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• Stanley says:

  18 Nov18 November 10:17

  Hi,

  Do you know if Getaround (Drivy) is covered by Amex plat (uk) car rental insurance?

  I called them up and they would not give me a specific answer for a company, they would only say ” as long as you get a care rental agreement you are covered”.

  Has anyone made a claim successfully (or unsuccessfully!) in this or a similar case?

  Thanks!

• Peter K says:

  18 Nov18 November 10:18

  I did what Jon mentioned when I took the survey for questions I felt I lacked knowledge to answer. It mentions at the start of the survey that not all questions need to be answered and you can skip some.
  Let’s hope that MSE competition pages don’t pick this up and skew the results.

• Tom says:

  18 Nov18 November 11:15

  OT:
  Any idea when BA will release their summer timetable? I want to book a 777 club suites flight to JFK for April next year.

  • Rhys says:

    18 Nov18 November 11:17

    Should be soon!

  • Rob says:

    18 Nov18 November 12:13

    Is the 777 showing before 31/3? Last time I checked the A350 fleet was not showing anywhere beyond the end of March but I wasn’t sure if BA was deliberately showing non-Club Suite 777’s in the system or not.

    • Tom says:

      18 Nov18 November 12:26

      Yes example is BA0175 on March 17th. Club Suite seat map is visible when going to book a ticket.
      On my searches for my dates in April every single 777 is showing club world not suite.

• Tracy says:

  18 Nov18 November 12:36

  O/T as no bits, anyone able to buy amazon vouchers at Morrisons over the last couple of days. All amazon gift cards have been removed from all my local Morrisons, within 30miles. I was making good use of the 10%……

  • Simon says:

    18 Nov18 November 13:10

    They had all gone at the Camden branch the other day.

  • John says:

    18 Nov18 November 13:23

    Wimbledon told me they removed them from the shelves saying people had complained they were not activating. But I thought Amazon gift cards from Morrison’s don’t need to be activated.

    • sloth says:

      18 Nov18 November 15:01

      they (wimbledon) told me the same thing…personally i dont believe them and i think they have been told to remove them whilst the amex 10% rebate is on…will be interesting to see if they return in a few days…

      did manage to get some in becontree though…

      • Polly says:

        18 Nov18 November 16:35

        Same with all our John Lewis ones in our town. Further down the A3 from Wimbledon. Disappeared overnight. I had got quite a few. Waitrose is literally only 50yds from Morrison’s! And then got questioned as to why l was buying £100 in Morrisons paper vouchers.. unlike Harry who buys 1000 if he can…they have had fraud issues with them…then said l could only pay for them in cash.. was getting quite twitchy by then.. recovering now in Cambodia from the shock! Hate to think l can’t use my Amex if we get another 10% off offer later.

        • Cat says:

          18 Nov18 November 20:41

          Find a stunning temple to explore, then find a nice hotel cocktail bar back in town! That should sort you out! I hope you’re having a blast Polly!

        • Polly says:

          19 Nov19 November 01:12

          Cat Tnx, just now over beach side, having spent 6 days in Siem. We loved the smaller temples, few people, silent, gorgeous. Angkor of course we did it, but the temple of doom, Ta Prohm! was pure hell. Escaped to a beauty nearby to recover. Then PP. Spent Sunday in the Genocide Museum, still shaking. Such horrors. Such lovely people. Still too much poverty tho. But they are a free nation mostly. Long bus journeys a killer tho, as roads very basic and a nightmare. Food wonderful. Highly recommend Cambodia though. Also northern Borneo Kota Kinabalu (where we spent a lovely few days with friends there) and Sabah region.

        • Cat says:

          19 Nov19 November 10:28

          Yes, when Ta Prohm is busy, it’s crazy! S21 and the Killing Fields are horrific. It’s something that should be seen, but it does not make for easy viewing.
          Which beach did you decide on? Have you tried lok lak yet? I hope you have a relaxing time at the beach, Polly! Enjoy!

        • Polly says:

          19 Nov19 November 15:52

          Cat.
          Lok lak top choice in various forms most evenings. Sadly only beach area is S…ville. But found a tiny French owned place near Otres 2 so winding down nicely tnx…hope not too cold in UK yet..

        • Cat says:

          19 Nov19 November 17:06

          It’s freezing Polly! I’m walking to the train station and I can barely feel my fingers to type this! My little fingers may have hit absolute zero! Enjoy the lovely tropical weather for the rest of us! X

      • Paul says:

        21 Nov21 November 00:25

        It is true unfortunately. I bought 2 x £50 Amazon gift cards, neither of which was activated at the till even though I was charged for them. The activation slips said “Declined” . They refused to refund me or provide replacement cards at the time saying it needed to be referred to head office and they’d call me in a couple of days. Over a week later, heard nothing so did a chargeback via Amex and got my £100 back right away

  • Andrew Bowness says:

    18 Nov18 November 13:54

    I saw a few in Reigate Morrisons this morning.

  • EwanG says:

    18 Nov18 November 14:22

    If the store has run out of Amazon GCs, you could always visit the kiosk, buy M paper vouchers and use those to buy Amazon GCs in a week or two when hopefully stock returns.

    • Polly says:

      18 Nov18 November 16:41

      Think they don’t allow you to buy GCs with those paper vouchers. Tried it. They will let you use the £5 more vouchers tho to pay for them.

