A new Qatar Airways flight discount code is launched

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• elguiri says:

  6 Feb6 February 09:34

  I wrote a support ticket to change to debit branded curve card after your first post, and 2 days later it arrived. However, when entering the card number online to buy giftcard through company scheme, sagepay says the card number is out of range and rejects it.
  Wrote to curve and they say the bin database needs updating and thry are not sure when this will happen.
  Is this a general issue with sagepay/other sites/just mine?

  • Boi says:

    6 Feb6 February 10:01

    Actually this is interesting, I have often wanted to buy through company discount but annoyed I couldn’t use my cc

  • Andrew M says:

    6 Feb6 February 10:03

    SagePay issue. They update their bin ranges every couple of weeks – so here’s hoping it will not be long!

• mark2 says:

  6 Feb6 February 10:15

  OT
  I have received the Marriott points for the Super Bowl trivia thingy for the first question which I answered just after midnight, but not yet the other two answered next morning.

  • Liz says:

    6 Feb6 February 10:36

    I got 2000 pts posted instead of 1500 – hubby got 1500 – I posted about 2.30am ish

    • Scallder says:

      6 Feb6 February 13:05

      Just noticed each one of my 3 answers has been credited twice, so have had 3,000 points from it 🙂

  • Alex W says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:17

    I’ve received nothing yet!

    • Tom Cook says:

      6 Feb6 February 12:31

      I’ve had nothing as yet either!

      • Pangolin says:

        6 Feb6 February 13:55

        They said allow up to 72 hours as there is apparently a large backlog.

  • Alan says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:27

    Only had 500 so far despite answering all 3 qns – have DM’d them.

  • MarkH says:

    6 Feb6 February 13:59

    Received 1500 🙂

  • Tracy says:

    6 Feb6 February 19:35

    I have received 1500, husband only got 500. All 3 q’s answered by both of us at the same time….

• Frankie says:

  6 Feb6 February 10:33

  OT. Has anyone had trouble selling their Sky NOW TV boxes? Ebay took mine down and said I can’t sell something that has a voucher, and that they’ve been removed for not following ebay voucher and coupon policy. Apparently I was reported by Sky, and this item is not allowed on the site. The coupon is a month’s free sky that come with the box. However I can see plenty being sold everyday on ebay..

  • Simon says:

    6 Feb6 February 10:47

    Wierd, I sold 8 just before Christmas without issue. Maybe sky periodically just send in some auction IDs and you got unlucky. I had no idea it wasn’t allowed. Having said that I’m still not sure it’s worth it. I sold mine at £12 inc postage. Probably lowered the cost per avios down to just less than 0.5p but what a hassle!

    • Frankie says:

      6 Feb6 February 10:51

      There are lots of people selling them but saying ‘NO PASS’ maybe that’s the way around it so I can get rid of them.

    • VJ says:

      6 Feb6 February 13:15

      +1 I had big trouble flogging them, 2 left out of 10.

  • Alex W says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:24

    I managed to get rid of 2 as “secret santa” presents so that saved me £10 quid for each. Got 2 left but I usually wait until I have a batch load of eBay stuff then it’s only 1 trip to the PO. Weird that sky don’t want the vouchers being sold as you would have thought that it’s a hook to entice new customers to buy their services.
    People who are selling them with “no pass” have probably just used it as a cheap way to get sky for a month. You’d have thought that’s exactly what Sky doesn’t want.

  • Mr Dee says:

    6 Feb6 February 16:37

    I would think used items are fine

• Lumma says:

  6 Feb6 February 10:49

  When you were talking about the Virgin red discounts yesterday I’ve noticed another thing that’s changed, I can no longer get the discount on trains to Sunderland unless it’s the one train per day that goes there. Now have to book to Newcastle and pay for the metro separately.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:20

    Did this change happen recently or when they changed the booking engine in August? Officially the rule was the journey had to be 100% operated by VTEC, but often there’s been bugs where the discount has also worked for tickets that include connections. The old booking engine had some bugs like that and I’m not sure about the new one but it did have its fair share of bugs so it wouldn’t surprise me that it allowed the discount with a connection in the past.

    • Lumma says:

      6 Feb6 February 14:22

      The last booking that I got the connection on was booked back in July last year. It really confused me last night as to why the discounts weren’t showing as the booking I was trying to make wasn’t in the exclusion dates.

