Quick hit: mobile balance loads trigger refreshed Amex personal Gold credits

I applied for an American Express Gold card back in April so have been following especially closely the recently announced changes to the card: a $325 annual fee, $50 semiannual Resy credit, and $7 monthly credit at Dunkin Donuts.

I already knew that purchases at any Resy restaurant would trigger the semiannual statement credit because of my experiments with my American Express Delta Business Platinum card, but I wasn’t sure whether the $7 monthly credit could be triggered without going into a Dunkin location.

So, I bought $7 of credit in the Dunkin Donuts app on Monday, July 29. On Wednesday, July 31, I received an e-mail alerting me that I’d received a $7 statement credit for the purchase.

I’m not a great consumer of either fast food coffee or fast food donuts, but as the saying goes, I’ll take any bank’s money as long as they’re giving it away. This benefit is already live, so start using it today.