Nieman Marcus is often referred to as ‘needless markup’. But they have an uncharacteristically good, stackable deal that you can take advantage of only for the next several hours.
Here’s how a $200 purchase from Nieman Marcus earns a $50 rebate, a $50 gift card, and up to 3900 miles. For many, that’s better than 50% off.
- If you have an American Express card, log into your account and under ‘Offers for You’ (next to ‘transactions’) you will likely find $50 back on a $200 purchase from Nieman Marcus. Click ‘Save offer’ next to this offer.
- Mentioned both on the Nieman Marcus website and on the AAdvantage shopping portal, promo code GC4YOU gets you a $50 gift card when you make a $200 purchase. This is only valid through noon Central time on December 3 (Tuesday).
- The AAdvantage shopping portal is offering 12 American Airlines miles per dollar spent at Nieman Marcus.
And the gift card promotion code GC4YOU is specifically noted as stackable with this offer in the terms and conditions. Promotion or coupon codes often invalidate mileage-earning, but in this case they are explicitly combinable.
So a $200 purchase earns 2400 miles.
- In addition, if you haven’t already maxed out the holiday shopping bonus from AAdvantageShopping, then a $150 purchase earns another 1500 miles ($250 total purchases through the portal earns 2500 miles.)
(HT: pfdigest)
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So can I just buy a $200 NM GCard with my registered Amex through the AA portal? I really have a hard time “shopping right now” for these deals and prefer the GC so I can mull.
T&C state that gift cards aren’t eligible
But I am looking at the amazon offer and it has no mention of gift cards?
Thanks…didnt know about the stackable deal…just bought 218, free shipping, and wrapping….even though part of it is a $50 giftcard…..still a great deal.
Well, another way to look at it is that by spending $200 at NM and getting $100 back you are *only* getting suckered out of $50 instead of $150. And even then I’m being overly optimistic by considering the $50 NM gift card to offer $50 in real value, which it doesn’t.
That NM is still alive is a true testament to PT Barnum and genetic maladaptations.
Ugh, 3 Amex cards—and not one has the Neiman’s offer. This is one I’d actually use!
Also note that the promo code is only good on a “select regular-priced purchase.”
If you use Perricone MD products at the time of typing there’s a bundle under the sale/beauty section called Perricone MD The Essentials for $150 which seems like a great deal for these pricey items.
Unless I’m missing something, it is a 40% discount, not 50%. To get $250 of Neiman merchandise, you need to spend $150 cash.
Oops! I didn’t see that the promo code is only good for regular priced items…good thing I liked the price on the sale item!
Are these valid for the Nordstrom rack website?
Thanks Gary. Went for some sheets that put me over the $250 so pretty good deal at ~$75 out of pocket. Course the $50 NM Gift Card is probably just going to cost me more money in the long run…
I don’t see Neiman Marcus in my offers. Any ideas?
You can always sell the gift card for around 80-85% value to the gift card sites.
I bought a $550 watch that’ll cost me around $400 after Amex Sync and selling the gift card back…plus the 9,100 AA miles!
$595 for a polo shirt. No thanks NM.
Can’t one spend $250 in one transaction, get $50 statement credit from Amex, get $50 GC, get the 2500 AA bonus, then get 12x pts-3k ?
Update: I’m told my purchase WILL get the giftcard. Items that have the offer mentioned on the specific purchase apparently qualify even if the price is special. So we’ll see…
The Gift card is only valid for “regular priced items”.
This is like saying it’s only good for a car at the MSRP. No one who has any sense pays the “regular price”, which is artificially inflated so that a few weeks later it can be offered at a “sale” price. Which is the actual price they expected to sell it at in the first place. I got an email a few days ago about “Black Friday” sale prices on clothes from Nordstrom. Markdowns of 25 to 65 %. Anyone who bought any of those items at list must feel pretty ripped off when they saw that email.
Google “The Dirty Secret of Black Friday ‘Discounts'”
Wall Street Journal:
But the floodgates have opened. In a 2012 presentation, Mr. Johnson, then still Penney’s CEO, said the company was selling fewer than one out of every 500 items at full price. Customers were receiving an average discount of 60%, up from 38% a decade earlier. The twist is they weren’t saving more. In fact, the average price paid by customers stayed about the same over that period. What changed was the initial price, which increased by 33%. 😉