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Just been browsing the BA site to make a purchase via the e-store and noticed on the main page there’s a promo on for new BAPP applications where you can get 60,000 instead of 30,000 Avios for applying and spending £6k in 3 months.
I am approaching 2 years since I closed my BAPP – this offer is well timed for me. However, I received a refund on the card (a refund for a defective product purchase) approximately 9 months after the cancellation. Will the refund impact the two year calculation?
Here on HfP we hold on and see what offers Headforpoints comes up with for signups particularly in Spring and the Autumn season we are now approaching. The intelligent articles and analysis attached are, of course, a bonus 🙂 . Incentives will.broadly keep pacw with whatever else might be around as the seasons unfold.
Apart from that it’s a way of thanking Rob for the site and the sound insights that are shared, to look via HfP. We are probably coming up to the top season from late September to pre-Christmas when I would expect to see coverage of offers on key cards.
I am approaching 2 years since I closed my BAPP – this offer is well timed for me. However, I received a refund on the card (a refund for a defective product purchase) approximately 9 months after the cancellation. Will the refund impact the two year calculation?
Phone up Am Ex and ask.
My experience is that a refund on the BAPP did not invalidate my two year gap.
However, for Virgin a refund did invalidate the gap (as confirmed by phone).
Mind the gap!Am I being really stupid – I cannot actually see the button to apply?
Found it. Went via the exec club (sorry Rob but IIRC last time you didn’t get this offer and I’ll have the card in time to take on my holiday!)
Here on HfP we hold on and see what offers Headforpoints comes up with for signups particularly in Spring and the Autumn season we are now approaching. The intelligent articles and analysis attached are, of course, a bonus 🙂 . Incentives will.broadly keep pacw with whatever else might be around as the seasons unfold.
Apart from that it’s a way of thanking Rob for the site and the sound insights that are shared, to look via HfP. We are probably coming up to the top season from late September to pre-Christmas when I would expect to see coverage of offers on key cards.
In general I would agree, and I am grateful for what HFP offers, but I think that’s a simplistic opinion to expect HFP to provide all coverage of offers on key cards. The fact is that BAPP offers promoted on HFP are almost exclusively those coming from direct Amex sign-ups. BA has offered increased sign-ups bonuses for the BAPP several times in the past two years (last one for double bonus of 60K avios closed in February, now there’s another one on similar terms), and they were, IIRC, not covered by an HFP article at all, certainly not in the same way as you would have read 50 articles if Amex had offered the same increased bonus.
Whether this is because of exclusivity terms of the relationship with Amex, or just BA not advertising/promoting their offer enough, I don’t know. But the point remains that you shouldn’t rely on HFP to promote all, or even the best, offers available out there. Just the ones that pay to be promoted, or aren’t excluded by terms imposed by a paying partner (as I suspect is the case with the BA Amex BAPP offer)
As far as Amex sees it, this is not a ‘public offer’ and it can therefore impose restrictions on us under the terms of our commercial agreement with them.
If the same happens as last time, you will also not see it discussed on MSE or any comparison site because they have the same agreement.
My wife has this card and her year runs to February. It would make sense for me to apply for one now, right, so we can basically alternate spend every 6 months to get a companion voucher from each ?
<rant>Will probably be rejected as Amex seems to still hate me, possibly for taking cash out on a Halifax Clarity credit card abroad about three million years ago, WHEN THAT WAS WHAT THE BL**DY CARD WAS PROMOTED AS BEING GOOD FOR ANYWAY, AAAARGGGGHH.<end rant>
(I also like Amex Plat but strategy at the moment is to get our adult children to apply for it and make me supp card holder)
I don’t know. But the point remains that you shouldn’t rely on HFP to promote all, or even the best, offers available out there. Just the ones that pay to be promoted
I don’t know about ‘promote’, but Rob writes about a lot of card products for which there is no advertising or sponsorship deal.
Offer ends 8th Oct. While P2 will have completed 2 years without BA amex cards, will be completing 2 years without any amex in 6 months time. Wondering if the wait is worth the signup bonus on both a gold amex and BAPP.
