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This week we have got a fantastic and exclusive competition for our readers in association with the new loyalty app Bink:

One Head for Points reader will win 100,000 Avios.

It could be you ….. and all you need to do is download the Bink app to allow you collect Avios points from your day to day shopping at High Street retailers.

100,000 Avios can get you a long way. It gets two people in Economy to California, Cape Town, Barbados etc – or to Dubai or New York with 20,000 to spare! It would fly one person in Club World to New York, Dubai or Cape Town on an off-peak date – or two people if you have a British Airways American Express 2-4-1 voucher to use. Even if you stay closer to home, it would get you 11 return flights to France, Germany, the Netherlands etc or 6 return flights to Italy or Spain. Taxes, fees and charges, as we all know, will be applicable.

About Bink

We have spent quite a bit of time with the Bink team over the last couple of months.  As you can imagine, we are introduced to a lot of start-up companies who are looking to do something in the loyalty space. I can honestly say that Bink is the most impressive loyalty start-up I have seen and has huge potential.

Once you have installed Bink, you can collect Avios on your day to day High Street spending at participating retailers.  All you do is pay with one of your normal payment cards (registered with Bink) and Bink will ensure that Avios are added to your account based on what you have spent.

PizzaExpress is the first retailer to be launched – earning 3-6 Avios points per £1 you spend – and more retailers are on the way.  We have tested it out at PizzaExpress and it worked perfectly with Avios points credited a few days later.

Bink also allows you to clear up space in your wallet by storing details of all your High Street loyalty cards.  Going forward you won’t even have to show your loyalty card at the till to collect your rewards as long as your payment card is linked.

In order to keep this article focussed on the competition, we have published a separate article today explaining in detail how the Bink app works.  Click here to read that.

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How can you win 100,000 Avios?

As Bink launches its Avios partnerships with additional High Street retailers over the coming months, it will become a ‘must have’ for every Avios collector. You will end up downloading the app at some point, so we recommend that you do it TODAY – and give yourself a chance of winning 100,000 Avios.

The competition is open to all Bink users even if you have already registered with Bink.  If you want to maximise your chances of winning, encourage your partner to install it and enter as well.

This is what you need to do:

First, you need to download the Bink app from Google Play or App Store and create a Bink account.  Ignore the prompt about entering a referral code – this is not necessary.

Second, you need to add at least one payment card and your avios.com card to your account.  You can enter the number manually if you don’t have a physical avios.com card to scan.

Third, you need to link your avios.com account by following the prompt in the app and giving your surname.  This will allow Bink to display your current Avios balance.

Fourth, complete the automated form at the bottom of this article using the same email address you registered with Bink.

If you have already registered with Bink, you can jump straight to Point 4 above – but make sure that you have linked at least one payment card and your avios.com account first.

We will pick a winner from everyone who completes the form below.  We will then ask Bink to confirm to us that a) there is a Bink account with the same email address and b) that at least one payment card and an avios.com card have been linked to the Bink account.  If this is not confirmed, we will pick another winner of the 100,000 Avios.

The deadline for entries is 23.59 on Friday 9th December. The winner will be announced on Head for Points next week.

You can only enter if you are a UK resident.  If you are UK-based but travelling this week, you will need to email a friend back home with a link to this page to enter for you.  You can only enter once per email address and that email address must match your Bink account.

Bink only works with avios.com accounts and NOT British Airways Executive Club accounts.

The rules

The competition rules can be read by clicking ‘Terms and Conditions’ in the entry widget below.  Please read them before entering.

The key points include, but are not limited to:

You must be aged 18 years or over and be a UK resident

The competition will will launch at 00.01 on Monday 5th December and close at 23.59 UK time on Friday 9th December

The email address used on the entry form MUST be identical to the one you use to register with Bink

The winner will be picked at random by the software which collates the entries

The winner will be contacted by email once Bink has verified that the selected email address has been registered with them and that the winner has linked at least one payment card and an avios.com card to their Bink account

The prize will be deposited into an avios.com account within 30 days

The name of the winner must match the name on the avios.com account used to deposit the prize

Entries are limited to one per person

Good luck to everyone. Remember that you MUST you must link one payment card and your avios.com card to your Bink account and you MUST use the same email address when you submit the entry below.

