I read on Doctor of Credit the other day that the bonus for the Amex EveryDay card has been increased from 10,000 all the way up to 25,000 points!! I have written about the Amex EveryDay card before. It’s the “basic” card for American Express and comes in 2 varieties: Amex EveryDay and Amex EveryDay Preferred.
- Amex EveryDay. Offers 2x spend on groceries (up to the first $6,000), and if you make 20 transactions in a month, you get a 20% bonus. No annual fee, and the usual signup bonus is 10,000 Membership Rewards
- Amex EveryDay Preferred. Offers 3x spend on groceries (again, up to the first $6,000), and if you make 30 transactions in a month, you get a 50% bonus. There is an annual fee of $95, waived the first year, and the usual signup bonus is 15,000 Membership Rewards
(SEE ALSO: Important cautionary tale: what counts as a “month” for the Amex EveryDay card?)
How to get the Amex EveryDay 25,000 point bonus
To get the Amex EveryDay 25,000 point bonus, you can go to the American Express page
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/amex-everyday (this offer does not pay me or anyone else as far as I know)
You’ll need to be in incognito mode to do it. If you don’t see it, try different browsers. I was able to get the offer pretty consistently, but I definitely read some reports that some people were having trouble
I saw reports of people that were logged in to their Amex account NOT getting the increased bonus, so don’t log in until after your application
If I just signed up for the EveryDay card, can I get the increased bonus?
If you have recently signed up for the Amex EveryDay card, and only got the “regular” 10,000 Membership Rewards bonus, you might have luck calling or chatting in with American Express to see if they will either match the bonus or give you bonus points.
(SEE ALSO: Easy trick to always get a live chat with American Express)
American Express is reportedly a little more stingy with matching signup bonuses than some other banks, but I saw reports of people receiving 5K or 10K bonuses for asking. Can’t hurt to try asking!
Can I get this increased bonus if I already have the Amex EveryDay Preferred card?
My first question was whether you could still get the bonus for the Amex EveryDay card if you already have the Amex EveryDay Preferred card. Remember, according to the current credit card signup rules and best practices, with American Express, you can only get one signup bonus per personal card
The good news is that the Amex EveryDay and Amex EveryDay Preferred cards are DIFFERENT cards, so you can still get the bonus on the Amex EveryDay card if you have the Amex EveryDay Preferred card.
Note that you are only allowed 4 active credit cards with American Express, so if you already have 4, you may need to cancel one before being approved. Authorized user cards and charge cards do NOT count towards the 4 card limit.
My take
I’m definitely signing up Carolyn for one – she currently has the Amex EveryDay Preferred and I’ll want to cancel / downgrade that to the Amex EveryDay card to avoid paying the $95 annual fee when it’s due.
In Chrome Incognito this morning, I was only seeing the 15,000 Point offer (still higher than normal!) but when I opened up Internet Explorer, I was able to get the Amex EveryDay 25,000 point offer on the first try.
The Amex EveryDay card is a great card to have to keep your Membership Rewards open if/when you have a Platinum or other premium Amex card that you want to cancel to avoid paying an annual fee. If you don’t have an Amex card that gives Membership Rewards, they’ll expire.
Good luck out there!
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“Amazing”? Maybe you have a different understanding of that word than I. With 50,000 point/mile offerings pretty standard and 100,000+ bonuses not all that unusual, 25,000 points barely qualifies as ‘decent’. And the only reason it would even qualify as ‘decent’ in this case is maybe because it’s a no-annual fee card and also the usual bonus for it is so dismally pathetic to begin with.
Sorry, don’t want to be too critical but I’m starting to get annoyed with the increasing volume of all these blogs competing for attention by using almost deceptively over-the top click-bait language. Too much such hyperbole (“Wolf!!”) will only hurt the trust you’ve earned from your readers.
Chris – I can see that side of things. Where I was coming from was the fact that with Amex, if you’re going to get a card, you better get the best signup bonus available, since you can only get the bonus once per lifetime. So in this case, the regular bonus is 10,000, so a 25,000 point bonus is 150% more than normal (hence the “AMAZING!”).
The Amex EveryDay card is a great one to have to make sure you always have somewhere to store your Membership Rewards if/when you have to cancel a Platinum card or Premier Gold Card
Again, I get no commission off this offer
This is a great offer. I hope that it sticks around. I’m already working on minimum spend for 3 other cards otherwise I would hop on this. Too many recent great deals recently.
Does this language apply to having ANY other AMEX card?
“If we identify you as currently having an American Express® Card account, you may not be eligible for this welcome bonus offer.”
Generally that appears to only be if you have THIS card – that language is on every Amex card offer page
The maximum I saw was 15000. Unable to get the 25000 to come up. I tried in incognito
I was getting 15K all morning in Chrome Incognito then got the 25K again with Internet Explorer
My wife got this card at 10K less than 30 days ago. AMEX is being very miserly and refusing to match this offer for her.
You might try asking for a bonus of 5K or 10K if they won’t match the full 15K difference. Or try a different agent 🙂
My dad had same experience. Tried by online chat they refused. Would not offer any extra points.
Showed up as 25k for me when using incognito. I clicked on “View All Cards” from the special offer screen and scrolled down and the PRG was also showing the 50k with $1,000/3 months special offer for those that missed it a few months back.
Is there no minimum spend on either of these cards?
No – there’s a minimum spend of $2,000 in the first 3 months
There is never an annual fee for this card.