Originally Posted by Blumpkin I'm more surprised that you found a retailer that accepts American Express.

Any major company accepts Amex, its only small businesses and "cheap" places that dont. Amex gives the best cash back I feel for no anual fee cards and therefore sends that cost onto the retailer. So their fees are higher and a lot of merchants wont take it.

But if you are an adult CAG you need at least a Visa and Amex card that gives cash back or some form of rewards. Amex for all the time cash back (Most people have one from Costco) and then the Visa for the retailers than dont take Amex.

My Visa statement is about 10% of my Amex statement. Amex is accepted nearly everywhere now other than small businesses and everywhere online.

Originally Posted by Blumpkin I'm more surprised that you found a retailer that accepts American Express.

Almost everyone around here takes it. If they don't take it, I don't shop there. I have gotten a few a places to start taking it after speaking to the owner about it.

Haven't been a fan of this series since Halo 2.... but I'm SOOOO pumped to play this game. Great marketing by AMEX/Halo 4!!

Originally Posted by Blumpkin I'm more surprised that you found a retailer that accepts American Express.

What it's 2012? Unless your some small mom and pop, Almost everybody accepts Amex. It's the best credit card company by far especially the customer service, extended warranties, and they accept refunds on items purchased with your card.

So I want to be sure I am reading it right but it seems like the BBY credit needs to wait for confirmation that you qualify and then you can spend the money. It might be the first thing I do then is to complete a Spartan Ops mission because I would buy FC3 and Hitman. It would be nice to get both for $35 + $20 RZ cert. ($10 +$25 + $50 credits).

I'll take $10

So, guessing my PayPal Amex and my Sears Amex won't work huh?...

Originally Posted by V4oLDbOY Signed up my amex card and also my gf's on my second gamertag. Not sure why I have it, but its got 90 pts on it for some reason. Now the question is if I want to play Halo 4 a second time and just blast through the story again to get $25. If this promotion goes smoothly I might actually spend $100 at Bestbuy even though I have a ton of credit there. $50 off aint bad. If I preorder 2 games and pay them off will they show on my CC statement as $120 and therefore get the $50 cash back? That plus the $20 gift card for GCU makes that a pretty good deal. I'll have to tell my parents, maybe create them gamertags and then sign them up so they can get some $10 each free. I guess do a spartan op mission if they want the best buy cash back.

Someone answer this I'd like to know too

Man, wish Serve would work. Even though it's $85 free (my brother in law is likely to buy the game), it's not enough incentive to get an Amex card when I already have Chase Freedom... Doubt I would have the credit to get an Amex card that has similar or better rewards than the Freedom either.

So I didn't see this asked yet - it says qualifying card, is there a particular type of card you have to get? And more importantly, does Amex charge an annual fee? I'm honestly considering signing up for one just for this deal.

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Can you link then unlink your card?

Originally Posted by sinned47 Can you link then unlink your card?

If you do it will disqualify you from the offer but yes it does allow you to unlink the card.

Will have to do this tonight - and guess i will be preordering from Best Buy to get the $20 preorder bonus on top.

Originally Posted by finstersucks What it's 2012? Unless your some small mom and pop, Almost everybody accepts Amex. It's the best credit card company by far especially the customer service, extended warranties, and they accept refunds on items purchased with your card.

I agree, and I love Amex. But to that other person's comment, I completely understand why some people think Amex is not widely accepted. It totally depends on where they live, where they shop, how they pay, etc. I have friends who live closeby who are confused as well. They're just so used to Visa/MC.

Originally Posted by argyle So I didn't see this asked yet - it says qualifying card, is there a particular type of card you have to get? And more importantly, does Amex charge an annual fee? I'm honestly considering signing up for one just for this deal.

I know my Amex card doesn't charge an annual fee. It's a cash back one, too.



I'm curious how Amex knows we've unlocked that achievement. I have my privacy settings hiding my game history cuz I got tired of randoms looking at my achievements and accusing me of hacking. I suppose there might be some sort of equivalent to bungie.net that would show in-game achievements???

I love my AMEX card. I doubles as my Costco card, and gives 3% back on gas, 2% on restaurants and travel, and 1% on everything else.

Originally Posted by CaseX I'm curious how Amex knows we've unlocked that achievement. I have my privacy settings hiding my game history cuz I got tired of randoms looking at my achievements and accusing me of hacking. I suppose there might be some sort of equivalent to bungie.net that would show in-game achievements???

I'm not entirely sure, but my guess is that by "syncing" the accounts - Microsoft can probably send the achievement information directly to American Express. Either that, or American Express has the right to query your achievements based on the linked account.

I really wish I could get Amex.

So I have had a Delta Sky Miles Card for 8 years. I have been paying a fee every year for that card (stupid) so I decided to call today to see if I can get it removed. The CS rep was awesome. She moved my account to a Blue Cash Everyday Card with no annual fee. It has 3% cash back at U.S. stand-alone supermarkets, 2% cash back on gasoline at U.S. stand-alone gas stations, 2% cash back at select major department stores; and 1% cash back on other purchases which is way better than the Delta card. I used to be able to put my rent on my AMEX so I had a ton of miles I used to travel to Hawaii and Alaska but I am not traveling much right now so this is way better. The best thing is my account # does not change so I can keep my synced card as is. Otherwise I was thinking of just cancelling the card since it would have cost me $95 just to get the $85 on this deal.

This might not be a question anyone can answer here but do purchases made on bestbuy.com qualify for the spend $100, get $50 promotion? There are a couple things I'd pick up if so.

Originally Posted by WTPolaris This might not be a question anyone can answer here but do purchases made on bestbuy.com qualify for the spend $100, get $50 promotion? There are a couple things I'd pick up if so.

Well AMEX did a Twitter sync deal with Best Buy in March for $10 credit with $10 purchase and it was for in store or online. Not sure if this deal has a stipulation or not. I ordered online with the twitter deal and it worked no problems. Once we can activate the deal hopefully it will tell us more.