Buy Miles

Trying to buy miles, 150 miles short but the payment process doesn't seems to work on the website. Need the miles urgently, is there any other way to buy miles?

You got an Amex and a Paypal account?

i brought miles end of may with no problems are you getting them for you as last time i looked you cannot gift miles at the moment

The miles are not for me but I do have Amex and paypal.

Originally posted by thejohn
i brought miles end of may with no problems are you getting them for you as last time i looked you cannot gift miles at the moment

No I am using buy miles function. Entered all card details and press proceed. Then it failed. Tried 3 different cards from Visa, MC and Amex.

How many reward points off 1000 are you on your Amex card? If just a couple of hundered, make a payment using amex on your paypal to a friends paypal account then transfer miles earned from amex to Virgin. Friend then gives you the cash back minus paypal transaction fee. More expensive than buying I would think so only do this as a last resort.

sorry, just read that miles are not for you. Are you trying to gift miles then?

probably need to use a card in her name then...

Originally posted by GreboDB
probably need to use a card in her name then...

Surely it shouldn't make any difference.

security?? In effect you are gifting miles but the gift miles option is disabled

are you counting the miles your mother will recieve when she flys to hkg as these will not be added to her account until after she has flown

Originally posted by thejohn
are you counting the miles your mother will recieve when she flys to hkg as these will not be added to her account until after she has flown

No currently she has 29850 miles sitting in her account and she will need 30k miles to purchase the one-way reward.

then i guess you do need her card or a card registerd to her to buy miles for her, have you tried to buy miles for yourself it's a way to find out if it's the web site or a card issue

Originally posted by thejohn
have you tried to buy miles for yourself it's a way to find out if it's the web site or a card issue

No not tried it as that is an unnecessary expense.

If you are only 150 short and VA can see you have some coming soon I think if you phone to book the reward flight they may allow you to go overdrawn by the 150.

Originally posted by sky0000547
Need the miles urgently

How urgent is urgent?

i would phone fc in the morning see if they can sort it out. the addition of miles is almost instant and you may be able to book your fathers flight at the same time

Originally posted by NS

Originally posted by sky0000547
Need the miles urgently

How urgent is urgent?

Before the reward seats are sold for that day.

Just spoken to FC red, not much they can do even for the sake of 150 miles. The lady did mentioned the 'buy miles' is down and unknown when it will be up and running again.

Still down, a real pain as I need 10k for an upgrade, and it might fill up. I am giving them till the end of today and after that hopefully they can do something for me...

Had them manually add them in the end, as they had charged me, but their system wasn't working fully...

Assume you dont get 4x£ for the purchase of miles using Black VS Amex?

Just checked the account today and the 1000 miles for £30 has been added to the account for some apparent reason. I am sure non of the transaction went through when I tried to purchase. Now lets hope I didn't purchase 30 x 1000 miles as that was the amount of times I tried.