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• Lev441 says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:30

  w5KZR – referral code if anyone needs!

• Andrew says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:38

  Have to say I’m fairly sceptical about the Curve Card. There’s absolutely no way they’re going to allow users to withdraw their yearly limit of £200,000 from an ATM linked to an Amex card for a one-off £35 charge! Event if they have the best deal imaginable on Amex merchant fees they’ll be making a huge loss.

  The T&Cs seem to provide Curve with lots of get-outs: no personal use, highest card limits only available to users who have completed all risk checks. The only question in my mind is will you be able to make the fee back in points before the rules are tightened. Think I’ll sit this one out until others report how it works in practice.

  • harry says:

    17 Feb17 February 13:50

    same here fwiw

    virtually all my use would be personal, which would be easy to see

    my business expenses can be paid by Amex already

    I’d like a Curve card for use abroad – but again, all that spend is personal

• Davey says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:38

  Hi all, I went for the £75 card – please feel free to use this code for the £10 off:

  NcHNQ

• Adam says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:43

  The links appear to be broken, however, my code is: 53GsC

  The expense logging looks interesting for business owners if they have import into Sage, cloud accounts etc. Could further simplify accounts. I don’t really see what use having 5 cards on one account when paying somewhere that doesn’t support Apple pay is going to be though. I suppose you just load your best card as default and then swap to hit targets, but I can’t see how this would stop me from carrying other cards e.g. load BAPP as default, no apple pay, need to pull out IHG Visa. Perhaps I have misunderstood.

  • Jonathan says:

    17 Feb17 February 11:47

    Just use the app to change which card gets charged. You can upload an unlimited number of cards. Therefore no need to carry the other cards with you. Use you phone for apple pay, use your card to pay or the app & card to charge it to a different card.

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 12:16

    You cannot export yet. The website screenshots are NOT what you get and the card cannot do all the things the site claims. When it is fully out of beta, possibly.

  • Boi says:

    17 Feb17 February 12:25

    Where do people get this code to pass on? I signed up but didn’t get one? Is there anywhere I can look?

• Adam says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:47

  No, because my BAPP is still being accepted isn’t it… doh. The swapping cards still stands though I guess that wouldn’t need changing too regularly.

• Robin says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:48

  The site says that the wallet itself is worth £60.00, no way you can lose by signing up for the £75 + free wallet option. No brainer!

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 12:14

    Depends if you value a leather Tumi card wallet at (£75-£35) £40!

  • Callum says:

    17 Feb17 February 14:09

    The RRP is £60, no normal person would think it’s truly worth £60. Perhaps the pictures (on the Tumi website) don’t do it justice, but to me it looks like something you’d find down at the local market for a couple of quid!

    • harry says:

      17 Feb17 February 14:15

      £30 online

    • Rob says:

      17 Feb17 February 14:19

      Does it not have some clever coating to stop your chip being read by handheld scanners? Or something silly like that.

      • Callum says:

        17 Feb17 February 14:38

        Not particularly clever (it’s just metal – like a faraday cage) but yes. Not that I see how that makes it worth £60 – I wouldn’t even consider paying close to the £30 Harry seems to have found it at.

        About the only way I could possibly justify paying that much for a piece of leather stitched together with some metal threads inside it is if it was exceedingly good quality – the reviews online don’t seem to think it’s particularly great. But if you were going for the £75 anyway it’s still a nice little freebie.

• Jonny says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:55

  Signed up to the standard card, lets see how it goes.
  from reading the FAQs, seems like they’re practically encouraging ATM withdrawals with the card… (=Amex points and spend)

  just in case there aren’t enough referral codes, mine is s7uk2, not that it seems possible to use anyway!

• Tilly71 says:

  17 Feb17 February 12:05

  Sligently OT:
  Has anyone in the last week got their 20,000 MR bonus points from the Amex Plat upgrade link. I’m hearing stories of points taking longer at present to post to accounts after hitting the required spend targets.

  • Pol says:

    17 Feb17 February 12:23

    Mine posted the day after I hit my spend target.

  • Genghis says:

    17 Feb17 February 12:24

    Not yet. There’s no target spend’ indicator on the account page either but have confirmed with Amex CS that the points will post.

  • harry says:

    17 Feb17 February 13:52

    Raffles reported yesterday that Amex referrals machine has been broken recently

    • Rob says:

      17 Feb17 February 14:21

      Working again now. Nothing tracked for about 10 days in January.

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