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To take advantage of an Amex offer, first save the offer to your card, then do the spending. There are a few ways to save offers to your card; http://www.amexoffers.com/ has links to most of them. Depending on the offer and depending on your Amex card, it may be available via none, one or more than one of these methods:

americanexpress.com web site
Log into the americanexpress.com web site. If you get the new version of the site, scroll down to Amex Offers & Benefits at the bottom of the page. If you get the old version, click the Amex Offers For You tab. You can also see on this web site which offers you already saved (even if you saved them via a method other than this web site) and which offers you already redeemed. This method is only available for Amex credit and charge cards issued by American Express.
The maximum number of offer that the site will show you is 100. If you already have 100 available offers, there may be other offers that they are prepared to show you, but are not showing you because you already have the maximum. To see additional offers, save one or more of your available offers and then refresh the list (F5 in most Windows browsers).

Saving an offer on AmericanExpress.com to one of your cards will automatically make it unavailable for the rest of your cards linked to the same login. The way to get around this is by opening all of your cards in separate tabs and then saving the offer in each.  **

**Sign into different tabs?!?
Sign onto your Amex account. card #1 is on the page.  scroll to offers. note a good one. 
Open  tab 2: amex.com (or with Chrome, right click on the first tab and choose Duplicate) > you are already logged in.> go to my accounts > click on card #2  on the top of the page. scroll to offers. check for same good offer. 
Open tab #3. repeat as for tab #2. Repeat as necessary.
THEN: on tab #1 - click 'save' .  Then on tab #2 click 'save' . Then on each tab.
If you so desire: check on each card's 'saved offers' to check that it's there.

This link should take you to the Amex old layout,
which is much easier to scroll down through all the offers.

Amex® Mobile app
This method is only available for Amex credit and charge cards issued by American Express. The login is the same as for the americanexpress.com web site.

Dedicated web site for enrollment
Some Amex offers, most notably Small Business Saturday, but also NYC Restaurant Week, Home Depot, Amazon and DirecTV, offer a dedicated web site where you could enter your card information to enroll.

For Bluebird/Serve cards
Amex offers can be saved via the bluebird.com web site. Go to Plan & Manage > Amex Offers. Amex offers can also be saved via the Bluebird mobile app.

For cards not issued by American Express (such as Amex cards issued by Citi, USAA, PenFed, Bank of America, etc.)
Add offers to your card at this site: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/network/shopping.html
You will be prompted for your name, card number and email address.
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10180 on: January 09, 2017, 12:39:34 PM »
Double checking that buying the $200 vgc makes the most sense. Last time I tried to buy more than one $500 variable vgc the system was hardcoded against it. But they let me buy $2400 plus of the $200 in one transaction.
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10181 on: January 09, 2017, 12:40:56 PM »
yes

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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10182 on: January 09, 2017, 12:41:52 PM »

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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10183 on: January 09, 2017, 12:42:09 PM »
It seems that the only business authorized users I got in on were the ones that had the social added at the time of the card application. Subsequent AUs never had the offer added unfortunately.

Does anyone know how to get the offer on all Business AUs?
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10184 on: January 09, 2017, 12:43:30 PM »
Double checking that buying the $200 vgc makes the most sense. Last time I tried to buy more than one $500 variable vgc the system was hardcoded against it. But they let me buy $2400 plus of the $200 in one transaction.
There are many reports that buying $500 GCs in separate transactions will trigger the offer on all of it (t&c notwithstanding).

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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10185 on: January 09, 2017, 12:43:44 PM »
Yes for what?
Dan's Q - Sorry I didn't quote it.

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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10186 on: January 09, 2017, 12:45:16 PM »
YMMV ... but generally yes. I had to drag my wife with me to SC in December to do some of the purchases. And I'll have to drag her again in January too.
So long as I use the chip reader I never get ID'd nowadays. I guess the machine is no longer hardcoded to prompt for ID.

This goes for Sams VGC purchases as well as VGC purchases at the local grocery chains with purchase sizes ~$2,000+fees.
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10187 on: January 09, 2017, 12:46:28 PM »
There are many reports that buying $500 GCs in separate transactions will trigger the offer on all of it (t&c notwithstanding).
Is it worth risking that it won't to save the additional ~2%. DoC seemed to say that multiple transaction stopped working in December.
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10188 on: January 09, 2017, 12:57:39 PM »
Is it worth risking that it won't to save the additional ~2%. DoC seemed to say that multiple transaction stopped working in December.
Actually, I never did it because I didn't want to risk it, but that's just me being extra cautious. I didn't see that from DoC. If he said that, then I definitely retract this suggestion.

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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10189 on: January 09, 2017, 12:59:58 PM »
Actually, I never did it because I didn't want to risk it, but that's just me being extra cautious. I didn't see that from DoC. If he said that, then I definitely retract this suggestion.
I was thinking that as well. I'd rather get less out of the deal and ensure I get the full $1250.
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10190 on: January 09, 2017, 01:03:05 PM »
I was thinking that as well. I'd rather get less out of the deal and ensure I get the full $1250.
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10191 on: January 09, 2017, 01:03:54 PM »
3 X $500 Gift card in 3 transactions got me the full $250 credit last week

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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10192 on: January 09, 2017, 01:06:50 PM »
3 X $500 Gift card in 3 transactions got me the full $250 credit last week
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10193 on: January 09, 2017, 01:22:34 PM »
3 X $500 Gift card in 3 transactions got me the full $250 credit last week
You spent more than you needed to though
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10194 on: January 09, 2017, 01:22:52 PM »
How many CCs can you use for one transaction?
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10195 on: January 09, 2017, 01:28:14 PM »
How many CCs can you use for one transaction?
Probably 4.
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10196 on: January 09, 2017, 01:41:17 PM »
Have several dozen cards targeted now, guess I should go all out here.

What is the fee on the $200 and $500 cards?
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10197 on: January 09, 2017, 01:42:15 PM »
Have several dozen cards targeted now, guess I should go all out here.

What is the fee on the $200 and $500 cards?
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10198 on: January 09, 2017, 01:49:24 PM »
Have several dozen cards targeted now, guess I should go all out here.

What is the fee on the $200 and $500 cards?
For me the cleaner/easier root is to buy SC GCs and sell them - they're selling for 90.5% on cardpool (assuming that they view SC the same as Walmart)
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Re: Amex Offers Discussion Thread
« Reply #10199 on: January 09, 2017, 01:57:36 PM »
You spent more than you needed to though

I unload each card to make EFTPS payments for a flat 2.50 per card so this is the most efficient use of the offer .