American Express Business Gold 50000 points

Update 5/9: See this post for latest details, including new link that works a LOT better.

Back in November, I discovered the hack to get a 75,000 point offer to appear on the American Express Business Gold Rewards card and it is my most viewed post all time on PointsCentric. If someone couldn’t get a 75,000 offer to appear, they almost certainly were able to get a 50,000 point offer to appear which was still double the standard offer of 25,000 points. Over the past few weeks though, I have been unable to get any confirmed reports of a 75,000 offer from either my clients or readers so I updated that post to remark 50,000 points is the best current offer. I’m happy to report that a new client last night confirmed she was able to get the 75,000 point offer to appear and successfully apply for it! I tried it out myself this morning and I was approved as well!

Direct Link – https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/credit-cards/business-gold-rewards

The hack, as I mentioned in my initial post about this offer, involves opening up the link for the offer on a mobile or tablet device, generally in private or incognito mode. A few people reported success getting to appear on the computer but I heard many more success stories on mobile devices (seems like Google Chrome, incognito worked the best). Interestingly enough, my client last night used Windows XP on an old desktop (I guess it pays to have an old computer laying around) and she got it to appear. She even sent me the screenshot below.

The 75k Offer is Still Working for Some

This is a big YMMV situation. In fact, I was only able to pull up a 75,000 point offer on my work computer but not my home nor any mobile devices. It might be that an older computer or a computer/device you typically don’t use to sign into your Amex account that has a greater likelihood of getting the offer to present itself – I really don’t know. That said, it might be worth trying to get the offer to appear again since I have a confirmed report of the link still presenting a 75,000 offer that I was able to replicate this morning as well. If you only get the 50,000 offer, that’s not a terrible offer and since you can still churn the Business version, it could make sense to apply for it if you need American Express Membership Rewards points now. If you don’t need the points/have other cards to apply for, then maybe another 75,000 point offer will come around and I would wait for that.

My approval this morning…I called to confirm the 75k offer was on the card

(HT to Alanna!)

Update 6: (5/9): There is a new link which shouldn’t require incognito browsers or mobile devices. See my post here.

Update 5: (3/2): The offer is still alive for 75k!

Update 4: (2/22): The 75k offer I think is dead but my clients are still reporting the 50k offer working. YMMV

Update 3: Read the comments to see what is working in terms of different browsers, incognito modes etc..

Update 2: Ok this is really bizarre. I tried copying the link and pasting into a new Chrome browser and I got a 75k offer for spending $10k in 3 months. This was a brand new Chrome window, not incognito. See snapshot from Chrome browser on my iPhone at bottom of this post. No idea what is going on but play around with this! It looks like best bet is to open in a Chrome browser on your smartphone for the 75k offer per another commenter who confirmed with Amex that he was approved for the 75k bonus.

Update: Some are reporting link is only showing 25k offer. I tried on a MacBook and iPhone, both in Safari, and it showed 50k. I was not logged into Amex. Maybe try Safari browser or incognito mode? That screenshot below was from my iPhone.

While helping a client figure out the next business card he should apply for via my consulting services, I noticed the offer on the American Express Business Gold Card has increased to 50,000 (updated: now 75,000) points!

I believe the normal offer on this card is only 25,000 and a quick check on other blogs shows the affiliates link are only a 25,000 point offer. This 50,000 point offer requires you to spend $5k in 3 months (updated: the 75k offer requires 10k spend in 3 months). It is not available to those who have this card in the past 12 months. The annual fee is also waived for the first year.

Click here for the link to the offer.

I am boarding a redeye flight home from the #westcoastDO (and I’m posting from my phone so I apologize for the brevity of this post) so I don’t have the time right now to completely analyze this offer but with the annual fee waived for the first year and an extra 25k (updated: 50k) membership rewards compared to the public offer, this is a strong offer to consider.