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• Andrew says:

  7 Feb7 February 15:31

  Bits – Morrisons

  First Direct’s Visa Offers have just been updated for the Weekend and there’s a 10% fund return opportunity – with a maximum return of quite staggering £100!

  Also there’s a new IHG offer for Holiday Inn Express on FD Visa at 5% for the next week or so.

  And a 10% offer on Spar has reappeared on LBG.

  • EwanG says:

    7 Feb7 February 15:58

    Thanks Andrew.
    Sadly no Morrisons on my FD card last week or this but it was on Visa Offers with my HSBC card (taken for the switcher offer). A glut of good offers on just now, shops must be desperate!
    Book of Waitrose MOCs arrived yesterday – need to start spending less with them as the bar is higher than where I want it to be, particularly as off-sale purchases don’t count against spend in Scotland.

    • BJ says:

      7 Feb7 February 16:07

      OT @Ewan, my Monese card topping up fine again via East Craigs Co-op. Unfortunately, it now refuses to let me withdraw cash at ATM.

      • EwanG says:

        7 Feb7 February 16:21

        Thanks @BJ. My 1 month premium has expired before I got round to doing any top-ups, but I might take up 3 months premium tonight as I have to go to a Scotmid/Co-op to post something, choice of two at Drumbrae. Not bothered about withdrawing Monese via ATM so long as I can transfer e.g. to Revolut!

        • BJ says:

          7 Feb7 February 16:53

          Have you found a Scotmid taking amex? I tried a coupke around Stockbridge without success a few years back so I never tried since.

        • EwanG says:

          7 Feb7 February 18:40

          @BJ I’ll find out tonight! No success on my first try a few weeks ago!

        • BJ says:

          7 Feb7 February 18:50

          Ok Ewan, thanks.

        • EwanG says:

          7 Feb7 February 21:32

          @BJ Success at the two Scotmids I tried, Boswall Pkwy and another a short distance to the E.

  • BJ says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:03

    15%, maximum £10 on my Club Lloyds.

  • Harry T says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:10

    Amazes me when they think that saying the offer excludes gift cards means anything…

    Thanks for the tip.

  • Rob says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:21

    HSBC offers me 10% off ONE Cafe Nero transaction.

    This is genuinely the best HSBC Visa deal I have ever been offered, I think.

  • Charlieface says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:52

    FYI the Sky Mobile offer tracked for me when I was under the £20 a month threshold and the Sky Mobile offer tracked when I moved an existing contract direct debit to that account, as did EE a while back.

• TonyG says:

  7 Feb7 February 16:03

  Does requesting an increase on a virgin card trigger a credit search?

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    7 Feb7 February 18:11

    No, didn’t with me.

  • eli says:

    11 Feb11 February 14:37

    doubt it since it was authorised within a few seconds. an increase of 4000k

• Paul says:

  7 Feb7 February 16:03

  Social Blade is a great site to see suspicious social media activity regarding likes and followers
  God Save The Instagram Followers

  • aDifferentSimon says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:22

    meow! Maybe something really interesting happened in July 17 and the lat week of Nov 19…

• Harry T says:

  7 Feb7 February 16:11

  OT:
  Going to get my partner to upgrade to Platinum. Thinking of paying council tax on Amex at the coop to help hit the 4k spend for the bonus. Any recent issues with coop accepting Amex for council tax payments? Worked for me last year.

  • Rob says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:15

    Totally depends on how the staff are trained at your Co-Op ….

  • BJ says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:46

    If this is your partners council tax in Edinburgh then she needs to ask them for a payment card. The council has a stupid limit of £150 per transaction though so you get co-op to swipe card once for £150 and swipe again for the balance over £150 thst is due (or another £150 if you want to overpay or CT is over £300), then pay for both as a single amex transaction. Do not ask if amex is ok, just pop your card in the reader and pay. I have never had any problem with any co-op in Edinburgh for CT payments, other payments yes but not CT. Edinburgh City Council will also happily refund her any overpayments to her bank if she has a number on file for direct debits so if you want to then pay the lot in April and request a refund in May.

    • Harry T says:

      7 Feb7 February 18:09

      @BJ
      Thanks, it’s for my council tax in Newcastle. I think they have a similar system here though. Partner doesn’t pay council tax because she’s a postgrad student!

      • BJ says:

        7 Feb7 February 18:32

        Lucky her, it’s horrendous in Edinburgh.

        • Harry T says:

          7 Feb7 February 18:54

          She lives in Newcastle too, but she’s from Edinburgh and her family live just outside the city.

        • BJ says:

          7 Feb7 February 21:19

          Ah sorry, Imust have got confused somewhere in the past, I was under the impression she was in Edinburgh.

        • Harry T says:

          7 Feb7 February 22:52

          No need to apologise, probably my fault!

      • Anna says:

        7 Feb7 February 19:25

        Does your council take PayPal?

        • BJ says:

          7 Feb7 February 21:23

          Edinburgh doesn’t although I’d love it if they did. Running to the co-op for paypoint so often is a pain.

  • Charlieface says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:54

    Esso and BP and sometimes even Shell also have Paypoint and usually accept cards for it.

    • BJ says:

      7 Feb7 February 17:31

      You don’t want to go there with the lady at my local Esso. She knows exactly what’s going on with all things cards and is very happy to share her displeasure 🙂

      • Shoestring says:

        7 Feb7 February 19:29

        nice folks at my Texaco with an even nicer Paypoint machine

        • BJ says:

          7 Feb7 February 21:27

          Thst’s good. Unfortunately this Esso is my most (in)convenient paypoiht by far.

