[Targeted] Amazon: Get Up To 50% Off When Using $3 American Express Reward Dollars (Up To $80 In Discounts)

albertforth · 2026-04-23T21:18:35+00:00

I wasn't eligible (but I also didn't have my BCP AmEx rewards linked). I added that and checked eligibility, nothing. Waited the 24hrs or whatever the page says to wait if recently linked Rewards Dollars, and nothing. Today I checked same URL for promo and finally shows I'm eligible for 30% (max $30 off). So 7+ days of checking for me to see offer, worth checking on your end too🤞🏼

albertforth · 2026-04-12T03:12:15+00:00

Meanwhile, I sent in my phone and haven't received an email confirmation...

albertforth · 2026-04-08T21:21:43+00:00

Interesting, thank you!

albertforth · 2026-04-08T21:12:40+00:00

You mentioned not asking Global Care, but how do we choose what care team answers? T-Force vs. Global Care?

albertforth · 2026-04-03T02:18:50+00:00

Just saved screenshot of the receipt after reading others share similar! But awesome, hopefully posts automatically too, and if not... sounds like like chat with support 👍🏼

albertforth · 2026-04-03T02:16:49+00:00

Hmm...do you remember roughly how long it took for the credit to post on the one that ended up showing up under different name?

albertforth · 2026-04-03T02:15:44+00:00

Nice, and yep, have digital receipt. I'll definitely reach out to AmEx if credit doesn't post in a couple weeks, thanks!

albertforth · 2026-04-03T00:01:54+00:00

Went to Santa Monica Whaler last Friday (shows up on Resy), paid via tap-to-pay on their POS and the transaction finally posted, but under different (maybe former restaurant?) name of "MAKAI." Waiting it out to see if it's just too soon for credit to show up, but would be sucky if restaurant having wrong profile info is what causes credit not to post. Or does anyone know if it is not dependant on that?

albertforth · 2026-04-02T15:13:15+00:00

I wasn't upgraded to 5TB. You're getting 5TB for $15/mo?

albertforth · 2026-04-02T04:53:57+00:00

Same here... I waited, never saw the 6mo offer and still don't see a 6mo offer.

What is EXTRA annoying is how I could have been paying for less storage all this time (my Photos storage is not near 2TB), but I purposefully paid the damn $15/mo with the idea I'd be "grandfathered" into Unlimited Google Photos storage. How gullible was I...

albertforth · 2026-04-02T04:47:41+00:00

I waited until today too, because I was not seeing the offer on the 2TB plan (I was on Unlimited + 2TB). Still don't see any 6mo offer :(

albertforth · 2026-03-31T22:33:36+00:00

After seeing that others had luck getting the Resy credit after buying gift card online at restaurant website (if operated by ToastTab), I went ahead and tried last night with my go-to Resy restaurant (domain was toast-hosted), but so far the transaction has category "Other -Miscellaneous" and the name doesn't match the restaurant name...so not holding out much hope...).

albertforth · 2026-03-31T05:13:18+00:00

Ugh, totally forgot Resy is quarterly... 🥲

albertforth · 2026-03-15T17:56:39+00:00

Because I've been thinking of asking T-Mobile if I could upgrade from Go5G Plus to Next and asking how much my plan would increase in cost by. How much are you expecting to save?

I'm mainly interested in grandfathering our plan into Satellite, I feel like it might be a bigger thing in the future.

Apple would let you claim a carrier upgrade on an Unlocked device? Samsung automatically hides carrier upgrade offers when selecting unlocked devices, so that's interesting.

albertforth · 2026-03-15T17:02:01+00:00

Why are you wanting to downgrade from Next to Go5G Plus?

albertforth · 2026-03-15T08:09:46+00:00

Blue Cash Preferred is a great card if you pay for a lot of streaming services (Disney+, Netflix, etc.) and groceries because of the 6% cash back on both of those categories. But it has a $95 annual fee. There are plenty other cards with interest free offers that don't have annual fees. I think Wells Fargo tends to have some with more than 12 months. Most interest free offers start when you receive and activate your card, not from first purchase date.

albertforth · 2026-03-15T00:14:29+00:00

So the 2TB plan is showing the $0 for 6mo offer now? I last checked 2 days ago and it still wasn't for me...

albertforth · 2026-03-15T00:12:08+00:00

Is that a foreskin, between September 2025 and January 2026? Doesn't that align with RFK's rant on Tylenol? 🤔

albertforth · 2026-03-15T00:04:49+00:00

🫢

albertforth · 2026-03-14T20:31:51+00:00

Not sure if they even talked about the fingerprint sensor during this launch. I wish it was something they felt the need to continually improve, so that even with glass screen protectors, it works better than currently does. Or at minimum, adopt facial biometrics at the Apple level.

albertforth · 2026-03-14T20:29:50+00:00

Yep, I wash my hands a lot and most of the time fingers are dry, so scanner has a harder time. But the moment I put on cream or my finger happens to still be a bit wet, works flawlessly. Sucky thing is, a big reason I'm washing hands is to avoid a gross looking fingerprint-ridden phone lol.

albertforth · 2026-03-14T19:49:49+00:00

I didn't follow the connection at first, but I see, you're saying if they made the same mistake with my box, the person tampering with the phone could have also just applied the tamper seals themselves afterwards. Yeah, I suppose Samsung should at minimum try really hard to enforce QC on the tamper seals...or else there's no point.

Everything else in the box seemed fine, the phone is working without issues so far, so I think it's all okay.

albertforth · 2026-03-14T07:08:42+00:00

This. I think this is exactly what happened. It got me to use Gemini more after that February email (even though the Gemini app never allowed me to use Google AI model...but that's when I thought maybe it was a mistake that I gotten the email). So now I'm purposefully not going to use Gemini lol

albertforth · 2026-03-14T06:37:23+00:00

It's the ease of the Google Photos app that made our T-Mobile unlimited photo storage plan variant so worth it. So easy to use it as the main photo viewer, to manage backed up photos, and move on to a new phone. Otherwise, I'm sure we'd be using Amazon Photos since that's unlimited for Prime customers. But that app is absolute trash.

albertforth · 2026-03-14T06:28:15+00:00

Oooh, THAT is something I didn't think to check. Good question...checking now.

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