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Update, 12/24: Don’t forget to use your December credit!
Update, 6/1: I just tried this again for June and despite reports from comments below, it still works just fine. Keep in mind that:
- The gifting account should not have any gift card balance, as that will be used before the credit card. If your household account does have a gift card balance you can transfer that balance to your primary account via the same eBook gift method or Kindle Unlimited method below or you can use another Amazon account.
- The gifting account should not have any no-rush credits, as those will be lost in the transfer.
- You can only gift 1 eBook at a time with this method.
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Originally posted on 5/31:
AMEX is offering new and increased statement credits and bonus points on wireless service, Dell, AMEX Travel, streaming services, shipping, supermarkets, and dining/restaurant delivery due to COVID-19.
One perk on the AMEX Consumer Platinum Card is a $20 monthly credit for streaming services through 12/31/20.
AMEX has a full list of valid streaming services:
- Amazon Audible
- Amazon Kindle Unlimited
- Amazon Music Unlimited
- Amazon Prime Video
- Apple Music
- Apple TV+
- AT&T Now
- CBS All Access
- Disney+
- ESPN+
- Fubo TV
- HBO Now
- Hulu
- iHeartRadio
- Luminary
- MLB.TV
- NBA League Pass
- Netflix
- NHL.TV
- Pandora
- Showtime
- Sling TV
- SiriusXM Streaming and Satellite
- Spotify
- Stitcher
- YouTube Music Premium
- YouTube Premium
- YouTube TV
First I tested what I figured would be a sure thing, I bought a 6 month Kindle Unlimited Gift Membership for $47.86+tax. I bought it from from my household Amazon account as a gift for my primary Amazon account.
I clicked to open the gift email on my primary Amazon account and instead of clicking to redeem the gift, I clicked on “Click here to redeem your membership as a gift card:”
The gift card balance on my primary account immediately went up by the price paid, including tax.
The charge posted to my AMEX Platinum card and as expected, $20 was refunded.
I decided to see what would happen if I bought an Amazon Kindle eBook as a gift.
Using my wife’s AMEX Platinum card, I bought The Monuments Men Kindle eBook from my household Amazon account as a gift for my primary Amazon account.
I paid for it using a $1 no-rush credit and $2.15 on the credit card.
I clicked to open the gift email “Get your Kindle book gift now” and login with my primary Amazon account:
Instead of clicking to redeem the gift, I clicked on “Learn how this works or exchange for a gift credit:”
Then I clicked on “Click to request a gift credit from customer service now”
After that it said that the request was processing:
With this option it took a few hours for the the gift card balance on my primary account to go up as it is manually added by a customer service agent. Additionally the no-rush credit was lost in the process, so you’ll want to use an account without credit to buy a gift eBook.
This is also a good way to transfer gift cards between Amazon accounts. If you have a gift card balance, you’ll have to use that or transfer it to another account before you can use a credit card for a Kindle eBook gift.
The $2.15 charge posted to my wife’s AMEX Platinum card and it was refunded as part of the streaming credit.
In other words if you buy $20 of Kindle eBooks as gifts you can convert that to $20 in Amazon gift cards every month until the end of the year, and get refunded for the purchases.
Note that you must purchase one eBook at a time in order to exchange it for a gift card.
For example this eBook is $18.99 and this eBook is $19.99, and will be $0 after the streaming credit, but will be converted into a $19.99 gift card. If there’s tax in your state on eBooks then the gift card will include the price paid for tax, or you can buy a less expensive book if you don’t want to go over $20.
Where have you been using your credits?
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Is it too late to do this on May 31 being that the charge will probably only be pending today and post later this week ?
Either it will post on time for May or it will post for June, what’s the difference?
Because if it posts in May, I’ll get it again for June …
Unless you mean what the difference as in if it’s too late I have no choice ?
Indeed.
It actually posted today and it used the credit from May
Any creative uses for the shipping credit besides buying stamps?
Please lemme know when you find out.
USPS sells many other items besides shipping.
Do they sell the gift cards they carry (very few, but perhaps some useful) with Amex as a payment method?
If i have no rush credits, can i use this method yo convert them to gc?
Read the post?
I’m not a big Amazon user. Does this mean I need to open a second Amazon account?
Yes.
Everyone should have 2 Amazon accounts, if just to take advantage of promotions like this:
https://www.dansdeals.com/shopping-deals/amazon/hot-targeted-use-1-amex-point-get-30-40-off-anything-sold-amazon-get-hot-deals-face-masks-diapers-wipes-hand-soap-airpods-gift-cards/
Is it even possible to share Amazon accounts nowadays?
