How you can earn Virgin Flying Club miles shopping at Waitrose

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• Shoestring says:

  8 Apr8 April 13:20

  !p Avios back on IB, the max 200K + 100K bonus limit we’ve seen before

  300.000 Avios for EUR 3601

  = £3104 = 1.034p

  until 24th April

  • BJ says:

    8 Apr8 April 17:55

    A few days ago you were suggesting 0.42ppa via Tesco mobile was too high for you 🙂 But I get that this can work.

    • Shoestring says:

      8 Apr8 April 19:30

      Well, not for me – but I post for other people to see if it works for them.

      Tesco mobile is at best messy but cheap & not many points – this one is up to 300,000 points @1p, so not that bad – and easy as giving your credit card details & pressing buy

      • BJ says:

        8 Apr8 April 20:20

        Tesco mobile is simple when avoiding their website and app. I did three more yesterday, it is less tedious than 3V cards used to be although would love to welcone that mind-numbing tedium back. I had a whole carrier bag full of them 🙂

      • Shoestring says:

        8 Apr8 April 20:28

        yep as I said yesterday you took out the faff factor – thanks

        pls post it again & I’ll email it to myself this time 🙂

        should be good for a few 0.4p points

      • AndyGWP says:

        8 Apr8 April 20:39

        I made a note at the time, so to save BJ’s fingers (and because the pair of you have saved me a lot of time and effort over the years)….

        “As Spurs states web, and app, are a PITA, ignore them. Sim comes with 20p credit. Pop it in your phone and make an unanswered call to activate, then call 282 to add clubcard, then 4444 to top up with a £20 voucher. It’s simple”

        Only things I would add are:
        1) If data is enabled on the phone when you switch it on, it’ll gobble up the 20p before you’ve even unlocked your phone (don’t think that matters though)
        2) You must buy the voucher in store to use the above method… I used one of my £30 Christmas saver vouchers, and bought a bottle of wine whilst to hit the full amount (didn’t realise you couldn’t get change from the Christmas Savers)

      • Shoestring says:

        8 Apr8 April 20:44

        cheers 🙂

      • TGLoyalty says:

        9 Apr9 April 01:06

        Brilliant thanks for the tip BJ and the repost Andy

      • BJ says:

        9 Apr9 April 06:46

        Thanks Andy. @Shoestring @TGLoyalty, just to add, LadyLondon reported an issue with some Sims not having 20p credit on them. If you get them in store pick up the sims with rocketpack on front eith three circles showing data allowance for each top up value. I’ve use those every time with no problems.

    • Optimus Prime says:

      9 Apr9 April 07:24

      Is the Tesco website the only way to cancel the Rocket Pack auto renewal?

      • Nick_C says:

        9 Apr9 April 08:05

        text “STOPROCKET” to 28948

      • Optimus Prime says:

        9 Apr9 April 18:47

        Thanks!

• Alan says:

  8 Apr8 April 14:57

  Top tip, thanks, Simon – 56p/beer is a pretty good price!

• Mr(s) Entitled says:

  8 Apr8 April 15:14

  OT: RFS – Apologies in advance, I checked the RFS article from 3/19 but I can’t see it mentioned in that or the comments.

  I want to book two RFS tickets. The second person is not in my Household Account. Do I need to bring them in (with complications of Avios being spent proportionally) or can I go down the Friends and Family route.

  When I tried a dummy booking the drop down only let me select members of my Household Account hence my assumption that there needs to be some BA Exec link between us to make this work. My intention is to pay for the tickets, not share the cost.

  • lev441 says:

    8 Apr8 April 15:27

    Add them to the friends and family list and you’ll be able to book for them.

  • Alan says:

    8 Apr8 April 15:31

    You should be able to book for them fine if they’re on your F&F list. Any points will come out of your HHA pro-rata between all members.

  • Mr Entitled says:

    8 Apr8 April 22:20

    Thanks both

• Liam says:

  8 Apr8 April 15:38

  Excellent, thank you.

• PaulC says:

  8 Apr8 April 17:48

  I don’t drink beer but for that price it will go down a treat as a hamper gift for a family member. Cheers

• Zed says:

  8 Apr8 April 18:31

  Any way I can convert my Virgin miles into Marriott points?

  • Rob says:

    8 Apr8 April 18:45

    No

• Scallder says:

  8 Apr8 April 19:26

  FYI you can’t split transactions at Lidl across multiple cards. Tried to do £50 with the Sunday Times coupon and 2 Amex cards for £30 but no dice…

  • David says:

    9 Apr9 April 01:04

    Can’t you just tell them to stop scanning at the till when you hit each target?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    9 Apr9 April 01:08

    You can’t or the cashier doesn’t know how? Seems strange how do they do £10 cash and £10 card etc ?

    • The_real_a says:

      10 Apr10 April 13:52

      I have had this. They can do card and cash but not card and card. Happened so many times that I can believe its the terminal rather than knoelwdge.

• Cormac says:

  8 Apr8 April 20:08

  +1
  Thanks

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