:
      
      21 Jan21 January 22:22
      
      The offer continues. Not all Pizza Huts accept Amex so they won’t show on 4S. Some Pizza Huts sell gift vouchers but Pizza Hut HQ informed me not all stores/delivery units accept them.
Mike Turnbull says:

20 Jan20 January 08:37

Not sure if this applies to all Shell garages, but my local one here in Birdham, Chichester doesn’t seem to be in the list although I can see two others further away that are.
- Neil Spellings (@neilspellings) says:
  
  20 Jan20 January 11:29
  
  If I search on the Foursquare website my local garage doesn’t show up, however if I check in on the mobile app, and search for “Shell” it DOES show up, so try the mobile app.
  - flyoff says:
    
    21 Jan21 January 16:58
    
    My local Shell only appears if I zoom in to a certain level on the map. Zoom too far in or out and it doesn’t show. I did wonder initially if it depended on whether they have franchisees who could opt out but I am now less sure this is the case.
JP says:

20 Jan20 January 09:50

I have noticed that my local Shell stations don’t appear when searched for in the app. Shop at Shell anyway so will try in-store when I am next in.
Will says:

20 Jan20 January 11:29

Even if your local is not on the list it *may* work checking in at another. I got paid from both Tesco and Starbucks after checking in at one store and spending in a different one (in the case of tesco the different store was not showing as a special in foursquare)
trickster says:

20 Jan20 January 16:31

Fantastic – I’ve got 7 shots at this, and I regularly use the Shell near home and work as they are often the cheapest.
Nick says:

26 Jan26 January 00:53

Does anyone know if checking in and loading to card a few days before making the actual purchase works? Or do you have to check in/ load to card literally minutes/ hours before?

Thanks
- Flyoff says:
  
  26 Jan26 January 01:01
  
  That is fine. With other merchants, and the same should apply to Shell, it doesn’t matter which Shell petrol station you check into either.
marcel says:

26 Jan26 January 11:15

Looks like there a re bunch of new offers based on an email I got from Amex earlier.

The best seems to be Harrods, House of Fraser, Banana Republic and Gap all of which are running spend £50 get £25.