Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss (January 2020)

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• BJ says:

  26 Jan26 January 08:36

  I’ve never paid 0.8ppa before but I’m considering doing so via the Economist Canada route. To do
  I guess I just choose a random address but how do I square that with the address on my payment card; does it go go to a third party payment page whereaddresses don’t need to match? Presumably I should use Curve or any other zero fee option? Anybody failed to get the avios and then had to contact the Economist about a nonexistent account in Canada?

  • Rhys says:

    26 Jan26 January 09:22

    Presumably addresses don’t need to match anyway because it is perfectly feasible to gift someone a magazine subscription!

  • Steve-B says:

    26 Jan26 January 09:42

    I took out a subscription in 2018 using a Canada address. I am pretty sure I picked an Alberta address for low taxes (a random Holiday Inn, iirc). No issues with different addresses and Avios posted OK but took a while. I cannot remember how I paid though, Amex I think.

  • Lady London says:

    26 Jan26 January 09:57

    You can send it anywhere in C BJ and IIRC any card from anywhere is accepted for that.

    I sent to a retired academic friend who couldn’t afford it and to a hospital on another occasion.

    At 0.8p I can’t justify it again though when library services will let you read it free.

    • Lady London says:

      26 Jan26 January 10:02

      PS BJ after my academic friend there went travelling he said it would be a waste to let the magazines pile up in his mail unread so I phoned up and changed the delivery address to mine without any complication.

      • Polly says:

        26 Jan26 January 13:34

        We got ours sent to a school in Bali…

  • BJ says:

    26 Jan26 January 16:55

    Thanks everybody, very helpful. @LL, objective is to get the avios at 0.8p, not to read the Economist. In the past my maximum buy price was about 0.5ppa but times are changing.

    • Harry T says:

      26 Jan26 January 20:13

      I bought the electronic only subscription and used the address of a hospital in Alberta to get lower taxes applied. The transaction wouldn’t work with Curve though and o had to use another card. Worked in the end and didn’t take long to get the Avios, which I’ve definitely redeemed for over 0.8p value.

• Daniel says:

  26 Jan26 January 10:12

  Question Regarding the BA Amex spend £300 get 3000 Avios offer.
  Can this offer be applicable on cumulative spend or does it need to be one transaction. Only really do SH travelling with BA so this is key for me. On the offer it does say a single transaction but your feature does say differently? Any one have personal experiences they can share as reference points?

  TIA

  • Stu N says:

    26 Jan26 January 10:16

    They are always cumulative because flights post as one line per passenger on your statement.

    • Daniel says:

      26 Jan26 January 10:26

      Thanks – so as long as I can spend above £300 before the offer end date then I should be good to get the Avios. I will probably have to split across 2 maybe 3 bookings.

      I assume the Avios will post after the one transaction that takes the cumulative spend over the £300 threshold?

      • Polly says:

        26 Jan26 January 13:36

        Make sure the final spend is at least a couple of days before end date, to allow the spend to convert.

  • Jonathan says:

    26 Jan26 January 16:36

    Cumulative defo fine, just got the 3k points 4 day’s after the transactions hit my Amex.

    • Daniel says:

      26 Jan26 January 19:47

      Thank you all!

• Polly says:

  26 Jan26 January 13:39

  BTW sitting in the amex lounge in Arlanda atm awaiting our trip to HKT..QR very kindly connected our bags to KUL. So we can now just transit in hkt. Takes the pressure off.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    26 Jan26 January 15:49

    Yep Qatar are fine like that. Same with checking it through to final destination even if on separate tickets. Why I feel ok booking tighter connections on the way back.

• JohnT says:

  27 Jan27 January 08:30

  PS Think the link is incorrect for the Corinthia sale article?

  • Rhys says:

    27 Jan27 January 08:32

    Fixed, thanks

    • Rob says:

      27 Jan27 January 08:49

      Sorry, my fault! It was ok before I started messing with the links 🙂

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