Earn Virgin Atlantic miles with the American Express and Red Carnation Hotels cashback deal

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• Trevor says:

  20 Mar20 March 12:55

  Thanks for the reminder Rob. Got to be careful about the items coming from Amazon. “Fulfilled by Amazon” does not work. A couple of SD cards for the holiday for a tenner instead of £25. Perfect…..

  • N. Ford says:

    20 Mar20 March 14:33

    Lucky you, getting the code to work (see above…)

• Craig Strickland says:

  20 Mar20 March 17:50

  OT: Mrs S is waiting until June to apply for a MRG, she has a BA and is supp on my BA & Plat. Can I recommend her for the SPG to earn a referral then cancel and apply for the gold in 3 months?

  • memesweeper says:

    20 Mar20 March 19:25

    Yes! SPG is a different ‘currency’ to MR or Avios.

• Gman says:

  20 Mar20 March 18:04

  Ot – I have three cc linked to my curve corporate debit card. Can I withdraw 200 pounds via each card? Or is the £200/month calender limit means I will be charged for more than 200?

  • memesweeper says:

    20 Mar20 March 19:27

    No. It is £ 200 /month per Curve card.

  • Anna says:

    20 Mar20 March 19:33

    No you can withdraw £200 per card per calendar month without incurring fees. Other posters have made the point that your other spending needs to be at level that makes the cash withdrawals acceptable. I am assuming that making utility payments counts toward this type of spend but it’s not been confirmed.

    • memesweeper says:

      20 Mar20 March 19:39

      +1 for playing fair with Curve. I use it for absolutely everything that isn’t Amex. I rarely need more than £200/month in cash anyway.

    • Genghis says:

      20 Mar20 March 19:49

      Officially “You can withdraw up to £200 (or currency equivalent) for free using your credit cards per calendar month“
      https://www.imaginecurve.com/fair-use

• memesweeper says:

  20 Mar20 March 19:30

  My Curve is badly playing up now, working in shops (PIN and contactless) but useless online: ‘Authentication error’ for everything I’ve tried since Sunday. Curve support unable to work out what the problem is, but it is very consistent. 🙁 Hope they fix this soon.

  • Anna says:

    20 Mar20 March 19:34

    Which retailers are you having problems with?

    • memesweeper says:

      20 Mar20 March 19:37

      > Which retailers are you having problems with?

      All of them! Tried HMRC, a couple of others, then when I couldn’t make a low-value purchase from Argos, who is one of their partners, I realised it was properly broken for all online purchases.

      • Leo says:

        20 Mar20 March 19:43

        My only real interest in Curve is to pay HMRC etc. I’m slowly trying to build up Curve usage to increase limits to do this. If people are finding paying HMRC is no longer an option going forward I will ditch Curve for the second time. Can people trying to pay tax with Curve drop a comment in now or then to let the rest of us know how HMRC payments are going?

        • Rob says:

          20 Mar20 March 20:57

          Did £1700 last week no bother.

      • Genghis says:

        20 Mar20 March 19:52

        @Leo what would you lose by not using Curve? I use for all non Amex spend where don’t need S75 protection as I quite like the functionality of the product.

      • Memesweeper says:

        20 Mar20 March 20:09

        Leo — As well as tax payments i’ve found the go back in time feature to be handy. And it slims the wallet. 🙂

      • Rob says:

        20 Mar20 March 20:58

        What card is linked?

      • BLT says:

        20 Mar20 March 21:00

        @Genghis The problem with using curve as your go to card is that it reduces the max £50K you can use it at HMRC. As that’s the main draw for me (and I spend over £50K annually at HMRC), I can’t use it regularly on places that accept credit cards.

      • Genghis says:

        20 Mar20 March 21:42

        @BLT fair enough. I don’t have that “problem”. But so far, how much have you used Curve to pay HMRC? Are you just using it to pay HMRC?

      • Memesweeper says:

        20 Mar20 March 21:47

        Got many linked, including Lloyds Avios, MBNA Virgin and HSBC — makes no odds what is chosen at the time of the transaction, online fails and there’s no indication of a decline in the app.

  • Luckyjim says:

    20 Mar20 March 22:38

    I suspect curve have blocked certain payees – similar to what happened with 3V.

  • Mr dee says:

    20 Mar20 March 22:38

    How long have you had your Curve account?

    Hmrc payments seem ok for accounts that are older but Hmrc declining for newer accounts, wouldn’t surprise me if they have put a minimum account opening time before some payments can be made.

    • Leo says:

      20 Mar20 March 22:45

      I did get a payment through HMRC in January, just for such a small amount – £200, I couldn’t be bothered to make multiple payments in such small stages! I’m hoping to get a slightly larger amount through by July. @Genghis yes it’s fairly nifty but I only use the IHG card and amex so I don’t feel the need to use Curve for the sake of it.

  • Mr dee says:

    20 Mar20 March 22:39

    Btw HMRC definitely still works for some

• BLT says:

  20 Mar20 March 22:06

  @Genghis I kept the original Beta card until swapping for a debit card in February. My PAYE is around 4-5K a month and have managed to do that over the past couple of months (in max 2k chunks per day). It’s a good problem to have, Prior to HMRC changing the rules I just used my IHG premium card and achieved Spire through HMRC spend.

• Rob says:

  21 Mar21 March 10:10

  Yes

  • Heidi says:

    27 Mar27 March 11:37

    I have got the same message and I have not used the promotion before. What might I be doing wrong? I have linked my amex gold card. applied £0.01in points then added the code. There is £31 of product sold by Amazon EU. Not sure what else I might be doing wrong.

    • Rob says:

      28 Mar28 March 10:28

      Thanks, glad it worked in the end.

• EwanG says:

  1 Apr1 April 09:00

  The promotion has been extended. Now ends 30/06/2018

  • EwanG says:

    1 Apr1 April 09:01

    The Amex Shop with points one, that is!

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