Anyone getting 50% bonus miles on VS Amex?

[Nottingham Nick]

A very interesting thread over on Flyertalk.

Apparently an email was sent saying from 1 October until 31 December 2008 youll earn 50% more miles when you spend 300* or more each month on your Virgin Atlantic American Express Credit Card from MBNA.

I certainly didn't get the email, and don't recall any discussion of it here. Anyone else get it?

Nick

No, or the Morrisons offer

me neither

Not for me either. Looks like it's been targeted again. As Neil has said in a previous thread, the good folks at VS/MBNA know how to alienate their high spending fee paying customers (bye bye black card).

quote:Originally posted by DragonLady
Not for me either. Looks like it's been targeted again. As Neil has said in a previous thread, the good folks at VS/MBNA know how to alienate their high spending fee paying customers (bye bye black card).


There have been other FC offers I've never seen as well this year. [:#] It would make sense for marketing to only send these offers to people that don't spend that sort on average per month I guess.

When my year comes up in June, I think I'll downgrade to the white card, and collect more BA miles with my Premium Plus card.

Funnily enough I have hardly been using my Amex since May - first I was given a 3% cashback deal on Barclaycard and then I used a BY card for 1% of my phone bill - both better offers than the piddling worth of miles on Y redemptions.

Anyway i have not seen any of these offers either and as a previously high spender who has recently lapsed I would have thought I would have been close to the top of the type of customer they would have been giving incentives to.

FM

I stopped using the BA Amex card for a while and they did a special promotion, presumably for a few people. This could well be the same thing, to encourage use by people who have stopped using it.

I got the Morrisons offer, but not the £300 one. Thats probably because I spend more than £300 every month anyway !

Mark

Neither offer for me, but then my average spend is over £300/month and I do use Morrisons on occassion, so perhaps I should not be suprised.

[Neil]

Nope, nothing here either. I am quite p*ssed off with MBNA about their offers and who gets selected for them, I am half tempted to move to a different card but the miles we earn from it are very good and when used correctly they do enable some very big savings and enable us to fly UC more often, so I guess I am just going to have to stick it out.

Might write a letter of complaint, moaning about it and see what response I get, give me something to do over the Xmas period.

I got no such offers at all this year! it must be for low spenders to get them to start using the card again because everyone here seems to spend a fair amount including me, since i spend about 5k monthly.
I do have to agree with Neil that as much as it annoys me i do get to travel UC more than once a year because of the miles earned, however i really have been weighing up taking up the BA Black and downgrading my va-black.

cheers
alex

Yes I received this email. Probably it is aimed at low spenders, since we are in australia most of the year we don't use this card much anymore.

I am unsure what the criteria is as I spend minimal amounts on my Virgin CC and I dont shop at morrisons.

I dont receive encouraging offers from MBNA/Virgin Amex to spend money on my CC.

I feel a bit poor to be honest[:I].

didn't get the 50% offer. But as posted separately- Got the Morrisons one, but no points & MBNA didn't even know about it!!