Bits: 250 Accor points via eRewards, Melia sale bargains, new Avios Suitcase stickers

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• Guesswho2000 says:

  26 Jan26 January 07:29

  Presumably the free 250 Accor points will go straight to Avios via Iberia if the account is set to auto convert?

  • Rob says:

    26 Jan26 January 08:28

    Imagine so but did not want to commit!

  • neuromancer says:

    26 Jan26 January 17:12

    No, you need to reach a minimum of 3000 to autoconvert. There was a way to convert any amount, but it does not work anymore.

    • Guesswho2000 says:

      26 Jan26 January 20:22

      Not according to this – http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/leclub/partners/airlinepartners-conditions.html

      “Automatic transfer, with no minimum amount, is activated as soon as the member has earned at least 2 Le Club Accorhotels points for a stay at one of the Accor hotels participating in the program.”

      I haven’t earned any Accor points for about a year, but my last lot were about 500 which autoconverted.

• thesaver79 says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:03

  Do you e-rewards do checks on duplicate accounts?

  Having had already an account linked to BAEC, I signed up for both the Avios and Iberia ones, obviously with different email addresses, but I’ve never received the points.

  • JQ says:

    26 Jan26 January 09:20

    There is no straight answer. I have 6 e-rewards accounts.

    I have found that the only problem is that sometimes you won’t be allowed to complete the same survey more than once. But sometimes you can complete it 6 times (I don’t do this unless I am really really bored!)

    Most of the accounts are in my name, but it doesn’t matter. You can change the name at any time.

    You can send points to different airline/hotel accounts from the same e-rewards account, for example I only have 1 hilton e-rewards but I have used this to top up 3 different hilton accounts which were about to expire (hilton accounts are meant to expire after 12 months of no activity, they don’t always, but I won’t risk it).

    What you can’t do is receive a welcome bonus more than once (it used to work with the 750 avios.com for signing up, 1 survey, deleting the account and signing up again in 30 days, but no longer).

    It can take up to 2 months to get the points in avios.com and IB.

• ankomonkey says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:33

  How did you guys manage to sign-up for the Iberia and BA bonuses? Every time I try the links on this site or direct from ba.com I get an error message that won’t let me sign-up. I’ve tried numerous times from a laptop and a Kindle Fire from different locations with different ip addresses in case they were recognising me as a duplicate (I have 2 active accounts that I feed Hilton with).

• Frenske says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:44

  I have never received the sign-up bonus for the Iberia e-reward! Anybody else did?

  • Frenske says:

    26 Jan26 January 09:58

    Never mind apparently you need to redeem it in the rewards section … other e-rewards always showed up automatically.

• Brian says:

  26 Jan26 January 09:50

  Off topic, Raffles, but you might want to update your article on the 12% discount offered for Heathrow Express travellers via Mastercard. Your article states that the offer runs till Jan 31 2015, but the landing page now says that it is valid till Jan 31 2016.

  • Rob says:

    26 Jan26 January 19:01

    Cheers Brian, will do

• William PH says:

  26 Jan26 January 11:17

  I’ve seem to have an issue with both e-Rewards and Rewards for Thoughts. I’ve signed up to both to get Avios in my home country of the UK, and thought that doing a few surveys while sitting in a hotel room abroad would be a good way to kill some time and earn a few points. But both sites only allow me to take surveys when I am in the UK – I assume that they are checking IP addresses. As I can’t be fagged to set up a VPN every time I’m in a hotel in KL, my plans have come to naught.

  • JQ says:

    26 Jan26 January 11:40

    Yes they do check. Forgot to mention in my comment above that if you have multiple accounts, you need to change IP each time you change account too.

    • PalCsaky says:

      27 Jan27 January 11:03

      Rewards for Thoughts blocked both of my accounts for breach of T&Cs. I had one set up with avios.com number and one with BAEC number, different emails though. Tried setting one up again but it won’t let me with existing avios/BAEC numbers 🙁

• Andy says:

  26 Jan26 January 12:52

  OT but as we’re in ‘bits’ it seems like the best place to ask, if I sign up for the Hilton Honors Platinum Visa card soon and get through the £750 sign up bonus requirement for the free night within the first month of card ownership is there any chance I’d get the e-voucher and be able to use it before the middle of May?

  • Think Square says:

    26 Jan26 January 15:42

    Yes, it’s very quick to arrive. Too quick in my case. It’s only valid for 6 months and I didn’t have enough leave left to be able to use it optimally

  • Rob says:

    26 Jan26 January 18:59

    Yes, should be ok I reckon.

• PalCsaky says:

  26 Jan26 January 13:33

  How can I get the rocketmiles sticker? I linked my twitter account and tweeted as instructed but nothing happened.

  • Think Square says:

    26 Jan26 January 15:49

    Are you sure you included both usernames and the hashtag? It worked OK for me. I just refreshed the page and there it was.

    • PalCsaky says:

      27 Jan27 January 11:07

      Maybe it didn’t work because I did it on an iphone. I tried it again on a desktop computer and this time it went through fine, sticker posted after refresh.

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