I had seen this mentioned on the YNAB forums but when I looked at my AmEx account I couldn't find it. But today I was looking at my account and decided to browse the offers, and there it was!
The deal - Spend $20 at Sam's Club and get $20 cash back on AmEx card.
(You do have to be a Sam's Club member already.)
So I thought about what I could get - it had to be something online - not store pickup.
Everything I was thinking about was either store pickup or would have shipping added. Then it hit me - gift cards! I checked their gift cards and they have a good selection.
I chatted with an AmEx CS person to make sure that a gift card purchase would work for the deal. She said it would.
One deal I could've done would be to purchase two $10 Sam's Club gift cards. That would've meant no money spent, and $20 in items I could purchase at the store.
However, I decided to go with something else. NE loves to go to Chinese restaurants, and the Hu Hong place here is one of his favorites. There was a deal where you get two $25 gift cards for $39.98. So ... after the $20 is taken off, you get $50 of food for 19.98!
That will be almost 3 meals out for NE and I.
(Plus it counts towards the spend $1k in 3 months for $250 cash back.)
AE and Sam's Club Deal!
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