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• Roger says:

  21 Oct21 October 04:22

  So Amazon gift code is the best value redemption?
  Is 200 MR point the minimum redemption threshold?

  • roberto says:

    21 Oct21 October 13:04

    Not seen a 200mr redemption anywhere. The lowest is 500 as far as I know but have a hangover on no glasses on so probably way off the mark.

    • Travel Yoda says:

      21 Oct21 October 16:01

      Points towards purchases min 200. So 3 of these for 3 entries?? Or I missing something?

      • william merrett says:

        21 Oct21 October 23:52

        That is an extremely quirky little way of emptying MR’s you have found there. Very well done indeed!!!!

        I used to send them to Nectar, but I might just push them to amazon instead now when I’m clearing an account out.

• Justin says:

  21 Oct21 October 07:11

  Is the competition targeted? I can’t find any mention of it on the amex website.

  • mark2 says:

    21 Oct21 October 07:35

    I received an email on the subject

    • Alan says:

      21 Oct21 October 07:48

      Ditto, received an email yesterday. Might be worth doing lowest possible redemption 3x just for a chance! Excluding the usual transfer partners should increase the odds a little…

  • Andy S says:

    21 Oct21 October 07:41

    me neither, but then I probably don’t have enough MR for anything!

• Gavin says:

  21 Oct21 October 07:14

  O/T – bonus BA avios for a new conversion posted this morning

  • Genghis says:

    21 Oct21 October 07:46

    Indeed. Thanks for heads up Gavin

  • Alan says:

    21 Oct21 October 07:50

    Got mine too – great result overall, 2,500 Avios for 500 HR points! 🙂

    • Genghis says:

      21 Oct21 October 08:06

      Potentially one of the easiest promos ever. Easy additional 4k avios between me and wife

      • the realharry says:

        21 Oct21 October 14:37

        looking at 8000 here, not that any have posted yet – + 8 cheap USB sticks from 7dayshop 🙂

  • Richard says:

    21 Oct21 October 08:17

    New conversion of what? Heathrow reward points?

  • Andrew says:

    21 Oct21 October 08:20

    +1 – mine too

• whiskerxx says:

  21 Oct21 October 09:41

  As Christmas is looming, why not consider breaking the habits of a lifetime and GIVE (yes that’s right GIVE!), rather than looking to get, for a change?
  Would 3 x 500 points to a charity work?

  • Peter K says:

    21 Oct21 October 15:23

    I find it insulting that you assume that none of us already give to charity.

    • the realharry says:

      21 Oct21 October 19:14

      yep took a too-small kid’s wetsuit to the charity shop just today 🙂

      not that I’m insulted – I do get the post!

    • whiskerxx says:

      21 Oct21 October 19:55

      PeterK – for clarity – I don’t give a monkeys that you feel insulted

      • Will says:

        21 Oct21 October 20:35

        Come on people, the comments here have been excellent for years. No need to be so presumptive or so defensive.

        Good suggestion for charity if it is indeed qualifying, it was framed in a way which could get people’s backs up though.

      • Peter K says:

        21 Oct21 October 23:10

        Fair enough 🙂 But if you are trying to motivate people then knowing how to do so and when you have taken the wrong angle is useful to learn.

        If I then were to end the above comment with the expression:
        “I GIVE (yes that’s right, GIVE!) you that little lesson for free.” it then becomes a lot more irritating 🙂

        • the realharry says:

          22 Oct22 October 16:03

          heh heh 🙂

          and this is the whiskerxx who upbraided me for posting off topic posts lol

  • Fenny says:

    21 Oct21 October 18:09

    I’d really like to donate several chunks of unusable points to charity, but they are below the minimum transfer amount, so just sit there.

• whiskerxx says:

  21 Oct21 October 09:57

  Mine posted today too.

  Just donated them to 3 charities at American Express.

  So, I feel good about the facts that:
  I got the bonus.
  I spent it on something worthwhile.
  I got 3 entries for this competition.

  Crusade over.

• Andrew H says:

  21 Oct21 October 10:11

  I’ve also got my 1000 from BA, for a Tesco conversion. So along with the avios.com bonus for the same thing, that’s 2000 avios + 1200 avios, all for a couple of voucher conversions!

  I’m impressed that BA and avios.com have really been on top of this promo.

  To put it into perspective, I’m still waiting for my 500 Virgin FC miles for buying a train ticket. As are many others, I suspect.

  • the realharry says:

    21 Oct21 October 11:17

    I got mine x2 – but only after emailing Virgin to chase the extra points – arrived pretty promptly after that – customer.services@fly.virgin.com

    btw this is my first post for 10 days or so – I think most of you already worked out some joker is posting in my name in various guises so thanks for ignoring them

    I might try that icon thingy someone mentioned, I know just the icon 🙂

    • Andrew H says:

      21 Oct21 October 12:33

      They emailed me on 23rd September to say they’d chase it up but I’ve heard nothing since. I’ve just emailed them again, hopefully it might work this time!

      • Genghis says:

        21 Oct21 October 14:39

        When I chased they processed the 500 points very quickly.
        I included:
        The promo ref: PART375
        The date and time of booked train (stating whether it was VT or VTEC train) and the booking ref.
        Hope this helps.

        • Mr Dee says:

          21 Oct21 October 17:12

          Emailed again after not receiving a response after 30 days.

          Next time will not bother with virgin promos they are useless in crediting extra points.

        • Andrew H says:

          21 Oct21 October 18:29

          I agree. Avios.com and BAEC’s relatively fast awarding of these bonuses puts Virgin Flying Club in a poor light. On both occasions where they offered me a 500 mile bonus I’ve had to fight to get the points three months down the line.

        • the realharry says:

          21 Oct21 October 18:39

          they were pretty good with the ISA points 🙂

          must try & see how the Virgin ISAs are doing – I suspect extremely well given the way Brexit has affected things – all providing you went for the low risk stuff of course

          high risk has its plus points provided you choose well…my wife’s pension fund is up over 25% yoy but that’s mainly because my strategy with this one was 10×10% in various China/ SEA Opps…which are denominated in USD…now to minimise the effects of the reversal when GBP comes back…got about 2 years on that I reckon…but nothing like 2 years on USD dropping IMV…

          Virgin x6 instalments must be nearly finished, reminder to self: check that 🙂

        • Andrew H says:

          21 Oct21 October 18:30

          Thanks Genghis. I did send them the journey details, but not the promo ref (I didn’t know there was one).

  • Fenny says:

    21 Oct21 October 18:12

    Not had points for either BAEC or avios.com conversions yet.

• Paul says:

  21 Oct21 October 11:15

  OT. How long do flights take to credit to Avios(.com)?

  • Michael says:

    21 Oct21 October 14:05

    Looking at my statement it looks like it takes between 8-10 weeks. That’s Flybe flights.

    • Paul says:

      21 Oct21 October 18:14

      Jeez, I wonder why so long? Hopefully my BA flight I’ve just credited will post by mid Nov to earn the new partner bonus

      • Michael says:

        21 Oct21 October 19:01

        Looking at the terms and conditions they’re supposed to post within thirty days of the flight. But they cut it fine as I flew near the end of September and don’t have the points yet.

    • the realharry says:

      21 Oct21 October 19:08

      lucky to get any posted at all with Flybe, they are hopeless @ posting points & don’t offer ‘no Avios’ remedies

• ben says:

  21 Oct21 October 13:20

  wouldn’t the best way to enter the competition be to do safekey redemption of a minute amount of points?

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