20,000 BA Miles for £35!! (Amex Gold relaunch)
Mar 8, 2011, 7:29 am
#1546
Join Date: Sep 2010
Programs: VS Silver; BA Blue; HH Gold; SPG Gold
Posts: 779
Mar 8, 2011, 7:52 am
#1547
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Somewhere between Scotland, Spain & India.
Programs: BA Gold, Virgin Gold, Starwood Gold
Posts: 122
Mar 8, 2011, 9:38 am
#1548
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: UK
Programs: Bonvoy Gold, AA Plat, Volare Premier, VS Silver, National Emerald Elite, Hertz President Circle
Posts: 2,526
Just discovered that Mrs WW's quidco didn't track on her gold amex and now it's too late to put in a query. 
Mar 10, 2011, 10:01 am
#1549
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: London
Programs: BA Blue, Hilton Diamond, Accor Plat
Posts: 189
Mar 10, 2011, 12:20 pm
#1550
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
Worth reminding people who applied when this first launched last April they should cancel now to avoid the £95 fee on their first anniversary!
Mar 10, 2011, 3:07 pm
#1551
Suspended
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 11,969
The T's&C's state you can cancel by telephone or in writing. You send them a secure personal message cancelling and they say "no you have to telephone because the CS department doesn't have email for us to forward your message" and they can't forward it. You say "well that's up to you - I've told you .... if you want to ignore my written notice that's up to you ......"
And it goes on and on ......
Why can't they accept that a cancellation doesn't necessarily have to be an imposed Amex selling opportunity?
Mar 10, 2011, 3:24 pm
#1552
Join Date: May 2007
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold, AA EXP
Posts: 1,140
I have the Gold and Platinum cards. I now want to cancel the Gold card but do I need to be concerned that my Membership Rewards account is sitting as part of my Gold card?
Online, by the Platinum card account it says "Please view your points balance under Card [Gold card number]" and the points from both charge cards do go to the same MR account.
Obviously I don't want to lose any MRs and the account is currently made up of points from both charge cards.
Online, by the Platinum card account it says "Please view your points balance under Card [Gold card number]" and the points from both charge cards do go to the same MR account.
Obviously I don't want to lose any MRs and the account is currently made up of points from both charge cards.
Mar 10, 2011, 6:17 pm
#1553
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canary Wharf, London
Programs: MyWaitrose, IC Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond & BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,685
I have the Gold and Platinum cards. I now want to cancel the Gold card but do I need to be concerned that my Membership Rewards account is sitting as part of my Gold card?
Online, by the Platinum card account it says "Please view your points balance under Card [Gold card number]" and the points from both charge cards do go to the same MR account.
Online, by the Platinum card account it says "Please view your points balance under Card [Gold card number]" and the points from both charge cards do go to the same MR account.
Mar 11, 2011, 1:41 am
#1554
Join Date: May 2007
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold, AA EXP
Posts: 1,140
Mar 11, 2011, 2:37 am
#1555
Join Date: May 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 3,951
Is there a notice period? I plan on cancelling the day before my anniversary. If AMEX were willing to 'forget' about the annual fee or extend my supermarket/fuel MR bonus for another year then i would consider keeping this on as i do think that when it works it offers great value.
Mar 11, 2011, 9:12 am
#1556
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 191
..... and what a palaver it is.
The T's&C's state you can cancel by telephone or in writing. You send them a secure personal message cancelling and they say "no you have to telephone because the CS department doesn't have email for us to forward your message" and they can't forward it. You say "well that's up to you - I've told you .... if you want to ignore my written notice that's up to you ......"
And it goes on and on ......
Why can't they accept that a cancellation doesn't necessarily have to be an imposed Amex selling opportunity?
The T's&C's state you can cancel by telephone or in writing. You send them a secure personal message cancelling and they say "no you have to telephone because the CS department doesn't have email for us to forward your message" and they can't forward it. You say "well that's up to you - I've told you .... if you want to ignore my written notice that's up to you ......"
And it goes on and on ......
Why can't they accept that a cancellation doesn't necessarily have to be an imposed Amex selling opportunity?
That's not my experience. I sent a secure message yesterday, and got a reply today asking if there was anything to do to change my mind. If there wasn't, I just needed to reply confirming that I wanted to go ahead.
Mar 13, 2011, 10:39 am
#1557
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold (OW Emerald) & Jet Airways - Thank goodness i never got started.......most awful FF program
Posts: 2,385
Just got the Gold card a few weeks ago and have been filling up the car with it.
I was astonished to see that i am accruing 3 points per every pound spent. I was only expecting double points (1 base and 1 bonus) but it seems to be giving me 1 base point and 2 bonus points for every pound spent on fuel.
Is this normal?
I was astonished to see that i am accruing 3 points per every pound spent. I was only expecting double points (1 base and 1 bonus) but it seems to be giving me 1 base point and 2 bonus points for every pound spent on fuel.
Is this normal?
Mar 13, 2011, 10:53 am
#1558
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Thatcham, UK or Adelaide Australia
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Plat OZ Diamond SK Diamond BA Blue
Posts: 3,323
Just got the Gold card a few weeks ago and have been filling up the car with it.
I was astonished to see that i am accruing 3 points per every pound spent. I was only expecting double points (1 base and 1 bonus) but it seems to be giving me 1 base point and 2 bonus points for every pound spent on fuel.
Is this normal?
I was astonished to see that i am accruing 3 points per every pound spent. I was only expecting double points (1 base and 1 bonus) but it seems to be giving me 1 base point and 2 bonus points for every pound spent on fuel.
Is this normal?
Mar 13, 2011, 10:55 am
#1559
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
Mar 13, 2011, 11:07 am
#1560
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 191
Just got the Gold card a few weeks ago and have been filling up the car with it.
I was astonished to see that i am accruing 3 points per every pound spent. I was only expecting double points (1 base and 1 bonus) but it seems to be giving me 1 base point and 2 bonus points for every pound spent on fuel.
Is this normal?
I was astonished to see that i am accruing 3 points per every pound spent. I was only expecting double points (1 base and 1 bonus) but it seems to be giving me 1 base point and 2 bonus points for every pound spent on fuel.
Is this normal?
And don't forget that using your Clubcard at petrol stations get you only 1 CC point per £2, but if you use your Tesco credit card as your Clubcard, you get 1 point per £. That means that altogether, you're getting 5 BA Miles per £ on Tesco petrol.