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£100 off a £150 Naked Wines order with Amex

If you take a look at the ‘My Offers’ section of your BA / SPG / Gold / Platinum American Express account online, you may see an interesting deal from Naked Wines.

Naked Wines, recently acquired by Majestic, is a cut above your usual wine business.  Part of the company involves a Kickstarter-type model called ‘Angels’ which lets you invest in independent winemakers who are looking to develop their business, in return for some wine later on.

Additional wine is made available for general sale. When you spend £150 or more before 23rd December, you will receive a £100 discount when you use the special Amex code.

You can put together your own mixed case so you won’t be forced to buy 6 or 12 bottles of the same wine.

It is only available to new customers, but I’m sure you can find a suitable household member if required.  To save postage, you can pick up your order at your nearest Majestic Wine warehouse.

The code is valid for the first 1,000 orders.

250 Clubcard points (600 Avios) with Google Chromecast

The new version of Google Chromecast is now available for the same £30 price as the previous version.

This is rarely discounted, so the opportunity to pick up 600 Avios or 625 Virgin Flying Club miles is a welcome bonus.

You can buy via this Tesco Direct page here.  It is dropping in and out of stock but keep checking back if you are keen.  The offer runs until 9th November so I’m sure you will be able to catch it.

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United Airlines ‘buy miles’ bonus

Finally, United Airlines is offering a ‘mystery’ buy miles bonus until 14th December.  You need to log in here to see what you are offered.

The maximum bonus appears to be 80% – most people seem to get this.  United has offered better than this (100% is not uncommon) but if you need to top off your account in the short term then this is OK.

Comments (39)

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  • Nick M says:

    OT – Virgin Red App… they are currently offering a 12 month subscription to “Pure Water” for £1 – instant hot/cold filtered water

  • Callum says:

    Wuaki seem to give a Chromecast away with the purchase of a film or TV series almost every other week.

  • Choons says:

    The best value I find in terms of wine on the web is to order either higher end stuff from bidforwine.co.uk they are an auction site but tons of stuff seems to go through them when they have a job lot of sales to do.

    Otherwise, for bargain basement stuff Vinissimus is good if you don’t mind ordering from the continent – Spain. They have cheap fizz but you need to wait for a special offer on delivery, or make a more expensive order so that it has less of an impact.

    Other than that, the Sainsbury’s offer of using a voucher and then 25pc off six and combined with a three for 12 pounds offer is quite good.

  • Roger says:

    Another reason why Naked is a waste of time.

    We bought something with delivery guaranteed for yesterday. Nothing came. But what’s this? An e-mail in late afternoon saying:
    ‘I’m really sorry, but your wines won’t be with you today as expected.
    You don’t need to do a thing – we’re on the case and will make sure you get your wines as soon as possible.’

    No reason, no estimate of delivery. Harrumph! Not good enough, especially as they charged for delivery.

    Feeling a bit smug that I also bought wine I actually wanted with 25% off for min 6 bottles and free delivery. 🙂

    • Roger says:

      Sorry, last para should read ‘… I also bought wine FROM WAITROSE that I …’

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