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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

Comments (188)

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  • Mike says:

    Hi – I see that in the US there is an Amex MR points bonus transfer to Avios running currently. Any idea if that might apply in the UK?

      • Alan says:

        any idea if any likelihood at all of Amex offering some kind of MR/Avios bonus from UK accounts in near future? Currently sat on large MR balance which looking to transfer sometime soon to use on a 241 and don’t want to miss out!

        • Rob says:

          Seems unlikely as BA has also stopped Heathrow Rewards and Tesco bonuses. It is called ‘reclaiming price stability’ – they did too many bonuses and no-one will now convert without one. Who blinks first?

  • Andy says:

    Foursquare. What a total car crash. I’ve got the app. I’ve clicked on “Specials” – no argos deal. I’ve searched for #AMEXoffers. No Argos deal. I’ve searched for Argos. Lots of stores with people moaning about them – no argos deal. I’ve spent ages trying to find it, no luck. It’s either run out, or that app is the worst designed piece of crap ever invented. What really rankles is that I cannot get the offer on my plat card through the amex website for some reason, so my only way to get it is to use this foursquare nonsense.

  • Susan says:

    2 x £50 M+S cards in Argos Wimbledon today. Big thank you to Raffles for highlighting this promotion.

  • Andrew says:

    Think this has now hit the max of 20,000 – just tried to link a couple more cards but it’s no longer showing in foursquare or Amex… Oh well, I got 6 linked at least!!

  • Hasan says:

    Not showing up anything on foursquare. Is the promo over?

  • ADS says:

    I can’t see the Argos offer on the foursquare app … guess that means that all the slots have been used up ??

  • giggles says:

    Thank you again, and I agree please do keep us updated as your blog is of the emails I actually read. The Argos in cheapside, London had all the gift cards apart from the Amex and I picked up the last two visa cards. They may get more today, I did call ahead and asked them to put them aside for me, so you could try that.
    Also I am not sure if this was posted BP £5 off a £50 spend, (its travel related 😉 ) I am not eligible as I have a barclaycard Amex, but my father was and worked well.
    https://offerenroll.americanexpress.com/enroll/EnrollmentSitePage?offer=BP

  • oyster says:

    Does anyone know how I can contact Amex for a missing statement credit without having to phone them?
    I can’t find a link for online chat or online message.

    • PJK says:

      When you’ve logged in, at the top right had corner it says Contact Us – click that, then on the next page click on the Write Message tab.

      • PJK says:

        Sorry, missed a middle step:
        1 – Top right Contact Us
        2 – right hand side, click Email American Express
        3 – click Write Message

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