EDIflyer

They also do gift cards (valid at Currys/PC World as well as Dixons Travel ) if you happen to have more than one Amex card or can't decide what to buy!

raikje

Bah! I was so busy focussing on the 3000 bonus Worldpoints and triggering the minimum spend on one of my Amex cards, I forgot I could have synced it up and got another £25 back. Oh well.

Paralytic

So you can buy a £50 gift card at airport Dixons Travel for £25 and use on the high street? Thanks, I never knew that.

EDIflyer

Yep

EDIflyer

OK success with Amex-Xbox Carphone Warehouse offer - they can do 'gift vouchers', they just don't look particularly gift-like! They instead print out a till receipt with the credit (not all sales staff seem to know how to process them as it's not a particularly common request!). They also sell £25 iTunes cards, but sadly Google Play Store cards aren't yet available in the UK. The voucher is showing valid until 2021!! ^

Sprodo

What's the current BA Premium offer like? I need to spend £5k at the end of the month (might this be too much to expect as a limit) so thinking of a way to get something for it. Likely to balance transfer to an MBNA anyway so interest rate is irrelevant.

Also thinking of dropping AMEX Plat in May, so this would replace it. Thoughts ? Will they give an idea of credit without actually processing the application?

ups

So i used ba.com to book some currency from Amex at LHR T5 using my Amex PRG. The transaction went through fine. It has now appeared in the statement and I received 1x points. Should this have been 2x points being travel spend?

At the ACE desk I asked for my BA number to be added, and initially the guy tried to tell me that I can't get BA number added as I have received a good rate and to get avios I should've gone through ba.com or avios.com which would give me avios albeit with a poorer rate. I told him that I did go through ba.com and then he went into the back to get the BAEC number added. However after 2 minutes he came back saying it can't be added at that time because it takes several days for their system to be updated in order to get my details in their system. He has assured me that it will get added soon as he has taken a note of it. I'm not sure if this will work, anyone else experienced it?

On the positive side my Worldpoints number was added successfully and the points have already hit my account.

moneypooraviosrich

Checked into our local Tesco, loaded the offer to my synced card, spent £50 on a gift card. No £10 credit showing on my statement. Looked on my phone again and the offer had been unloaded, I had to do it again!! I emailed Amex explaining what happened and am awaiting a reply

chistery

If referred for a BAPP card, you get 26k Avios after £3k spend in 3 months. Or use a cashback site and get 25k avios and £10 cashback.

In case you don't get a large credit limit, if the spend can be split you can put half on your BAPP card, then pay it off with a debit card and your available balance is updated immediately, allowing you to charge the rest.

Oh, and if you need a referral, let me know!

EDIflyer

When you reloaded it did it say 'already loaded'? If not it sounds like it didn't go on properly the first time. It does take 2-3 days after the charge for the credit to post.

KeithJenner

I had one recently which didn't show up on Foursquare as already loaded a few days after my transaction, but it certainly was at the time (I was being very careful to make sure that it had done so). It does seem that there are occasional ones which this happens to.

Hopefully the email will result in a credit, but I have to say that even if this one is missed it has still been well worth it.

moneypooraviosrich

No, that how I knew it had unloaded itself. I had been quite obsessive about making sure all of my offers were loaded, to the point of trying to load them several times and making sure I got the "already loaded". The Tesco one I had actually done probably for the umpteenth time the day I went in to buy the gift card.

EDIflyer

Interesting - it should really still credit then. I must admit I've taken to screenshotting it after loading it now, although fingers crossed all have posted OK so far. Today's Gap one posted as "Gap/Kids" (although it was a normal Gap store), but I got a 4sq notification OK so am pretty happy it'll still credit.

PanGalactic

I'm having mixed results with this so far, based on using 10 different cards at GAP and the 4sq notifications 4/10 :

Based on using 2 cards at Tesco so far 1/2:

I'm really not surprised the Lloyds ones failed honestly, the Amexnetwork offers never seem to work on them (Anyone ever got Amextoptreats points from Lloyds?)

No credits posted yet, although it's only been since Friday.

On another note, regarding check in to one store, purchase from another, I think it's OK because if you try to check in to the store and load the offer again it says "Already loaded" so it looks like it should work. The GAP purchases I made on my own cards were from Brent Cross whereas I checked in to Westfield. Mrs P checked in to Westfield and went to Westfield.

mdj1

Are there any pre-paid cards that can be used at the moment like the old paypal one? Got a large tax bill to pay.