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• Jay says:

  4 Mar4 March 07:54

  OT – Seems Amex may have blocked referrals to branded cards. On Friday, sent a friend a referral link from my Plat, she tried to sign up for a Bapp but got an error msg during the process. She tried again over the weekend and can only see non- branded cards.

  • memesweeper says:

    4 Mar4 March 07:57

    Could have been a glitch? I referred from Plat -> Nectar at the weekend, no errors, but don’t know if the application was successful yet.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:12

    In these cases the general advice Is Try another browser or laptop/pc

    Using private browsing can also help.

  • Jay says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:35

    Thanks both. I’ll ask her to use a different pc. She tried a different browser but that didn’t work.

    • Anna says:

      4 Mar4 March 08:58

      These “glitches” come and go. It’s worth re-trying during business hours.

    • ChrisC says:

      4 Mar4 March 08:59

      Should try and clear cookies.

      I do it on a regular basis anyway just to keep the browser from getting cluttered up and yiu can never be sure what data they are passing on.

      • LewisB says:

        4 Mar4 March 11:22

        My friend had this issue this morning. Laptop would only show the card I referred from, mobile however would list them all. Bizarre.

      • john says:

        4 Mar4 March 11:25

        Could be some a-b testing as to why you see different on different interfaces

      • Charlieface says:

        4 Mar4 March 14:22

        Adblocker is often the issue

  • Mr Dee says:

    4 Mar4 March 14:22

    It has been a safari issue for me, using chrome no problem and they all show up, bizarre script issue it seems

• memesweeper says:

  4 Mar4 March 07:55

  Interesting that Barclaycard feels the need to take action to ‘help’ Curve enforce their own T&Cs. However, if there are those in the established industry who are getting hacked off with Curve, I’d far far rather they took the sort of action Barclaycard have just done, rather than blocking the use of a card *through* Curve, as Amex have done.

• Elguiri says:

  4 Mar4 March 07:56

  O/T slightly, for those hoping to take cash out of ATM with curve linked to Lloyds avios card, Lloyds took 3% from me in my last statement. I was under the impression only Tesco bank was actually charging.

  • Simon says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:11

    I still like curve as a product to replace/front your other cards but your Lloyds news plus the Barclaycard letters does make it look like the beginning of the end for hfp readers.

  • Louise says:

    4 Mar4 March 09:19

    Lloyds haven’t charged me for last month.

  • Mr. AC says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:46

    Y’all are crazy folk. I stopped any and all cash withdrawals and/or paying off credit card bills with Curve as soon as MCC passthru was announced.

    • Louise says:

      4 Mar4 March 13:29

      I’ve earned my Lloyd’s voucher thanks to it but understand they could charge at any time

• Craig says:

  4 Mar4 March 08:34

  OT: Any recommendations for one night in Atlanta? Arriving at about 6pm with a plan to drop off the hire car and then catch Uber to the airport at about 5pm the next day. So would like to be central and walking distance from bars/restaurants.

  The other option would be to stay at the airport and use MARTA into the city for some daytime mooching?

  There’s so many options my head is hurting!

  • TheSkintTraveller says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:42

    Can you pay Brighton using Curve linked to Tesco MC?

    • Waddle says:

      4 Mar4 March 10:08

      I think you can pay but Tesco treats the transaction as a cash advance thus leveraging a fee and you’ll get no Clubcard points. I think.

    • Memesweeper says:

      4 Mar4 March 12:13

      Absolutely don’t do this

  • Toddy says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:48

    Ref: Atlanta, I stayed in the Hilton Embassy Suites by Centennial park a few weeks ago.
    Hotel is ok in terms of rooms etc but location is perfect for all the main tourist sites (walking distance to Olympic park, aquarium, Coca Cola world, centre for human rights, Mercedes Benz stadium etc).
    Uber is only about $18 to the airport.

    • AndyGWP says:

      4 Mar4 March 13:36

      For similar reasons, we stayed at Hilton Atlanta (255 Courtland Street) – not as close, but not a long walk either. It was fine, though first room we were given had been used for smoking (was non-smoking room), so they moved us to a massive suite.

      As Gold, I got free (buffet style) breakfast in the ‘restaurant’ on the top floor, and access to the lounge (no alcoholic drinks from what I recall, but soft-drinks and snacks etc)

      • Craig says:

        4 Mar4 March 16:44

        Thanks, I’d read mixed reviews about the Hilton, especially if you end up there when there’s a big conference?

  • Scallder says:

    4 Mar4 March 16:36

    W Downtown was a decent stay and easily walkable to a lot of the downtown part.

• Ali says:

  4 Mar4 March 08:40

  Thanks or sharing that, will do next time 😉

• Alan says:

  4 Mar4 March 08:52

  OT but Barclaycard related.

  Last week I received a letter saying that they wan to increase my card limit. My question is… Does it look better, when applying fro any new cards, if I accept the increased limit (thus raisng my total available) or reject the raise (possibly causing a concern that I might not be able to handle an increase)?

  • Richard says:

    4 Mar4 March 10:11

    Depends on your current credit available:income ratio

    • Alan says:

      4 Mar4 March 11:24

      OK, thanks. I do have a considerable number of cards on the go at the moment – all of which are paid off, in full, monthly of course.

  • John says:

    4 Mar4 March 14:00

    If you reject everything stays the same and no other card providers will know an increase was offered

• Luckyjim says:

  4 Mar4 March 08:57

  OT but Curve related. I need to pay for villa in USD but don’t have a good FX card. I’m not chasing a sign bonus either do I’m thinking of using my curve or Revolut. Any thoughts on what protection I’d have if the villa agency turns out to be scam operation? Would I be better to swallow the 3% fee and pay with a proper credit card?

  • Andrew L says:

    4 Mar4 March 09:15

    If you can, just pay a small amount on credit card and use Curve for the rest. That way you still get Section 75 protection on the whole amount from the credit card company.

    • Anna says:

      4 Mar4 March 10:28

      Haven’t you got to pay £100 or something on a credit card for the protection to kick in?

      • Shoestring says:

        4 Mar4 March 10:38

        no, it can be £1 to get full S75 protection – the item must cost £100-£30,000, no more, no less

• Roxanna Zea says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:06

  O/T – Just got an alert from Revolut – introduce 5 friends in the next 5 days and get yourself a free Metal card!

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