        • Shoestring says:

          7 Feb7 February 21:34

          maybe you need to josh her along a bit – my Texaco guys are – like – the only dark skinned guys in the village – not exactly true as we have a few Chinese/ Thai/ Indian restaurants in Cornwall – but not many non white Brits, that’s the truth – so I’m not exactly yo Texaco bro, how ya doin’ Texaco bro down here from London? – but I do act sort of friendly, bit of a smile etc

    • Harry T says:

      7 Feb7 February 18:10

      Cheers!

• Secret Squirrel says:

  7 Feb7 February 16:12

  Would my partner receive a referral bonus if she referred me to BAPP, I am already holding the BA Blue card & I was under the impression recently if you applied for BAPP but already held BA Blue it was counted as an upgrade?

  • Rob says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:15

    I saw a report recently where someone said they didn’t get the referral bonus when doing the same thing.

    • fivebobbill says:

      7 Feb7 February 17:03

      Yeah me! Tried it a few months back and no referral bonus appeared, so got the card holder to call Amex and they confirmed no bonus for referrer if cardholder already held Blue ;-(

      • fivebobbill says:

        7 Feb7 February 17:04

        However, if you cancel Blue, then get referred for BAPP, you DO get the bonus 🙂

        • fivebobbill says:

          7 Feb7 February 17:05

          … the referrer that is…

      • BJ says:

        7 Feb7 February 17:24

        + same in opposite direction.

    • eli says:

      11 Feb11 February 14:26

      tWas me!

      I called before referring my wife the BAPP and was clearly told I would get the referral points.
      On further phone calls I was told to wait as it can take 90 days…….
      until the news was broken that I would not receive the points, I asked for the exact wording on the T&C’s, the (surprisingly dumb CS agent) read out totally irrelevant stuff. to cut the long story short, I got a call back from a manager who listened into my previous conversations, agreed that I had been miss informed and very kindly dumped 9000 avios into my account.

• Simon says:

  7 Feb7 February 16:46

  Sorry, All, for this OT, but with all the Revolut/Virgin re-coding hijinks lately and not ever doing this kind of thing routinely myself, then I simply cannot remember what the right answer is: an ATM withdrawal (£100) via Curve with Virgin underlying: this remain fee-free, doesn’t it? Again, sorry for such banality! Thank you for any response! 🙂

  • MD says:

    7 Feb7 February 17:01

    Yes still avoids charges. So do HSBC PWE and IHG premium in my recent experience.

    • Simon says:

      7 Feb7 February 17:18

      Thanks a lot, MD. Much appreciated! 😉

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        7 Feb7 February 19:15

        How many MR points does someone referring from Gold card to BAPP?
        Does the referrer get the points just for acceptance?

        • Shoestring says:

          7 Feb7 February 19:20

          6000, it doesn’t matter which card the referee decides on (except if it’s a ‘nothing’ card)

        • Anna says:

          7 Feb7 February 19:21

          You get the referral bonus if they are accepted but it’s only 6000 MR points now 😩

        • Secret Squirrel says:

          7 Feb7 February 19:26

          Cheers SS & Anna, just hope if I canx I’m accepted again as now got 4 x CC’s on the go with a hard search just hit for the IHG white this week.

        • Shoestring says:

          7 Feb7 February 19:28

          4 is nothing, dare you to double it and go for 8 – why the hell not? 🙂

        • Mikeact says:

          7 Feb7 February 20:15

          I won’t tell you how many I have, suffice to say that the Guinness book of records (uk) was on my radar in the 80/90’s. And they are mostly still live, apart from some that have died a death or been aquired.

• Russ says:

  7 Feb7 February 19:54

  Just picked up a £4 off £40.00 spend at Waitrose with till receipt. Will go nicely with the 4% rebate from Amex.

• Secret Squirrel says:

  7 Feb7 February 19:55

  @Shoestring:
  How many cards have you got on the go?

  • Shoestring says:

    7 Feb7 February 20:05

    nothing much compared to the past

    going to get my wallet & check

    • Shoestring says:

      7 Feb7 February 20:07

      17, looks like – might be a couple in there I confiscated from my wife/ son as they don’t understand focused spend

      • Shoestring says:

        7 Feb7 February 20:43

        why don’t you consider getting 3 policies with different providers, all through MT?

        I’m bloody 57 this year and never paid anything like £5 – otoh I am healthy, never smoked (true), don’t drink any alcohol etc

      • BJ says:

        7 Feb7 February 21:09

        You want the shortest policy to cover the smallest mortgage. I’m 52 and my policies are £1.3X and £1.6X. Decided to keep them after unexpected surgery last year.

        @Harry, how come you’re paying £6 for L&G. Did you not choose the option to pay £5, or was it not available to you? I note we cannot claim voucher until 6 months have passed so it must have been Sun Life that sent me the voucher quickly last time. In their terms Sun Life state they reserve the right to refuse a voucher to anybody who has applied and cancelled before so I’m undecided whether to try it again.

      • Shoestring says:

        7 Feb7 February 21:12

        presumably they didn’t like my age/ postcode combo – £5 not offered

      • BJ says:

        7 Feb7 February 21:32

        Age I guess, the premiums probably start to go up quite sharply after a certain age.

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