Bits: big savings with Amazon Prime Day today, 75% bonus on Club Carlson points

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• Miguel says:

  11 Jul11 July 10:38

  OT – related to MC World Elite LHW benefit:

  Just off the phone with Leading Hotels of the World, they say the MC World Elite free one-year membership benefit has been indefinitely suspended. Wouldn’t say why, and advised I contact MC directly to find out…

  • Rob says:

    11 Jul11 July 11:30

    Thanks, good to know (but a shame).

    Seems a bit odd as it was a zero cost benefit to LHW – they get a high value person as a member and you don’t get anything that would cost them money (you don’t even get posted a membership card).

    • Miguel says:

      11 Jul11 July 18:37

      Even odder: when I phoned up MC, their automated systems asked me to type in my card number “to better assist” me… only to then immediately put me through to my bank! I had zero interest in speaking to HSBC, since they probably wouldn’t even know the benefit existed in the first place and would be of little help anyway. Like when they launched the WE card a year ago and the Lounge Key component wouldn’t work for the first few months – boy, was it difficult to get them to understand what the issue was and to refund me for having paid to access those Lounge Key lounges!

• James says:

  11 Jul11 July 10:50

  Note that you have listed the Hero 5 Session. I’m not being picky, but they are not very good if comparing to the Hero 5.

  I would spend the extra on the actual GP over the session.

• Matt says:

  11 Jul11 July 10:54

  For anyone interested in the HSBC Premier card(s), I’ve just been to try to open a Premier account and they’ve tightened up a bit – needed to pay £960 for investment advice first (I meet the income requirement). I decided I could live without the credit card. The guy said they now want investment first, then upgrade to Premier. They no longer upgrade in the hope of getting investments later.

  • New Card says:

    11 Jul11 July 11:13

    some people have reported adding £100 to HSBC Global Investment Centre qualifies as the investment

  • Chris says:

    12 Jul12 July 08:42

    OT but how do HSBC verify the income requirement?
    A P60 would be useless as anyone with an ounce of sense would be sacrificing the first £23k over their threshold into a pension.

• Justin says:

  11 Jul11 July 12:19

  Prime Day is a fantastic marketing ploy – the other half has spent a fortune on stuff today that neither of us have any real need for. At least it’s our HFP membership for 2017/8 covered 🙂

  • Rob says:

    11 Jul11 July 12:28

    Thanks!

    The good news is that, because I pay 40% tax on the Amazon affiliate commission, you’ll also see some money flowing to the Government from your Amazon purchase which would not otherwise be going there 🙂

    • Justin says:

      11 Jul11 July 12:43

      Crazy to be paying 40% on the commission surely there is a more cost effective way of doing it

      • Genghis says:

        11 Jul11 July 12:49

        For HRTPs+, not really these days given CT+ IT dividend income changes

      • Genghis says:

        11 Jul11 July 12:50

        It’s also crazy for me to pay so much IT but it is what it is

        • Talay says:

          11 Jul11 July 13:07

          Cash is king again !

          The only problem is that it is harder than ever to get it back into the system and they ask questions when you walk through the airport with tend of thousands spread between all family members.

          “So little Jonny, you’re nearly 7 years old and why is it that you have £10,000 of spending money for your holiday sewn into your teddy bear ?”

      • Mr Dee says:

        11 Jul11 July 17:07

        I think the point is that Amazon usually pay as little tax in the UK as possible, even for not higher rate tax payers its around the 25-35% tax after any allowances in most cases.

• rick says:

  11 Jul11 July 13:16

  Spire Elite

  As a spire elite does one receive 10% of points back from IHG for any redemption?
  Or is it USA only feature?

  • Rob says:

    11 Jul11 July 13:37

    It is Ambassador feature, but only for Ambassadors who are renewing, not new ones, and who pay a higher fee.

    I think one of the US IHG credit cards might also offer this feature.

    • rick says:

      11 Jul11 July 13:48

      yes, saw in Award wallet blog.

• Optimus Prime says:

  11 Jul11 July 13:18

  An article on how to do so could be interesting 😛

• Rob says:

  11 Jul11 July 14:02

  We edited this into the article this morning, although it wasn’t in the emailed version.

• James says:

  11 Jul11 July 14:03

  Pay with your Amex Gold and part pay 1p (2 reward points) while using code AMEX16SWP and you’ll get a further £15 off making the Echo down to £64.98 🙂

  • the real harry1 says:

    11 Jul11 July 14:04

    most of us already used it months ago 🙂

    • James says:

      11 Jul11 July 14:06

      🙂 I’ve been trying but couldn’t find anything that qualified until today

    • Genghis says:

      11 Jul11 July 14:11

      I tried it on a new Amex but wouldn’t accept it. We both used it at Xmas

      • Miguel says:

        11 Jul11 July 18:55

        The offer is valid once per Amazon account

  • John says:

    11 Jul11 July 21:14

    Thanks for the code James . Just used it on my Amex Plat account .
    Got the Dot and Echo for £99 with the discount !

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