Get 15% cashback from American Express with taxi app Gett

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• Marko says:

  25 Apr25 April 05:44

  Does anyone know if AMEX displays offers based on card type or is there an algorithm behind it that decides WHO will see a specific offer?

  For example: I have a Gold and a BA AMEX card and was unable to find the Wheely offer on any of those cards. I am not sure if it is because they can see I already used Wheely in the past so I am not the target audience or if this offer perhaps was only available to Platinum

  • Alex W says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:04

    It depends on your spending habits. But card type comes into play also. E.g. you won’t get a Hilton offer on an SPG card for obvious reasons. These days there are a lot more offers on the Amex own cards i.e. gold, plat etc than the cobranded cards such as BAPP. Probably because the latter is costing Amex money due to the 0.3% interchange cap.

  • BJ says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:13

    It is certainly not totally random. For example, you will not see a Thai Airways offer on a BA card or a Hilton offer on an SPG card. I also suspect if you spend heavily and regularly at certain stores, say Morrison’s, it is less likely but not impossible you will get offers for them. Last year there were a lot of spend X get Y offers which were not tied to specific merchants, not sure if these targeted at cards with low spend or if they were a trial for things to come. On the other hand, people who are rarely in London get loads of London-centric offers while missing out on say Boots or WHSmith that can be used nationwide so any targeting is obviously not very sophisticated. Ultimately, despite such issues a lot of the offers might indeed just be random and the luck of the draw.

  • Shoestring says:

    25 Apr25 April 07:57

    37 offers on my Gold 🙂

    Mostly completely useless – but still got the Lidl £5 off £20 x2 to use

    • Graham Walsh says:

      25 Apr25 April 08:27

      Same on my Plat card. 99% useless offers but did get the Lidl on my BAPP.

• Nigel the Pensioner says:

  25 Apr25 April 06:01

  I would have thought that in due consideration of the gridlock spreading from the city outwards, unless you live / work in Hounslow, you can pretty much guarantee a fare in excess of £25 to get to LHR so the Wheely offer will work well for some. Not worth changing jobs or moving house for though!

  • Jonathan says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:26

    My wife has had £26-30 from St Paul’s to NW6 late evenings when traffic was light & we also managed to rack up a £25 fare from Queens Park to Mayfair so you don’t have to go very far! West London to Heathrow is £60-70 with Wheely so similar to a standard Uber once discount applied. Remember you can always add a tip if you think you’ll be slightly short.

  • Alex says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:46

    Fare from/to Lhr is fixed at 50£.

    • Tom H says:

      25 Apr25 April 19:22

      Actually depends on where you are in town, have done 3xSE3 to LHR and all have been more than 50 and at normal times of day

• Shoestring says:

  25 Apr25 April 06:25

  Some gouging cash prices back to UK for Easter Monday 13th April 2020 – last day of our kids’ (state) school Easter hols next year. I always check the cash prices vs Avios reward price – and the cash prices are way higher than flying back on Sunday 12th. We got 4x Economy + 1x CE and the Avios CE price comes in quite a bit cheaper than the cash HBO price!

  Cash £1460 vs (45K Avios + £95)

  I make that over 3p/ Avios value achieved, pat on back, Shoestring 🙂

  • Hayfever says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:39

    Yawn. Were you travelling by taxi?

  • Anna says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:47

    Who’s getting the CE seat?!

    • Shoestring says:

      25 Apr25 April 06:52

      Put myself in it 🙂 – but that way doesn’t bother me as I can’t indulge (driving the other end) so will probably give it to my wife so that she can have a couple of drinks. Much rather snag a free Exit seat.

  • Mikeact says:

    25 Apr25 April 07:45

    What routing would that be ?

    • Shoestring says:

      25 Apr25 April 07:50

      European SH back from our place in the sun. Nice & sunny it was, too – mostly in the low 20Cs for week 2 🙂

      • Mikeact says:

        25 Apr25 April 08:33

        Do you do returns or one ways like we were talking about recently?

      • Shoestring says:

        25 Apr25 April 09:03

        Always one ways these days, I need to grab the outward journey ASAP I noticed there’s another Avios redeemer who grabs my favourite take off slot if I don’t buy them sharpish.

        There’s also the return departure tax advantage if ever I needed to cancel.

  • Graham Walsh says:

    25 Apr25 April 09:13

    Got a similar price for before Easter next year to MIA off peak with 241. Cash tickets £1,800 each for out CW return WP+. 115,000 Avios and £1150 fees for both of us.

