Amex Platinum cardholders – are you getting mysterious double and triple points?

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• Nick Burch says:

  29 Jul29 July 14:44

  I’ve got an Amex Plat, but haven’t been using it much lately as I’ve been working on the MBNA AA card minimum spend… I’ve just checked through my MR statement, and one booking with Amex Travel in June got quadruple points (double base and double bonus!), but no other transacations in June or July have had any double or tripple points

• will says:

  29 Jul29 July 16:58

  Wife has a gold card. various double points as expected (first year) but many triple and quad points also as others noted! e.g. £100 Holiday inn stay the other way posted as 200 base and 200 bonus! madness.

  Also triple points on a resturant (all at base) and triple points at weatherspoons it seems :S

• AusTraveller says:

  29 Jul29 July 17:01

  Amex Plat – just checked the MR statement and it’s a bit weird but here are my findings:
  – I’ve been getting double points for all my hotel stays (all within Hilton group though) since 11 June;
  – I’ve been getting double points on all train spend (one transaction on 2 July); and
  – But airline spend has been a no go – no double points when I redeemed a ticket using Avios on BA.com and had to pay taxes on that or when I charged an overseas flight with CX to the Amex.

• Neil says:

  29 Jul29 July 17:04

  I recieved 3 points per £1 when using my gold card at Byron, they didn’t post as bonus points but base points ))

• Jamjaw says:

  29 Jul29 July 17:47

  Just got 6 (!) times on my gold card for a hotel on oz. Getting 2x on all spend and 4x on travel. No idea why!!

• Clive J says:

  29 Jul29 July 19:03

  Just checked my new Gold card and since 19 July have been getting treble base points for restaurants and bars – including Wetherspoons as someone else reported. Supermarket I have been getting 1x base and 2 x bonus. Loving this card when I can get 25 points for a few lunchtime beers.

• Neil says:

  29 Jul29 July 19:07

  Also from Gold Card – Booked a flight in BA CE (to take advantage of the current 2,500 bonus MR points offer) and got the following:

  Spend: £512
  Base Points: 1,024
  Travel Bonus: 1,024
  Amex Travel 2500 bonus: 2,500
  American Express Travel Bonus: 1,024
  Total: 5,572.

  Flight was booked through the Amex Travel page so that explains some of the extra but ignoring the 2,500 bonus offer I reckon I should have come out with triple points, i.e. 1,536 but I’ve actually received (checks google for the correct word..) sextuple points!

  • Neil says:

    29 Jul29 July 19:08

    only getting the normal double in supermarkets but triple at Tesco petrol station.

• Marti says:

  29 Jul29 July 21:08

  I have gold and platinum card.
  I am not only receiving double or triple or quad points on both cards (not always of course) but also I just started THIRD year to receive FIRST YEAR Welcome Bonus on a gold card (and this is a reason why I still have gold card 😉

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