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

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• ayearinmx says:

  9 Feb9 February 08:27

  for the 3000 points with a £300 spend, does it actually tell you when you’ve done it, or do you just get the reward at the end of the period of time?

  • Sussex bantam says:

    9 Feb9 February 09:27

    I got a success email and the points credited a few days later

    • meta says:

      9 Feb9 February 09:51

      Without the previous promo it took over a week since spend for it to show in my account. With this promo, I am now on day 5. So it varies.

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        9 Feb9 February 12:01

        No email confirmation here, used it on Wed & payments processed thurs.

        • ayearinmx says:

          9 Feb9 February 12:24

          ok, so no real rule then….. i’ll just hope it happens!

        • BJ says:

          9 Feb9 February 13:11

          No, amex offers are a shambles these days but most usually post sooner or later.

• Lady London says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:37

  You forgot to mention that as this year is a Leap Year – it has the extra day of 29th February which only occurs every 4 years – traditionally that’s the day when ladies can propose marriage to their partners rather than the other way round. Any other day ladies are supposed to wait to receive a proposal of marriage from their gentleman and not allowed to do the asking.

  • BJ says:

    9 Feb9 February 13:16

    :D, and probabky why many men are AWOL.

• FlyingChris says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:42

  BA 3000 Amex Promo: Looking at flights that are £290 – any tips for just getting over the £300 mark? Would a £10 Flying Start donation work, or would the backend know / be processed differently?

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    9 Feb9 February 12:02

    Seat booking?

  • BJ says:

    9 Feb9 February 13:15

    £10 donation to FlyingStart., the BA charity.

• thehornets says:

  9 Feb9 February 11:03

  O/T: I’m looking to top up some savings with Revolut using Creation. I seem to remember some people saying there were daily/weekly limits. Can anyone confirm? Thanks in advance.

  • Lev441 says:

    9 Feb9 February 12:25

    £200/ day and £700/week. You’ll get hit with interest and/or cash advance fees now.

    • thehornets says:

      9 Feb9 February 17:13

      Thank you. My intention is to pay off the IHG amount in advance so I don’t incur any/many cash advance interest fees

      • Alex W says:

        9 Feb9 February 20:09

        The cash advance fee could be higher than your points are worth. Do let us know if that’s not the case, however…

• rahaney says:

  9 Feb9 February 12:25

  If you’ve never had an Amex SPG can you open the old SPG before the 25th earn the intro bonus, transfer points to avios after 60 days and then close it for the pro rata refund?
  Thanks,

  • Lev441 says:

    9 Feb9 February 12:26

    Yep! Do it quickly before the bonus drops when Bonvoy rebranded card launches at the end of the month.

  • Peter K says:

    9 Feb9 February 19:22

    I think you are confusing it with a Membership Reward card. The points earned on the SPG card cannot be manually moved across, they sweep across automatically a few days before each statement. Also they are Bonvoy points, not Avios.

    You only get the bonus (unless lucky) if you’ve not had any other personal Amex in the last 24 months.

• Dr Doo says:

  9 Feb9 February 12:49

  OT: With the Morrison gift card, can you actually get a cash withdrawal using it at a till or was that just a theory?

  • Shoestring says:

    9 Feb9 February 13:26

    not tried it – but I did once buy lottery tickets (illogical as that is!) on M vouchers, they are treated as cash

    • TGLoyalty says:

      9 Feb9 February 13:48

      Out of interest why is that illogical?

      It’s a Morrison’s gift card and you are spending it on something in Morrison’s when they are selling you a lottery ticket they are selling the ticket and then paying NL for it less a small commission.

      • Shoestring says:

        9 Feb9 February 14:36

        illogical to buy lottery tickets, the odds are so poor

        I did 5 weeks of £12.50x Euromillions to get it out of my system & promised myself to not waste any more money if I lost overall

        I won 2 lots of about £5-6 so that was £50 wasted I’ll never get back – but I got it out of my system 🙂

        • Shoestring says:

          9 Feb9 February 14:37

          well, £45 wasted as I was getting my 10% Amex discount

        • Alex W says:

          9 Feb9 February 20:11

          I did a few scratch cards during shop small. Just about broke even I think!

        • TGLoyalty says:

          10 Feb10 February 01:18

          Ah gotcha. The lottery is illogical I thought maybe I missed some term on these GCs.

          You went in a little hard. 1 line on an odd occasion is enough for me. £50 probably last me a few years in losses

    • Dr Doo says:

      9 Feb9 February 17:43

      Yes I previously brought a £1 scratch card and got £9 in change (My cost) with the Morrisions paper vouchers but now those days are gone 🙁

• Mark says:

  9 Feb9 February 14:20

  I have some Hertz points due to expire in a couple of days
  If there any airline or hotel system I can transfer them to?
  Be grateful of any advice

  • Shoestring says:

    9 Feb9 February 14:33

    not possible

    you can transfer them to a spouse or domestic partner, which presumably gives them another 18 months expiry – costs nothing to set them up as Gold, if you are single you could just invent somebody/ your imaginary partner

    • Mark says:

      9 Feb9 February 14:36

      Thanks

  • Rob says:

    9 Feb9 February 14:52

    I think – could be wrong – that logging in to the US site still lets you transfer to IHG etc?

    • Shoestring says:

      9 Feb9 February 14:59

      yep stand corrected – there’s a ‘but’ though
      [If you have Five Star or President’s Circle status, you can also transfer your points to participating airline and hotel loyalty programs:
      Alaska Airlines
      American Airlines
      Amtrak
      Delta Air Lines
      Frontier Airlines
      IHG Rewards Club
      Marriott Bonvoy
      Southwest Airlines
      Spirit Airlines
      United Airlines]

      • Mark says:

        9 Feb9 February 15:05

        Am just gold plus can I still transfer?

        • Mark says:

          9 Feb9 February 15:26

          Thanks guy just transferred them😎😎

        • Shoestring says:

          9 Feb9 February 15:28

          that’s great, was it on the US site?

    • meta says:

      9 Feb9 February 15:51

      Yes, log in via US site. You can transfer then to IHG and Marriott. I did just that in December. If I remember correctly, the rate is 1000 Marriott points for 600 Hertz points.

• Vit says:

  9 Feb9 February 17:54

  RE: Qmile bonus, is this Qmile only and cannot be converted to avios? Assuming I put my BAEC account number to get the avios upon booking?

  Cheers,
  Vit

  • Rob says:

    9 Feb9 February 19:02

    Qmiles only, yes.

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