The new HFP chat thread – Wednesday 29th April

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• Dominic says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:08

  Has anyone tried the Economist avios offer recently?

  I’ve tried signing up on multiple devices, browsers, UK or Canada, and yet when address details etc are added, the payment box just isn’t there (hence you cannot enter card details…).

  I emailed them and their only advice was to phone them.

  • Andrew says:

    29 Apr29 April 12:43

    This sounds like an identical issue to what I experienced a couple of years ago with this offer – I guess the bug comes and goes. When I phoned up the person I spoke to wasn’t filling me with much confidence that he knew how to process the offer manually, so I didn’t bother in the end.

• Herschel Savage says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:10

  Getting away from the almost endless bad news, I watched an episode of the Royale family yesterday evening. I was struck by the stunning resemblance between the comic actor John Henshaw and the ex MP and Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson? Has anyone else noticed this?

  I’ve always been an admirer of Henshaw’s work, and I voted for Ms Swinson in the last election.

• Matty says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:15

  What’s the limit for foreign currency spend on the legacy Curve black card?

  I was looking at their T&Cs last night and could see that you can spend up to £500 per month on the blue card before incurring a 2% surcharge. The current black card was £15k per month (from memory) and metal was £60k.

  I wasn’t aware that there were foreign currency spend limits before a 2% charge is levied. I couldn’t find any details regarding the old legacy cards.

  • Youllnever says:

    29 Apr29 April 11:26

    £15k per year, not month. The 2% charge is only levied for anything over the £15k limit. The legacy black card uses the same fee structure as the current black card.

• Crafty says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:34

  Tried to do a test NS&I using Curve Fronted, assuming I would swallow 1.5%.

  It didn’t go through.

  It seems Curve are blocking my payments to NS&I irrespective of whether I opt in to being charged for it.

  Has anyone else experienced this?

  • geezer says:

    29 Apr29 April 12:31

    Try a couple of 100 if that don’t work its probably been blocked. As Rob says everyone reads this blog – NS&I as been openly discussed for a while as a MS option so no surprise its gone.

  • Funtime says:

    29 Apr29 April 15:14

    Put £3750 through PB without any fees early this afternoon together with £7500 yesterday. Making hay.

    • PJJ says:

      29 Apr29 April 19:40

      How long do you envisage keeping the PBfor ?

      • Funtime says:

        29 Apr29 April 20:55

        Long term.

        I cashed out £100k last April to lend to a distressed builder. Just been repaid so putting it back in. May as well have some points whilst I can.

        • Harry T says:

          29 Apr29 April 23:09

          PB?

        • PJJ says:

          30 Apr30 April 12:59

          @HarryT. Presuming PB are Premium Bonds ?

• rams1981 says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:43

  What are people’s thoughts on retaining HSBC WE? £195 fee quite punchy with limited spend and no ongoing bonus. My renewal fee just went through. I have cancelled and re-applied before and qualified for bonus again after 6 month gap.

  • Kingred says:

    29 Apr29 April 11:00

    Paid 2k this morning to NSI with no charges (curve blue and IHG)

    • Crafty says:

      29 Apr29 April 11:54

      Does your Curve app have reference to Fronted?

    • Jonathan says:

      29 Apr29 April 14:28

      How do you get 2k through IHG? Mine seems to have the £200/day, £700/week limit for NS&I.

  • BJ says:

    29 Apr29 April 11:07

    Banks withdrawing all sorts of stuff at the moment. For that reason alone it might be worth holding if you value it. A lot of oropke out there wish they hadn’t cancelled their old Hilton, IHG+ cards etc.

  • memesweeper says:

    30 Apr30 April 00:07

    I’m retiring mine this year. Might sign up again if there’s a decent bonus, but the ongoing rate isn’t attractive enough to justify the high annual fee for me.

• Nelson says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:47

  Question asked a few Days by Joe. I have a similar issue:
  “I have MR points in my Amex business platinum account which I can’t redeem at 0.9p. Is there a way to change to personal platinum account perhaps I can open a new platinum personal account and combine?
  If I do this does anyone know if the 0.9p offer is for new accounts also?”
  Somebody tried it?

  • Joe Green says:

    29 Apr29 April 15:30

    Thanks Nelson for bringing this back up hopefully someone can shed light on this

• Gary says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:55

  I’ve just logged on to my BAPP Amex account and the time to get the sign up bonus has been extended by 3 months, this wasn’t the case a few days ago! It was due to run out at the end of May and is now end of August. This is good news for many of us I expect!

  • Tim says:

    29 Apr29 April 10:56

    I was just about to comment the same thing… my sign up bonus extended until mid-September! Amazing.

• Andrew says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:58

  Anyone got their IHG Spire choice benefit yet? Mine still just shows the Hertz option only.

  • Genghis says:

    29 Apr29 April 10:59

    Yes – but I earned it this year.

  • Mac D says:

    29 Apr29 April 14:54

    nope

    • Rob says:

      29 Apr29 April 15:01

      Nope

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    29 Apr29 April 15:05

    Do you mean the extra 25k we are supposed to get this year?
    I’ve got this year’s 1st 25k!

  • Brian W says:

    29 Apr29 April 17:13

    Nope

    • TGLoyalty says:

      29 Apr29 April 21:34

      Nope here too

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