      Probably just going to push me more to booking with Grand Central instead. Especially as they seem to always send a 20% off my next journey code when booking direct. Their 1st class is not worth the money though

• Hanna says:

  6 Feb6 February 11:28

  So my Curve card comes up as:
  BIN 516273
  Issuing Bank WIRECARD CARD SOLUTIONS, LTD.
  Card Brand MASTERCARD
  Card Type DEBIT
  Card Level PREPAID

  and doesn’t have debit on it anywhere. Do I need to request replacement? I thought all new cards are debit, I applied for it at the end of January.

  • Graeme says:

    6 Feb6 February 11:44

    Mine is the same, although I’ve had mine since it first came out.

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 11:51

    If it doesn’t say Debit on the front it probably isn’t. Easiest thing is to wait until you need a debit card payment and test it out.

    • Hanna says:

      6 Feb6 February 12:10

      Don’t want to wait and risk it, if it’s not debit, I want to use it for HMRC payments. Will ask for replacement.

      • Leo says:

        6 Feb6 February 16:32

        You need to change it. This is what my first card said. It basically has to have debit on the front even though it says debit on your BIN check. I asked Curve about this. They changed it to a debit (says it clearly on the front) this allows me to pay HMRC.

  • Alan says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:28

    If it doesn’t say debit on the front then I’d get back in touch with support.

• Duncan Stevenson-Price says:

  6 Feb6 February 11:34

  As soon as I saw your previous article I asked Curve to replace my card with a debit version, and they were happy to do so. I think they’re backlogged at the moment so it wasn’t super quick, but came quickly enough to be able to put the £2k daily limit on the card (I still have the basic limits as I haven’t used Curve extensively).

• JohnT says:

  6 Feb6 February 11:54

  Mine was replaced as a Debit within a few days (and rewards carried over) – great service! Had to uninstall/reinstall to register new card.

  • Alan says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:31

    Interesting, I didn’t have to uninstall/reinstall, just activated the card and all old transactions reappeared 🙂

• Jon says:

  6 Feb6 February 12:50

  Just looking at this afresh as I have a monthly employer’s HMRC payment that could go potentially go through Curve Debit Card for a significant spend (not to mention cashflow advantages). Anyone else had any luck with this? Do you think Curve would have any problem with doing this provided transaction limit is high enough?

  • Steve says:

    6 Feb6 February 15:39

    I got the card today (it’s debit card). However, the monthly daily limit is £2000 and the monthly limit is £5000. That’s not that much for HMRC payments.

    • Genghis says:

      6 Feb6 February 15:50

      If you’ve not used the card much, start to use it. I have £5k and £15k respectively.

    • Rob says:

      6 Feb6 February 16:23

      My limit is £15k per month. Use the card for day to day spending and it will be increased.

      • rams1981 says:

        6 Feb6 February 20:56

        What’s your annual limit? My monthly limit is 20k but annual only 50k!

      • Steve says:

        7 Feb7 February 09:38

        I will do that. Thanks for the tip.

    • Leo says:

      6 Feb6 February 16:35

      Mine says the daily limit is £2000 but in reality I could only make payments of £200 at a time to HMRC. I’m hoping this will increase by the next VAT quarter.

  • Gulz says:

    6 Feb6 February 16:48

    I paid £4k to HMRC today for my VAT payment on the Curve debit card. It was initially blocked by MBNA, but then they called me to confirm that it was a genuine transaction, and they let it through when I retried.

    • Bob says:

      6 Feb6 February 22:05

      So you make your VAT payment via your personal debit card. Then how do you transfer money to yourself, does your accountant ok with this? Just wondering.

      • Genghis says:

        7 Feb7 February 08:06

        If just self employed, no issue whatsoever as no separation of person and trade. If ltd co, it’s just the same as a normal expense paid by an individual on behalf of the co for taxation purposes. For accounting could just put any directors loan account into credit

      • Rob says:

        7 Feb7 February 08:27

        You clearly treat your accounting far more seriously than 99% of small business owners. As long as you pay what you owe no-one will care. Potentially try to avoid having payments outstanding over your year end as that may technically trigger a directors loan, but even big PLCs in my experience abuse this by lending directors large sums which are repaid on 31st December and relent on 1st January.

        A reader once came to see me for guidance on a blog he wanted to start, and he spent the entire session discussing various legal structures for owning it (remember he hadn’t even started at this point). It was clear that this guy wasn’t going anywhere.

      • Mr Dee says:

        7 Feb7 February 15:16

        Good point Rob, many people get stuck in the planning and worrying what if, before they even start!

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