Get £5 off at ALDI with American Express

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• mark2 says:

  8 Feb8 February 12:42

  More importantly, the Waitrose ‘Pick Your Own’ scheme is closing on 28th Feb to be replaced by ‘personalised rewards selected just for you’.

  • Cate says:

    8 Feb8 February 14:36

    Yes, got my notification to. To be fair I could never remember what we’d chosen anyway! Nice offer yesterday though of 50% off a Cook Well recipe box for your first box.

    • Cate says:

      8 Feb8 February 17:03

      ……and just received the ‘Pick Your Own’ replacement. It’s a very nice pack with some money off vouchers plus a chance to with 1000 in JL vouchers.

      • mark2 says:

        8 Feb8 February 17:08

        Was that by post or email please? (just back from Waitrose)

      • Rob says:

        8 Feb8 February 17:17

        Thanks! Got this today and binned it after opening it. Turns out, yes, inside the brochure are a pile of coupons for things we buy (not coincidentally) so basically free money.

  • Cate says:

    8 Feb8 February 17:56

    Post Mark2 🙂

    • Rob says:

      8 Feb8 February 18:02

      Did none of you see Anika in The Guardian talking about this?!

      • Cate says:

        8 Feb8 February 21:18

        …says the chap who received it and then binned it 🙂 🙂

        No I didn’t see it, to be fair though this is the first time you’ve mentioned it.

        • Rob says:

          8 Feb8 February 22:22

          I don’t think it made the paper, it is on the website – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/05/waitrose-to-close-part-of-loyalty-scheme-at-end-of-february-pick-your-own-offers

      • Cate says:

        8 Feb8 February 22:48

        Ah yes. Yep, too easy to fall off the shopping radar….

• mark2 says:

  8 Feb8 February 12:49

  OT
  For current accounts which pay interest and/or other benefits you often need two or three direct debits. Tesco Internet Saver (TIS) accounts allow you to set up a direct debit to collect small amounts from a current account each month. You can have one TIS account each and one joint. It also pays 1.3% with instant access. Don’t set up too many at the same time or it gets shirty.

  • JamesB says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:02

    Just a reminder though. that it is not a qualifying direct debit for their own tesco current account so don’t anybody rush off doing that.

    • Genghis says:

      8 Feb8 February 15:41

      Cough. Works for me…

      • David says:

        8 Feb8 February 16:35

        N.B. The T&Cs are changing and From 22nd April 2018 and you’ll be unable to set up new, regular or one off direct debit payments. All existing direct debits set up on your account will be cancelled.

      • JamesB says:

        8 Feb8 February 16:45

        On the relaunched account requiring 3 DD?

      • JamesB says:

        8 Feb8 February 17:00

        Oh well, no longer relevant given comment from David.

      • mark2 says:

        8 Feb8 February 17:24

        That’s a blow; probably too many people like us doing small direct debits!

      • David says:

        8 Feb8 February 20:39

        To be clear, my comment specifically relates to the T&Cs of the Tesco Bank Internet Saver and Tesco Bank Instant Access Savings Account which have changed and I was sent details of in the post a little while back.

      • Genghis says:

        8 Feb8 February 20:42

        @David. Thanks for letting us know. I rarely read those savings acct T&C change letters

• Anna says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:26

  OT – my avios.com account is now showing avios and vouchers earned from the Lloyds avios cards, however my Lloyds credit card statement is still not showing any of this, and there is no spend indicator either – should I just assume this is never going to happen and continue adding it all up myself?!

  • meta says:

    8 Feb8 February 14:33

    Weird. At the very end of my statements there is a breakdown of Avios earned. It’s in the PDF statement.

    • Anna says:

      8 Feb8 February 19:46

      I’ll have a look on my next statement, it might still be catching up.

• Matt says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:52

  I tried applying for Aqua and was rejected! The waiting list for the Tandem has been removed – can just apply now

  • Lumma says:

    8 Feb8 February 15:39

    Really? Perhaps balance layers are not what they’re after. I do find them to be quite immoral to be fair. I’ve had the card a few years now, they gave me just a £450 limit at first (I only applied as they were giving a free night in a hotel as a sign up bonus, stayed in the Mercure sheffield) and within a year they put it up to £3800. The minimum payment is always lower than the estimated interest too.

    Still they’ve not gotten a penny in interest or fees from me 🙂

  • Lumma says:

    8 Feb8 February 15:41

    Or balance payers even

  • rams1981 says:

    8 Feb8 February 17:07

    Thanks. Have applied for a card. Will report back if any good

  • Matt says:

    8 Feb8 February 17:53

    Subsequently checking on MSE’s eligibility check I was down as ineligible for Aqua, so presumably they have some upper limit for credit score or income.

• Anna says:

  8 Feb8 February 14:02

  If you look at the Curve rewards section on their website there’s quite a bit of info about this.

• Scallder says:

  8 Feb8 February 15:39

  Something to note – I tried doing a £30 shop this morning splitting over 3 cards and they wouldn’t take multiple cards for one transaction. Was told I could do card and cash… One item was £25 though so ditched the others I had picked up to make to £30 and will get those another day…

  • Cate says:

    8 Feb8 February 15:47

    When I get to the till I just put separators between the stuff I’m buying so it goes through as separate transactions. I’ve only been queried on this once and said I was shopping for myself and another and needed separate receipts. No problems.

    • Scallder says:

      8 Feb8 February 17:06

      Will certainly do that the next time I’m in there Cate to make use of the remaining 2 cards I have it on, however didn’t fancy my chances taking the £25 item out of the box and getting them to price up parts individually 🙂

• Scottydoggiom says:

  8 Feb8 February 16:45

  With regards to Aldi , i just tried to order some wine online with them and there is no option to pay with Amex , maybe its to be added to the online side at a later date ?

• Optimus Prime says:

  8 Feb8 February 17:31

  OT – Marriot is making changes to some hotel categories.

  http://www.marriott.com/marriott-rewards/use/category-update.mi

  • rams1981 says:

    8 Feb8 February 17:42

    Just booked JW Marriott Orlando using rewards package for 330k points. Was cat 7 and about to move to cat 8 it seems so saved 30k Marriott points.

    110k SPG points for one week’s hotel at £1100-1200 plus 120k Avios was a decent return.

  • Will says:

    8 Feb8 February 20:17

    Phu Quoc moving out of cat 5 to 6, just managed to redeem a travel package against it while it was cat 5!

    Worked out at 90k SPG points for 162k avios and what would have been a cash rate of £2800 for the week. Very pleased with that.

    • rams1981 says:

      8 Feb8 February 22:00

      How did you get 162k Avios?

      • rams1981 says:

        8 Feb8 February 22:04

        Ah – you must have got your voucher during the 35% bonus period – well done sir

  • Tracy says:

    8 Feb8 February 21:43

    Thanks for the heads up, have booked my hotels for US summer trip, San Francisco and LA. Both hotels were going up…

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