Amex / Foursquare 2013 …. what I’ve discovered so far

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• Clairw says:

  9 Feb9 February 07:45

  V helpful- thanks. Good to know about the House of Fraser vouchers having a 2 year expiry- that’s my MIL’s Christmas pressie sorted- she asks for HoF vouchers EVERY year! How do I link more than one card to my foursquare account?

  • Raffles says:

    9 Feb9 February 07:49

    You need a new FS account for each card, needs a different email and date of birth

    • Jamjaw says:

      9 Feb9 February 07:57

      Does not need a different D.O.B – just different email address… Or so I have found. £100 O2 top up vouchers bought yesterday for my giffgaff mobile. Reduces monthly cost to £7.50 rather than £12. Might get some more this week as likely to stay on giffgaff for ages as earning £500 per month for sim distribution at the moment!

      • magarathea says:

        9 Feb9 February 09:31

        Are you sure you do not need a different DOB for each FS account?

        • Raffles says:

          9 Feb9 February 13:01

          No, technically you don’t. But why take the risk of them closing down your accounts because they are clearly duplicates?

        • Trevor says:

          9 Feb9 February 14:02

          I guess the chances of having them closed is extremely slim, and it would take somebody manually checking each account to look at similarities for them to decide they are duplicates – I can’t see them putting in that much effort! But since the D.O.B is fairly irrelevant, changed if worried.

          The most important thing to change is your email address, and since gmail allows many changes, this is ideal. Although pointed out previously, I thought I’d refresh the memory for some:

          You can place a “.” anywhere in your gmail address and it will still come to you, i.e. joesoap@gmail.com is the same as joe.soap@gmail.com, joes.oap@gmail.com and even jo.es.oap@gmail.com. Importantly, the difference is ignored by gmail, but considered a unique address by any other site, so you can use a number of combinations.

          Also, you can add a “+…” after your name, so joesoap@gmail.com is the same as joesoap+fs1@gmail.com or joesoap+amex.plat@gmail.com etc. In this way you can uniquely identify each gmail address with a card used to sync your FS account to help you keep track – handy!

          Note that all websites should allow the “.” while some websites don’t allow the use of the “+”, but luckily for our purposes, Foursquare does 🙂

        • zhyoo says:

          10 Feb10 February 00:45

          How do i change the D.O.B in foursquare? I can’t find the DOB option in my profile, So I have to put a different first name like Tony_Amex_Gold, Tony_Amex_BA to recognize the card which was linked to foursquare accounts.

        • Raffles says:

          10 Feb10 February 07:23

          You can’t change it. If you did them all the same, don’t worry – you are just at slightly more risk of Foursquare noticing and shutting you down.

          Pangalactic was talking about using different email addresses linked per card, ie getting a zhyoo-baamex@yahoo.co.uk email, zhyoo-amexgold@yahoo.co.uk address, to keep track.

          It doesn’t matter how you do it, but you must write down somewhere the credit card, email address on FS and password on FS used on each account. Then keep a note of which deals you have checked in against each card, and which ones you have actually made a purchase. Otherwise you will get massively confused, especially in 3 months time when a new set of deals launch and you’ve forgotten all the data you used.

        • zhyoo says:

          10 Feb10 February 21:02

          Thank you so much for your advise Raffles.
          I created several accounts with different emails long time a ago, because of the Topguset and Hilton offer, and updated the profile picture with my different card picture so that I can easily to recognize.

• Mr Bridge says:

  9 Feb9 February 08:43

  I would ask at harrods if they can combine your gift cards,most stores can: if not buy a £200 gift card and pay with 4*£50 cards., how much is afternoon tea at harrods now??

• Cmcbugg says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:07

  I had the problem in Harrords where the till would only accept 5 gift cards in one transaction. Although it took a while to sort out, I gave the cashier all 6 gift cards and let them deal with it. They did that buy swapping 4 cards for a bigger one themselves, so I didn’t have to do anything extra except wait.

• Cmcbugg says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:11

  Just realised I’d been checking into the HoF in Victoria but shopping in Oxford Street. Maybe that explains why I never got the foursquare notifications for HoF. Luckily the Amex credits did work.

• Dh says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:14

  Where do you buy gift cards in Harrods? Are they the credit card type so that you can load several transactions to the same card?

  • Raffles says:

    9 Feb9 February 13:03

    Every till sells them, so about 200 places! (Unless you want more than £10,000 on it, then you need to go to customer services!)

    I tried to top one up but the cashier didn’t know how or if she could, presumably it is possible?

• John says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:45

  You can get recognition points too at HofF when redeeming vouchers. I did it last weekend…..

• Jason says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:46

  Does anyone know if I can check if I have correct Amex number synced

• Nv says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:50

  How do you know which HOF is participating? , looking at Thurrock lakeside or Bluewaters shopping malls. Didn’t see any specials when I checked in Thurrock last week .

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