Bits: new BBC ATC series starts tonight, Virgin economy sale, 30 Avios per £1 on flowers

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• Ciarán says:

  17 Aug17 August 06:13

  On the Appleyard deal, you won’t get 30 Avios per pound if you use a discount voucher.

  I ordered about 70 quid worth of flowers, used the 5er off voucher and only for around 200 avios.

  Cancelled and reordered without the discount and i got the full amount.

• Sussex bantam says:

  17 Aug17 August 07:07

  YMMV of course but I had a terrible experience with Appleyard. Mother’s Day flowers died within 2 days of arriving. Contacted them 3 times before I got a response promising a replacement bunch which never arrived. Eventually had to ask for a refund. What annoyed me was they blamed the slow customer service response to them ‘being busy’ which presumably was a surprise to a florist on Mother’s Day !

  I may well have been unlucky but I won’t use them again.

  • Talay says:

    18 Aug18 August 04:12

    Same disaster of a bunch of flowers as I received.

    Died very soon, bought really because I was hooked by the side deal.

    Now I buy only from local florists and support the local economy.

• Chris says:

  17 Aug17 August 07:49

  If you have a longish connection in DUB can you use preclearance for US immigration?

  • GK says:

    17 Aug17 August 09:07

    As I understand I, all ex DUB pax to US go through pre learnable, including connecting traffic

  • Nick Burch says:

    17 Aug17 August 09:15

    If you are on a direct flight from Dublin to the USA, you *must* go through pre-clearance. You then arrive at a domestic gate

    If you are flying DUB-LHR-USA, then you’re not allowed through pre-clearance, your only option is normal immigration on arrival

• Roger says:

  17 Aug17 August 07:59

  Another OT question from the same Roger above.

  As a small business owner I pay about 20k plus in VAT and about 20K in Corp. Tax too, so far I only use BACS to make payment, but realising that I can use Amex Gold Business Card (No fee in first year), and also earn Amex MR points.

  Rob, is this the advisable? Does HMRC allow payments (for Corp Tax / VAT) via Amex? If so, what are the charges (0.386%? as per your recent article)?

  • Mr Dee says:

    17 Aug17 August 08:05

    No Amex is not accepted but you can use a Visa or Mastercard for a small fee which would make the points cheap if you have a good card to use.

  • Rob says:

    17 Aug17 August 08:24

    No, only MasterCard or Visa. You need a lucrative one, perhaps IHG Premium (2 points per £1)? Virgin Black?

  • Roger says:

    17 Aug17 August 09:55

    Hello Roger from The Other/Another Roger. 🙂

    Just to avoid potential confusion, I have different cards questions which I will save for on-topic discussion. 😉

• Alan says:

  17 Aug17 August 08:04

  I’d definitely avoid Appleyard – used them before when they had a deal with Amex, but they got the delivery date wrong (apparently Sunday deliveries for Mother’s Day are only in London despite them being offered elsewhere on the he website) and the flowers that arrived were pitiful – small in quantity and hardly lasted. By comparison have had excellent experiences with many other florists, would definitely not use Appleyard again.

  • Gavin says:

    17 Aug17 August 13:05

    don’t deliver abroad so no good for me. I found it cheaper to use a local company for sending flowers to the mrs. could also deliver within 2 hours of order!

• Genghis says:

  17 Aug17 August 08:10

  It depends on what your targets are. If you’d like to collect points on a card then it might be worth switching (and keep switching) as you can get a better return (in points) elsewhere – with sign up bonuses, referral bonuses and ongoing spend (depending how you value your points).

• Genghis says:

  17 Aug17 August 08:11

  And 2.5 in first six months

• Alan says:

  17 Aug17 August 08:33

  Out if interest, we’re your flowers being delivered to London? I just wondered if they had a different service there and then outsourced elsewhere…

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