The HfP chat thread – Friday 3rd December

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• will says:

  3 Dec3 December 13:35

  Curve advertising you can still use your Visa card on Amazon if you pay by curve.
  Thought that was a smart bit of advertising by them, be interesting to see if Amazon are aware and what they make of that.

  • Rui N. says:

    3 Dec3 December 13:38

    Amazon will pay the Mastercard fees, they don’t really have a reason to care (that doesn’t mean they won’t, of course!)

  • The Savage Squirrel says:

    3 Dec3 December 13:43

    If it means that someone with only a VISA shops at Amazon, yet they still pay the (presumably far more favourable) Mastercard rate, they should be pretty happy about the whole thing, I’d have thought.

  • will says:

    3 Dec3 December 13:51

    It depends of if Amazon want to turn a screw on Visa and make a big deal out of it.

    Typically Curve in the tone of the advertising:
    “We’ll continue working with Amazon to allow you to check out using your Visa credit card”

    Your curve card will continue working with Amazon is (possibly) correct.
    Do curve as a company “work” with Amazon.

    You’d have thought they’d have learned their lesson about using semantics to insinuate that they are affiliated with big companies with existing reputations.

  • Gormlesstraveller says:

    3 Dec3 December 14:02

    Perhaps it will be low level background noise to them, but no doubt Curve will want to talk to Bezos about the blogosphere and offer them a “top 50” of miscreants.

    • Char Char says:

      3 Dec3 December 14:25

      Amazon unlike Creation or NSI will tell Curve to get lost, I trust Amazon far more than any Curve or Creationalist

      • will says:

        3 Dec3 December 15:42

        From a sellers perspective on Amazon, I would argue, with evidence to back it up that it may look great and trustworthy to the customer but they are the equivalent of selling you carbon free energy while behind the scenes they’re putting lignite into the power stations dug up by 5 year olds.

        None of us sellers are big enough to hold them to account and we’re all hooked on the money they drop in our pockets to keep us in business as they have gone a long way towards a monopoly with online retail marketplaces, but I think an absolute ton of what they do wouldn’t stand up in a court of law and they’ve learnt that if they do it and get away with it then even if held to task later, they’re rich enough and powerful enough to buy the government off and by that stage they own the market so they got what they wanted.

  • Char Char says:

    3 Dec3 December 14:25

    Amazon should just ban Curve, teach them a lesson on customer service

    • Harrier25 says:

      3 Dec3 December 14:30

      Curve may claim to be working with Amazon but the truth will be that Amazon are saying….”Curve who??!!”.

      • Blenz101 says:

        3 Dec3 December 14:39

        All Amazon cared about was Visa not treating their tax wheeze as a forex transaction when calculating interchange fees.

  • Andrew says:

    3 Dec3 December 15:27

    I can still use my Visa Card at Amazon by buying Gift Cards at Morrison’s or Tesco, they’ll even give me generous rebates for doing so.

• Sina says:

  3 Dec3 December 13:36

  Are there any retention bonus for Amex Business Plat?

  • Tony1 says:

    3 Dec3 December 22:16

    no

• Stagger Lee says:

  3 Dec3 December 13:37

  My 14000 Nectar points from last week’s x50 deal have posted to my account 🙂

  • Andy says:

    3 Dec3 December 14:13

    Same here, nice to have them so I know that my purchase was actually a good deal now!

• Tracey says:

  3 Dec3 December 13:49

  Official rules for boosters currently are that GP led clinics can book patients in from 5 months past 2nd vaccine, walk in clinics can take people at 6 months.

  • Mel TS says:

    3 Dec3 December 14:13

    what the actual ????

  • aDifferentSimon says:

    3 Dec3 December 23:00

    Had a text from my GP to book next week. Would be just past 4 months

• ChasP says:

  3 Dec3 December 13:54

  could be a few spare seats gong to USA

  Apparently 1 in 60 of us are now testing positive for COVD

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-59516131

  • Sean says:

    3 Dec3 December 13:59

    Would not are and is very little change from the last few months.

    • GeorgeJ says:

      3 Dec3 December 17:16

      Yes its been remarkably consistent since @ July.

• Gary says:

  3 Dec3 December 13:55

  The Economist 1 year subscription with 18,000 Avios offer from around Jun 21. Not received the avios according to BAEC statement and called The Economist CSA who advised I should chase the airline? Is this right? Usually one chases the merchant rather than the airline.

  • Pete C says:

    3 Dec3 December 14:18

    I’ve chased them a few times for mine – they always say they’ll deal with it then nothing happens. Don’t really know what to try next but I can’t imagine chasing BA will help

  • Oliver says:

    3 Dec3 December 18:53

    In case helpful: I subscribed 28 June and the Avios posted to my BAEC account on 4 July. Arrived as two transactions: 3k + a 15k ‘bonus’. First time subscriber.

    Perhaps try asking Economist for a letter confirming they sent 18k to your account on X date, so you can then chase BA for ‘missing’ points?

• Polly says:

  3 Dec3 December 14:02

  Singapore testing update

  MOH. From Monday Dec 6th 23.59. 7 days of tests.
  PCR on arrival, plus of course fit to fly PCR
  Then RATs days 3 and 7, supervised in local test centre
  Then days 2,4,5 and 6, self administered reportable online RATs, every morning, before you go that day.
  MOH confident they can pick up Omicron.
  So there you have it. People just being notified atm.
  We are leaving just in time, we hope!

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    3 Dec3 December 15:08

    Crazy. It’s not like they are aiming for zero covid similar to hk.

    • Polly says:

      3 Dec3 December 16:13

      I think they are!

• Magic Mike says:

  3 Dec3 December 14:11

  Anyone know how long B&Q gift cards purchased at Mozzers take to activate? Does not appear to be instant…

  7% Beardy + 10% PAW + 20% off code brings the prices down nicely but need to buy something this weekend!

  • Steven says:

    3 Dec3 December 14:36

    That 20% off entire shop or specifically just B&Q gift cards. An impressive stack!

    • SteveJ says:

      3 Dec3 December 15:09

      20% off everything at B&Q from today til Monday 13th.

      Code : festive20

      • Steven says:

        3 Dec3 December 15:12

        Thanks

  • Andrew says:

    3 Dec3 December 15:33

    Did you get the receipts confirming top up to each gift card?

    • Magic Mike says:

      3 Dec3 December 16:18

      Yep all the receipts show as activated, and the B&Q balance check website also shows the balance, but attempting to use them on the diy.com online checkout fails, so far…

  • Alekun says:

    3 Dec3 December 16:48

    I bought an Argos card and took a day or 2 after purchase to activate. called the GC number and they said to give it a day and it worked after that.

  • Peter K says:

    3 Dec3 December 20:48

    As a general point, some gift cards take 45 minutes to activate, others 24hrs. I can’t remember whichn ones are in which camp now, but I looked it up a few years ago when more relevant to me.

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