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This week we have got a fantastic and exclusive competition for our readers in association with the new loyalty app Bink:

One Head for Points reader will win 100,000 Avios.

It could be you ….. and all you need to do is download the Bink app to allow you collect Avios points from your day to day shopping at High Street retailers.

100,000 Avios can get you a long way. It gets two people in Economy to California, Cape Town, Barbados etc – or to Dubai or New York with 20,000 to spare! It would fly one person in Club World to New York, Dubai or Cape Town on an off-peak date – or two people if you have a British Airways American Express 2-4-1 voucher to use. Even if you stay closer to home, it would get you 11 return flights to France, Germany, the Netherlands etc or 6 return flights to Italy or Spain. Taxes, fees and charges, as we all know, will be applicable.

About Bink

We have spent quite a bit of time with the Bink team over the last couple of months.  As you can imagine, we are introduced to a lot of start-up companies who are looking to do something in the loyalty space. I can honestly say that Bink is the most impressive loyalty start-up I have seen and has huge potential.

Once you have installed Bink, you can collect Avios on your day to day High Street spending at participating retailers.  All you do is pay with one of your normal payment cards (registered with Bink) and Bink will ensure that Avios are added to your account based on what you have spent.

PizzaExpress is the first retailer to be launched – earning 3-6 Avios points per £1 you spend – and more retailers are on the way.  We have tested it out at PizzaExpress and it worked perfectly with Avios points credited a few days later.

Bink also allows you to clear up space in your wallet by storing details of all your High Street loyalty cards.  Going forward you won’t even have to show your loyalty card at the till to collect your rewards as long as your payment card is linked.

In order to keep this article focussed on the competition, we have published a separate article today explaining in detail how the Bink app works.  Click here to read that.

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How can you win 100,000 Avios?

As Bink launches its Avios partnerships with additional High Street retailers over the coming months, it will become a ‘must have’ for every Avios collector. You will end up downloading the app at some point, so we recommend that you do it TODAY – and give yourself a chance of winning 100,000 Avios.

The competition is open to all Bink users even if you have already registered with Bink.  If you want to maximise your chances of winning, encourage your partner to install it and enter as well.

This is what you need to do:

First, you need to download the Bink app from Google Play or App Store and create a Bink account.  Ignore the prompt about entering a referral code – this is not necessary.

Second, you need to add at least one payment card and your avios.com card to your account.  You can enter the number manually if you don’t have a physical avios.com card to scan.

Third, you need to link your avios.com account by following the prompt in the app and giving your surname.  This will allow Bink to display your current Avios balance.

Fourth, complete the automated form at the bottom of this article using the same email address you registered with Bink.

If you have already registered with Bink, you can jump straight to Point 4 above – but make sure that you have linked at least one payment card and your avios.com account first.

We will pick a winner from everyone who completes the form below.  We will then ask Bink to confirm to us that a) there is a Bink account with the same email address and b) that at least one payment card and an avios.com card have been linked to the Bink account.  If this is not confirmed, we will pick another winner of the 100,000 Avios.

The deadline for entries is 23.59 on Friday 9th December. The winner will be announced on Head for Points next week.

You can only enter if you are a UK resident.  If you are UK-based but travelling this week, you will need to email a friend back home with a link to this page to enter for you.  You can only enter once per email address and that email address must match your Bink account.

Bink only works with avios.com accounts and NOT British Airways Executive Club accounts.

The rules

The competition rules can be read by clicking ‘Terms and Conditions’ in the entry widget below.  Please read them before entering.

The key points include, but are not limited to:

You must be aged 18 years or over and be a UK resident

The competition will will launch at 00.01 on Monday 5th December and close at 23.59 UK time on Friday 9th December

The email address used on the entry form MUST be identical to the one you use to register with Bink

The winner will be picked at random by the software which collates the entries

The winner will be contacted by email once Bink has verified that the selected email address has been registered with them and that the winner has linked at least one payment card and an avios.com card to their Bink account

The prize will be deposited into an avios.com account within 30 days

The name of the winner must match the name on the avios.com account used to deposit the prize

Entries are limited to one per person

Good luck to everyone. Remember that you MUST you must link one payment card and your avios.com card to your Bink account and you MUST use the same email address when you submit the entry below.