Thank you very much Dan,
I was braking my head how I could utilize the $20 streaming credit.
You’re the best!!
I hope it will still post for May, so I could get another $20 for June
You’re welcome!
A fantastic post, as always, thanks Dan!
Any suggestions about the wireless credit? My Teltik payment unfortunately didn’t trigger an AmEx credit.
Sell on DDF?
Any reason this wouldn’t work for the Amex Platinum business card as well?
Yes.
https://www.dansdeals.com/more/coronavirus/latest-roundup-amex-credits-bonus-offers-new-benefits-added-due-coronavirus/
I followed your instructions and bought an eBook. But when I opened the email I got ‘Accept this eBook” with no option to redeem for gift credit. Please advice.
I got the same email but afraid to click on it as I want to get a GC.
The gift won’t be redeemed until you click “accept gift” at the amazon website not on the email.
I had the same thing happen to me. I contacted amazon and cancelled my order.
Right. Do NOT do this. Dan, please edit your post. It doesn’t work right. I spent an hour with Amazon customer service, who eventually seem to have fixed my problem.
You sent it as a gift to another account?
I tried this too – sent as gift from one account to my own. The gift email has a button that says “Get your Kindle book gift now” and a link at the bottom for “Visit Kindle Support for information about Kindle book gifts.” The latter goes to an Amazon “We’re Sorry” (404) page that says they can’t find the page.
I also had issues a few times. I realized that when I bought several eBooks at one purchase I didn’t have the option to redeem for gift credit but when I bought a single item at a time I had the option to redeem for gift credit even on my own account.
As a follow-up, thanks to your other comment that this gift isn’t automatically redeemed and you have to click through and then decide, when I did that I saw the option to request an exchange for an amazon.com gift card credit instead – which I did.
why do you need 2 amazon accounts ? you can only redeem the ebook as a gift card if you recieve it as a gift ?
Actually, I just sent it to myself as a gift.
I then clicked on the gift email amazon sent me, and then requested a gift card instead.
Did I do something wrong? You mentioned that I must send it to a second account. Why would that be?
Dan just out of curiosity why do you and your wife both have platinum cards?
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Amazon appears to have removed this option. Only option now is to accept the gift or “add to your existing subscription.” No option for gift card.
I just did it and the email I got has a tab for “Get your Kindle book gift now”. There is a gift order # at the bottom of the email that I entered in as a GC code, but doesn’t work. No option to redeem as gift card.
i just plan on calling up every month and asking them to add it as a statement credit, it already worked the month of may they gave me 40 20 for streaming and 20 for wireless as. dont have any subsciriptions billed to my card
Anyone else try this?
How did you manage to persuade them? This seems too good to be true.
it needs to be given as a gift to work
Anyone know if you can BUY audible gift card for $20 and get the $20 credit?
Im new to this. I have TWO amazon accounts. How do I buy ebooks as a gift it just says buy with one click
By the way my Google fi Bill was not credited as mobile phone but as streaming credit. Anyone else have had happen?
Will these accounts get flagged and closed?
In the cases that I wasn’t able to redeem for gift credit because I bought two items at a time I did see an option to return the order. I went to “Your orders” then “Digital orders” and I saw a button that said “return unredeemed gifts” I clicked on that and got a refund. I only saw it by the gifts that wasn’t redeemable for gift credit.
I’m trying to redeem no-rush credits for Amazon credit using this method… I gifted 1 Kindle book to my husband’s account, and there’s just no “learn how this works or exchange for gift credit” option under the “accept gift”… What’d I do wrong? 1 book at a time, gifted to another account, starting redemtion on a computer (not mobile)…
“The gifting account should not have any no-rush credits, as those will be lost in the transfer.”
Got it – I misunderstood – thought it meant that they’d be used *first, and that it would mean no CC charge… therefore no $20 statement credit.
So the incoming amazon account only got a $2.15 credit not $3.15?
The question is won’t Amex get upset for this ?
@Dan – how do you find ebooks priced close to $20 to match Amex Platinum credit? I am trying to find it but it takes ton of time to find relevant books (no way to filter by exact price:-(
If anyone could share the ebooks they found, it would be much appreciated!
Thanks Barak
It’s in the post.
