Bits: £30-£50 of free Gett taxi credit, 25% bonus on TopCashback conversions to Avios

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• Mike says:

  21 Mar21 March 05:39

  You may find that some of your earning partners exclude conversions to BA. Tesco car insurance, late rooms, jet2 are just a couple of examples. I’m sure there are several others out there.

  • Crafty says:

    21 Mar21 March 07:46

    Which is a slight pain, but at the end of the day, cash is pretty good too.

• Andre says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:51

  Gett is offering UP TO £5 off next 10 rides. I received £3. Still good though. Thanks Raffles.

  • Rob says:

    21 Mar21 March 08:39

    Eh? How does that work? I referred myself as a test on Sunday and I got £5 x 10. Just took the kids to school in one for a net cost of 50p.

  • luke says:

    21 Mar21 March 15:12

    3£ off for me as well…initial screen say up to 5£, but only 3£ appeared on my new account…

    • Rob says:

      21 Mar21 March 15:14

      Are you living in London? As all you need to give them to sign-up is a mobile number I can’t imagine how they decide who gets £5 and who gets £3. All I can imagine is that they take your location when you sign-up and London people get more?

      • DS says:

        25 Mar25 March 10:15

        I also got £3 only so I sent them an e-mail 8 days ago and asked for a clarification,
        but I never got more than an automatic reply which says “we will be in touch in the next 24 hours.”

        – “If you are already a member of Gett you could sign up a friend or partner and then delete and reinstall the app on your phone using their log-in details.”

        Are you really sure about this?
        That certainly won’t work with Uber, they somehow register your device so new credit card, phone number and e-mail is to no avail.
        And they won’t tell you until you actually try to order an Uber!

        • Rob says:

          25 Mar25 March 11:49

          You can definitely do this with Gett, because I switch account each time I hit the referral cap 🙂

        • Alan says:

          25 Mar25 March 11:55

          Uber definitely track mobile numbers and credit cards and spot re-use – not sure they log device ID though, but clearly the first one limits things a little bit (credit cards not an issue for us on HfP!)

        • Rob says:

          25 Mar25 March 14:26

          But the mobile number linked to an Uber a/c does not need to be the mobile of that phone. Even better actually as you never get annoying calls from drivers …. Same with Gett.

        • Alan says:

          25 Mar25 March 14:29

          Indeed not, although depending upon pickup location you sometimes need to be contactable by driver – also Uber sometimes won’t let you place a booking until you’ve entered the confirmation code that is sent by SMS.

        • Rob says:

          25 Mar25 March 16:38

          Never had that in probably 500 rides!

        • Alan says:

          25 Mar25 March 16:40

          Weird – I had it whenever I tried to setup a new account when I was travelling in the USA – they might have higher security for repeat signups there.

• Simon says:

  21 Mar21 March 11:01

  Personally I think 0.8p is now the official cut off as sanctioned by the buy on board Percy Pig exchange rate.

• Brian says:

  21 Mar21 March 11:56

  An off-peak return to Munich/Berlin/Paris etc is 8,000 Avios plus £35. If you’ve paid 0.8p per Avios, that makes the return flight £99, which is cheap. Granted, it may be possible to get one for a similar price in a sale, or if you book way in advance, but there is no flexibility involved, as there is with redemptions. I’d say that 0.8p is absolutely fine – as long as you’re also getting Avios from elsewhere for less.

• Mark says:

  21 Mar21 March 15:49

  Decisions, decisions….

  I have £526 in my TC account (65700 avios) do I take the miles or the money?

  • Nick_C says:

    21 Mar21 March 16:44

    Only you can answer that. But decide. I wouldn’t like to have that much money sitting in a cash back site. Well known names can go bust, and unlike banks there is no protection if a cash back site stops trading.

• the real harry1 says:

  21 Mar21 March 18:21

  O/T GBP – looks like £ started its bounceback today, big implications for those in our points game – worth following how it evolves IMV
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/03/21/inflation-leaps-23pc-february-higher-expected/

  • Alan says:

    21 Mar21 March 18:33

    Lol slight hyperbole by the reporter there – the GBP only ‘soared’ insofar as it regained some of the ground lost from the announcement of Article 50 being triggered tomorrow…

    • the real harry1 says:

      21 Mar21 March 18:44

      my point would be the UK inflation scenario has about-turned after several good years

      interest rates can only go up (nowhere down to go!) so [that’s the main reason] I reckon we’re looking @ $1.40+ again by Xmas

      despite Brexit etc, GBP becomes another safer haven currency than many options, never going to be a Swissie in my lifetime but it might shortly be seen as an Aussie dollar or an alternative currency similarly regarded, so carry premium value despite our rubbish economy currently

      • Sussex bantam says:

        21 Mar21 March 21:16

        Harry – I think you’re wrong on exchange rates. Want to bet ?

        20gbp to the winners favourite charity ??

        • the real harry1 says:

          21 Mar21 March 21:30

          sure – GOSH for me, they do a brilliant job

        • Sussex bantam says:

          22 Mar22 March 00:53

          Deal. Marie curie for me.

          I hope you’re right. But I think you’re wrong !

    • mark2 says:

      21 Mar21 March 18:54

      Newspapers have their own definitions of surge and plunge – anything more than 0.5% usually.
      But I hope so; we are off to US in June.

• the real harry1 says:

  21 Mar21 March 19:58

  O/T Tuesday evening/ gone quiet

  anybody going anywhere good for Easter? We’re going out – surprise surprise – to our place in the sun (Europe this time Genghis lol) – fares x4 currently selling @ £2500 so we got a laughable 3.93p* / Avios 🙂

  • Genghis says:

    21 Mar21 March 20:13

    Are there two places in the sun? ✈️

    • the real harry1 says:

      21 Mar21 March 20:18

      how did you do that, thou artful dodger?

      • Genghis says:

        21 Mar21 March 20:21

        iPhone emojis ✈️☀️
        That’s how the kids speak these days isn’t it?

        • the real harry1 says:

          21 Mar21 March 20:27

          ah I get it, bit slow on the uptake, obviously

          I’ve got a motorway mobile phone (he says, trying to join in, I’m just like these younger fellers really), I keep it in my glove compartment

          and I got a text message once

          probably need my kids to update me on this kind of stuff heh heh

        • Brian W says:

          21 Mar21 March 21:12

          “Motorway Mobile”………that made me chuckle Harry 🙂

  • Alan says:

    21 Mar21 March 21:17

    I’ll be working!

• caerdydd says:

  21 Mar21 March 23:02

  QUOTE
  ( so the kids get a taxi to school all week!)
  Is there a bigger divide between the Londonistan bubble and the rest of the country than that statement ,so Rob have you given your chauffeur the week off!!

  • Rob says:

    21 Mar21 March 23:27

    We don’t own a car though ….

    Although that would be hugely more expensive than a combo of a) taxis and Uber, b) Zipcar – which is 30 seconds from our door and c) Hertz – which is 10 minutes walk away.

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