£15 off £50 spend at Shell - heads up!

[gtr2012]

If you have an Amex card download the FourSquare app for your phone.

Check in at the garage and link your Amex card to the app...as soon as you pay £15 will be credited to your Amex account!

Seems like a no brainer - plus you get your regular 1.25% cashback as well if you have a Platinum Cashback Card on top of this!

[RicksAlfas]

Thanks. There's a thread here already:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[gtr2012]

Oops! Thanks for pointing that out

[Dr Interceptor]

Yup... except that it only works once per card, and is immediately cancelled out by the cards £25 annual fee.

[gtr2012]

Dr Interceptor said:

Yup... except that it only works once per card, and is immediately cancelled out by the cards £25 annual fee.

You have 2 cards as a couple - so you can use it twice.

As for the fee - £25 is absolutely nothing compared to the 1.25% cashback you receive over the year.

You also get the first year free anyway when you go through this link: Platinum Cashback Card with £25 Cashback.

The Shell offer is not the only one...

Spend £50 in House of Frasier - get £25 back.
Spend £50 in Gap - get £25 back.
Spend £30 in Pizza Express - get £15 back.

The small fee is more than outweighed by the benefits IMO.

[Badgerboy]

Dare I ask how much of my personal information gets forfeited to these guys? Only as having it linked to my credit card is surely asking for trouble?

[Gr44]

I have a 'free' amex card, it works on that as well... you don't need to pay for the premium card w/ cashback if you don't want to. I mostly use a mastercard so not much point for me.

Used this yesterday though, nice & simple to setup! Finally some change from £90!

[GTRStage1]

Badgerboy said:

Dare I ask how much of my personal information gets forfeited to these guys? Only as having it linked to my credit card is surely asking for trouble?

All they get is what you put in to the app.

People use it much like Twitter/Facebook.

If you don't give them anything - they will have nothing.

[julian64]

Yes but Amex is universally hated. In the year I had mine I lost count of either the number of venders who wouldn't accept it, or that added a 1% or 2% surcharge for using it, especially in the US.

[GTRStage1]

julian64 said:

Yes but Amex is universally hated. In the year I had mine I lost count of either the number of venders who wouldn't accept it, or that added a 1% or 2% surcharge for using it, especially in the US.

It's accepted at every major supermarket...petrol station...high street store...airlines/hotels and most restaurants.

Surely this is where 90% of anyones spending goes?

[GTRStage1]

Just had another look on FourSquare and loads of the Amex Specials seem to have gone - the only one I can see is the Debenhams one.

Before I had House Of Frasier...Shell...Gap...

Has this happened to anyone else?

[EventHorizon]

Santander do one that offers 3% back on fuel purchases. http://www.santander.co.uk/csgs/Satellite?appID=ab...
why would i want 1.25%?.