A new £20 Eurowings American Express cashback deal has launched

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• Anon says:

  11 Jan11 January 09:23

  Has anybody ever paid full price for a Charles Tyrwhitt shirt?

• Benylin says:

  11 Jan11 January 09:36

  OT: Curve first £500 transaction cost free for fx per month, is there a way to keep track of this?

  • Alan says:

    11 Jan11 January 21:48

    No – quite a few of us have said to them need to look at trackers – also for free Amex top-up limits. Curve Black as no extra FX fees after £500 (just the usual weekend ones).

    • Crafty says:

      12 Jan12 January 05:15

      When does the additional charge become apparent? Is it buried in the stated exchange rate? I’m over £500 for the month but no mention of any charges.

      • Alan says:

        12 Jan12 January 09:30

        Sorry don’t have blue so I don’t know. Suspect it may not be applied (a la ATMs). Only one that definitely seems to be charged now is Amex topups over £1k

• Harshaw Paruchuri says:

  11 Jan11 January 09:50

  I never seem to get the travel offers on my Amex. any specific spending/usage pattern to trigger this ? I have a BA Amex premium and a Amex Plat charge card(more than 6 years now that i have had the cards and pretty high credit limit 2xxxx)

  • Doug M says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:42

    There doesn’t seem to be a pattern. More recently it seems to be the case the good offers are in Amex cards, not the co-branded ones. So Plat and Gold better than BA and SPG.
    I seem to recall there was some suggestion that deleting your online account, setting up a new one and moving cards to it can help.
    Also do check online and not just the app.

    • meta says:

      11 Jan11 January 13:12

      Setting up a new account and moving cards doesn’t work for offers. The only way to get offers back is to churn the card. I just cancelled BAPP which I had for 8 years. Then following a trip in April, I will be cancelling Plat and get the cards again. Amex has some sort of IT glitch on some accounts as the system thinks I haven’t activated cards even though I have been using them extensively. Amex CS, IT, Marketing departments are clueless.

    • Alan says:

      11 Jan11 January 21:45

      Yeah my Plat has about 40 offers just now! Lots of them pretty useless but had thousands in value from others!

• Allan says:

  11 Jan11 January 09:50

  Anybody know if you have an ambassador free night cert with expiry saying 04/19, is this ok to use within the month of April?

  • RTS says:

    11 Jan11 January 09:53

    Yes.

    • Sundar says:

      11 Jan11 January 16:38

      I thought it was book by then and use later ?

      • Genghis says:

        11 Jan11 January 16:54

        No. Stay

      • Genghis says:

        11 Jan11 January 16:55

        The IHG creation credit card free night is book by the expiry date.

      • Alan says:

        11 Jan11 January 21:49

        Indeed – for Ambassador it need to be valid when actually checking-out when they apply the voucher (although may get away with it being valid at check-in only)

• tartan says:

  11 Jan11 January 09:59

  Got rather excited just now when a small box from Amex was delivered by the postman. It was BA Premium Plus branded whith images of friends enjoying themselves so I thought I had been sent a gift – but imagine my disappointment upon opening to find that it just had some printed referral cards in it!

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:54

    Yes – what a waste of packaging that was !

    • John says:

      11 Jan11 January 14:19

      I get these every 2 months, damages my shredder and difficult to tear open…

• Dave says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:44

  I don’t have the offer this time but in the past topping up at the machines and buying travel cards haven’t triggered the offer for me. You have to use the card to tap in to trigger the offer I think.

  • AlexT says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:33

    Makes sense, and I doubt IT systems would have gotten worse over time. Thanks!
    I’ll report back if and when my Oyster transactions posts.

  • Mr. AC says:

    11 Jan11 January 18:15

    Tested with an MCC revealing card – the ticket barriers have 4111 (“Local/Suburban Commuter Passenger Transportation”), everything else I’ve tried (ticket machines, the top up your Oyster online website, the app) have 4112 (“Passenger Railways”). Couldn’t find a way to make it work.

    • AlexT says:

      12 Jan12 January 00:38

      You took it to a while different level. Thank you!

• John2 says:

  11 Jan11 January 11:44

  OT. I made a couple of plat 18k referrals on Dec 26. They arrived on Jan 3. Are they counted as referrals for 2018 or 2019?
  On the cards the expiry date is 12/23.
  Many thanks.

  • SimonW says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:52

    I think go by when the MR points hit your amex account

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 12:32

    2019 at an educated guess.

• Matt B says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:21

  OT – 10k points from the virgin life insurance offer hit my account last night, time to cancel.

  • Tom says:

    11 Jan11 January 18:50

    Yes, mine too. Weirdly I only know thanks to Awardwallet. When logging in to my account they don’t actually show in the transactions on my account, yet the total went up by 10k!

    Now to figure out how to cancel!

    • Alan says:

      11 Jan11 January 21:51

      See comment from Genghis – VS does weird ordering in their system so if you scroll down to June you should see them. They also posted as 7.5k+2.5k rather than 10k. Agree AwardWallet very handy!

      For cancelling I just cancelled the D/D for now – can call them later if issues but at least that means no more taken. Ended up paying 7 subs as last one came out early, but still worked out at 0.0009 per mile, which is acceptable 😛

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