American Express Offer questions

[Gone Fishing]

So we got offers in the mail for $200 cash back and a year of Amazon Prime with $1000 of spending in the alloted time.  My wife and I both applied got cards.  We met the requirements for hers, got paid/amazon, and are in the process of meeting the hurdle on mine.  So she just got another offer in the mail for the same thing.  So I say, "Do it again"!  I guess we need to cancel the first one (all paid up) before we try again?

[brooklynguy]

Is it for the same Amex card or a different one?  Check the fine print carefully - the terms of most (or maybe all?) Amex cards now make them unchurnable (i.e., you can't get the same benefit again once you've gotten it in the past).

[JLee]

So we got offers in the mail for $200 cash back and a year of Amazon Prime with $1000 of spending in the alloted time.  My wife and I both applied got cards.  We met the requirements for hers, got paid/amazon, and are in the process of meeting the hurdle on mine.  So she just got another offer in the mail for the same thing.  So I say, "Do it again"!  I guess we need to cancel the first one (all paid up) before we try again?

Oh wow, I'd love that offer...I have 3 Amex cards though, so I doubt I'll get it (and I think I opted out of offers).

[mskyle]

Yeah, usually there's a one-year waiting period. And often it's a once-per-household thing, so you might already be in violation of their terms!

You're lucky, though - I just got that same card with the same offer, but my latest offer is for 20,000 "points" and a year of Amazon Prime after *$2000* in purchases. No thanks!

[Jags4186]

Amex recently changed their terms from earning a bonus on a card from once a year to once in a lifetime.  So hope it was a good bonus on the product you got!

Best I've seen is 100k membership reward points on Amex Platinum.  Of course you needed to pony up $450 for the card.