Bits: how to pre-order your BA duty free, 180 Avios for giving Tesco your insurance details

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• Carey says:

  30 May30 May 12:56

  I would never do the pre-order Duty Free again. I did this before traveled from Dubai to Heathrow during the 20% offer discount. It never arrived, and it took me weeks and multiple telephone calls/email to get a refund from the High Life Shop. This is a separate company not part of BA so they couldnt even supply me with the same duty free item which they had on board at the discounted price.

  • ADS says:

    30 May30 May 14:26

    being able to see the item on the duty free trolley, but BA refusing to supply – that must have been painful !

• Joe says:

  30 May30 May 15:08

  I have done this a few times and although I’ve had to remind the CC it’s always so far been preloaded; think I didn’t get the avios once but as someone else said they’re small amounts so didn’t bother chasing. The list of flights is quite random though and different from the pre orders you can do onboard (onboard you can preorder for your return leg). At the cheap end of my gin taste I like the Bombay east so that’s what I usually preorder, they also occasionally have great clearance lines (like dewars signature)

• Jon says:

  30 May30 May 16:09

  OT – Recently hit my anniversary £15k spend on my Amex Gold PR card in April, but the 10k points have yet to be posted. Does anyone know how long this takes to post? Called them up and they said 90 days, which severely reduces the value if I need to pay 3 months worth of fees….

  Should I just cancel now and take the £12 hit or wait another 2 months for the 10k points to post at a cost of an additional £24+?

  • Rob says:

    30 May30 May 16:21

    Took about 4 weeks when my wife did this last year. Never takes 90 days.

  • Leo says:

    30 May30 May 20:47

    I spoke to Amex about the very same issue via CHAT yesterday. I was told that as my year ended on 17 May the points would post on or around the 17 June – so 4 weeks as per Rob’s advice above. Fingers crossed. I also asked whether there would be any points opportunity for upgrading to Platinum. I was told no – quite bluntly. “But there are lots of other benefits to the card sir”. I said that in that case I would be cancelling the card, no other offer was forthcoming. Current plan is to apply for the SPG card once extra points hit and I cancel.

    • Leo says:

      30 May30 May 20:49

      I should say I put a ton of money through the card this year.

• Alex W says:

  30 May30 May 22:37

  Ordered the duty free once it didn’t turn up.

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