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AmEx Shop Small - Spend $20 and Get $10 Statement Credits (up to 5 Times) [November 2017]

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This year, you can earn $10 statement credits from up to 5 different participating small businesses, as opposed to 10 like back in 2016, 2015 and 2014.

Registration Link

Edit (2/11): 100,000 card enrolments reached.
Edit (3/11): 18,000 more cards can be enrolled.
Edit (6/11): 118,000 card enrolments reached.


Terms and Conditions:

  • Save the offer to your eligible Card between 31 October 2017 and 30 November 2017.
  • Limited to the first 118,000 Cards to save the offer.
  • Spend $20 or more on the eligible Card in one transaction in-store at participating small businesses listed
    on maps.americanexpress.com/aushopsmall between 1 November 2017 and 30 November 2017 to receive a $10 credit. Offer is limited to five credits per registered Card, with no more than one credit per participating small business.
  • Excludes transactions where you do not spend directly at participating small businesses. For example, purchases made through a third party such as a department store (e.g. David Jones, Myer or PayPal).
  • Excludes online purchases and gift cards.
  • Business Cards that are affiliated with a wholesaler partner, American Express Business Travel Accounts, Government Cards, Corporate Purchasing Cards, Corporate Meeting Cards, Corporate Cards and David Jones Storecards are excluded.
  • Credit is not redeemable for cash or other payment form.
  • Credit should appear on your billing statement within 5 business days from date of qualifying spend.
  • Credit will not be applied to your Card account if your Card has been suspended or cancelled.
  • Credit may be reversed if your qualifying purchase is subsequently refunded or cancelled.

Full Terms and Conditions
OzBargain Shop Small Event Tag. Past deals, forum discussions etc.
Shop Small Map & Wiki including Opal & Myki Top Up Locations
Spreadsheet of locations thanks thydzik

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Referee gets 200,000 MR points. Referrer gets 150,000 MR points.

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closed Comments

        • Complained to amex about a store doing something potentially against the law. Not sure exactly what amex can do… the whole reason the airlines changed their fixed $ surcharges were because it’s against the law.

    • King of the Pack (888 Wholly Tobacconist) Shop 26/ 61 Oxford St Sydney - still 1% surcharge
      City Convenience 136 Castlereagh St Sydney - 2.5% surcharge

      could anything above 3% be illegal now?

      • I guess it depends on how much it costs to process for a business. If a business was mostly small transaction based, the % might be higher to cover the fixed-base fee.

    • whereabouts is Allied Mart? 389 Pitt st seems to be Rydges hotel? Also it doesn't show up on this year's map

      • +1

        Its the corner of Liverpool and Pitt st, the old City Mart - now renamed to Allied Mart. Its showing up on the map under their old name.

        Its 379 Pitt - sorry! typo

    • Darling Park (201 Sussex Street) - 2.5% surcharge

      This place only accepts AMEX where you have the physical card :( i tried to pay with my apple watch and they rejected it!

      • +3

        They must be still be using the Suncorp terminals where it's insert card only.

        • +1

          Yeah, they were using suncorp terminals.

    • City Essential was 50c today

  • Is it the same participants as last year?

    Anyone have the link to the database table? I don't like the map view. It only shows 10 things at a time.

  • +1

    Used it 5 times today,
    received emails within a minute or even seconds

    A warning to those using amcal chemists

    the cream I was looking for was $17.99 at amcal
    $11.99 at woolworths
    and $10 at Kmart,

    Struggled to spend $20 at amcal

    • Stock up on toothpaste.

      I'll need to get a bit more than last year this time around, last year's shop small haul only lasted me until August.

    • I'm stocking up on household essentials at Amcal. Last year, i bought Quilton for $2.50 a pack

    • Amcal is a waste of Shop Small if buying items at regular prices. Even their specials can be everyday prices for discount chemists.

      There are several chains of discount chemists participating in Shop Small. Most of them are franchises so you can hit several stores. Personally, I'm waiting to see if Cincotta release a catalogue this month. Last Shop Small they were selling Claratyne 60 tabs for $20.

      • I in Vic but can't seem to find any franchise chemist's in the list.
        They all seem independant

  • I rego’d DJs AMEX and got a confirmation, spent at a nominated business today, but no email confirmation or refund showing. Anyone else tried a DJs AMEX card yet?

    • +1

      Email confirmations are flaky at best.

      You won't see the credit until the day after the transaction posts. Which won't have happened yet (it will still be pending in your online services/app) if you made the purchase today.

    • In my experience with statement credits.
      Yes different to shop small
      But they generally email. Instantly.

      That's been my experience
      Ezcept for the dimmi ones. Which took days

    • Yes; paid for my dinner tonight with my DJs AMEX on Android Pay and got the e-mail confirmation immediately.