Even if you don’t win, you will find that Bink will be very valuable in helping you earn Avios points from your day to day shopping in the future.

If you cannot see the entry form below because you are reading this via e-mail or RSS, please click here to be taken to a dedicated entry page.

Comments (143)

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  • Doug M says:

    So many apps so poorly thought through from the user interface angle. Try setting your DOB in the (android) app. The older you are the more time you’ll spend scrolling backwards month by month from December 98. How does anyone not using a phone or computer regularly not spot this sort of thing immediately. OK, I could have set my DOB in the time it took to write this message, but the point is like so many things form over function.

    • WhizHeir says:

      Quite agree – I got a sore finger tapping back 400+ months :O

      But I can confirm that Pizzaexpress points posted quickly and correctly so the backend seems fine… Will have to see if the 1000 bonus Avios drop into my account by Jan…

      • @mkcol says:

        Both you & Doug M obviously haven’t realised that where the year is in the pop-up of the date, you just click on the year & you then scroll back to your birth year (a year at a time) rather than month by month!!

  • Martin Benfield says:

    Why do I have to verify myself via Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? What if I don’t use any of them?

    • Rob says:

      I can’t override that and I’m not sure why it asks for it. There are specific options on the system to FORCE you to log in with one of those, as well as an email, but I have not activated them.

  • MrFlump says:

    Have had a complete mare! Entered using my work email as that is the one I use on Gleam….then re-read article and realised have to use the email I registered the app with. Only have one personal email so re-entered the competition with that. Then logged in to the app and realised I’d logged in using Facebook which is registered to a third (essentially unused) email address so re-entered with that…and have now spotted that it’s only one entry per person….I’ll get my coat!

  • Pete VB says:

    Unfortunately the app doesn’t like 2 worded surnames (not hyphenated) and doesn’t accept what I input to link to my Avios account.

    • marc says:

      +1. That means we’re excluded from the promotion.

      • Rob says:

        Yes, known bug. Sorry. Don’t blame me!

        • @mkcol says:

          Oh here’s hoping my hyphenated (current) surname doesn’t cause a problem if I win, as my Avios surname isn’t (to match my passport) is different :-/

    • Frank De Jongh Swemer says:

      And me… my Dutch surname is 3 words…. 🙁

  • Hayley says:

    I’ve got a hyphenated surname and didn’t have any problems signing up – maybe try again?

    Those saying they never winn competitions so won’t bother entering are making me laugh – of course you won’t winn if you don’t participate!

    • Pete VB says:

      Yes it’s an issue for non hyphenated surnames with more than one word. The response from the support team was that it’s Avios who no longer recognises surnames with a space in them. So that eliminates almost everyone with any Dutch ancestry!

      • @mkcol says:

        Can’t you just merge all the names together to form 1 large long name, which is surely what airlines do when booking flights? That’s what I have to do when booking with my hyphenated surname & drop the hyphen.

  • Pavel says:

    Not sure if it’s just my tablet (Nexus 10) or Android tablets in general, but it looks like there’s a bug in the app that prevents from linking avios.com account there. I managed to enter avios.com card number, but then when tapping on the card to try and link I get a blank page. Logged in on my [Android] phone and managed to link on it. Refreshing the page on the tablet showed my Avios balance, but then when tapping on the Avios card to see the details I get the same blank page.

  • Gavin says:

    I just got the message ‘registration failed’ in the app with no hint of what was wrong – such bollox.

  • Martin says:

    K so I opened an Avios.com account, I launched the Blink app, I loaded my Am Ex payment card (happens to be BA one) cannot find where to enter my 16 digit Avios.com account number (I don’t have a card only number) nor able to find how to link. Blink technical support are slow but probably busy today. Wasted lots of time on this – any ideas?

    • Rob says:

      When you open the app it asks for a payment card and a loyalty card to be linked. You click the top box and add the payment card and the bottom box to add the loyalty card, selecting Avios from the dropdown list. Unless you have Android and it is different to iPhone?

      Once you’ve added your Avios card, if you click on the image it will prompt you to link it by typing in your surname.

    • Nick M says:

      Click on “Wallet” then “Add”… bottom option is for a loyalty card. Then click to enter it manually

    • Alan says:

      To get your card number – this is on Avios.com under your account details.

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