Did you catch the American Express Membership Rewards / Tesco deal yesterday?

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• maltapoints says:

  3 Jan3 January 08:14

  Interesting one re whether Amex will honour your £550. The established law on this, of course, is that an internet price that is then taken up by the consumer is not a binding contract. Rather, it’s an “invitation to treat”. You then “offer” that invitation to treat to the merchant, who can choose whether to accept it or not.

  That’s why the old mistakes like Tesco selling ipads for £4.99 etc are not legally binding contracts, and merchants can wriggle out of such mistakes.

  However, the email confirmation suggests to me you now have a binding contract (they invited you to treat, you offered, they accepted = concluded contract), and could probably sue should they not honour it.

  I appreciate Raffles you did this as much in hope as expectation – will be interesting to see how Amex respond – keep us updated.

  PS very harsh Motellgamzol, HFP is a first class blog.

• Motellgamzol says:

  3 Jan3 January 07:58

  Lesson
  Read flyer talk not head for points

  • Raffles says:

    3 Jan3 January 08:01

    🙂

    It was dead before I even had chance to write a post!

• mrtibbs1999 says:

  3 Jan3 January 08:09

  Thanks Raffles. Nice start to the day ordering 1600 quids worth of hoovers. Fingers crossed!

• Scott Nelson says:

  3 Jan3 January 09:23

  Ignore the negative comments Raffles. Like with any blog/ news source, there’s going to be a delay between the primary source of the information and the reporting of it. I’m very grateful, keep up the good work!

  • Andy L says:

    4 Jan4 January 21:05

    Well done Scott – i could not have put it better! I think Raffles does a superb job. Keep up the good work Raffles!

• g2-c74d428b3fe4991fc2f2089b312fa3f9 says:

  3 Jan3 January 08:34

  Well, I went for a couple of Dysons this morning. Missed the furore yesterday.

• Alexis says:

  3 Jan3 January 08:56

  Agree, not sure they are fully corrected atm. Just ordered a Dyson at 8.37 and went through at 3990 points. If I select one again now they still seems to be at 3990.

• JamesG says:

  3 Jan3 January 08:59

  This is why the plat fee went up to £450.

• Andy says:

  3 Jan3 January 09:00

  I agree that HFP is a first class blog but Motellgamzol has a point – I don’t read HFP to find out what I missed, I read to get ahead of the game and maximise the benefit to me.

  If there’s enough time to go through the process of spending the points on Tesco vouchers, I’d argue there was enough time for a short “heads up”.

  • Raffles says:

    3 Jan3 January 09:42

    Had it stuck around I would have posted something. By the time I saw it on FT only the £50 cards were left, and a few minutes after I’d done a test order they were all gone.

    The Dyson deals etc were/are still around, and you can make the same 2.5p per point by ordering and ebaying those, assuming you sell at £100 after all ebay and postage costs.

    Also worth pointing out that yesterday was still ‘holiday’ in our house and only today am I back behind a desk (for, amazingly, the first time since we flew to Dubai on December 13th).

    I did, by the way, do an ‘extra’ post for the – not honoured – Herald Tribune deal in September (http://headforpoints.com/2012/09/10/150000-miles-more-miles-for-173/) so I am not against ‘breaking news’ posts in principle!

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