GOOD DEAL: Get 18,000 Avios for £146 – minimal effort required

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• the real harry1 says:

  21 Aug21 August 09:10

  that’s a bit Irish! 🙂

• Jason says:

  21 Aug21 August 09:11

  Do you know how long it’ll take to receive the Avios email? I’ve had the email to confirm payment but not the avios code. Thanks

  • Erik says:

    21 Aug21 August 09:58

    I’m wondering the same thing.

    I got two email from “Reach Home Delivery” as soon as I paid, but nothing yet for the Avios voucher.

    • Tom says:

      21 Aug21 August 19:05

      Any joy as yet on the voucher code?

• SH says:

  21 Aug21 August 09:16

  How do I cancel the automatic renewal of the subscription?

  Also waiting for the email with the Avios voucher.

• Renwaldo says:

  21 Aug21 August 09:23

  If anyone doesn’t want to read the digital version, or if anyone needs an address in Ireland for the physical delivery of the paper, my M-I-L would be delighted to receive either. Please pop me an e-mail at alexrennie1 (at) hotmail (dot) com and I would be forever grateful 🙂

• Adam says:

  21 Aug21 August 09:28

  OT:
  Can anyone provide the link to amex live chat, I can’t find it anywhere. Thx

  • Alan says:

    21 Aug21 August 12:58

    There’s no link per se. Just login to your Amex account and click the chat button at the bottom right, or if it doesn’t appear click ‘contact us’ at the top left.

    • RussellH says:

      21 Aug21 August 15:16

      I find that chat does not work (no button ever appears) with Firefox if you have security add-ons such as Ghostery and Adblock Plus installed, even if you temporarily de-activate them. It only seems to function from a clean install (actually of Pale Monn rather than Firefox, technically) with no added security….

      Hmmmm….

      • Simon Schus says:

        21 Aug21 August 16:16

        I wrote a letter complaining to AMEX about the chat service – I’ve had poor functionality and the service has been very slow, with next-to-no resolution of my queries. They replied with a nondescript letter saying they were sorry that I’ve had problems, that it was a ‘business decision’ to close the previous messaging system that they used, and that there had been no mishandling of my queries after looking through the chat history (nonsense: I had to school the chatroom representatives in some of the benefits, some didn’t even show up, and I’ve stopped with it entirely).

        • RussellH says:

          21 Aug21 August 17:34

          Agreed.

          I was singularly unimpressed with it earlier today. Very slow and I had to explain things more than once, then hang around while he ‘checked things’.

          Finally – after 20 mins he told me that the telephone section wanted to talk to me about cancelling my PRG Amex before the £140 fee kicked in.

          I was thinking that perhaps they might make me an offer to hang on to the card, so I did phone up, but that was not at its best either. The first attempt kept me waiting for over 8 mins, then cut me off, the second attempt got its knickers in a twist when I tried to hurry things along a bit. Finally got through to a human being at the third attempt, but no offer forthcoming – she just wanted to remind me of all the extras on the card, which, of course, thanks to this site, I knew at least as much about as she did. She said that she ahs cancelled the card, but online it looks just the same as before. If I do not get the cancellation letter next week, I shall have to go back to them again…

        • The_real_a says:

          21 Aug21 August 22:03

          The best strategy IMO is to ask for what you want. Don’t leave it upto them to work it out. If you want adouble points offer. Ask. If you want a spend target offer. Ask.

      • Wally1976 says:

        22 Aug22 August 09:45

        I’m also a bit disgruntled with the chat service and have told them so. I find it’s best to get on first thing in the morning or late at night and insist on what you want. I asked to cancel a card and got “please phone as we would like to discuss this with you” to which I replied that I didn’t want to call and please just go ahead and cancel it and then they did :-).

• Amex Platypus says:

  21 Aug21 August 09:47

  There’s €29.92 VAT on this. I wonder if you could call them to get this refunded, if you have a business with a UK-registered VAT number.

  • Clive says:

    21 Aug21 August 09:51

    Why would a UK vat registration help with another country’s tax? Surely you’d need to register in Ireland too if you wanted to do that?

    • john says:

      21 Aug21 August 10:24

      Because VAT works across EU. If you provide your UK VAT number then an EU company can zero rate the VAT as long as they are sending the product outside of that EU country.

      They may have issue with that though as they might be targeting this offer to Irish residents, so refuse.

      • Rob says:

        21 Aug21 August 10:30

        Is this a ‘good’ or a ‘service’ for VAT purposes? I guess ‘service’. Makes a difference to the VAT paperwork.

