The HfP chat thread – Friday 20th November

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• The Streets says:

  20 Nov20 November 10:57

  More points too?

• FFoxSake says:

  20 Nov20 November 10:57

  Parents have some Qantas points expiring soon (in a few weeks I think). Any easy ways to keep their points alive for a bit longer? Thanks.

  • ChrisC says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:18

    How many points are involved? What options are there on the QF website?

    Sometimes small amounts are just not worth bothering with.

    • FFoxSake says:

      20 Nov20 November 12:06

      A few thousand each. Not sure if a Family Transfer would reset the clock.
      From website: https://www.qantas.com/au/en/frequent-flyer/earn-points.html
      Nothing obvious is jumping out.
      Thanks for the sage advice, probably best to let them go.

      • AJA says:

        20 Nov20 November 12:12

        Family Transfers do NOT work.

  • AJA says:

    20 Nov20 November 12:11

    I don’t know whether it still works but you used to be able to get 5 points by signing up for the Qantas Wellbeing App and entering your height and weight.

    Alternatively try buying one song from Apple iTunes via the Qantas online mall (only works online on desktop, don’t use iPad or iPhone).

    Or transfer hotel points to Qantas – 10,000 Hilton points = 1,500 Qantas points

    • guesswho2000 says:

      20 Nov20 November 14:14

      Indeed, Wellbeing is probably the easiest free way to do it https://go.qantaswellbeing.com/kn8PY7Vlzbb (hope this is OK, it’s my link and we’d both get 150 QF points from anyone who uses it).

      QF points are 18 month rolling expiry, you can also purchase some but it’s not cheap.

• Metty says:

  20 Nov20 November 10:59

  Fwiw I bought 4x £100 Amazon gift cards at my local Morrisons, with some other shopping, went through a human till…..cards activated ok but pending Amex transaction showed ‘Morrisons Cafe’ and I didn’t get 10% credit.

  • ken says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:09

    when did you buy them ?

    My credit turned up today (purchased cards last saturday)

    • Reney says:

      20 Nov20 November 11:17

      Same here, and I never got the “you redeemed your offer email”.

      Update: on the amazon gift card that did not activate it. Amazon fixed the problem for me, it took 6 days.

    • Metty says:

      20 Nov20 November 11:22

      You’re right, credit yesterday for a purchase 7 days ago! Happy days.

  • Kai says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:11

    Merchant name in pending transactions are often different and the credit isn’t gonna apply until a few days after the settlement.

    • james says:

      20 Nov20 November 11:35

      Comes up Morrisons Dry Cleaning for me, shouldn’t matter

  • The real John says:

    20 Nov20 November 12:44

    No email, got credit in 5 days.

• JL says:

  20 Nov20 November 11:06

  Has anyone tried paying Intercont using the JL card rather than beardy? Is there any cash advance fees or interest?

  • Fred s says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:35

    No…Worked fine recently

• BS says:

  20 Nov20 November 11:07

  Hi Rob,

  I know you’ve done an article on what to do with a small amount of orphan miles. Do you think you could do an article on how to stop miles from different programmes expiring?

  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:12

    For the hotel schemes, we have done – go to our hotel promos page, scroll down and there is a link under the blurb for each programme.

    We tend not to bother with the airline schemes because most people do tend to trigger some activity more easily, such as using shopping portals. American is a trickier one but the easy option there is post on the AwardWallet blog which earns you 5 AA miles.

    • BS says:

      20 Nov20 November 12:03

      Thanks. Info like that AA info is incredibly useful – I’m sure would make a great article! I’ve lost a few thousand through not knowing it…

• Rob says:

  20 Nov20 November 11:17

  IMPORTANT: More testing! As of 11.15am we have just added a re-written version of the code which softens the ‘Reply’ button sensitivity.

  If you see weird comment scrolling returning post 11.15 then please let us know, especially if you didn’t see it yesterday or first thing today. Thanks.

• Reney says:

  20 Nov20 November 11:23

  Question on Selfridges. They currently have a 20% Christmas Came Early (CCE) offer online. There is a couple of items I want which I can stack with the spend £100 get back £30 offer that turned up on my Amex this morning. The CCE offer doesn’t have an end date, are there any regular shopper who can tell me if there will be better offers next week with Black Friday or should I go ahead and purchase now? Thx

  • TGLoyalty says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:30

    CCE is usually the Black Friday offer they have for a weekend only

    I suspect they are running it longer as all stores are closed and they need to shift stock.

    • Andrew says:

      20 Nov20 November 12:51

      Agree, it’s an annual thing over BF weekend, this year they have started a few weeks early, but I wouldn’t expect deeper discounts until the actual sale start.

      • Reney says:

        20 Nov20 November 13:34

        Sorry, Andrew is your comment meant to disagree with TGLoyalty? Your comment seems to suggest deeper discount to come, whereas TGLoyalty seems to suggest this is it?

        • TGLoyalty says:

          20 Nov20 November 13:39

          Deeper discounts would be the usual end of season sales. CCE is applicable to some none seasonal lines too

          Tbh the best sales are usually private ones where you need to be in contact with someone at the concession to hear about it.

• Sean says:

  20 Nov20 November 11:25

  Data point re Plat referrals.

  Referred my Wife last night for BA card – referral bonus of 18k points in my account this morning.

  • Jessiefan says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:36

    Thought Plat referral bonus was 12000 so that’s a bonus??

  • Rob says:

    20 Nov20 November 11:47

    There is a targetted higher offer for some people.

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