The HfP chat thread – Tuesday 24th November

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• Annabel says:

  24 Nov24 November 13:27

  I have curve blue and a daily limit of £750 ATM limit. Am I right in thinking only £200 per month would be fee free? Thank you

  • Anna says:

    24 Nov24 November 13:38

    It’s technically £200 pm per undelying card but people have reported withdrawing more without being charged.

    • Jonathan says:

      24 Nov24 November 20:04

      *pcm

  • AlexT says:

    24 Nov24 November 16:29

    If you withdraw internationally, the first 200 is free, everything over that amount you get charged for. I don’t believe this was the case a year ago, but is definitely happening now.

• Aston100 says:

  24 Nov24 November 13:31

  Apologies, this is one of those generic questions that probably gets posted on here all the time and which I really would have looked up before posting had there been a proper forum here with search facility.

  I have flights booked for Easter next year. Avios + cash.
  I’m not comfortable with the travel dates.
  I would like to change this to end of May 2022 (half term). I don’t think this is possible though.
  The options seem to be to take an FTV, but this is valid until end of April 2022 (a good 6 weeks too early for me), or apply for a refund and lose £35 per person.
  Or, do nothing and hope BA cancel.

  Are those 3 my only options?
  I’m ignoring change of dates/destination as there would be a fare difference, assuming reward seats open up – and we don’t really want to do this journey in 2021 anyway (already have other travel booked in 2021 which may potentially get disrupted and pushed back too, so danger of overcrowding our travel calendar in 2021).

  Currently, it sounds like losing £35pp is the best option.
  Happy to hear anything I’ve overlooked.

  Thanks.

  • Aston100 says:

    24 Nov24 November 13:33

    I have no idea how the word ‘Thanks’ ended up in the penultimate sentence. I feel I added that add the very end of the post…

  • Anna says:

    24 Nov24 November 13:42

    I’m in the same position – I have 2 long haul trips booked for Easter (plan A and plan B) but neither may go ahead! I think if BA cancels your flight you’re in with a chance of getting it moved, but you will have to get round their claim that they can only re-ticket you within 12 months of the original booking date.

    I think I’m just going to cancel if necessary and take the hit on the cancellation fees. It will still be a lot cheaper than actually going on either of the holidays and the return of £2k (or £4k if I cancel both trips) from BA will sweeten the pill somewhat!

• Jamies says:

  24 Nov24 November 13:32

  Has anyone else found some BA Shopping portal sites are a bit slow to take back the avios when you return an item? Had a refund paid 3 weeks ago on a product bought from a fast-avios-paying merchant and still those avios are still showing as confirmed in my account…?

  • Aston100 says:

    24 Nov24 November 13:34

    There are reports on this site of Avios clawbacks months later.
    Someone claimed to have had a clawback for no apparent reason two years after a purchase.

    • Jamies says:

      24 Nov24 November 13:40

      Guess I won’t get too excited and order a £4k item from there then.

  • dezbez says:

    24 Nov24 November 15:14

    I had something clawed back over 2 years later! It wasn’t even a return. The retailer (can’t remember who) went bust so BA removed them from my account. I did complain though, and as a ‘token of goodwill’ they returned them.

• Martha says:

  24 Nov24 November 14:26

  I purchased a amazon GC using Morris GC but got declined even though came off Morris GC balance. Store manager was hopeless. Said I should speak to amazon.
  What do I do?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    24 Nov24 November 14:48

    The store should sort it out. either give you a refund or replace the GC

  • Harry T says:

    24 Nov24 November 15:23

    Do you have a receipt to show the gift card was activated? You should have been given one along with your purchase receipt. Morrison’s should refund you if it’s not activated. Chargeback could be a last resort.

    • Anuj says:

      24 Nov24 November 16:42

      Did you use the card itself or apple pay, etc? It doesn’t work with Apple pay or Google Pay

    • memesweeper says:

      24 Nov24 November 18:37

      It *shouldn’t* track so for goodness sake don’t appeal!

    • TGLoyalty says:

      24 Nov24 November 20:09

      It can take weeks anyway.

• Hanif says:

  24 Nov24 November 14:33

  Not sure if already covered, Bonvoy has 60% Bonus buy points With increased limits. Ends tomorrow

• Peter K says:

  24 Nov24 November 14:50

  Data point. Just rang Amex and asked for any retention offers on my Gold Business card…the answer was nothing available.
  They pointed out that they were offering double value on MR points as statement credit. I pointed out this was still less than Capital on Tap… but nothing doing.
  English accent so I assume it was the Brighton office.

• Njbdevon says:

  24 Nov24 November 15:04

  British Airways are furloughing cabin crew until end Jan. Read into it what you may ….

  • sloth says:

    24 Nov24 November 16:13

    well, as they’ve sold off all the plates…

    • Njbdevon says:

      24 Nov24 November 18:18

      Best response- need a ‘like’ button!

      • Jonathan says:

        24 Nov24 November 19:58

        This isn’t a social networking platform, though it might seem like one at times !

        • Tony says:

          24 Nov24 November 20:42

          +1

• Holam says:

  24 Nov24 November 15:18

  IHG (bendy fronted) payments to HMRC getting declined despite more than enough credit limit remaining. I manually cleared the balance on IHG a couple of days ago which has now reflected in the app so it should be available to spend.. anyone else seeing this?

  • Ben says:

    24 Nov24 November 15:19

    Try again tomorrow – I had some issues with my IHG yesterday, but went through fine today..

  • Rahaney says:

    24 Nov24 November 15:50

    There’s normally an amount limit too to transactions through IHG/Creation… some have reported anywhere between 100-300 per transaction. Let us know how you get on.

    • Holam says:

      24 Nov24 November 17:07

      tried with £300 then £100, all getting declined. Odd

      • Rahaney says:

        24 Nov24 November 17:27

        You made sure IHG haven’t blocked your card? Can you do a small purchase to check? Amazon top up maybe.

        • Holam says:

          24 Nov24 November 20:59

          you’re right, they seem to have blocked it. No notification at all. I’ll contact them tomorrow

      • Rahaney says:

        24 Nov24 November 17:28

        Oh it’s not a commercial Bendy card is it?

        • Holam says:

          24 Nov24 November 21:18

          no, the new personal metal one

  • Jonathan says:

    24 Nov24 November 18:20

    Try again tomorrow. Normally a 24 hour delay for me between balance reducing after a payment & the available credit reflecting the lower balance.

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