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ENDING SOON: £15 off £25 Amazon purchase for ALL Amex Gold and Platinum holders

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For the last 20+ months, Amazon has been offering an exclusive £15 discount code for Amex Gold, Green and Platinum charge card holders when they spend £25 or more. 

This offer expires on 31st August.  If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet – probably because you didn’t have an Amex Gold or Platinum when it launched – this is your last chance.

You will save £15 on your next Amazon order of £25 or more as long as you part-pay with Membership Rewards points from your Amex Gold or Platinum card.

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This is what to do:

If you have not already done so, link your Membership Rewards account with your Amazon account by visiting this page on the Amazon website

Buy £25 of items on amazon.co.uk (these MUST all be sold by Amazon and not third party merchants, and excludes digital content and gift cards)

You MUST select your Membership Rewards-earning Amex card as your payment card (you cannot use gift cards or any other payment source)

Part-pay for your order using Membership Rewards points.  The sneaky option is to redeem just 2 points for a 1p discount.  This saves you ‘wasting’ MR points on a low value redemption.  You will only get 0.45p per point and you shouldn’t waste more than 2 of your valuable points on such a poor deal!  (One comment below suggests that 10 points may be required, so 5p!).

Enter code AMEX16SWP at check out (the code must go in after you have selected part-payment with your Membership Rewards-registered card)

This offer is open to all UK American Express Gold, Green and Platinum cardholders.  It does not seem to work for American Express Rewards (blue) credit card holders.  Your Amazon account must have been opened before 28th October 2017 – creating a brand new Amazon account just to take advantage of this offer will not work.


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 (42)

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  • Kevino says:

    It can only be used once I believe.

    • Mark2 says:

      That is certainly my experience.

    • johnny_c-l says:

      Just worked for me for the second time on the same Amazon account.

      Same MR account but have switched Amex Gold Charge > Platinum > Gold Credit and I guess it hasn’t realised it is the second time.

  • X says:

    Thank you for reminding us about Amazon offer! I’ve just bought another Echo dot for £19.98

  • Daniel says:

    I have just successfully been able to use this with the Amex blue card.

  • Orla says:

    Thank you for the reminder. Only took a minute to link accounts and there’s always something I need from Amazon!

  • Craig says:

    Just a heads up, Mrs S and I swapped as primary platinum holders last month. I was able to use this offer for the second time using her primary card as the cancelled one had been removed.

  • Louise Allen says:

    Not true wrt the opening date of your account. I only got my Amex Platinum account in June this year and was successfully able to use it within a week of getting the card.
    Also, Amex set up a separate rewards points account from my Gold Business card so I ended up qualifying for the 30k sign up bonus even though the call centre told me I wouldn’t get it!

  • Peter K says:

    That’s because you need to use MR points.

  • jimA says:

    just linked my Amex gold account to my 10 year old Amazon , ordered Echo dot and part paid with points (tried 10p and £1) but code rejected ???

    • Peter K says:

      Add points for 5p, go to the next page, then add the code. That’s what I had to do Friday.

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