American Express is starting 2021 off strong with some new Amex Platinum benefits. This includes a new user friendly PayPal credit and even a targeted travel credit. And this is great to see, especially with the strong Amex Platinum 100k bonus floating around.
00:00 – Start
00:26 – Were they doing anything
00:43 – New Platinum benefit
1:40 – Year 1 Value/ Retention offer
2:24 – Enrollment?
2:38 – Which Amex Platinum cards?
3:07 – How do I use it?
4:00 – $200 Amex Travel credit
4:32 – Final thoughts
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31 comments
Awesome, thanks for letting me know!! This is great. How/where do I check for the targeted travel credit? I received an email a while back but besides the email I'm not seeing anything on the account.
I got rejected for the amex platinum in early November. Reason said was too many new cards. You think I will have a shot if I apply again in February? Or should I wait a little longer to not add more hard pulls? I have a 800+ credit score
any new credits for the green and gold card
This one only for American card holder
Credits don’t count towards sign up bonus right? Or am I wrong?
Good catch
After seeing this I went to eBay and bought a gangter foot stool and used up the entire 30usd in one purchase. I can literally buy Silver coins at a discount too.
Will they allow purchasing Bitcoin through PayPal as eligible purchases?
The FAQs provide some dialogue on how the credits will work with Paypal. Just waiting on some data points as the FAQs imply that these would be used online through a Paypal Checkout button.
DP
1: Rakuten to Saks, spend 105, on iPad, clicked on PayPal entered data. Waiting to see if I triggered 50, 30, and 10% cash back
2: rakuten to saks, spend 75, on iPhone, clicked PayPal entered data. Waiting to see if I again triggered the 50,30, and 10% cash back
3: rakuten to under armour. Spent 110, IDMe down to 85. Waiting on 30 and 8% cash back
So in this parallel world we are in, Amex Platinum card offers easier credits and overall better value as a benefits card than the CSR?
Damn, Amex is killing it with updates 🙂
That Retention offer tho $$$
Can we use PayPal key to trigger the offer ?
This is definitely less restrictive, customer friendly move. I will now move my cell phone and streaming to Freedom 5% this quarter
Great benefit and good timing (after Freedom Flex 5% on PayPal is done)! I plan to use this on my monthly coffee order from Happy Mug, which is usually ~$40.
very informative…. as always !
Do you happen to know when the 10 X offer goes away
"$15 a month at Burberry for 10 months in 2 days" LOL that got me
Strange benefit to add to the Platinum card. Kind of like adding free coffee with any McDonald`s Egg McMuffin as a benefit to Centurion Cards. Just don't see that happening a lot.
I’d rather have the Priority Pass restaurant benefit return. IMHO.
I would like to see if it works buying something from an eBay member, not a business selling stuff.
There’s no mention of this on my benefits page of my Schwab plat, am I to assume I can still use this credit?
There are no benefits to have a Travel card nowadays. None
This credit is very user friendly and I'm sure it will be easy to use all $30 per month. Awesome. Take care Dustin and keep the family safe!
How do I get the 100k sign up bonus?
It’s actually $10 less of a benefit per month as they took away the $40 cell & streaming credit. But those were indeed trickier and more time consuming to use. Time to shuffle the deck. 😎
Wish this was on the Schwab too
I’m still waiting to get approved for the Charles Schwab Amex platinum 😭😭😭
I would assumed upgrading to a platinum would from either the gold/green would get this offer as well?
I called Amex about a retention offer. I told them with the uncertainty for 2021 I needed something to offset the $550 and they gave me the 50,000 points which was nice!