Bits: get 20% off National Express tickets, up to 4800 Avios with LEGO

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• Scottydogg says:

  6 Dec6 December 13:48

  With regards to the Lego , i ordered Lego last time this deal was on with the plan of selling it , i got it delivered to store and then for one reason or another i never got round to picking it up so the order just got sent back but i still got all the avios points ! result
  Might try this tactic again

  • KevMc says:

    6 Dec6 December 16:06

    Ooo, nice tip. Might put a few more orders in and try this myself.

    • Mycity says:

      6 Dec6 December 16:31

      I’d be very careful doing this, remember the article a few weeks ago about fraud.

      • Genghis says:

        6 Dec6 December 20:09

        Playing by the rules by ordering lego and not collecting it. Is that fraud? Is churning Amex cards fraud or just playing by the rules but taking advantage?
        [Tesco’s control environment is shoddy]

      • the real harry1 says:

        6 Dec6 December 20:16

        ordering Lego & not collecting it is patently NOT fraud lol 🙂

      • Anna says:

        6 Dec6 December 22:58

        Not fraud. I take it Tesco refunded the money but didn’t withdraw the Clubcard points?

• thehornets says:

  6 Dec6 December 13:52

  O/T Have just applied for another Amex Gold. Does anyone have any recent experience of how long it will take for the card to arrive and/or how long it will take for referral points to appear on my wife’s account?

  Thanks!

  • Tom says:

    6 Dec6 December 14:29

    Referred my other half for a gold from my plat recently – points posted the day her card arrived, which was two or three days after she applied (think we did the referral over the weekend).

  • Alan says:

    6 Dec6 December 15:10

    Referral points usually post within 2-3 days of card being approved.

    • thehornets says:

      6 Dec6 December 18:06

      Thankyou Alan and Tom!

      • Alan says:

        6 Dec6 December 18:30

        No probs NFL #RewardsPoints king!! 😀

      • Tom says:

        6 Dec6 December 19:44

        On this point – I made the mistake of missing the ‘s’ in #Rewardspoints.
        I didn’t type it – I selected from a list of ‘trending’ tags so I guess I’m not the only one.

• Roger C says:

  6 Dec6 December 23:19

  O/T – Shop Small
  Going well with my cards on Oyster until TfL stopped two of my Oyster cards!

  I rang up, but they were adamant that my ‘unusual’ purchasing broke their rules. The best they would offer is to pass it to the ‘Investigation Team’ with a view to refunding the stored money (and the deposits for the cards). All very well, but if the payments are reversed, then presumably I’ll lose the £5 credits.

  I’m beyond angry at TfL – I can see that they might flag up the behaviour many of us will do doing as unusual, but it’s not as if there’s not a perfectly sensible explanation.

  In future, I guess the trick is to stock up on Oyster cards, then use only one Amex card on each of them.

  • Jonny says:

    6 Dec6 December 23:25

    This happened to me last year (on 5 cards bought as a single batch). Process was painful but I explained what I was doing, and was able to prove all the purchases were “genuine” by providing statements.
    In the end they just provided a refund to my bank account, which was clearly a good outcome – albeit i would rather have just been able to use the Oyster cards given the hassle!

    This year have been buying Oyster cards one at a time to hopefully prevent this….

    • John says:

      7 Dec7 December 03:43

      I only interact with TfL machines using cash now, and refund Oysters as soon as possible.

    • Genghis says:

      7 Dec7 December 04:38

      Been there myself with account blocked. Once sent over statements they released funds and unblocked acct.

  • Renaud says:

    8 Dec8 December 10:24

    Hi, what’s the deal with TfL/Oyster? Do the TfL machines participate in Small Shop, or do you need to buy or top-up Oyster cards in participating shops?

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