Even if you don’t win, you will find that Bink will be very valuable in helping you earn Avios points from your day to day shopping in the future.

If you cannot see the entry form below because you are reading this via e-mail or RSS, please click here to be taken to a dedicated entry page.

Comments (143)

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  • James says:

    The app won’t accept surnames with a hyphen so I can’t link my avios account.

  • Bob says:

    Hi, I downloaded the app with Tesco in mind a couple of weeks ago so now it’s locked onto Tesco club card for the extra 500 (5×100) club card points but…. how do I add Avios card as there seems to be no option, any heir out there? Ps haven’t seen any extra points yet either!

    • Bob says:

      Meant to say help….. out there. Predictive text etc!

      • PalCsaky says:

        Are you mixing up PayQwiq with Bink?

        • Bob says:

          Oh dear thanks for that, must have been one of those senior moments good job someone knows what I’m doing silly bugger (me not you) cheers

  • marly says:

    I have been locked of my account, I tried to link it with avios, but I have a double barrel name, without the barrel, so I guess the app doesn’t understand that!!!!

  • keith says:

    the app doesn’t work on my rooted android!

  • Simon says:

    All done, nice, simple and quick on ios. Fingers crossed I’m a winner!

  • James Alexander says:

    Hi, I’ve joined BINK and added both payment and loyalty cards. However, I was not asked for an Avios number at any point in the process …. any tips?
    cheers

    • PauloG says:

      Go into your wallet within the Bink app, should show the Avios ‘card’ you have added. Touch the card and it should give you the option to link your account. Mine didn’t prompt me to link my Avios account, I just stumbled across this when looking around the app.

  • RussellH says:

    Why one winner / 100 000 avios?

    Would not ten winners / 10 000 avios or even 100 winners / 1 000 avios have been better?

    • Rob says:

      Not sure. They would have done 100 x 1000 if we had insisted. My view is that one prize of 100,000 makes a bigger splash. The prize has to be big enough to justify the couple of minutes work required to enter.

      • Mike says:

        Agree on the methodology. 1,000 – 10,000 hardly worth it in my view. 100k definitely more interesting

        • RussellH says:

          Each to their own, I guess. For me, the chance of winning is at least as important asthe absolute magnitude of the prize. And 10 000 avios would certainly be well worth having in my book. Even 1 000 would be useful.

          Being dubious about Bink in the first place, I might have considered going for a competition with lots of winners, and uninstalling the app the minute the avios had arrived. But TBH not worth the hassle for a minute chance of winning.

          Always provided, of course, that my partner would allow the app on her iPad in the first place.

          • ian says:

            Lots of winners = far better 🙂

          • David says:

            I agree with you RussellH and ian:
            For this HFP audience, I would personally have gone with 10 prizes of 10k as being better than just 1 prize of 100k.

            People will have Avios balances, that this will contribute to in a meaningful way.
            10k also is more than enough to get a short haul flight in its own right, or even a return (or two returns if you part-cash to bring down the miles).

            Sure, I’d love to win 100k more than 10k, but given a choice between 10 prizes of 10k or 1 of 100k, I’d go with the 10 prizes.

      • Alan says:

        I think 2x50k could have been an interesting option – clearly a decent sum and worth the hassle, but twice the number of winners 🙂

  • Rob says:

    Is this a cookie thing? Does using InPrivate browsing make a difference?

    RaffleCopter is another option we could use but Gleam – in terms of back-end functionality (eg letting us do things like ‘tweet for a 2nd entry’) – is very good. The front end often leaves something to be desired.

    • PJK says:

      I have the same issue – for some reason my Twitter account brings up my work e-mail address not my personal one. It isn’t a cookie thing – logged in to Gleam through a different, Private browser window and it still came up with the work address and when I entered my personal one, said e-mail already in use … aaargh!

      I’m going to break the Twitter / Gleam link and try again.

    • Colin MacKinnon says:

      Hi Rob,

      Cleared cookies on my wife’s Macbook. Still same.
      Tried my iPhone, still same.
      Has been like this with previous comps.

      Try on your computer – you have my name and email!

      Very best, Colin

      ps. Never bothered me too much before, not often a winner! But just annoyed me this morning!

    • Michele says:

      I also have the same issue with Gleam and Twitter. Have tried to resolve it using various things but no luck yet.

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