Meanwhile, over at Mumsnet today ….. is HfP about to cause its first divorce?

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• Kipto says:

  29 Mar29 March 21:53

  Great post !
  OT AMEX 241 query. My wife will be about 3K short of getting her companion voucher on current spending. She has the basic card but I am considering upgrading paying the £150. I have read on this site in the past that one option is to buy a cancellable flight to get to the target spend and cancel once the companion voucher has appeared on her account. Her Amex year starts in May. My question is if the cancellable flight that took my wife over the threshold to obtain her voucher is cancelled won’t the companion voucher be void ?

  • vindaloo says:

    30 Mar30 March 08:41

    I did this myself some years ago to trigger the voucher early, when BA did that amazing promotion of all redemptions for 50% fewer miles. It worked fine. To be on the safe side I booked the flight for nearly a year out and didn’t cancel it until after I’d made the booking with the 2-for-1, although I don’t think this precaution was necessary. The miles are removed when you cancel (and your wife’s target for next year’s 2-for-1 will be higher) but I don’t think they’ll take her voucher away, especially if she’s already spent it before you cancel.

• Oliver says:

  29 Mar29 March 21:57

  I can’t believe how many posts it took before someone got it right, even then people were still guessing.

  You’d think excellent deals like this would be shared on a site like that. Or are mums not that savvy for extra club card points ?

  • Rob says:

    29 Mar29 March 22:12

    The rationale behind Shopper Points is that, if the info is presented in a sensible and straightforward way, people will be interested – as opposed to having to scratch around in forums. We will see ….

• Graeme says:

  29 Mar29 March 22:31

  Can’t believe he’s paying £80pa – madness! Makes me wonder if his wife is right and it’s not a fake pet….

  • David H says:

    30 Mar30 March 11:44

    My premium was over £10/month. The dangers of living in W6…

    • Genghis says:

      30 Mar30 March 14:06

      Those streets of west London are dangerous!

• Steve says:

  29 Mar29 March 22:56

  Any avios earning opportunities for divorce lawyers?

• scallder says:

  29 Mar29 March 23:21

  Brilliant. My wife is an avid reader on Mum’s net – we don’t have children but she is rather addicted by the “Am I being unreasonable?” forum which from some of the examples she’s told me about sounds hilarious.

  Apparently this thread was one of the biggest trending topics on the site today. Should perhaps drive some new traffic for you Raffles?

  A bit concerning though that a number of commentators were jumping straight to the secret family explanation :S

• The Urbanite says:

  30 Mar30 March 00:19

  Had a laughing fit when reading this – thanks for sharing!

• James67 says:

  30 Mar30 March 07:59

  Great start to the day haha.
  Cannot wait to see the fallout if tesco start offering bonus clubcard points for funeral plans.

• Graham Walsh says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:06

  Brilliant. Made my day reading this.

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