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Amex Offers: Spend $50+ at Google Fi (Mobile Phone Plan) & Receive

$25 Credit
(up to 3x, Valid for Select Cardholders)
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American Express via Amex Offers is offering Select American Express Cardholders: Get a $25 statement credit by using your enrolled eligible card to spend a minimum of $50 in one or more purchases online at fi.google.com. Limit of 3 statement credits (total of $75). Offer valid through September 2, 2022.

Thanks to community member hanwuji319 for sharing this deal.

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Amex Offers Spend $50 or more, get $25 back. Up to 3 times (total of $75). Google Fi - Mobile Phone Plan
YMMV- May be for select account.
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Enrollment limited. Must first add offer to Card and then use same Card to redeem. Only U.S.-issued American Express® Cards are eligible. Limit 1 enrolled Card per Card Member across all American Express offer channels. Your enrollment of an eligible American Express Card for this offer extends only to that Card. Offer valid for Google Fi purchases only. Valid online only at fi.google.com and app via Android devices only. Valid only on purchases made in US Dollars. Excludes all other Google products and services. Please note if you purchase a subscription, unless you notify the merchant that you want to pause, cancel, or that you do not want to auto renew, your subscription will automatically renew for another subscription period (subject to applicable law) of equal length (for example monthly, or annually). This means that the merchant will collect the then-applicable subscription fee and any taxes by charging a credit card the merchant has on record for you without notifying you, unless notification is required by applicable law. American Express identifies qualifying transactions based on information provided by the participating merchant. Offer is non-transferable. Limit of 3 statement credits (total of $75 back) per Card Member. You may not receive the statement credit if we receive inaccurate information or are otherwise unable to identify your purchase as qualifying for the offer. For example, you may not receive the statement credit if (a) the merchant uses a third-party to sell their products or services; or (b) the merchant uses a third-party to process or submit your transaction to us (e.g., using mobile or wireless card readers); or (c) you choose to make a purchase using a third-party payment account or make a purchase using a mobile or digital wallet. Purchases may fall outside of the offer period in some cases due to a delay in merchants submitting transactions to us or if the purchase date differs from the date you made the transaction (for example, the purchase date for online orders may be the shipping date). Statement credit will appear on your billing statement within 90 days after 9/2/2022, provided that American Express receives information from the merchant about your qualifying purchase. Note that American Express may not receive information about your qualifying purchase from merchant until all items/services from your qualifying purchase have been shipped/provided by merchant. Statement credit may be reversed if qualifying purchase is returned/cancelled. If American Express does not receive information that identifies your purchase as qualifying for the offer, you will not receive the statement credit. Limit 1 enrolled Card per American Express Card online account. The enrolled Card account must be active, not past due, canceled, or have a returned payment outstanding to receive statement credits. Any benefit earned from this offer is in addition to the rewards (i.e. Membership Rewards or cash back) earned as part of your existing Card benefits, but your ability to earn spend-based rewards for the purchase will be based on the amount after any statement credit or other discount is applied. Amex Offers are dynamic and personalized, so the offers you see may change. For questions regarding your Card Account, please call the number on the back of your Card. By adding an offer to a Card, you agree that American Express may send you communications about the offer. POID: K3HS:0001


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Created 05-02-2022 at 04:48 AM by hanwuji319
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Add 100+. Literally added 111 offers for Google Fi and Dell to FINALLY show up. I was never even aware of this "hack", I always just assumed if you look and it's not on there you weren't targeted, but sure enough, adding a ton of offers leaves room for new offers to appear. I just about gave up after adding 80, but tried over 100 and finally it appeared!!
To make an early payment:

Go to pay.google.com.
Click Subscriptions & services.
On your active Google Fi service, click Manage and then Pay early.

I just did it and have not received an Amex notification... though with these types of deals I typically do not. Can't say 100% sure if it works, I'll update if I see a credit.

I can't tell if the deal counts the service charge or just specifically ordering multiple phones... which I did a week ago before this offer Frown


Update:
Fi Prepay works perfectly, I was credited today. Incredible deal.
I had to add about 20 offers to finally see it. I'm not understanding why Amex can't fix this in 2022.

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keung
05-05-2022 at 09:06 AM.
05-05-2022 at 09:06 AM.
Quote from Prcv :
If I buy a phone with plan & early pay & add balance to account. Can I pay more $ against device than regular installment amount?
I'm trying to see if I split my device payments over 4 months & leave fi after I got amex cash back.
Yes I did that on a previous s20 deals a while years back.
I am not using Amex offer but got some employer mobile credits that can be used so I prepaid into Fi every month to pay for the phone.
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shluffer
05-05-2022 at 09:30 AM.
05-05-2022 at 09:30 AM.
Quote from Cinna :
I have been using Google Fi and T-Mobile both with different lines for years. Google Fi is generally good with great benefits and good pricing. The best benefit is for travelers, however. Google Fi doesn't give you 2G/3G when you travel, they give you the fastest available local speed and don't charge you extra. I regularly get 4G LTE or 5G when I travel to Asia. As long as your phone supports the various networks that Google Fi uses (T-Mobile / US Cellular), then you're good to go.

