The HfP chat thread – Thursday 9th September

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• Red Flyer says:

  9 Sep9 September 18:57

  What was the biggest bond prize that anyone won using Bendy and Solihull to Sandy – anything bigger than £25?

  • Char Char says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:04

    Never won more than £25 either, glad I invested in a fund instead

    • Bigmaggot says:

      9 Sep9 September 19:09

      Mostly £25s but had a £500 🙂

      • Rob says:

        9 Sep9 September 19:15

        Return is 0.87% tax free, so if you’re a higher rate tax payer who pays tax on interest you’d be mad not to take the full £50k.

        • The Savage Squirrel says:

          9 Sep9 September 20:40

          Why? I certainly don’t. When huge diversification is a mouse click away there is no good reason for me (and most other people) to keep 50k (x2 if married) of long-term savings in cash of any form.

        • Michael says:

          9 Sep9 September 21:47

          Return is 1% tax free but point holds. Much better than a cash ISA.

        • Rob says:

          9 Sep9 September 22:30

          0.87% is based purely on £25 prizes. I don’t factor in the rest.

  • Lev441 says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:17

    I got a £500 prize! Everything else has been £25

  • John says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:20

    Still £0 after 18 months but I’ve only bent small amounts.

  • Dave says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:53

    Mine never stayed in as long as a month, lol

• Harrier25 says:

  9 Sep9 September 18:58

  I have been busy this afternoon rearranging the cards in my wallet and for the first time since 2016, my IHG Rewards Black card has a slot on the must use side, next to my Amex PRG card! This was the space where Curve sat
  for the past 5 years but unfortunately had to be relegated today. A sad day. I will miss my weekly walks to the cashpoint machine.😪

  • Char Char says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:02

    Well I’m sad for the Apple Pay functionality don’t care much for the MS spending

• Martin says:

  9 Sep9 September 18:59

  Help! Just tried to check in for a BA flight tomorrow and it says my travel documents are invalid. Have checked them all and they are fine. The COVID documents have been checked and they are fine. Passport has several years on it. Any ideas?

  • Martin says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:00

    Flying to Spain

  • John says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:21

    You’ll just have to check in at the airport

  • TM says:

    9 Sep9 September 20:00

    I have managed to check in online for only 1/4 BA flights this summer. They want to check everything at the airport

    • Martin says:

      9 Sep9 September 20:33

      Thanks for the replies

• Char Char says:

  9 Sep9 September 19:05

  If anyone can’t cancel their IC Rome booking, send the hotel an email and they will eventually be able to sort it for you. Hotel is cancelling all bookings before April

  • Harry T says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:33

    Why don’t you ask them to rebook you for new dates? Cancelling is a poor strategic move

    • meta says:

      9 Sep9 September 20:26

      Yep. Or if tied to dates, move to Indigo or somewhere better on their expense. I got moved from Kimpton De Witt to 5-star Pulitzer in Amsterdam last summer when they didn’t reopen on a rate that was fraction of the real cost (£80 vs £150 at Kimpton using points), with free breakfast and F&B discount and all my points returned as well. Most of these hotels are owned by developers who have other properties in the area and they’ll happily move you and offer something not available to general public.

• stevenhp1987 says:

  9 Sep9 September 19:10

  Tried to spend on my curve via creation in several shops. All declined. Worked when using creation directly.

  Looks like they actually implemented the block!

  • John says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:21

    But did you try curve with something else?

  • Anna says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:22

    Grr. Might have to dust physical Che off. No apologies for using code!

  • FFoxSake says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:25

    Once the intern had typed in the final mobile number and pressed send on the last SMS… 😉

  • Si says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:29

    Seems like we bent it so much, it finally snapped

    Nice of them to give us a 30min warning though so could tax to the max

• Super Secret Stuff says:

  9 Sep9 September 19:32

  Summary of today: Bendy’s got the bends

  • ChrisC says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:42

    Curved served …

  • Harrier25 says:

    9 Sep9 September 20:17

    …not forgetting Three self-inflicting themselves to a slow and painful suicide

• C says:

  9 Sep9 September 19:32

  These comments have made my evening! In France enjoying my first aperol spritz after having a baby 4 months ago. Hubby doesn’t quite get it but we both received the SMS today en route! After a few bendy transactions yesterday we are now enjoying the fee-free currency transactions on the IHG card this month!

  • HBommie says:

    9 Sep9 September 20:45

    I was Spritzed out last month, back on the Aperol train tonight! Missing Venice (yes I know I can go now).

• BP says:

  9 Sep9 September 19:42

  Curve on Twitter: they are talking with Creation.

  • Si says:

    9 Sep9 September 19:50

    I will imagine Creation will only say 2 words and second one will be ‘off’

    • Harrier25 says:

      9 Sep9 September 20:03

      I’m sure that the two IHG cards wouldve been the two most popular credit cards to have behind Curve, so not good news for their business model. Maybe they should’ve policed it better!

  • Anna says:

    9 Sep9 September 20:00

    It’s Creation and Curve so expect several weeks between replies!

    • Harrier25 says:

      9 Sep9 September 20:09

      Like Amex, I don’t think Creation will be interested in having any sort of dialogue with Curve. They’ve made a decision and that’s that. It will be interesting to see how Curve spin this in the coming days. Settle down and reach for the popcorn!

    • Rui N. says:

      9 Sep9 September 20:32

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • TGLoyalty says:

      9 Sep9 September 21:11

      Reckon the smoke signals arent visible between London and Solihull …

  • SteveJ says:

    9 Sep9 September 21:42

    They were also going to “talk to” and then “take to court” Amex. That statement is just Curve being Curve.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      9 Sep9 September 21:45

      It’s completely different matter. Curve hasn’t been blocked by MasterCard.

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