  • CITY CONVENIENCE STORE 173-179 BROADWAY , ULTIMO; Opal top up cash only not accepting Amex. I told the owner "you're losing business big time" Anyone knows how much commission they get from opal top up?

    • +4

      But why challenge the owner? just walk away peacefully and report to amex if bothered. challenge them make them even more arrogant in result, unless your case is really bad that they piss you off too much

    • +2

      Very small, apparently:
      https://www.newsagencyblog.com.au/2016/08/26/news-corp-wrong…

      "newsagents are paid a commission of only 23 cents for a $10 top up and 45 cents for a $20 top up"

  • Anyone tried Sushi Hub? Is it part of shop small? It has Amex cash back spend $20 and get $10 back, combine with shop small you get another $10 back from Amex. Free $20 worth of sushi from Sushi Hub!

    • This has been discussed upthread. It is not yet clear if Sushi Hub are part of SS or not. I tried at QVB and did not receive SS email.

      • Works at 815 George st, just had my free sushi dinner tonight. That's the only Sushi Hub that you can double dip!

        • Any other sushi hub place we can do this in Sydney cbd?

        • @arctan: unfortunately not

    • Nevermind. Just asking if you could double dip, which apparently you can at one location only.

  • +1

    Got refused for Amex at City Convenience 136 Castlereagh St today.

    • +1

      i just asked him to charge me the 2.5% that he said he was being charged and he topped mine up yesterday

    • +1

      Went into to get an opal recharge. Must have accidently flashed my AMEX. Guy says the Opal Machine is down. Yeah right, these machines go down that easily. Looks like the prick unplugged it.

      Are they losing money even on the 2.5% surcharge?

    • +1

      @neil please mark this as down

      • +1

        Updated.

  • in a previous post there is a mention of an excel list, is there a way to export the participating business list?

    • Just search on thydzik in this comment thread, by clicking the "Comments" link in the top of the post, then doing an in-page search.

  • Anyone else find that businesses are disappearing from the map/list?

    Eg Adriano Zumbo Macquarie Centre used to be there I swear!

    • Sushi Hub has completely vanished now. 815 George St in the City showed last night - not there now.

    • Yes… I spent at one this morning unknowingly and tried to find it on the map…. I got the credit email but it's not showing on AMEX map…

      So basically is it any shop that is obviously not a huge operation that accepts AMEX?

      • I am planning to go to sushi hub later today. Are you still getting the shop small credit email even though the shop has dissapeared from the map ?

      • Should clarify "spent at one" being spent at a store accepting AMEX, not a sushi hub.

    • It still was a few weeks ago when thydzik pulled together his list…

      • zumbo stores were on the map yesterday. i'm guessing they were pulled because another offer was stacking.

        • Went to Zumbo QVB today at lunch time and received the credit email..

        • @rogsamsy: Hmmm I wonder if we can just go off the spreadsheet that was posted then

        • @rogsamsy: were you also registered for the $10 spend/$5 rebate zumbo offer?

        • @tveye: yes, paid $20 got emailed a $10 credit for both.

        • @rogsamsy: so you didn't get the $5 credit too?, ie the offers didn't stack?

        • @tveye: I received an email for 2 $10 credits. 1 for shop small and 1 I can only assume for both Zumbo $5 credits put together.

        • @rogsamsy: I just bought at Zumbo QVB this evening and also received 2 emails mentioning $10 credits, assuming 1 from shop small & 1 from Zumbo offer

        • @strawberrybug: Zumbo offer is only $5. I spent $10 at Zumbo Chatswood this evening and still waiting for the email!

        • +1

          @SydneySwan: Yeh that's what I thought so I was pleasantly surprised when the Zumbo email stated $10 credit, must be because I spent $20 so 2 x $10 purchase each, $5 back up to 2 times was the offer as an above poster mentioned

        • @SydneySwan:

          May be a problem with the Chatswood store? I had to ring to get my 2nd $5 applied manually. I got the first one ok but they seemed to have changed the merchant name since then.

    • Yes, same as Adriano Zumbo Emporium. Saw it last night, but disappear today.

      • Yes can no longer find any zumbo stores on the map :(

  • Awesome deal!

  • Can anyone still register through the manual link? I keep getting system unavailable when pressing 'Submit'.

    • Same for 2 days for me

  • +4

    Topped up my Opal card at Darling Harbour View Convenience Store (7 Erskine Street, Sydney). Google Maps has the address as 24-26 Erskine Street, which is incorrect.

    Surcharge $0.50 per credit card.

    EDIT: I received the emails straight away - Amex issued Discovery card, and Westpac issued Amex card.

