Adios to the Virgin Little Red status match and using pre-paid Visa cards with NS&I

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• Stuart McIntyre says:

  5 Mar5 March 05:15

  Yes, the ‘paid for’ cards still work for HMRC payments. Just yesterday I loaded a few hundred pounds worth for my upcoming VAT return payment. With the bonus Clubcard points plus FuelSave, it’s a good way to manufacture spend to hit new card bonuses.

• erico1875 says:

  5 Mar5 March 07:09

  I untill the middle of Feb used to cycle about £1200 of these thru NS&I..2 failed to load . I was hoping it was an IT issue. I have had other uses for them since so hadnt tried again.
  Oh well. Avios are getting harder to collect

• Jason says:

  5 Mar5 March 07:44

  Tried using some paid Visa cards, where 3v’s still work, and the payment was declined – edf and c/tax.

• lammy52 says:

  5 Mar5 March 08:27

  Can anyone advise whether the American Express £50 +3.95 pre paid cards be used through NS&I

  • Rob says:

    5 Mar5 March 09:38

    There is no such thing as an Amex debit card. The reason you can use the Visa or MC cards with EDF, the Revenue etc is that they are treated as debit cards so there is no usage fee. Amex gift cards have minimal uses for this sort of thing as it has lower levels of acceptance by utilities.

    • lammy52 says:

      5 Mar5 March 10:25

      Thanks, was thinking of using the Amex gift card offer to hit a spend target.

      • mark2 says:

        5 Mar5 March 11:33

        If you buy Amex from Tesco you get ClubCard points > Avios and FuelSave; from Morrisons big reduction off fuel. You can spend them in shops who take Amex.

• JK says:

  5 Mar5 March 08:42

  What on earth is a Facebook gift card?

  • Rob says:

    5 Mar5 March 09:39

    Probably used to buy credits for FB games. Can’t be used for advertising credit etc AFAIK.

• idrive says:

  5 Mar5 March 09:50

  3V are impossible to find nowaways…it has been more than a couple of months that I have never seen one. Also 50£ Visa Fee cards are not available anywhere…what about your experience these days?

  • sandgrounder says:

    5 Mar5 March 10:59

    Stacks of the £3.95 fee cards about in my local Tesco stores. Managed to find 3v for my Sky bill last two months but there is a drought at the moment.

  • Fenny says:

    5 Mar5 March 18:13

    I saw 4 in my local Homebase the other evening, but without the additional clubcard points, or the ability to use my £9 off £60 spend, they don’t have the same appeal.

• Liam says:

  5 Mar5 March 10:04

  Little Red is interesting – I emailed them a few weeks ago asking to be status matched (no littlered flight taken or booked). They responded telling me I needed to have a LittleRed booking, after a bit of deliberation i finally got round to booking a one way Man – Lhr flight for £38 yesterday and responded to the their email with booking ref etc. I was a bit worried when i saw this post this morning but luckily they’ve just emailed, my account has been upped to Gold from Silver and the bonus 10k miles applied. Great timing on my part, and a bargain for £38 spend for Gold plus 10k miles, especially given I get another 2k miles on my birthday and I’m going to be flying a lot more on VS given the recent avios devaluation.

• Cheshire Pete says:

  5 Mar5 March 10:16

  Is the Virgin match still valid for flights taken pre 1st March? Just didn’t get round to returning the form from my January flight on Little Red?

  • Rob says:

    5 Mar5 March 10:49

    You can but try …

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