Gaining Avios spend via PayPal with TUI
Jan 12, 2021, 4:49 am
#1
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Gaining Avios spend via PayPal with TUI
Hello,
I am a relatively new Amex British Airways Premium Plus credit card holder.
Unfortunately when trying to pay off a significant TUI package holiday, I realised they don't accept Amex as a payment method when trying to settle the balance online. However, I noticed they welcome PayPal payments.
If I link my Amex to PayPal and use this for the transaction do you know if this will qualify as normal spending that will trigger the card’s £1 spent to 1.5 Avios points reward?
Thank you so much
I am a relatively new Amex British Airways Premium Plus credit card holder.
Unfortunately when trying to pay off a significant TUI package holiday, I realised they don't accept Amex as a payment method when trying to settle the balance online. However, I noticed they welcome PayPal payments.
If I link my Amex to PayPal and use this for the transaction do you know if this will qualify as normal spending that will trigger the card’s £1 spent to 1.5 Avios points reward?
Thank you so much
Jan 12, 2021, 5:40 am
#2
Join Date: Dec 2016
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No direct experience of TUI but in general you can link Paypal to Amex and use it for transactions where the merchant doesn't usually accept Amex directly, and you will get the Avios. Not always though, sometimes Amex is blocked as a funding source by some merchants somehow.
Whether it's advisable is another question, you might check Paypal policies for chargeback if TUI were to fold. I'd rather spend on a credit card where the situation is much clearer.
Whether it's advisable is another question, you might check Paypal policies for chargeback if TUI were to fold. I'd rather spend on a credit card where the situation is much clearer.
Jan 12, 2021, 5:53 am
#4
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Jan 12, 2021, 6:17 am
#7
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Also in your original post you say 'pay off'. So if you've already paid the first installment with a non-AMEX cc you will be covered for the whole holiday with S75.... So your worries at this stage will be unfounded
Jan 12, 2021, 6:27 am
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Can you not pay off a small amount via a Visa or mastercard CC and the rest via paypal with Amex? That way you will be covered by S75 through your direct spend should you need protection. You would sacrifice a few avios obviously but worth it for having S75
Also in your original post you say 'pay off'. So if you've already paid the first installment with a non-AMEX cc you will be covered for the whole holiday with S75.... So your worries at this stage will be unfounded
Also in your original post you say 'pay off'. So if you've already paid the first installment with a non-AMEX cc you will be covered for the whole holiday with S75.... So your worries at this stage will be unfounded
Jan 12, 2021, 6:44 am
#9
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See here, a £60 deposit on a £600 item covers you:
https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rig...mer-credit-act
Jan 12, 2021, 6:56 am
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I believe (and I'm not a financial advisor or expert) you can put a small amount, say £20 towards the total, and as long as the total product is over £100 you are covered.
See here, a £60 deposit on a £600 item covers you:
https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rig...mer-credit-act
See here, a £60 deposit on a £600 item covers you:
https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rig...mer-credit-act
Jan 13, 2021, 2:56 am
#13
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meant they were delayed. In the end I opened a dispute on PayPal and it was refunded within a few days, it sure how long it would have taken otherwise.
Jan 13, 2021, 6:58 am
#15
Join Date: Apr 2016
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My most interesting refund/cancellation anecdote of 2020 relates to TUI (Doesn’t really help the OP but still can’t believe this happened)
Paid a deposit for 2 of us in January 2020 on a fairly expensive trip for the June. Had paid a deposit of £400 at time of booking. Had to wait until after the scheduled departure date to go through their refund process. Got told it was being processed but they actually took another £400 from my card rather than refunding me.
They refused to acknowledge this happened as their systems said, “refund processed”. It took a number of months and multiple hours of calls, emails as well as provision of proof to get them to realise their error. I got all the money back within about an hour of them accepting they’d made the mistake.
Whilst not a large amount of money it wasn’t insignificant and I was completely at their mercy. My final threat of reporting them for theft seemed to be what called them to proper action.
Paid a deposit for 2 of us in January 2020 on a fairly expensive trip for the June. Had paid a deposit of £400 at time of booking. Had to wait until after the scheduled departure date to go through their refund process. Got told it was being processed but they actually took another £400 from my card rather than refunding me.
They refused to acknowledge this happened as their systems said, “refund processed”. It took a number of months and multiple hours of calls, emails as well as provision of proof to get them to realise their error. I got all the money back within about an hour of them accepting they’d made the mistake.
Whilst not a large amount of money it wasn’t insignificant and I was completely at their mercy. My final threat of reporting them for theft seemed to be what called them to proper action.