Business Platinum Card from American Express
130,000 MR points
Amex Shop Small Promotion: Spend $10, Get $5
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Scotiabank Gold American Express® Card
- Earn 30,000 Scene+ points upon spending $2,000 in the first three months
- Plus, earn an additional 20,000 Scene+ points upon spending $7,500 in the first year
- Earn 6x Scene+ points at Sobeys, IGA, Safeway, FreshCo, and more
- Plus, earn 5x Scene+ points on groceries, dining, and entertainment
- Also, earn 3x Scene+ points on gas, transit, and select streaming services
- Redeem points for a statement credit for any travel expense
- No foreign transaction fees
- Enjoy the exclusive benefits of being an American Express cardholder
- Annual fee: $120 (waived for the first year)
This is a recurring article, regularly updated with the latest promotion. Some comments may refer to past promotions that are no longer available.
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Pretty weak compared to previous years. Is it really worth posting an article on $15 savings?
I have the Amex PP, Aeroplan reserve, Business Aeroplan, Personal Bonvoy card and it only showed up on my Business Aeroplan card. Better one than none.
I am in the same situation too. I have 3 Amex Cards and only one of them have the offer. The last time I had more than 1 card having this offer at the same time was at least 2 years ago. I believe Amex has gotten “Smart” about this, even separating Amex’s cards and Scotiabank’s Amex cards’ offer period for this “Shop Small” campaign.
Manual registration doesn’t always work. If you have the Amex Reserve charge card that used to be a Charter Member Amex Aero plat card, then when you try to register it manually you get the following message:
“Our records show that you’ve already enrolled for this offer. We limit the number of times that a Cardmember can enroll for each offer.“
Is there a list of charities that provide the tax receipts and accepts Amex?
Ya…
$50 statement credit isn’t really moving the needle here. Incredibly disappointing!!!
Once you stack it across multiple cards, it becomes several hundred dollars.
Hi Ricky,
Is it possible to get this credit and also the 10x bonus points on the other offer at the same time? Thanks!
Yes, absolutely!
Anyone know what the difference is on the map between the blue circle dots and the blue teardrop map markers?
Have anyone found registered Charities eligible for Small Shop that provide Tax Receipts for small donation, such as 10$ ?
Wouldn’t splitting the bill into multiple transactions cost these retailers more fees? Considering how many of them are struggling during Covid I just think this isn’t a good thing to encourage. Amex gets their fees regardless but the retailer will end up paying more out of pocket on this transaction.
My understanding is that Amex interchange fees are a pure percentage of the transaction with no flat component, so it’d all be the same. Not 100% on this though so someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
My business accept Amex too, we got charge by %, as shown on our monthly merchant invoice. Ricky is correct.
I would be cautious of buying small retailer gift cards as the retailer could close up shop – leaving you with no recourse.
The offer didn’t show up on any of my cards, but it did for my wife. I tried calling customer service, but they couldn’t help. I ended up using the manual registration for my platinum card, and now it shows up under offers registered to the card.
The only offers for my biz gold are Dell and Panago, so I’ll have to manually register that card too.
Glad to hear the manual registration worked.
"you could always split up a larger transaction into multiple $10 payments on separate cards, thus triggering one of the 10 $5 credits for each card used", if the store permit it…
Must be a different location each time though 🙂
A smile and a bit of small talk goes a long way.
oh how i wish I lived in a walking city like Toronto. Could spend a day just hitting up different food places. Though I guess mississauga isnt that far from downtown
Love this offer! Though I tend to shop in the same stores over and again. Spending at different stores can be quite challenging I hope it’s not strictly enforced.
Can the subsidiary card holder register for the small shop promotion too? Would you get up to $50 credit for the primary and another $50 credit for the secondary card.holder?
The terms don’t say anything about this, but it’s worth a go!
Any info on online purchases?
Going by track history AMEX offers/spend categories tend not to play well when masked behind a third party processor like Shopify (or heck if the payment is processed elsewhere like Uber Eats Amsterdam vs San Francisco). They seem to say that online purchases at eligible merchants will count towards it but most of them use something like Shopify for online transactions (for gift card for example)…
This is quite true in my experience, so I think it’s best to go with purchasing at a physical in-store location to be on the safe side.
I didn’t get any offer in my offers page but I manually entered all 5 of my cards. Fingers crossed that it will work. Thanks Ricky as always!
thanks for this Ricky — btw, it is my experience that I will get statement credits for shopping at certain places that aren’t on the Shop Small map. Have you found that as well?
I haven’t experienced this, although it may happen randomly. In any case, sticking with the merchants on the Shop Small map would be the safest bet to unlock the credits ‚Ä쬆anything else would be a bonus.