This is a rather complicated topic, but it's covered in depth by a myriad of bloggers. I'll cover the highlights, and then point you to another blogger for the gory mechanics.
Amex allows 4 cards per person- that includes both business and personal. You can also add Authorized Users. I have 4 Amex cards, and my wife is an Authorized user on all of them. Plus, I have a Serve card, totaling 9 Amex cards.
Amex has "Offers for You" on your online account page at the bottom. You can "Save" the offer to your card, and then use the card and get the cash rebate. The problem is that once you Save the offer, it typically disappears from your other Amex cards. Also, you can only Save the Offer to the primary user's card- not an Authorized user.
The other way to get the Offer is to "Synch" your Amex card to a Social Network (Twitter or Facebook), and get the offer that way. If you have multiple cards, it can be quite cumbersome to get the offers on to all of your cards. With Twitter (I haven't tried using Facebook), you simply Tweet the hashtag Amex specifies for the offer from the Twitter account associated with your Amex card (detailed steps in link below).
When there is no hastag, I recently tried opening multiple browser tabs with the Offers for You displayed for each of my cards. Then I clicked on Save Offer in each tab. This actually worked for me, but fat-fingered one of them. So I did get the offer saved to 3 of my cards. But this doesn't get it onto your Authorized User cards.
The best way to get the offers onto all of your cards quickly is when Amex specifies a hashtag to use to save the offer to your cards. You can then use Tweetdeck to send a single Tweet from multiple Twitter accounts with just a few mouse clicks, and you're done!
Rather than repeat the steps here, a fellow blogger, Frequent Miler, did a nice job describing how to do this in his post "Create an Amex Sync Machine".
Now that all 9 of my cards have the Small Business Offer saved, I'm going to use my 9 cards to eat a nice dinner at a local restaurant, buy a $100 gift card at a local restaurant, and buy a couple of 2010 Barolo's ($50 each) at my local wine store.
I'll even get the points on the Amex cards! Now that's really Wine & Miles!!
Amex allows 4 cards per person- that includes both business and personal. You can also add Authorized Users. I have 4 Amex cards, and my wife is an Authorized user on all of them. Plus, I have a Serve card, totaling 9 Amex cards.
Amex has "Offers for You" on your online account page at the bottom. You can "Save" the offer to your card, and then use the card and get the cash rebate. The problem is that once you Save the offer, it typically disappears from your other Amex cards. Also, you can only Save the Offer to the primary user's card- not an Authorized user.
The other way to get the Offer is to "Synch" your Amex card to a Social Network (Twitter or Facebook), and get the offer that way. If you have multiple cards, it can be quite cumbersome to get the offers on to all of your cards. With Twitter (I haven't tried using Facebook), you simply Tweet the hashtag Amex specifies for the offer from the Twitter account associated with your Amex card (detailed steps in link below).
When there is no hastag, I recently tried opening multiple browser tabs with the Offers for You displayed for each of my cards. Then I clicked on Save Offer in each tab. This actually worked for me, but fat-fingered one of them. So I did get the offer saved to 3 of my cards. But this doesn't get it onto your Authorized User cards.
The best way to get the offers onto all of your cards quickly is when Amex specifies a hashtag to use to save the offer to your cards. You can then use Tweetdeck to send a single Tweet from multiple Twitter accounts with just a few mouse clicks, and you're done!
Rather than repeat the steps here, a fellow blogger, Frequent Miler, did a nice job describing how to do this in his post "Create an Amex Sync Machine".
Now that all 9 of my cards have the Small Business Offer saved, I'm going to use my 9 cards to eat a nice dinner at a local restaurant, buy a $100 gift card at a local restaurant, and buy a couple of 2010 Barolo's ($50 each) at my local wine store.
I'll even get the points on the Amex cards! Now that's really Wine & Miles!!
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