My thoughts on the new American Express / Foursquare deals for February

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• cardiffmatch says:

  3 Feb3 February 18:41

  The only problem I’ve had is that none of the credits on my BAPP card (the main card on the account) have ever gone through normally – I’ve always had to phone up to have them added manually. This is despite the ones on the supplementary card tracking just fine. It’s odd as the shop small promotion tracked fine on both cards, even when paying in the same restaurant at the same time.

  The good news is that Amex have always been happy to do it manually. They’ve looked at their system and confirmed that the card is synced to my Foursquare so we can’t work out what the problem has been.

  • Trevor says:

    3 Feb3 February 18:46

    Strange… My “other” promotions have always gone through, and 5 shop small transactions didn’t – 2 of those were primary and supp cards on a Lloyds account, but had same result with an Amex Plat and MBNA – all used together at a restaurant. That accounts for 4, and one other also on Lloyds card at a shop. I’ve had the MBNA and Plat credits applied, but strangely I have emailed Amex twice regarding the other missing Lloyds card transactions and they’ve never even responded!

• Koshka says:

  4 Feb4 February 11:17

  I had all kinds of fun trying to get this to work on Friday night. Not sure whether it’s the app, my phone’s GPS or more likely my own incompetence. I stood in the Carphone Warehouse nearest to Oxford Street station and it seemed to be convinced that I was in a store further up the road. I therefore decided not to chance it (similar issue with Gap). I then thought I’d correctly loaded the House of Fraser deal but after failing to get a confirmation I checked and it appears that I might have loaded it to a different store (Victoria Street) even though I was standing outside the shop and thought that I had double checked. Managed to get a couple of sale bargains anyway so I won’t be that upset but hopefully MBNA will add the credit. Everything worked perfectly at the Starbucks in Stratford Westfield the day before (although annoyingly the LHR T5 Starbucks isn’t set up to accept the Starbucks card).

  • Raffles says:

    4 Feb4 February 11:32

    You can check-in anywhere, anytime. I don’t even have a smartphone! I do it on my ipad at home, often days before I visit the shop. And it all still track fine!

• bjaockx says:

  4 Feb4 February 21:39

  I have a platinum card with an additional card to separate expenses, can I use both to £100 of HOF vouchers for £50?

  They:

  – have different card numbers,
  – are both for me (my name / my name a.c.)
  – but are showing as the same amex account when I log into amex.
  – both seem to have synced with different foursquare accounts

  Thank you in advance

  • Alan says:

    4 Feb4 February 21:47

    Yes – the key bit is the last one – that they are synced with different foursquare accounts.

  • Raffles says:

    4 Feb4 February 22:22

    Yes, will be fine

• bjaockx says:

  4 Feb4 February 21:52

  thanks for the clarification! I assumed that since it synced it would work but worth double checking!

• Trevor says:

  5 Feb5 February 11:15

  Nice tip. Has anyone checked into and had success with HoF in Oxford street? I find it doesn’t show the special offer, so while it may track by checking into any HoF and still shopping there, I am a bit wary…

  • Koshka says:

    5 Feb5 February 11:28

    I had problems but as Raffles has mentioned you can try to regsiter before leaving home. In my case it was an unplanned trip so I had to do it from the phone and may have accidentally loaded the card for the wrong store. I’ve emailed MBNA to see whether they will apply the credit retrospectively. For anyone with kids there are some clothes bargains to be had in the POP store up on the 5th floor e.g. £8 for trousers that genuinely go for nearer £30 at other times.

  • Raffles says:

    5 Feb5 February 11:32

    Victoria shows it OK

    • Trevor says:

      5 Feb5 February 11:47

      Yup, I might browse Oxford St as it’s supposed to be their flagship store, but buy voucher sin Victoria to be sure. There are 3 tips on the Oxford St branch listing stating that the Amex check-in special isn’t working there! Any chance you think that vouchers would be accepted at the Forex bureau? A few extra points with Amex is on ething, but 50% free forex is quite another!!!

      • Trevor says:

        5 Feb5 February 13:57

        Mmm, just put my mind at rest and called HoF Victoria. Was transferred to the Bureau de Change and told gift vouchers are not accepted 🙁

  • Rich says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:58

    You don’t actually need to check in to the particular store you are visiting. In fact, for almost all of my offers, I’ve checked in at a different store to where I’ve actually made the purchase and 100% have tracked through (over 30 transactions)

    • RB says:

      6 Feb6 February 13:02

      But RIch I suspect the offer was also available at those stores that you checked into – right? I’d be delighted to be proven wrong as I’d much prefer to go to Oxford Street rather than trapse over to Victoria but I can’t help but feel that Oxford Street was deliberately excluded.

    • Trevor says:

      6 Feb6 February 13:22

      Like RB, and having seen the tips on Foursquare regarding HoF Oxford St, I am wondering if the offer is specifically not valid there, it does say “participating stores”. Glad you’ve had such tracking success. So far I’ve had 60/65 and 3 refunds have been awarded subsequently.

      I missioned all the way to Victoria yesterday and I’d rather that than miss the refund, certainly because the Oxford St store is way better.

      Bare in mind whoever is interested in technology shopping – I was advised at Oxford that all tech had moved to Victoria, yet the tech section in Victoria is all but closed down!

• millwall says:

  5 Feb5 February 21:07

  Today is the first time Ive used foursquare, I bought a £50 gift card in HOF today. I first checked in, unlocked and loaded offer and was definitley the correct store (Victoria) so just waiting a few days for the notification of the £25. But should there be any indication in my foursquare account that I have unlocked and loaded offer to card?

  When I look at my account now it is saying I have not unlocked this special.

  • Mark says:

    5 Feb5 February 22:32

    HI Millwall, if you try & load your card again it your Foursquare account should show already loaded.

• rykk says:

  5 Feb5 February 23:32

  Hi Mark, thanks for reply, still saying offer is not unlocked on app, when I try and go to load on card again like you said its telling me to check in, and its also saying I am checked in! PC site is saying the offer is ‘unlocked every check in’

  Be interesting to know if anyone else had this happen, maybe Im being stupid.

  Tomorrow will be doing it with Lloyds amex so will compare what happens!

• Rich says:

  6 Feb6 February 13:00

  Hi Raffles – further to your “PS. I am happy to answer questions about Harrods stock for non-locals” comment.. I’m looking to buy a fridge freezer soon, any idea if they sell them/how big of a range they have??

  • Raffles says:

    6 Feb6 February 15:30

    Annoyingly, I have just come back from Harrods where I did 3 cards. However, I will pop back tomorrow to do the rest and will take a look. They certainly have big kitchen equipment.

  • Raffles says:

    7 Feb7 February 10:54

    Harrods has 4 fridge freezers, Miele and Siemens, cheapest £1,600 that I saw. The appliances departments seems to have been cut down aggressively during the recent refurbishments.

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