• Louise says:

  25 Apr25 April 06:33

  Just a reminder that Wheely refunded and recharged me when I was below the £25. I asked them to add on even more tip just to get it over the £25.

  • Paul says:

    25 Apr25 April 07:30

    I tried that and was refused on a £23 fare. Said driver was excellent and wanted to change £5 tip to £10 and said no can do – did you just use their email or did you call instead?
    Can’t complain though as used it 5 times over 2 cards on a recent London trip with family.

    • Louise says:

      25 Apr25 April 08:36

      I used the online chat in the app!

• Amo says:

  25 Apr25 April 06:34

  If you’re signing up to Wheely feel free to use my referral code which gives you an additional 20% off and can be used in addition to the Amex offer:

  2HJL6

  • Shoestring says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:48

    Surprised Raffles is not targeting £1000 of Wheely credit for HfP… 🙂

• Matt says:

  25 Apr25 April 06:48

  OT – virgin credit card missing bonus
  My fee free virgin credit card did not pay the extra miles, now the virgin premium card has the same issue (it has paid the extra 6000 miles each month for spend bonus funnily, but not the 10,000 promotional bonus). I’m sure it will be a 30 minute argument on the phone like for the first card.
  Anyone else having this issue, the bonus miles not posting and needing a manual update?

  • Shoestring says:

    25 Apr25 April 06:55

    Nope, I got a success email from Virgin saying I hit the target & will get the extra 5000 next month (free card). Not that I’ve seen the points, but kind of reassuring.

    • Tilly says:

      25 Apr25 April 09:32

      Same as Shoestring. Got the email and have seen the points hit my VFC account.

  • Doug M says:

    25 Apr25 April 07:14

    I hit the £10K spend on the paid card for the so so voucher several months ago. Seeming randomly Virgin have emailed both 23rd and 24th telling me I’ve hit the target. Seems so odd and rather lame, like sending a birthday card two month too late.

    • Alan says:

      25 Apr25 April 07:55

      Same for me. I received the voucher on 24th December and used it last week for a booking. This week received 2 emails saying congratulations on qualifying for it!

  • xcalx says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:11

    I have been waiting since January for the 5000 mile first spend bonus got the 5000 miles for £1k spend in March. VM blaming VA. I can see miles sent to VA for Feb, March and April non from the Jan statement but VM insist they sent them.

• Annabelle says:

  25 Apr25 April 07:08

  FYI – Just an anomaly I’ve seen for BA reward flight redemptions for Easter school holidays 2020. Our school breaks up for 2 weeks from 3rd April and usually PEAK pricing is throughout however for some reason Wednesday 15th April is classed as NON PEAK! Could save a few avios returning then.

  • Shoestring says:

    25 Apr25 April 07:32

    how can you tell if it’s peak or non peak yet? the 2020 peak/ non peak timetable hasn’t been published yet and 15th April not yet released to buy tickets (357 days away)

    just bought Avios tickets for 13th April (Easter Monday), released at 1am last night – and they were peak

    • Annabelle says:

      25 Apr25 April 08:11

      Was checking Easter Monday return flights and can see forward dates ( greyed out ) but clearly stating that day is off peak. Looking at ‘other availability’ bringing up monthly calendar for April looks like off peak also from 20/4!

  • Anna says:

    25 Apr25 April 08:06

    I spotted that as well (it says below the date when doing a dummy booking), but I think there have been IT issues recently so it could be a mistake.

    My son’s school has April 10th to 26th off next year so I’m hoping our return dates might fall into off peak…

    • Annabelle says:

      25 Apr25 April 08:12

      Looks like off peak from 20/4/2020- you’re in luck!

      • Anna says:

        25 Apr25 April 08:54

        Great – just need my seats to be available now!

    • Shoestring says:

      25 Apr25 April 08:14

      OK I see what OP means – yes it says off peak 15th , I stand corrected

• Relaxo says:

  25 Apr25 April 07:25

  OT – question about old hilton barclaycard. Is the gold status on 10k spend based on calendar year or anniversary date?

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 08:26

    Calendar

    • Froggee says:

      25 Apr25 April 12:50

      I seem to remember that everyone else got the same email as I did when hitting the £10,000 spend target last year that you’d remain Hilton Gold as long as you remained a card-member. Any thoughts on whether this means no need to put £10k on it in 2019?

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