Perfect! Was holding out for this.
Will be purchasing a new iPhone, and my annual medical insurance is due and takes Amex, so I should meet the spend.]Does anyone know if this will be a public offer once the platinum deal has ended? I would ideally like the additional referral or ca$hback site benefits as well, which I would wait another 2 days for, but not a dealbreaker.
As far as Amex sees it, this is not a ‘public offer’ and it can therefore impose restrictions on us under the terms of our commercial agreement with them.
If the same happens as last time, you will also not see it discussed on MSE or any comparison site because they have the same agreement.
Not public, but open to anyone with a BA Exec club account? Which is open to the public without restriction, and mandatory for those with the card.
As far as Amex sees it, this is not a ‘public offer’ and it can therefore impose restrictions on us under the terms of our commercial agreement with them.
If the same happens as last time, you will also not see it discussed on MSE or any comparison site because they have the same agreement.
Not public, but open to anyone with a BA Exec club account? Which is open to the public without restriction, and mandatory for those with the card.
I think what he meant is that it’s not explicitly publicised as a sign-up offer, but more of a member exclusive offer. There’s a slight difference.
On the other hand, anyone applying for this be extremely vigilant and do it properly by letting cookies and clicks track properly. It can be missed to trigger the offer, so do it properly and maybe check in with AMEX on chat to ensure it’s on your account.. I applied twice before, and sometimes a tracker does not even appear so my tip is to pay attention and check once approved.
As far as Amex sees it, this is not a ‘public offer’ and it can therefore impose restrictions on us under the terms of our commercial agreement with them.
If the same happens as last time, you will also not see it discussed on MSE or any comparison site because they have the same agreement.
Not public, but open to anyone with a BA Exec club account? Which is open to the public without restriction, and mandatory for those with the card.
I think what he meant is that it’s not explicitly publicised as a sign-up offer, but more of a member exclusive offer. There’s a slight difference.
On the other hand, anyone applying for this be extremely vigilant and do it properly by letting cookies and clicks track properly. It can be missed to trigger the offer, so do it properly and maybe check in with AMEX on chat to ensure it’s on your account.. I applied twice before, and sometimes a tracker does not even appear so my tip is to pay attention and check once approved.
Thanks – I have a video screenshot recording of me applying, clicking directly from the BA Exec club. Cookies all cleared prior, and fully enabled. 60,000 avios offer clearly visible, and T&Cs scrolled through for the video. 5 mins 14 seconds and 273MB of tedious boredom. But proof of what I applied for should Amex try anything silly later on.
As far as Amex sees it, this is not a ‘public offer’ and it can therefore impose restrictions on us under the terms of our commercial agreement with them.
If the same happens as last time, you will also not see it discussed on MSE or any comparison site because they have the same agreement.
Not public, but open to anyone with a BA Exec club account? Which is open to the public without restriction, and mandatory for those with the card.
I think what he meant is that it’s not explicitly publicised as a sign-up offer, but more of a member exclusive offer. There’s a slight difference.
On the other hand, anyone applying for this be extremely vigilant and do it properly by letting cookies and clicks track properly. It can be missed to trigger the offer, so do it properly and maybe check in with AMEX on chat to ensure it’s on your account.. I applied twice before, and sometimes a tracker does not even appear so my tip is to pay attention and check once approved.
Thanks – I have a video screenshot recording of me applying, clicking directly from the BA Exec club. Cookies all cleared prior, and fully enabled. 60,000 avios offer clearly visible, and T&Cs scrolled through for the video. 5 mins 14 seconds and 273MB of tedious boredom. But proof of what I applied for should Amex try anything silly later on.
When this offer first ran, not sure.. like over a year ago, close to 2, many people did it wrong and blamed AMEX for it, most got it and then a small subset lied about what they did / did not do so that was an odd few weeks of posts on here. I did it twice and worked both times, as long as you’re logged in and click the link to apply. Then verified with AMEX once approved on chat. Should be fine!
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