Amex "I'm going to cancel my card" - bonus points given thread.

[burneracc]

Are you sure? Generally the urls are generic but have some tracking parameters apended related to your account. But keen to see if the core url (without tracking) can be used.

We can likely backwards engineer the url params from the referral links we can generate too - maybe you can substitute in your uuid from that url.

 

[Franky]

We can likely backwards engineer the url params from the referral links we can generate too - maybe you can substitute in your uuid from that url.

Chicken was on the mark about my ability to understand what is required.....

 

[SYD]

Chicken was on the mark about my ability to understand what is required.....

The flip side of their post is also a cautionary tale about NOT posting links that might be “targeted” (not just CC related).

Some of your personal details might be embedded (eg FF#) but also, someone else could click thru and register / deregister you for something you didn’t intend to do! Lots of targeted hotel promos are single click registration.

 

[djchuckles]

Difficult to tell on my iPad but will check when I get to a PC if there’s personalisation in the link provided.

However, the landing page does say:

“This offer is only available to selected Card Members who previously held an American Express® Qantas Business Credit Card”

they often say things like that, but doesn't matter

if you get a chance to share with any personalised parameters stripped out please do.

I've collected a library of upgrade links and existing customer links so would be good to add this to it

 

[burneracc]

they often say things like that, but doesn't matter

if you get a chance to share with any personalised parameters stripped out please do.

I've collected a library of upgrade links and existing customer links so would be good to add this to it

To add some clarity to this discussion - using a site like what I have linked below, we can break down how amex links are created.

As an example for you all, I've used my personal targeted link to sign up for a Biz Gold / Plat with the $200 / $300 discounted annual fee respectively and entered it into the site. The "query strings" at the bottom are what we are looking to replace.

The theory is that by modifying the letters after the query strings, we can see if the promo is valid for others.

If the person above wanted to share their link without the identifying information, they could enter the targeted url into this site, and then share the following info from the screenshot:

1. hostname
2. path
3. query string words (any words on the LEFT hand side of the query string section, in this case we want to be told PCT, mrsourcecode, spid, and sourcecode). You wouldn't share any of the words under what I have blocked out.

Then we can cross reference any of these to see if we can create our own "targeted" offers.

I hope I've explained this clearly.

Free Online Url Parser / Query String Splitter - FreeFormatter.com

This free online tool lets you parse complex urls into parts and splits the query string into a readable format

www.freeformatter.com

Also @ djchuckles I'd be interested to see your library of links this stuff is tangential to my day job so I am always keen to nerd out.