Bits: Tesco scrapping Avios on gift cards, Flying Blue Shop&Earn, 1000 instant IHG points

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• Genghis says:

  13 Sep13 September 04:37

  I had similar experience with Opinion Check In. First survey I was not applicable for and got 5 IHG points but I completed next one on DIY for the 1k. Total time spent was around 20 mins or so so not a great investment of my time. Not too bad though.

• nw1309 says:

  13 Sep13 September 04:39

  Another door closes for easy avois via tesco! Still I am in hope that my PayQuiq ones will post from the 5 x single items I purchased last week.

  • Mycity says:

    13 Sep13 September 06:06

    Over on PTS they suggest this has happened before only for the 150 points to continue, guess we won’t know till end of September.

    • Tilly71 says:

      13 Sep13 September 07:58

      Im not sure in the past it has been put up officially on the teaco website an offer closing date, i think the last time it was pure speculation.

      • Mycity says:

        13 Sep13 September 08:24

        Yes that’s true Tilly, shame if it goes as the extra points on these before Xmas from the mag meant many points. Oh well as one door closes another opens

  • ee says:

    13 Sep13 September 06:48

    My partner received 100 points for her purchase of a single item, but my 5 purchases of a meal deal (which were earlier than her purchase) have yet to yield anything. Is anyone else still pending points for transactions at the start of the promo?

    They have leaflets at Bishopsgate about the promo now, so I took one in case of problems later on!

• John says:

  13 Sep13 September 05:08

  1. Learn about diamonds
  2. Buy ring for £30% off (but pay 20% VAT)
  3. Book TP run to Asia
  4. Sell ring to jewellery dealer
  …
  X. Profit???

  • James67 says:

    13 Sep13 September 07:03

    Your average east and south east Asian person on the street laughs at our gold, and you would need a very thick skin to take it into a gem store. I’m not saying it wouldn’t work but it’s not one for amateurs.

  • Roger says:

    13 Sep13 September 07:35

    Not sure if you meant this in a positive or negative connotations.

    Anyway not looking to sell for-profit as James highlighted below.

  • Choons says:

    13 Sep13 September 10:15

    Do it! – but show us proof it works, and how.

• John says:

  13 Sep13 September 05:13

  If you just click any answer and just look out for the quality control questions you get screened out less and it’s much faster to finish.

  If you pay peanuts then you get peanuts.

  Hilton recently paid me £75 for an hour to answer questions about diamond recognition. I took it seriously.

  • grex9101 says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:55

    Agreed.

    I’m a member of the Vanson Bourne business panel and Pinecone research. They pay a minimum of £5/£4* respectively for each survey.
    I pay attention and give them properly fleshed out answers.

    *(I think Pinecone may now be £3 if you’re new to the panel)

  • JamesC says:

    13 Sep13 September 09:12

    +1

    You would think CEO’s of IT/Banking/HR companies (with more than 10,000 staff and complete decision making/purchasing responsibility) wouldn’t be answering 30 minute surveys for 30 IHG points.

    • JamesC says:

      13 Sep13 September 09:19

      In comparison, Shopper Thoughts surveys are far more fair. Short. Less likely to be screened out. Often 75-100 Clubcard points < 10 minutes etc.

      • Fenny says:

        13 Sep13 September 20:54

        I think that you probably have better luck being male. So many of the people who do these surveys are middle aged women that they have a huge response from that demographic and routinely stop the survey a long way in due to the group being over subscribed. I tried Shopper Thoughts a few times and never got anything out of it.

        • Brian W says:

          13 Sep13 September 22:18

          Especially if the survey is about hanging up shirts in a hotel room!

        • Fenny says:

          14 Sep14 September 00:13

          Well, I usually only take t-shirts when I’m on holiday and I was about 3 ft too short to be able to hang anything in the wardrobe in the Doubletree in Amsterdam.

• RIccati says:

  13 Sep13 September 05:57

  Thoroughly annoyed dealing with British Airways.

  Some Customer Representative keeps refusing double Avios on Flights + Hotel booking arguing that the hotel was not booked for outbound/inbound dates exactly. Complete invention — nowhere in Terms and Conditions there are such terms.

  This is after two agents confirmed over the phone that the points are due and will be credited.

• Henry Young says:

  13 Sep13 September 06:12

  With these surveys, you have to consider what they’re looking for to give you top marks. The odd white lie is helpful in scoring max points.

• David Faichney2 says:

  13 Sep13 September 06:19

  Buying gift cards has been a monthly habit – but no more soon #RIP

• Gavin says:

  13 Sep13 September 06:50

  For me there goes a substantial source of avios. I even had the mrs agreeing to go down that route when making a purchase… We can live in hope that it may still run as an occasional offer

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