One note is that their customer service is friendly, but mostly ineffective. I've had to call 4 times for a warranty replacement on a phone that I purchased through them because the shipping side can't talk to the customer service side.
My experience has been positive WHEN it works. I have had issues twice and spent hours on the phone with support. First issue was solved after 6 months. Second took 2 months but was not solved by support. It fixed itself when I dropped someone from my account.

Support calls you back quickly but are unable to fix anything and sometimes give incorrect information. Tier 2 support is email only and in my experience they don't always answer.
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Cinna
05-05-2022 at 10:23 AM.
05-05-2022 at 10:23 AM.
Quote from shluffer :
My experience has been positive WHEN it works. I have had issues twice and spent hours on the phone with support. First issue was solved after 6 months. Second took 2 months but was not solved by support. It fixed itself when I dropped someone from my account.

Support calls you back quickly but are unable to fix anything and sometimes give incorrect information. Tier 2 support is email only and in my experience they don't always answer.

An update to my warranty issue. They never shipped the replacement. I had to cancel it. They certainly replied quickly to the cancelation request, but ignored all other emails. Their shipping team is the actual worst.
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milaohu
05-05-2022 at 10:35 AM.
05-05-2022 at 10:35 AM.
Quote from ngvu1 :
Thank you, I just tried $50 :-)

And yes you can buy the S22 but not at 50% off but rather $75 off from the 3 payment of $50 or more...
Can you use fi credit to buy a device?
Prepay $1500 to the account use my link. Then use the prepaid credit to buy several devices. That saves $750
BTW: Amex allow 99 additional cards, so 10 Amex offers is not that hard.

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citan359 | Staff
05-05-2022 at 10:50 AM.
05-05-2022 at 10:50 AM.
Quote from fyu :
yea, anybody know if it's possible to prepay?
To make an early payment:

Go to pay.google.com.
Click Subscriptions & services.
On your active Google Fi service, click Manage and then Pay early.


Update:

Fi Prepay works perfectly, I was credited today. Incredible deal.
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inm8num2
05-05-2022 at 02:30 PM.
05-05-2022 at 02:30 PM.
Quote wall... trying to summarize and make sense of everything!

Quote from coolchicagoguy :
I checked my credit card statement from last year March when I did the Moto G Power 2020 deal, and it shows the phone purchase and monthly service charges as Google Fi.

So, will not expect Google Store purchase to be considered as Fi purchases.
If the phone purchase posts as 'Google Fi' isn't that exactly what would trigger the AmEx offer?

Quote from 22calbr :
In other news I bought an S22 and the pending charge is from google services. I'm thinking I'll need to fight for the AMEX offer if the charge sticks as-is.
Would be very helpful to see what transaction description is once it posts! Seems that prepays also show as pending from Google Services then switched to 'Google *Google Fi...'.

Quote from SingularMotives :
It should be Fi. Phone purchases and prepaying aren't likely going to trigger the offer based on DoC reports.
Quote from SingularMotives :
Their charges are just coded weirdly. I bought my phone from them last month with my Amex and it was also Google Services.

Then for prepayments, people are reporting it's Google Google Fi, which doesn't get credit.
'Google Google Fi' is actually working, though. Here's another DP from reddit [reddit.com] (scroll to see his post confirming the credit). I'm not sure what the reasoning was in that DoC post other than the person assuming that since prepay codes as 'Google Google Fi' whereas postpay codes as 'Google Fi', the former somehow wouldn't qualify.

Did your phone purchase last month pend as 'Google Services' then change to something else?

Quote from citan359 :
Both buying a phone and my $50 pre-pay show up as the same type of charge

GOOGLE *Google Fi 650-253-0000 CA 94043 USA

Before it posts both showed up as Google Services.

Safe to assume the pre-pay will credit the account, but I guess we won't know for sure until it does.
So if your phone purchase also coded as 'GOOGLE *Google Fi'? If so that'd be great news since...

Quote from citan359 :
Fi Prepay works perfectly, I was credited today. Incredible deal.
Yup prepay seems to definitely be working, now it's just a matter of whether phone purchases would work as well.

Ideally, as someone posted earlier, getting the S22 would work something like this:

- $300 for phone, get $25 AmEx credit
- 2x $50 prepays, 2x $25 AmEx credits

$100 prepay total would cover 4 months at $20/mo plus taxes & fees.

...

I think the "excludes all other Google products and services" clause in the T&C is throwing people off. Google likely uses the "Google services" for most or all pending transactions across their platforms. Once the transactions post they include specific coding, such as Fi prepay posting with 'Google Fi' in the description.
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05-05-2022 at 02:34 PM.
05-05-2022 at 02:34 PM.
Quote from Cinna :
An update to my warranty issue. They never shipped the replacement. I had to cancel it. They certainly replied quickly to the cancelation request, but ignored all other emails. Their shipping team is the actual worst.
What warranty issue? If you are buying a Samsung phone the warranty is honored by Samsung, just like if you buy iPhone you send the phone back to Apple.

