Amex / Foursquare 2013 …. what I’ve discovered so far

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• Michele says:

  9 Feb9 February 11:13

  Hi, I had issues using 6 gift cards at a time too. Only 5 would swipe through initially. However, after 2 sales assistants tried for a while, they decided to go to another til, and all 6 gift cards were loaded against my purchase! So definitely do-able, though it would seem it isn’t uncommon to have issues.

  • Michele says:

    9 Feb9 February 11:14

    Sorry, this is in reference to Harrods.

• pazza2000 says:

  9 Feb9 February 13:05

  Unsure if 4S works for online purchases at Harrods, I also understand their is a £5.95 delivery charge.

  I am going next week, will purchase a £200 GC and pay £50 x 4 cards. Had a rewards card from a while back although lost it, does anyone know if I could pick one up there and then registering it afterwards?

  I know with the likes of HoF you can buy a Giftcard with a Giftcard, so that is a route to extend expiry? I wonder what other participators in this promo we could do the same for…

  • Raffles says:

    9 Feb9 February 13:16

    Yes, you can get a temporary Harrods Rewards card at a till and register it later.

• Cliff says:

  9 Feb9 February 13:27

  Would it possible to check in at one CPW and then shop at another and sill receive the credits ?

• Trevor says:

  9 Feb9 February 14:18

  As opposed to Raffles, I found the off-licence section at HoF Victoria pretty small and dismal. Their single malts were rather pricey and, like Harrods, they generally offer the more rare and exclusive bottles which are going to cost a lot more, so no chance of buying standard bottles at half price (well, not even as little as half price considering their mark-up).

  Alternatively, the Harrod’s offie is much larger, yet I was still disappointed by their choice of reds in general (too much French for a start…), and again the more obscure single malts on offer around the £99 mark.

  The Harrod’s techy section is ok, though just offers standard stock (I require more choice, will see what more is on offer via online shopping though). There is no tech in HoF Oxford St, while Victoria seems to be all but closed.

  Although gift vouchers are generally accepted at most concessions, at both Harrod’s and HoF they are declined at the Bureau de Changes – apparently since the vouchers are non refundable and hence buying “cash”, even in a foreign currency, would be seen as a refund 🙁

  In agreement with Raffles, the HoF Victoria is in dire need of an upgrade – it’s pretty shoddy and choices are limited. But if you can check in there yet still shop at Oxford St and have it tracked, I won’t be returning and don’t suggest any of you do.

  • Raffles says:

    9 Feb9 February 14:43

    I think you’re being a little harsh! It clearly isn’t in the same league as Harrods or Selfridges wine shops, and even some way behind Harvey Nichols. However, if you like drinking decent quality stuff then you won’t struggle to spend your £50 here. If I had to fill a wine cellar from there then, yes, you’d definitely be struggling, but £50 was genuinely no problem.

    (Spoken by someone who spent £75 of his free Harvey Nichols money on £25 bottles of white wine, and who may well end up spending the remaining £50 on some more!)

    For someone who usually spends, say, £6 on a bottle of wine, you won’t pick up any £6 bottles here and so pay £3. However, you can buy plenty of £12 bottles which should get you something far more interesting for the same price you usually pay. Look at it like that.

• Peter says:

  9 Feb9 February 18:08

  Are all Shell garages in England included in the Foursquare/AmEx special?

• mikeact says:

  10 Feb10 February 10:01

  I wondered why, two credits have not shown on my Amex Statement. Here is their response which is a little confusing, as a) I have already synced my card to 4Square, and received email confirmation, and B) received email confirmation of my syncing from Amex.

  “I see that your account is synced to these offers however these offers have not been loaded correctly. That is the reason the credit has not appeared on your account. For your reference I have mentioned the steps required to load an offer correctly. I assure you that if you follow the steps advised below the credit will appear on your account automatically within 5 business days:

  – View specials in foursquare. Check in at location with an American Express special
  – Click the Special. Click “Sync My Card” and enrol in offer. The offer will load to the Card
  – You will be prompted to allow a set of standard foursquare permissions to allow for personalized deals to be displayed based on their likes. Click ‘Allow’.
  – The system prompts for your name, email address, and American Express Card number to sync your Card.
  – Enter your name, email address and American Express Card number when prompted. By providing the Card number, you enable us to recognize when promotions are loaded to your Card and to issue an automatic statement credit upon completion of the promotional criteria. We will not share your or any personally identifiable information with foursquare or any other third parties. A confirmation screen displays acknowledging that your Card has successfully synced.”

  In each case, I did the same thing…arrive on the premises, located the special and ‘Checked In’ and received the standard acknowledgement, but obviously I went wrong somewhere, but where, I am now not clear.

  • Raffles says:

    10 Feb10 February 13:27

    First, you do not need to do the check-in at the store. This is just Foursquare spin. You can do it sitting at home, as I do.

    Secondly, checking in is not enough. You then need to click on the special and do ‘load to card’. Your phone will say ‘offer loaded’ or similar in an orange box.

    Did you go through the full ‘load special to card’ process?

• Neil says:

  10 Feb10 February 13:11

  Cheers raffles, got my starwood amex which was featured on your site, will get 25,000 avios for that, synced 2 cards and got my iPad mini for £219. Thanks.

• Tommy says:

  10 Feb10 February 14:14

  Had a strange experience at harrods yesterday. I purchased a £100 gift card using two different amex cards(virgin and gold), for some reason the gift card did not load correctly, so they refunded £100 on to one of my cards. I then bought a £50 gift card on the card which received the refund. I received foursquare confirmations on both accounts, so I think I may have got two £25 credits, and only spent £50!

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