      • Lady London says:

        21 Aug21 August 12:21

        It’s called “reverse VAT” and applies across Europe for services, not goods. Lot of exceptions for vendor or service type, though

      • Mr Dee says:

        21 Aug21 August 23:20

        They can’t really refuse their legal obligations to their accounting and VAT based on who they had intended a particular offer to apply to, they could however cancel your order.

• Mark newstart says:

  21 Aug21 August 10:04

  O/T … Looking for some advice looking into booking UC for the first time with virgin (thanks to ALL your help) we are based up north and would like to know what’s
  Your views in flying out of London instead of Manchester in order to experience the Virgin Lounge, But this would mean the four of us traveling down.
  Is the experience of the virgin lounge worth the trouble or would you say it just like other airport lounge?

  • Rob says:

    21 Aug21 August 10:23

    It is better than almost all other lounges but not worth the trip from MAN!

    • Mark newstart says:

      21 Aug21 August 10:28

      once again thanks for your help Rob

  • Mark says:

    21 Aug21 August 10:24

    CH is great and I really enjoy it but I don’t think I’d come all the way down from many for it. I believe you get better treatment in the lounge in many and there is a virgin rep in the lounge and you can have more food etc. Unless you have a cheap way to get here e.g. excessive avoid for a BA flight down. I’d go for the ease of flying from many.

    • Mark newstart says:

      21 Aug21 August 10:32

      that’s it Mark there is four of us and the extra traveling time and cost is it worth it.

      • Mark says:

        21 Aug21 August 10:47

        I’d say no, the lounge experience is good but not worth the extra hassle. Enjoy UC!

      • Clive says:

        21 Aug21 August 11:08

        In purely value terms, the trip down doesn’t seem worth it – but, if it was me, I’d do it once. I loved my first visit to Clubhouse and you shouldn’t look at memorable experiences in terms of value/£ alone. It’s a great memory. But having done it once I wouldn’t repeat the trip because subsequent experiences usually = diminishing returns 🙂

      • Rob says:

        21 Aug21 August 13:08

        If you need a haircut it might be worth it 🙂

        Definitely don’t do it with kids as it will restrict your lounge enjoyment and increase your extra costs to get there.

        • ankomonkey says:

          21 Aug21 August 17:49

          I hope to book my first UC redemption later this week. Assuming I can get the availability I need and do book it, I fully plan to avoid a haircut in the weeks leading up to my CH visit, just to have it done in an airport lounge.

  • Alan says:

    21 Aug21 August 13:01

    Depends on availability too. I went out from LHR and back into MAN when flying to BOS earlier this year. Took RFS EDI-LHR, wanted to experience the Clubhouse anyway but not a massive cost and it had the UC flight availability. Conversely on the way back LHR flights were full but MAN had seats (then got train back up to EDI extremely cheaply as it was early morning).

  • Louise says:

    21 Aug21 August 13:29

    For me the LHR lounge is worth it! Also the drive through check in experience especially if you stay down night before and get a cab

• Ben says:

  21 Aug21 August 10:09

  OT: I hit my BAPP 2-4-1 much earlier than anticipated due to family flights to Australia/Asia over Christmas. What do people move to after they’ve reached it? I’m generally looking to add to my collection of Avios but would be open to claiming any other sort of “prize” – whether a hotel room, upgrade voucher or whatever. Or I have the option to keep earning 1.5x on the BAPP. But that doesn’t seem much fun…

  • Rob says:

    21 Aug21 August 10:22

    Amex Gold, SPG Amex, Hilton Visa (just for bonus) or IHG Premium all good options.

    • Ben says:

      21 Aug21 August 11:01

      I think that the benefits/cost of AMEX Plat (rather than Gold) are justifiable for me. Although £750 spend on Hilton Visa is easy pickings. Thanks.

  • john says:

    21 Aug21 August 10:28

    Refer your partner for a BAPP, pocket the referral avios, and then also pocket the signup bonus. whilst continuing to earn at the 1.5x rate. If you cancel your BAPP you’ll get a pro-rata refund, but the t&c’s for the 241 say you need to use it with the BAPP card, although there is nothing technically stopping you use another Amex card instead.

    • Ben says:

      21 Aug21 August 11:02

      She’s on mat leave currently (and may not return to work at all), so don’t want to have to apply for anything in her name. Otherwise I’d be all over it.

    • Genghis says:

      21 Aug21 August 11:22

      I wouldn’t worry so much about sticking to the letter of the T&Cs

      • john says:

        21 Aug21 August 11:36

        Indeed, I don’t but others might.. I haven’t told my wife this as she likes to stick to them!

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