As for shipping, Fedex lost my phone in transit and I asked them for the replacement. After they confirmed the phone is lost with Fedex. They resent my phone using next day delivery, got it the next day. Not sure what happen to you.

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Cinna
05-05-2022 at 02:48 PM.
05-05-2022 at 02:48 PM.
Quote from keung :
What warranty issue? If you are buying a Samsung phone the warranty is honored by Samsung, just like if you buy iPhone you send the phone back to Apple.

As for shipping, Fedex lost my phone in transit and I asked them for the replacement. After they confirmed the phone is lost with Fedex. They resent my phone using next day delivery, got it the next day. Not sure what happen to you.

I purchased the phone as an upgrade through Fi. I called about a couple issues with two accounts and mentioned the issues with my S22 plus. They pretty quickly determined that it was a warranty issue and offered to replace it. However, that never actually materialized. It sat in preparing for shipment for over two weeks with not a word or reply from the shipping team.
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05-05-2022 at 03:17 PM.
05-05-2022 at 03:17 PM.
Quote from inm8num2 :
Quote wall... trying to summarize and make sense of everything!



If the phone purchase posts as 'Google Fi' isn't that exactly what would trigger the AmEx offer?

https://store.google.com/category...s?hl=en-US - phone purchase here is different from purchases made here - https://fi.google.com/about/phones/.
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05-05-2022 at 03:20 PM.
05-05-2022 at 03:20 PM.
Quote from coolchicagoguy :
https://store.google.com/category...s?hl=en-US - phone purchase here is different from purchases made here - https://fi.google.com/about/phones/.
My bad, I got mixed up quoting so many posts. You were talking about purchases from the Google Store not qualifying as Fi purchases - that of course makes sense.

So far it seems phone purchases from Fi will count for the AmEx credit -

https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=154945231&postcount=819
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SingularMotives
05-05-2022 at 03:27 PM.
05-05-2022 at 03:27 PM.
Quote from inm8num2 :
DP from reddit [reddit.com] (scroll to see his post confirming the credit). I'm not sure what the reasoning was in that DoC post other than the person assuming that since prepay codes as 'Google Google Fi' whereas postpay codes as 'Google Fi', the former somehow wouldn't qualify.
That is good news.
Yes that was the person I was referring to. He seemed pretty confident but if that's his reasoning, then it doesn't hold water. One of the newest comments says postpay even is coded as Google Google Fi.


Quote from inm8num2 :
Did your phone purchase last month pend as 'Google Services' then change to something else?
My S22 purchase was actually Google Google Fi as well. The problem was that I was checking on the Amex app, where it lists the merchant name, Google Services, under activity. Website has the "description", which is Google Google Fi.
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05-05-2022 at 04:11 PM.
05-05-2022 at 04:11 PM.
Quote from SingularMotives :
postpay even is coded as Google Google Fi.
Yup, very good news. Prepay definitely works.

Quote :
My S22 purchase was actually Google Google Fi as well. The problem was that I was checking on the Amex app, where it lists the merchant name, Google Services, under activity. Website has the "description", which is Google Google Fi.
Cool, thanks for verifying.

It looks like the following plan should work:

Quote :
- Buy S22 for $300, get $25 AmEx credit
- 2x $50 prepays, 2x $25 AmEx credits

$100 prepay total would cover 4 months at $20/mo plus taxes & fees.
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mommy08
05-05-2022 at 06:53 PM.
05-05-2022 at 06:53 PM.
Quote from keung :
Yes I did that on a previous s20 deals a while years back.
I am not using Amex offer but got some employer mobile credits that can be used so I prepaid into Fi every month to pay for the phone.

How do you prepay the device installment amounts? Can we pretty much decide how much to prepay each time?
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05-05-2022 at 07:54 PM.
05-05-2022 at 07:54 PM.
Quote from mommy08 :
How do you prepay the device installment amounts? Can we pretty much decide how much to prepay each time?
Go to link click google fi manage
https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/h...ndservices
and you should see an option to pay early

The device payment is part of the bill so what ever balance you prepay will be deducted from the credit as a whole..
Also you can make multiple pre payments then end the installment early, whatever balance left on installment will be added to your next Fi bill and this will deduct from the credit from your account
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05-05-2022 at 08:23 PM.
05-05-2022 at 08:23 PM.
Quote from keung :
Go to link click google fi manage
https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/h...ndservices
and you should see an option to pay early

The device payment is part of the bill so what ever balance you prepay will be deducted from the credit as a whole..
Also you can make multiple pre payments then end the installment early, whatever balance left on installment will be added to your next Fi bill and this will deduct from the credit from your account

Thanks! Repped!
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