Reply To: The British Airways Prepaid Mastercard thread

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Can’t say I’ve had any missing Avios from transactions with the card (most issues are with BA and AirBnB where I have a 100% non-tracking / Avios awarded rate)

Do get the occasional time when chip & pin fails to work (especially in Sainsbury petrol stations), but for the most part, it works fine.
If it could update how much is left more rapidly, that would be great. Not always sure quite how much I actually have left on it before and after topping up, and making purchases.

My new card is probably stuck somewhere in Royal Mail limbo.

As for the £2.99 fee, that’s pretty much a case of spending £600 on it to buy 1 Avios at 1p each to “technically break even”.
Takes away the incentive in using it for general spending to be honest. If the cap remains at £2.5k?, which I would never hit unless I decided to buy loads of flights on it, that at least offers something, although there are probably better earning opportunities out there.