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New Amex offers: £25 off £100 at Eurostar and £25 off £50 at Argos

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On Saturday I ran through the latest run of American Express cardholder offers – including a generous £50 cashback on a £500 Apple purchase – and surmised that this would be it for the year.

I was wrong.  A very generous offer with Argos turned up yesterday.

You can find the offer on the cardmemberoffers.co.uk website under ‘Shopping’.  If you go via this route you will need to register via the Foursquare smartphone app.  Alternatively, you may find it on your American Express online account on the statement pages of one of your cards.

You will receive £25 cashback when you spend £50 at Argos before 31st December.

Only 20,000 registrations are available.  I recommend registering all of your American Express cards sooner rather than later as this target is likely to be hit.  Head for Points readers are likely to take 2,000 or so.

What should you buy at Argos?  Gift cards!  Most Argos shops stock a range of gift cards for other retailers.  Some even stock the £53.95 Visa gift cards which come with a £50 Visa credit you can pay into a bank account, to HMRC, to a utility etc.

Note that this is an ‘in-store only’ offer.  Transactions on the Argos website will not count unless they are ‘click and collect’ and you pay in-store.

You can only register one American Express card per Foursquare account.  If you open multiple Foursquare accounts, each requires a different email address.

Meanwhile, a new Eurostar offer is about to launch.  It does not yet show up online but you can register by clicking here.

The deal is worth £25 cashback on a £100 Eurostar sale (either online or at a Eurostar ticket office in the UK) before the end of January.  There is no limit to the number of people who can register for this.

Eurostar no longer sells gift vouchers online.  You can buy paper vouchers via the phone but this could well be run by a third party and not trigger the cashback.  Your best option to maximise the bonus is to break down a trip into chunks of £100, potentially booking each passenger separately.  As you can select seats after booking there is no risk of your party being split up.

Want to earn more points from credit cards? – December 2021 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit or charge card, here are our November 2021 recommendations based on the current sign-up bonus. 

You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the top current deals:

British Airways BA Amex American Express card

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up, no annual fee and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending ….. Read our full review

British Airways BA Premium Plus American Express Amex credit card

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the UK’s most valuable credit card perk – the 2-4-1 companion voucher Read our full review

Nectar American Express

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & two airport lounge passes Read our full review

American Express Platinum card Amex

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers.

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and free for a year Read our full review

Amex Platinum Business American Express

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and a long list of travel benefits Read our full review

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express card

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

Capital On Tap Business Rewards Visa

The most generous Avios Visa or Mastercard for a limited company Read our full review

For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback on your spending:

Barclaycard Select Cashback Credit Card

1% cashback and no annual fee Read our full review

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Comments (188)

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  • Julie says:
    16 Dec16 December 17:30

    I can’t even get the four square app to download and work, tried mobile and ipad but both are “unexpectedly quitting”, bummer

  • Dale says:
    16 Dec16 December 17:31

    This site is becoming a poor mans HUKD – can we get back to travel stuff?

    • squills says:
      16 Dec16 December 17:45

      That’s why Andrew said Primark and you took it H, L & S.

      You can hardly deny Eurostar is relevant.

      And since the Argos deal [er.on Amex = Avios] can lead to a £50 Visa card, costing £25 or so, = subsidised travel, I can’t see it’s not relevant to points people.

      Some readers got a broomstick up their nether end 😉

    • Andrew S says:
      16 Dec16 December 21:17

      Haha i was winding up Raffles, but i just made 100quid profit over lunch due to this post so cannot complain.

      • squills says:
        16 Dec16 December 21:28

        It was pretty funny. Good result. I merely made £25 + £15 today on this one = £40, I sure need to get a smart phone to do the 4SQ stuff.

        Got a nice beef joint out of it, though 😉

    • Rob says:
      16 Dec16 December 23:03

      Don’t worry Dale, I am constantly aware of this and try to balance it. As most of the key travel cards are Amex cards these deals make sense. I did not, for example, do an extra post on the Argos deal yesterday – which I could have done – because it was not core.

      It is being constantly monitored though.

      • Samantha Shillabeer says:
        17 Dec17 December 01:08

        Please don’t stop publishing AMEX deals, you’re helping to save me a fortune! 🙂

  • JoecCluskey says:
    16 Dec16 December 18:06

    Thanks for the tip

    Went to the Argos near Victoria – they had no gift cards left on the racks. When I asked, she went out in the back to get some. In case you dont see any in the store.

  • Andrew says:
    16 Dec16 December 18:19

    Does anyone know if you can buy gift cards for the Apple Store in Argos?
    Cheers

    • Trevor says:
      16 Dec16 December 20:21

      Yup, like everywhere else, Argos stock them. But different stores stock different selections of gift cards, with the refurbed clinical and soulless stores generally stocking very little choice.

  • Stuart says:
    16 Dec16 December 18:30

    3 x £50 Visa cards, over 3 Amex cards – £63 profit after £12 fees deducted. Not bad for 5 minutes work 🙂

  • Daniel says:
    16 Dec16 December 19:03

    My MBNA issued Amex has the same card number as my girlfriend’s supplementary card. Presumably therefore if we set up two separate Foursquare accounts, this won’t work twice as it will treat them as both the same card?

  • Simon says:
    16 Dec16 December 20:56

    Bah – went to Argos (Stratford), no sign of the fabled Gift Cards, only the own brand Argos ones. Perhaps they were sold out.

    Is there a catalogue number for the gift cards or are we dependent on the shop stocking them?

  • Matthew says:
    16 Dec16 December 21:32

    Got 3 x £50 Visa cards paid with 3 Amex cards at Argos Bishop’s Stortford this afternoon, plenty left on the shelf 😉

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