eBay planning a big Valentines Day deal – 30 Nectar points (19 Avios) per £1

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• Michael says:

  9 Feb9 February 07:00

  Off topic – BA just sent me an email that “ Due to a reduction in capacity on your upcoming flight, we’d like to offer you the option of changing to an alternative service on [different dates]. Due to any inconvenience caused, we would like to offer you a £100 voucher per person for use on a future British Airways flight.“ Is this considered to be the norm or quite generous?

  • Rob says:

    9 Feb9 February 08:09

    Remember that get out of paying you the EC261 compensation for bumping you.

  • JDB says:

    9 Feb9 February 09:00

    It’s not generous at all, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t get sufficient volunteers accepting the £100 voucher that nobody gets the involuntary denied boarding compensation which is the same sum as cancellation/delay compensation based on distance £220/£350/£520.

    • Michael says:

      9 Feb9 February 10:43

      It’s less than 1500km, so would be £220 under EU261. I’m quite chuffed as I was planning to cancel anyway, so getting £100 flight credit is a bonus. Also, it was an Avios booking that I did in February last year, I paid £17.50 + 5,250 Avios. I am really surprised that I got £17 back when I cancel.

      • Lady London says:

        9 Feb9 February 10:45

        Go for it.

        “A bird in the hand”, and all that.

• DevonDiamond says:

  9 Feb9 February 09:47

  Shark hoovers sell direct via ebay and were price-matching with other retailers on Black Friday, 9000 nectar points collected

• Jonathan says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:33

  I’m not buying much on eBay these days since they’re just getting so expensive

• Skywalker says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:36

  Can anyone post the link to the ebay/nectar offer activation/registration page please?

  Seems to be stuck in some kind of loop when I click the banner.

• PJJ says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:38

  If you bought say 10 packs of 1 item would that count as 10 or 1
  TIA

  • Lady London says:

    9 Feb9 February 10:47

    It would be the unit cost of the purchase.

    Provided you buy 1 unit on ebay, if that is a box containing 100 matchboxes, say, then you’ve purchased 1 item

    • PJJ says:

      9 Feb9 February 11:07

      Thank you Lady London

  • J says:

    9 Feb9 February 14:33

    The first power hour I bought 2 units of 1 item containing 5 of the same product, in one order. The points were awarded for the full purchase.

• Lady London says:

  9 Feb9 February 11:07

  Provided Ebay also pays out the Nectar reward promised if you clicked at 11.58am, and their internal processing was completed 4 mins later, at 12.02pm?

  Why do I have a feeling somehow, Ebay wouldn’t consider this to be q qualifying transaction either?

  I had this happen to me on a purchase on another website. I clicked in time, having synced clocks on 2 phones with Google repeatedly in the previous hour while I built the basket, including correcting an error spotted 6 mins before the deadline. According to my phones I clicked Buy 2 minutes before the deadline and the transaction was duly processed.

  The transaction confirmation email was timed at exactly 00:00:00 (ie 0 hours the following day) when the deadline for the promo was end of day I’d clicked Buy.

  The vendor refused to honour the promotion when I pointed out that for them to obtain credit card authorisation, then find/update their stock etc, would certainly have had to be done the previous day (ie qualifying for the promotion) as had my Buy, for the confirmation to be issued with a timestamp of 00:00:00. They refused to honour the promotion.

  What can I say? They were French.

  Oh, and 5 months later, last month, they went bust.

  • Alex W says:

    9 Feb9 February 13:08

    This offer is noon to 1pm so there’s no issue with the date. Before you confirm the purchase the eBay checkout page tells you how many nectar points you will earn, so there’s no confusion – screenshot the page of you are concerned.

• Peter says:

  9 Feb9 February 12:06

  Has anyone been banned for buying a “£300 friend’s jacket” ?

  • TimM says:

    9 Feb9 February 12:23

    eBay selling and payment fees are not inconsiderable. The Nectar benefit under the offer would be at most very marginal

    • zapato1060 says:

      9 Feb9 February 12:33

      Thing is you could spend£25 ( £5 per month) for 5 months for sainsbobs over 50 insurance for 12500 avios. If it’s £1 eBay selling fee then we are seriously talking.

  • will says:

    9 Feb9 February 15:48

    Yes, but the threshold is high. It took about 20 orders to trigger someone looking into it.

    Incidentally, if you buy something off a friend using buy it now then you have not broken any ebay rules (not true for bidding as it’s considered shill bidding). There are also no ebay restrictions on the number of accounts you can set up:

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/identity-policies/multiple-accounts-policy?id=4232

    “What are the guidelines?
    Allowed
    Users may have multiple accounts on eBay. We understand there are various reasons why someone would choose to have more than one account.

    Not allowed
    Registering new accounts or using other existing accounts to avoid buying and selling restrictions or limits or other policy consequences.”

• Andrew. says:

  9 Feb9 February 14:45

  Just a reminder that the Virgin Money eBay rebate offer is back on at 10% and valid for 13 days.

  (Offers are targetted and you may have different rebate levels and expiry dates.)

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