News and notes from around the interweb:
- Earn 1000 British Airways Avios for earning points with a new partner and what’s even more interesting is that the offer is available for both BA’s Avios and for generic Avios.
British Airways First Class - 50% off Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer redemptions on SilkAir flights redeem by October 16 for travel through November 15.
- Visa will let merchants micro-target advertising and connect it to sales performance. (Free 14 day subscription required)
Visa is collaborating with Oracle to help merchants find out if digital advertising is influencing consumer purchases online and in stores. The service, called “Advertising solutions,” reveals whether or not a Visa card purchase was made following an ad view on mobile, display, video and social channels.
“We can say ‘of these ten thousand people who got the ad, 6% made a purchase in your store, the average transaction was X and the average time between seeing the ad and making a purchase was X,'” said Mike Lemberger, senior vice president of loyalty and data solutions at Visa.
- SkyTeam has a new system to let you claim missing miles from partner flights more easily
- I couldn’t make it to an Andaz celebratory event in New York on Tuesday night. Will Run for Miles, though, was there.
- CFPB issues new rules for prepaid cards
Is the Avios offer for 1000 or 2000 miles? And is it even available to US members?
@Pat, they are two separate promotions of 1000Avios each, so 2000 in total
Appears to be only 1000 Avios for UK members only
https://www.avios.com/gb/en_gb/collect/cp/collect-bonus?from=homehero
Your definition of “easy” must be different from mine. 🙂
Unlike probably 99% of your readers, I even have a UK Topcashback account. And I still can’t figure out how to enter my Executive Club number into their system to get the transfer to work.
Both the Avios.com and the BAEC promotion appear to be limited to U.K. residents. All of the shopping partners are U.K.-based. If anyone knows an easy way for U.S. folks to participate, please share.
@Steve not sure why you think “all the shopping partners are UK based” when the blog points out that BA has a US shopping portal.
Yes, Ziggy, the blog points out that BA has a US shopping portal, but the blog doesn’t write the rules for this promotion. Where do you find that the US shopping portal qualifies for this promotion?
@Steve None of published rules that I’ve seen advise which regions can and cannot benefit from this promotion. The only rules available (at least that I’ve seen) are the ones posted in the blog.
As the blog says, there is nothing that suggests US accounts cannot benefit from this promotion and, again as the blog says, you can use the BA Gate365 US portal to make the smallest of purchases to see if the bonus is applied.
Is anything guaranteed? No. But, contrary to your suggestion that all shopping partners are UK based, there is a reasonably simple way to find out via Gate365….just make sure you buy something cheap and that you actually want/need/can use.