Amex Authorized User Bonuses
Update: More offers sent out. Check this link for 20K bonus for adding authorized user to your Amex Platinum Card.
American Express often sends out offers to cardholders to add authorized users. These offers are sent out by mail, email or you can often find them in your accounts. More people have been targeted in the last few days for Amex authorized user bonuses. There’s also a new offer for 30,000 Membership Rewards points after you add an additional card member to your Gold card account and they spend $500 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 90 days.
My offer is for 20,000 Membership Rewards points after you add just one additional card member and they spend $2,000 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 6 months of card membership. You can add either an additional Platinum card ($175 for 3 cards) or a free Gold card. My offer expires on 2/18/2022.
Offers
Some of the current offers that we have seen include:
- Gold Card
- Earn 30,000 Membership Rewards points after you add an additional card member to your account and they spend $500 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 90 days of card membership. (HT: MtM)
- Platinum Card
- Earn 20,000 Membership Rewards points after you add an additional card member to your account and they spend $2,000 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 6 months of card membership.
- Green Card
- Earn 5,000 Membership Rewards points after you add an additional card member to your account and they spend $1,000 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 6 months of card membership.
- EveryDay Preferred
- Earn 5,000 Membership Rewards points after you add an additional card member to your account and they spend $1,000 in eligible purchases on their card in the first 6 months of card membership.
- Amex EveryDay
- Add new Additional Card Members to your account through this email and earn a $25 statement credit after they spend $250 in eligible purchases on their Card in their first 3 months of Card Membership (limit $100 in statement credits).
Offer Terms
- Points will post to the Basic Card Member’s account within 8–12 weeks after an Additional Card Member makes required purchases.
- Your purchases as the Basic Card Member will not count toward the $500 spend requirement.
- The Additional Card Member’s Social Security Number and Date of Birth are not required to submit this request. However, you must provide this information within 60 days or Amex will cancel your card.
Guru’s Wrap-up
We see these Amex authorized user bonuses from time to time. We often see similar offers for other cards as well, so take a look at your emails or accounts. Usually the best offers are for Platinum and Gold cardholders. The only issue here is that you need to add Authorized Users. And that would show up as another credit card on that person’s credit report. That would be a problem for those trying to stay under 5/24.
