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• Liz says:

  10 Apr10 April 12:52

  OT Finally getting round to looking at the Tesco sim deal – do you have to have your phone unlocked to do this? Sorry if that is a dumb question!

  • pablo says:

    10 Apr10 April 12:53

    Either unlocked or locked to O2-UK

  • Peter says:

    10 Apr10 April 13:03

    Or find a friend with a suitably unlocked phone.

    • Liz says:

      10 Apr10 April 13:31

      I want to use my own phone as I only have 500mb – just come out of contract so I need to update it – so I could use the 8gb when away in our caravan later in the month – save on my mobile data gadget

      • pablo says:

        11 Apr11 April 02:44

        Most networks unlock for free once out of contract. Do a quick google search. You may have to call them or fill in an online form.

  • The_real_a says:

    10 Apr10 April 13:30

    Suitable phones are available from asda/argos for as little as 10quid

• Peter says:

  10 Apr10 April 13:12

  OT
  For Amex to Virgin transfers is there a special way to do it online (goes round in circles and will not add account when I try) or shall I live chat them. Thanks.

  • pablo says:

    10 Apr10 April 13:16

    Live chat to add the Virgin account number

• illuminatus says:

  10 Apr10 April 13:28

  OT – had another very pleasant ride with Wheely to Gatwick this morning. There are still about 5 weeks left for Amex promo, I higly recommend it.

  Remember to use H6CD5 to get 20% off your 1st ride (stacks with Amex offer).

  • Louise says:

    10 Apr10 April 13:57

    Also Wheely amended my transaction when I was below the £25, I just messaged them
    and they refunded and recharged to make it over £25 🙂

    • illuminatus says:

      10 Apr10 April 14:22

      Yep, they still seem to be of that sweet size as a company where you get to real people in support, as opposed to ‘human bots’ or ‘procedures’.

    • SimonW says:

      10 Apr10 April 14:23

      aargh, well done you. I just sucked up a £23.60 charge. didnt think to message them to charge me more ! I have one more £25 deal left to stack with 20% off referral code though. £100 trip to LHR nets out to £55 in a lovely Mercedes van.

  • Luthar says:

    10 Apr10 April 20:43

    Had the wheely offer on 4 cards in my house. Used it a total of 12 times with the last 8 trips being just under £26. I really enjoyed that offer.

  • Doug M says:

    10 Apr10 April 21:14

    I used them to and from theatre on Monday. On the way had a really good chatty driver and asked me how I’d heard of them, mentioned Amex and he said yeah I’m hearing that a lot.

• ShouldntCare says:

  10 Apr10 April 13:42

  O/T

  My other half got the SPG Amex a couple of months and has amassed 40k+ points, none of which have transferred because the Bonvoy membership number didn’t ‘register’ correctly during the application.

  Called AMEX and asked them to manually add, and received a letter in the post 2 weeks later rejecting the affiliation because ‘names don’t match’.

  Does anyone have experience with the above? First time this ever happens (we’ve churned the SPG card a bit) though not with a Bonvoy number. Is it a call to Marriott to get this fixed? We sometimes face issues because we have more than one surname (paternal & maternal).

  I doubt AMEX will be able to sort it out…and I’m definitely not planning on losing those points!!! Anyway I could get them transferred to my personal Bonvoy account instead?

  Any help appreciated.

  S

  • Charlieface says:

    10 Apr10 April 14:17

    I had that with my OH who had her maiden name on her SPG account but Amex was in married name. The names must match exactly or it will reject it. The easiest way round for me was to email SPG to change the name (ended up emailing Marriott as it was after the transfer)

• Rob H says:

  10 Apr10 April 13:47

  OT: Hi All, With the AMEX “Churn” ended – will slowed to every 2 years at least. I was wondering if the same “Churn priciple” could be applied to any other the other cards.

  Specifically I was thinking about the IHG Mastercard (Non-premium) – that I’ve had for a while now – it’s my AMEX backup Mastercard – where there is a 10,000 signup bonus (with small minimum £200 spend). You have to keep the card for 6 month to prevent the signup bonus being reclaimed, but I was wondering if you them closed it and later (don’t know how long?) re-applied would you get the bonus again. (Again, going the time switch with the wife to ensure we always had a card running)

  I didn’t know if anyone had tried this or had any ideas.
  Thanks, Rob

• illuminatus says:

  10 Apr10 April 14:26

  OT – I am currently a holder of the free HSBC Premium CC.

  Am I correct that if i switch to the World Elite version, i will still get all the bonuses?

  Has anyone had any good experience of targeted bonuses or other incentives to switch to WE upon calling their support agents?

• Alan says:

  10 Apr10 April 14:44

  OT – AMEX Shop small promotion.

  Looking at the map of my area some of the “shop small” locations coming up are Costa Coffee, Superdrug, New Look and WH Smiths. I guess AMEX’s view of “small” has radically changed!

  • Mark2 says:

    10 Apr10 April 17:46

    I have received a number of £5 ‘Promotion Credits’ probably from missing ShopSmall items. But on cards now closed so need to transfer to current card.
    But not on current purchases. There was a very brief reprise a few weeks ago with one per card on some cards (none of ours).

    • Cash says:

      10 Apr10 April 19:24

      It’s not one per card

      That would have been ridiculous

    • Callum says:

      10 Apr10 April 20:10

      Why would it be ridiculous? Pretty sure mine also said once per card.

    • Tenner says:

      11 Apr11 April 00:16

      Callum, it’s an incentive to “Shop Small”, not “Shop Once”.

      “Pretty sure mine also said once per card” – Indeed, my own said the same, but it was simply poorly worded.

    • Rui N. says:

      11 Apr11 April 10:11

      In the US, Shop Small that only can be used once have been common, so it is expected that eventually they’ll come here as well.
      In one year, the Shop Small promo in December was simply “please use your Amex card to shop small”, not a cent was given.

  • Alan says:

    12 Apr12 April 08:07

    Rob did an article on this promotion a week or so ago and it was definitley stated in that article that it was once per card for this particular promotion. If the map is accurate (and that is a big IF!) then the participating locations are not necessarily small. If the map is not accurate then you can’t rely on getting your fiver back no matter where you use it.

• Nick says:

  10 Apr10 April 15:31

  Sent some points from Amex MR to Hilton honours last Tuesday. Still not arrived on the Hilton side.

  Accounts are linked and have don’t it before. What’s the hold up here?

  • Benylin says:

    10 Apr10 April 20:44

    Just for reference, not much help, I sent some on Saturday and got then yesterday. First time doing it to to my Hilton account.

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