    • +2

      I just came back from there, the manager has increased the surcharge to $2 per card :(

      • I went at lunch today and it was $1.50. Needless to say I walked out

        • Told him that it was 50c a few days ago but he wouldn't bulge and showed me a handwritten note (presumably by the manager).

    • I went this arvo at about 3.30pm and paid 50cent surchage for each card, not sure where the $2 came from. how annoying!

      I also went to Darling Park newsagency, 50 cent surchage but each card needs a pin, they cant paypass (not sure why, annoying).

      Got emails for both

      • Because Darling Park use the really old Suncorp terminals.

        • +1

          true! they charge about $5 for a 125g bag of lollies so I guess the profits aren't going towards the POS systems

  • +3

    Probably repeating what others have said, but can't hurt to confirm emails from the following in Sydney:

    King of the Pack (888 Wholly Tobacconist) - Shop 26/ 61 Oxford St - 1% surcharge
    Allied Mart - 389 Pitt Street - 1.5% surcharge
    Oxford St Newsagency - 1/18-32 Oxford St - 1% surcharge

    Other than these, has anyone found places that charge 1.5% or under in the same area (near Wynyard or Town Hall) + email confirmation?

    • Are you sure it's not 379 Pitt St?

      • Sorry, yes you are right. I was copy/pasting from the list.

        • no worries. did you use multiple cards at 379 Pitt St and they were ok with that?

        • +1

          Yep 4 cards, the guy was very nice

        • As in its 379 pitt st, rather than 389 pitt st ?

        • Yep 379

        • @krazek:

          The guy I got wanted all cards in my name :(

          Will try a different guy later on.

        • @lemon:
          Are u guys still getting email confirmations from Oxford Street Newsagency? Gone from the map.

    • couldn't find Oxford St Newsagency on the map this year. did you get the email?

    • how did you find Oxford St Newsagency on the shopsmall map? Can't find it type in Oxford St. Yes, if you get confirmation email what name of the shop they show up on email?

      • I didn't, I just went on other people confirming they received the email. Shop is "OXFORD STREET NEWSAGENCY" according to the AMEX email

        • Did u get email confirmation today from them?

        • @noskich: Just for everyone confused, I can confirm I get the email for OXFORD STREET NEWSAGENCY even if I couldn't find it on the map.
          My colleague got email for St Martins Newsagency which was not found on the map.

        • @hongd:
          Was this today? I asked that question when I was passing by the place and I didn't dare walk in as I already had lost money on Wu s pharmacy.

        • +1

          @noskich: yes, I did today. Tried one card first and waited for email. Then spent the rest cards after getting first email.

  • Urban News Shop TR8, 1-25 Harbour St, Sydney; On the shop small map but they had a sticker on their EFTPOS saying not accepting AMEX; go elsewhere for opal top up guys

  • We're sorry, this offer is no longer available.

    Want to register our last two cards but its now amex done with more cards…

    • +2

      oh, no, the enrolment maxed out fast this year. I remembered last year the enrolment remain open until end of shop small promotion period.

      • +1

        Well, with some people having 20+ cards, and more people signing up to AmEx in 2017 (courtesy of ANZ, NAB etc scrapping their partnerships), it makes sense that more cards are being enrolled hence it going faster.
        Just thinking - 100,000 cards, $50 total rebate each, that's… $5 million! Wow that's huge, but still not even a drop in the ocean for a large international multinational corporation like AmEx :)

    • +1

      Hi leehungfei, amex re open for shopsmall enrolment, go to register your last two cards NOW:

      https://merchantgeo.secure.force.com/enroll/EnrollmentSitePa…

      • Thanks for that :)

  • +3

    Can confirm that Victoria Harbour Pharmacy (Docklands, VIC) still accepting AMEX for myki reloads (no surcharge), however they are limiting to one card per customer only (I only had one!)

    Very friendly ladies at the counter too I must say :)

  • +1

    Can confirm opal top up at CITY CONVENIENCE STORE (1-7 CASTLEREAGH STREET , SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES 2000)

    Note the merchant name on my statement is "ALG FOOD STORE & WAHWAH FOOD S"

    Emails received and has a $1 surcharge.

  • +1

    Am finding good value in small local bottle shops
    Obviously higher priced than dans

    So if a 40 dollar slab costs 45
    As long as you can split it into two payments.
    That's a 40 dollar slab at Dans for 25 after two credits.

    Good enough for me

    • Only one credit per retailer, unless you split payment and use separate cards

  • +1

    Have updated the Opal Wiki & Google Maps. Keep the comments coming about all your successful (or unsuccessful) top-ups. Some surcharges get raised the further into the promotion.

    Also any Myki updated but only 1 updated entry for this year.

    • Maybe Mark Wu's pharmacy as yellow as several people haven't got emails for it.

      • I did other day @ wu pharmacy but didn't get email

      • Marked it as a red question mark.

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