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• Vasco says:

  10 May10 May 11:26

  OT: For the Marriott Double Take promotion, does anyone know whether award bookings count to activate the “from second stay” requirement?

  • Lee says:

    10 May10 May 11:54

    No.
    Also, the spending on award stay won’t give you double points.

    • Vasco says:

      10 May10 May 12:24

      Bummer. Going to have to matress run in advance of an expensive work stay.

• Russ says:

  10 May10 May 13:13

  OT as bits, has anyone booked either a Marriott or Hilton golf package? Over the last weekend spent a painful 30 mins listening to club members telling me how they’d got breakfast, dinner, round of golf plus 20% off club house purchases and 50 quid F&B voucher. All I had was a double points promotion. I see American golf comes up quite regular on amex offers so wondering if I’m missing a trick.

• paul says:

  10 May10 May 13:23

  O/T cancelling Amex plat. I know the fee is refunded pro rata but is that at a daily rate or monthly? Ie if I’m going to cancel should I just wait until the end of the month? Thanks

  • Shoestring says:

    10 May10 May 13:28

    daily

    • Rob says:

      10 May10 May 13:28

      I thought it moved to monthly a couple of years ago?

      • Shoestring says:

        10 May10 May 13:32

        Last one I closed (LY) was definitely daily

        • paul says:

          10 May10 May 14:28

          Ok thanks both, I’ll close it over the weekend and report back

        • DaveL says:

          10 May10 May 14:30

          One I closed in Jan was charged to the month…

        • Data Point says:

          10 May10 May 18:21

          Cancelled 2 days ago. This was 3 days after the second statement. Was refunded £279.44 if that data point is of any use.

        • BJ says:

          10 May10 May 19:37

          No idea where that comes from, you should query that.

        • Shoestring says:

          10 May10 May 20:17

          £379.44 would make some sense, as in £450 minus £75 = £375

        • Shoestring says:

          10 May10 May 20:21

          £450/365 = £1.23288

          £450 minus £379.44 = £70.56

          £70.56/£1.23288 = 57.2 days

          could work if it’s £379.44 not £279.44

        • Peter K says:

          10 May10 May 20:28

          Sorry, refunded £378.49. I forgot I had a ~£99 balance on it.

        • Shoestring says:

          10 May10 May 20:40

          58 days exactly

• Diana says:

  10 May10 May 14:04

  O/T I missed my Amex Plat monthly payment by a few days – are there repercussions for my credit referencing? should I follow this up with Amex?

  • Shoestring says:

    10 May10 May 14:10

    I guess they build in a few days’ grace but you might as well give them a ring, could help.

  • Data Point says:

    10 May10 May 18:26

    Is definitely ring. Putting that effort in gives kudos I reckon. More than live chat!

• Rob says:

  10 May10 May 15:54

  Doh! I just nipped down to Broadcasting House to do an interview on Talking Business for BBC World News, and now it turns out it is impossible to get it on catch-up.

  It was live TV, which is never easy, and they put up a picture of the old Virgin seat, announced it as the new Virgin Upper Class seat and asked me what I thought of it 🙂

  • Rob says:

    10 May10 May 16:43

    Ooh, thanks. Let’s see what the power of social media can track down!

• Harvey says:

  10 May10 May 17:18

  OT
  Is there a way to cancel amex but not have to get pro rata refund. I can’t be bothered to chase them for the refund. Would I be able to cancel a card with a small amount still owing?

  • N says:

    10 May10 May 17:27

    I’ll have it?

  • BJ says:

    10 May10 May 17:32

    Yes, it’ll just sit there as a balance on the card until you request it or amex do something about it. I imagine Rob will be most unimpressed if you leave so much as a £ sitting there 🙂

  • Shoestring says:

    10 May10 May 17:32

    yes, you can just cancel with something owing, leave your direct debit up & running and they’ll square it all off for you

  • Rooster says:

    10 May10 May 18:22

    Leave a balance more than your refund will be then cancel and 2 working days later the credit shows, then you just pay your balance online if you want

• Peter K says:

  10 May10 May 18:11

  They do.

  • Harry says:

    10 May10 May 18:29

    Excellent, thank you. Will help me hit the bonus on the Virgin card more quickly.

    On an unrelated note, I have no idea why a picture of me from 10 years ago is my avatar!

    • Peter K says:

      10 May10 May 20:20

      Your email is linked to gravitar I would have thought and you must have put the photo of you on there.

• Taylor says:

  10 May10 May 18:43

  OT: if upgrading green to plat. Is it best to wait until the £60 fee has hit the account or do it before?

  • BJ says:

    10 May10 May 19:31

    Somebody (Simon?) reported avoiding both by completing spend target within a month. Were I doing it, I think I’d probably let them have the £60 then upgrade. However, need to balance that against the fact it could be pulled at any time.

    • Dave says:

      10 May10 May 20:34

      Did mine before it hit. Approved and Plat arrived in past few days, but no spend target for 20k upgrade bonus showing as yet, even in-app. I’m concerned, but it was clearly shown that 20k would be awarded. Planning to keep the Plat, but the cost/benefit only works for me with the 20k points – if they try not awarding them, i’ll be off!

      • BJ says:

        10 May10 May 21:00

        I’ve made three referrals in the past month or so. All are first time card holders and clearly entitled to bonus under new rules but none of them can see spend meters on their accounts. I suspect it”s just a glitch and bonuses will post normally. All that apart, I don’t think there ever was a meter for the 20k bonus on upgrade to platinum but it still worked fine both times I did it.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        10 May10 May 21:54

        I don’t think there is a spend tracker I don’t recall one when going gold to play.

        • Binks says:

          11 May11 May 00:19

          I previously did the upgrade and received the bonus 20k – there was no tracker.

    • Simon says:

      11 May11 May 11:57

      Did it again this week, BJ, but for my other half — avoided £60 fee by upgrading within two weeks, successfully upgraded to Plat, got the 20k for £1k, will cancel card before Plat billing.

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