36 British Airways Avios Per Dollar Spent at Nordstrom (Expired)
#200
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 6
Ok I have been trying to sign up for the executive club constantly at several different points throughout the past three days. I have switched browsers and cleared cookies. Does anyone have any idea what to do so I could just get an account? Any help would be very much appreciated!
#202
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 45
Ok I have been trying to sign up for the executive club constantly at several different points throughout the past three days. I have switched browsers and cleared cookies. Does anyone have any idea what to do so I could just get an account? Any help would be very much appreciated!
#203
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: DFW
Posts: 1,145
Glittergate all over again
They aren't $1.15 a piece or whatever...but kind of brings back memories. lol.
http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/rebecca-...esultback=1140
http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/rebecca-...esultback=1140
#205
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: LAX
Programs: AA EXP, Hyatt Diamond, UA 1P
Posts: 389
Hypothetical question: Say you buy a crazy amount of stuff at Nordstrom, get the Avios points, book and take the flight and then you end up returning the stuff to Nordstrom after the flight is done? They can't claw back points that are already burned can they?
#206
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 147
You can order twice under the same British Airways account and receive the full 36x points on multiple orders. I ordered $1,600 late last week and another $400 over the weekend. Now I did use different credit cards and used my middle name as my first name on the second order (not sure if this mattered so I can't comment on using the same name and same card twice). But just a data point.
#208
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 1
There are only 2x worth of bonus points. You earned points on the original purchase(1x) followed by 2 bonues sets (2x) & (3x)......
If you purchase a 10 dollar piece of uranium ore. You will earn 30 points total. Hence 3x bonus. You earn 10 points for the purchase and then 20 points in bonuses.
Hope this helps
#209
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 47
Evil. I don't think they'd make you buy miles at FMV if that's what you're worried about.
#210
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: ORF
Programs: Amex Plat, AA, BA Silver, Marriott Plat, Choice Gold, HHonors Gold, IHG Diamond
Posts: 3,749
Not saying this would happen in the real world, but I could imagine a hypothetical world where someone in the hierarchy at Nordstrom sees $5000 worth of stuff returned (I mean, you are going for a first-class ticket somewhere, worth at least 150,000 miles, right?) and realizes that a hypothetical someone had just cost Nordstrom about $1500 in payments made to BA to purchase miles to fund this promotion (truly hypothetical assumption: Avios normally cost about 5.3 cents each to buy, but we can hypothetically assume that Nordstrom buys them at a respectable discount; let's hypothetically say, 1 cent a piece, here).
Let's also hypothetically say that this person doesn't share the FT motto of "anything for miles/points/etc." but instead feels that it's worth pressing charges for grand theft under California law, where you hypothetically live, which has a $950 threshold. I'd hope my hypothetical trip was really worth it because even if I hypothetically beat the rap (the prosecutor's burden would be somewhat difficult: proving that your returning $5000 worth of stuff was a sham rather than legitimately justified by Nordstrom's generous return policy), I'd be sweating a lot of real-world sweat and maybe spending a lot of real-world money to do it.
Of course, the way around that might be to buy one really expensive ring and then return it when your hypothetical fiancee breaks off the engagement. Report back and let us know how it goes.