Not getting the options you show in the example. Sent a book to my second account and it says I am sending a gift. But when I go to redeem the fine print only lists this: By clicking “Accept this eBook,” you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use and Kindle Store Terms of Use. No “learn how this works or exchange” shown at all.
Will this work with 10x points for streaming on chase reserve?
Now how do we find a way to use the shipping credit on the business platinum card to convert to a cash equivalent, or a near cash equivalent (like Amazon GC)?
Seems to be dead
How so?
i’m not able to do it anymore either. Codes as Amazon Digital and is not being credited.
Follow up. Still works. Just got the credit. Too 3 days
Sent a ebook to another account and don’t have an option to redeem as gift
Anybody know if this still works??
Yes, this still works, just did it today. I see I forgot to do it in September, anyone tried getting them to honor it the following month?
Is this dead? I was successful using it last month. My SO tried a couple days ago and got a message saying they could only credit the original card back, they cannot exchange for a gift card. Looking at the language on Amazon, I no longer see mention of the recipient exchanging for a gift card credit.
Just coming across this post today. Any updates on your situation?
It did not show an option to exchange for a gift card for me, but I have chatted with the Customer service and they manually switched it.
Working just as described for me still.
Not showing the gift card option for me either.
Same problem this month. I do sent from business account to regular Amazon account. Can it be a problem?
Could be.
Anyone that this worked for in december?
Here’s a couple more ~$20 kindle books for folks struggling to find good ones that qualify:
https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Freemasons-Made-Modern-World/dp/161039867X
https://www.amazon.com/Honest-Broker-Making-Science-Politics/dp/0521694817
are you still able to use this method to convert it to amazon gift card in December?
Just did it as described (was just approved for card in December) and it worked perfectly.
Any idea if this will be extended into 2021?
Doesn’t work for business accounts.
TSM for that good trick’s! i’ve always been waiting forsuch ideas! I’m wondering why you point out “Additionally the no-rush credit was lost in the process, so you’ll want to use an account without credit to buy a gift eBook.” Why do you call it “losing” the NR credits? we always struggle converting them into a sitewide credit https://www.dansdeals.com/shopping-deals/amazon/check-expiring-amazon-no-rush-credits-try-chatting-upgrade-sitewide-credit/ – its not bad, but sometimes hard & waste of time etc. also a sitewide credit you can use for “sold by amazon only”, So i seee this as a win win you can do it your own without wasting time & you’re unlimited to use it for anything. I’m correct?
oh.. gotcha.. You refer to ppl who want to use their Amex card for the streaming credit etc. Since I don’t have this card I only thought what i take out from this, that you can convert your NR credits into a Gift Card (& as well transferring a GC balance), so you’re corect a word & an expression from Dan is always measured..!),
But i would say you should at least add this idea at the “Expiring NR credits post” & maybe even as the first optin ?!
I want to just buy a few Amazon movies for myself. However, it always deducts the cost of each movie from my existing Amazon gift card balance even after I set up default payment on Amazon to go through my Amex Platinum. Apparently, when you buy an Amazon movie, it does not take you to a cart where you can change payment method. It just makes the purchase right away (i.e., deducts from your gift card balance if any there).
It worked for me. Wish I knew about in November when I got the card. Thanks so much!
Dan, do you know or think hey will renew the streaming credit for 2021?
important. where do i have to see the option of “learn how this works or to Exchange for a gift credit” ? I only see the option of “Accept Gift” ? Does it show up only After i click Accept gift? or do i do anything wrong ? Pls help Tnx so much!
can anyone help pls i have a few NR credits going to exp. soon I wanna convert buy a kindle gift with them & claim it as a gift card, as in the post, Where should i see that option to exchange it for a gift card? Dan? really appreciate any elp
Per the last two comments, I think Amazon killed this option in 2021. There is no “request a gift credit” option anymore. Might try live chat but maybe this post should be updated.
Hey Dan, firstly ty for all your amazing posts!!
Is there any other way to redeem streaming services to cash/gc? (For the 5% cash back this quarter on streaming services)
Thanks a million
Does the ebook option still work? I do not see the option to “Learn how this works or exchange for a gift credit.” I only have the option to accept and sign in.
Does the ebook option still work? I do not see the option to “Learn how this works or exchange for a gift credit.” I only have the option to accept and sign in. At the time of purchase, I chose the option to get the link to forward to the recipient. Is there an option to send the gift directly to the recipient. Would this link give them the option to redeem for gift card?