      • Simon says:

        18 Nov18 November 16:47

        I’ve also found that I am unable to buy more than £100 of John Lewis vouchers in a single transaction.

        • sloth says:

          18 Nov18 November 17:30

          yes, i had to buy all mine in £50 transactions also

        • Simon says:

          18 Nov18 November 17:51

          Also, they seem to have an overall transaction limit for gift card purchases of £200 or thereabouts

        • EwanG says:

          18 Nov18 November 19:02

          It is possible at a manned till but does require a manager to intervene, to put in their override.
          I’ve had a few fob-offs, but if you are buying a few I think it is easier to keep them to one transaction and insist on this.

      • EwanG says:

        18 Nov18 November 17:06

        Ah ok, thanks for clarification Polly. I have a choice of 3 M stores within 3 miles so have never had any stock problems, and it was my understanding they treated the paper vouchers like cash.

        • Polly says:

          19 Nov19 November 01:17

          Ewan, they do normally, but GCs lie outside that buying category, for some reason. Apparently due to vouchers bought with stolen credit cards, then spent in stores. You are lucky you have choice of 3. And they also have this limit of 50/100 GC spend at till. So it can be difficult for me to get a decent amount spent on a 10% offer. Annoying.

        • Polly says:

          19 Nov19 November 01:19

          Use them for petrol. They soon get used up!

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    21 Nov21 November 19:38

    Stacked in my store, bought a couple of hundred today.

  • Lev441 says:

    26 Nov26 November 20:11

    Don’t believe it, I have bought a load yesterday and today – they’re probably just out of stock. They are activated by the tills and have already been uploaded to my amazon account.

    No paper vouchers in my local store though which is a shame. I still have about £300 of paper vouchers from a month ago so wasn’t so fussed to get more anyway

    Good little discount paying for petrol with 10p off a litre and 10% off with the rest using the Amex rebate and vouchers. Cheapest petrol I’ve bought in years!

• Lady London says:

  18 Nov18 November 12:47

  Hey Rhys I think the Accor is 6k not 7.5? 7.5 would be nice of course…:-)

  • Rhys says:

    18 Nov18 November 12:55

    There was a 7.5k bonus earlier in the year 🙂

• S says:

  18 Nov18 November 17:27

  O/T but my employer has recently started using TravelPlanet for travel, who seem to use booking.com For Business for hotel bookings. I’ve never received any status benefits or points at any chains since then. Reception just sees it as a standard booking.com reservation, rather than a For Business corporate booking. So ridiculously annoying. Anyone else have similar experience of booking.com For Business?

  • Rob says:

    18 Nov18 November 17:35

    Egencia is the same – owned by Expedia and if they pull rooms from the Expedia booking pool you don’t get anything.

    You should persuade your employer that this is a bad deal due to the lack of free breakfast etc which you are now paying for ….

• Ian M says:

  19 Nov19 November 09:33

  Surprised the SPG Amex isn’t on the short list for best credit card!

  • Rob says:

    19 Nov19 November 14:42

    Purely personal on our point. I think we do give it a bit of a hard time, but they hurt themselves by having silly spend targets (eg £25k for a 25k free night valid virtually nowhere interesting).

  • Will says:

    21 Nov21 November 00:40

    SPG amex is my favourite card, I often get over 5% return on using the points for hotels and the ability to exchange for AA miles is the icing on the cake.

    • Ian M says:

      21 Nov21 November 04:03

      Agree the free night award is poor for such a high spend requirement, but the earning rate is excellent. Its easy enough to get at least 1p value per Marriott point when redeeming for hotels (thus 3p+ per pound spent on the card), Marriott has a huge footprint of hotels and on top of that there’s the countless airlines you can transfer to! Anyway, it got my vote 🙂

      • Peter K says:

        21 Nov21 November 08:17

        Assuming you get 0.5p a point from Marriott Bonvoy you need to spend £5000 a year on it to break even on the yearly fee. Compared to the gold credit card that would have earned you 7500 Bonvoys for no fee (in the first year) by the same point it’s not so great.
        At £10k spend you are breaking even in value with the gold card. Of course, if you get more value from the points than that the figures change, but it’s not a no-brainer for a lot of people when they could use the spend too break even on the SPG yearly fee on other cards.

        • will says:

          21 Nov21 November 14:16

          Agreed, the value in that card is if you can put a high spend through it. I find marriott excellent for redeeming at places and times where demand is high and cash prices are through the roof.

          I even found a use for the free night cert at a trade show in Germany once where the cash price was £300 a night simply because it was a trade show.

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      21 Nov21 November 19:40

      Hard to beat that bonus on 20k transfers to AA for EY😋

      • Harry T says:

        21 Nov21 November 22:20

        Tell me more!

• KBuffett says:

  21 Nov21 November 07:46

  OT – I got a fresh 10% back at Morrison’s offer today.

  • Shoestring says:

    21 Nov21 November 07:51

    Bingo! same here 🙂

    only 13 days to use it but those vouchers last forever lol

    • LewisB says:

      21 Nov21 November 07:59

      @Shoestring Any ideas if you can include gift cards in the 2x 10% shops for Tesco Clubcard Plus?

      • Shoestring says:

        21 Nov21 November 08:19

        no – I was waiting for the trip reports! obvs the T&Cs say no, but until now the till system was unable to differentiate (whereas Sainsburys have got it nailed)

        as I’m not a fan of Tesco groceries, preferring to shop elsewhere, it would take mission success reported elsewhere for me to sign up

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