Important deal updates: Accor, British Airways ex-Dublin, Tesco conversions

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• Nick says:

  20 Dec20 December 13:17

  Tesco: all sorted, correct points posted but it was pretty trivial for me as I’d just converted a big pile of points in to £1.5k of goldsmiths vouchers just before the Avios conversion bonus came along.

  Accor: I, stupidly, had it set up to auto-convert to Avios not Iberia. God knows why/how: I’ve transferred from Accor to Iberia before. Anyway, it’s showing in my Avios account yet, but then it does often take a week or so.

  Hawaii: was that a mistake fare? It just seems crazy that they could ever price it at that.

  • Rob says:

    20 Dec20 December 14:03

    Last year there were Hawaii fares for pretty much spot on £1,000 so that price was not unexpected.

• Deb says:

  20 Dec20 December 13:47

  I wondered what the 1472 bonus 20% extra points were sitting in my BA account this morning.
  I should have read HFP first!

  • zark says:

    20 Dec20 December 14:23

    I too found miscellaneous points in my BA Avios account this morning – arrived yesterday. Clearly they are from Tesco and represent 20% of an AUTO transfer from Tesco to BA on 26/10/15. I have had auto-convert in place for years ( all at the grandfather conversion rate of 800 Avios for 250 Tesco points) and continue to get this rate and these bonuses automatically.
    I may have been mistaken, but I got the impression from all the comments about this issue, that these 20% conversion bonus’s were supposed to happen only when manually converting or setting up auto convert for the first time etc. For me this is clearly not the case.

• 3CT says:

  20 Dec20 December 16:10

  I went on a spree of booking hotels in Bordeaux, Lille and Toulouse for my summer trip to France for Euro 2016.

  I seem to have escaped the regularisation but I had already used my points including those won in the Accor Quest promotion to reduce hotel costs.

• Graeme says:

  20 Dec20 December 17:38

  OK so signed up for Accor to do the game – got the 1,100 – now logged in to find my balance is reset to zero. Not making me feel the love for Accor really..

  • Choons says:

    20 Dec20 December 20:37

    Opposite for me, the points I have are still on the account but I thought they should have been transferred across by now or at least should have moved to zero.

  • harry1 says:

    20 Dec20 December 20:39

    Do you understand the context of rogue China dealings?

• harry1 says:

  20 Dec20 December 20:42

  Why waste an atom of energy with that?

  Just no point

• Gavin says:

  20 Dec20 December 22:35

  Accor points transferred fine it seems (FFP message showing in points history). A lot of effort but only cost was my time, hopefully some more low hanging fruit will come along

• Rob says:

  20 Dec20 December 22:51

  Best not to get involved in those discussions I think! My influence is generally overstated ….

• RIccati says:

  21 Dec21 December 01:57

  All the commends above make me to suggest that Accor has earned some BAD publicity and negative goodwill from this badly exercised promotion.

  Fraud or not but a decision of taking points from the hundred thousands of people worldwide (even those who tiptoed just to earn points for the quiz) is another example of elephant in the glass shop.

  Every one of those people will be eventually making a decision, should I stay at the Mercure [European city] or another hotel..

  • TimS says:

    21 Dec21 December 07:37

    To be honest I think it will be quickly forgotten.

    Many new (non fraudulent) accounts will have only set up new accounts to take advantqge of the iberia transfer trick. That doesn’t help accor or generate any sort of loyalty to their brand. It was just a way to get free avios, a brand accor has no interest in promoting.

    Therefore no accor loyalty was lost as they were new accounts and the customers were unlikely to stay at accor anyway so little impact. Certainly less than the actual cost of accor buying the avios to fulfill the many multiple accounts that were set up in China to abuse the promotion. That would be a REAL financial cost to accor that would have generated no future revenue/loyalty to accor.

    Accor do have an odd habit of running promotions that offer free points for little or no brand loyalty. Their recent Rugby World Cup predictions facebook promo is another example of this

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