Get 10,000 Virgin Flying Club miles with (potentially cheap) Virgin Money life insurance

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• Crafty says:

  21 Jun21 June 23:34

  Not many have mentioned that another helpful by product of your cheap policy (mine is 87p a month) is access to the genuinely useful Virgin Money lounges. There are two in close proximity in Piccadilly offering free hot drinks and a reasonably quiet space to either make calls or meet someone. Recommended.

  • Rob says:

    22 Jun22 June 07:34

    Agreed. Occasionally work out of Piccadilly if got a West End meeting.

• Doog1000 says:

  22 Jun22 June 16:36

  Unfortunately it now says minimum monthly premium of £10!

  • Alan says:

    22 Jun22 June 17:05

    Interesting, so it does! I saved a PDF of the T&Cs yesterday and definitely didn’t then. Trust they’ll stick to the previous rules for those that applied before this change otherwise I predict a lot of FOS complaints!

    • the real harry1 says:

      22 Jun22 June 17:26

      haha! 🙂 – told you a few screenshots would come in handy

      early bird catches the worm etc lol

      who would like to buy my screenshots? 🙂

      • the real harry1 says:

        22 Jun22 June 17:30

        Last time I checked, every single FOS intervention cost the financial service provider something under £500 whether they were in the right or not (strange rule but that’s how it works)

        as Virgin Money clearly offered us the deal we accepted under the then T&Cs, they’ll honour it, no probs envisaged

        if you have screenshots, that is 🙂

        • Rob says:

          22 Jun22 June 17:57

          I have never known FOS rule in favour of the customer on a loyalty issue and that includes a claim I made against Amex!

      • Genghis says:

        22 Jun22 June 18:43

        @Rob. Still costs them money though for the case to be reviewed

  • David P says:

    22 Jun22 June 17:44

    I saw that on the very final screen when I was doing mine this afternoon. But before I clicked confirm, I asked someone on the live chat whether there was a minimum monthly payment to qualify for the 10,000 miles and they said that there was no minimum monthly payment. The terms and conditions also make no mention of a minimum payment. I have screenshots of both so we’ll see how it goes after the 6 months are up. It’s only £1.10 a month so it’s not the end of the world if it doesn’t work.

    • the real harry1 says:

      22 Jun22 June 17:47

      What did it say on the final screen today? Was it something about qualifying for the 10K points?

      • the real harry1 says:

        22 Jun22 June 17:48

        No need to look very far Harry me old mate – first page now reads:

        ‘If you’re a Virgin Atlantic Flying Club member and you take out Virgin Money Life Insurance, 10,000 miles will be paid to your Flying Club account once we’ve collected 6 monthly premiums. Just fill in your Flying Club number when you complete the application.

        Please note, a minimum monthly premium of £10.00 applies.’ 🙂

      • the real harry1 says:

        22 Jun22 June 17:49

        How do you do that google ‘go back in time’ thing?

      • the real harry1 says:

        22 Jun22 June 17:50

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine

    • Hsergio10 says:

      22 Jun22 June 18:56

      I just called Virgin life insurance to double check

      They confirmed that everyone who bought life insurance on the 21st of June 2018 (yesterday) will be awarded the 10K virgin miles as per T&C as of yesterday

      They also confirmed the marketing update the T&C today so new T&C applies as of today (22nd of June 2018) for anybody buying new life insurance from today onwards

      As always, :cheap opportunity cost for relatively big reward, never stays long (re Tesco event with 1k cc per ink, business class sale,etc…)

      • the real harry1 says:

        22 Jun22 June 20:46

        yo yo baby! 🙂

      • EwanG says:

        22 Jun22 June 22:30

        Old terms were still in place for much/most of today so if you got in before the T&Cs were updated you should be fine.

        To Rob’s point about FOS, remember the bank will get charged for each case referred and will be cheaper for them to honour the original terms if there is any ambiguity. Best file away those emails and screenshots!!

• the real harry1 says:

  22 Jun22 June 18:12

  Raffles you’d better add something to the article, fella 🙂

• Simon Osborne says:

  22 Jun22 June 19:26

  Still cheaper than buying from virgin directly 10400miles is £135 so still effectively half price.

• James says:

  22 Jun22 June 22:40

  Forget the miles this is great value life insurance just got £250k cover for £14 pcm

  The lounges look really cool can’t wait to visit them

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