MSE News: TSB current account customer? You can now earn even more cashback

Biggles

sparkiemalarkie wrote: »

I phoned the help desk because of so many failed attempts at contactless payments and I was told that the card has to be 'activated' by using a cash dispenser.
Apparently you need to use the dispenser first, but only need to get a printed balance. I haven't tried this yet though so can't confirm.

My contactless failed again this morning, so I tried getting a printed mini statement. That didn't work, I had to go back and take a tenner out of the machine.

I'll see how many 'goes' I get this time before it needs reactivating. If it's not more than three (which is looking like the norm) I'm not sure I can be bothered with all the hassle.

Steve_xx

Biggles wrote: »

OK. So I made a contactless payment on 30 Sep. For once, it did show up in the 'Pending' section dated 30 Sep.

It has now appeared on my statement dated 1 Oct. Any thoughts as to which month's £100 limit it will form part of?

From their website:


If you've been using a Classic Plus contactless card to earn cashback in September, we'll pay it into your account by the end of October.

sparkiemalarkie

Biggles wrote: »

That's nonsense, the standard way is via a C&P payment. But I did try resetting it, after a failure, by getting a screen balance and that didn't work, so I doubt a printed balance would be any better. I'll try it next time just in case, if only to avoid making a 'cashback-less' payment by C&P.

Also very clearly nonsense.

Ha, ha, ha.... I'm easily placated! I swallowed her explanation totally.


sparkie

Biggles

Steve_xx wrote: »

From their website:

If you've been using a Classic Plus contactless card to earn cashback in September, we'll pay it into your account by the end of October.

Hence my question ;-)

Spidernick

Our local BP garage has a 'cheap fuel' (as if it ever is!) day today with petrol at 103.9p per litre. Unfortunately my contactless card didn't work (I wonder if I put it up too early, as it worked there the other day and worked in Iceland a little later), but I still got the fuel cheap and managed to use my wife's Nectar card (a little odd, as the shop there is Spar and I thought Nectar was for Sainsbury's, etc.). I still did well, therefore, just not as well as I would have liked!

colsten

Like I did last month, I bought 8 x £25 vouchers at Waitrose today, to make £100 on each card. All paid for with my two contactless cards that I had not used since I bought last month's vouchers. No problems at all.

Spidernick

colsten wrote: »

Like I did last month, I bought 8 x £25 vouchers at Waitrose today, to make £100 on each card. All paid for with my two contactless cards that I had not used since I bought last month's vouchers. No problems at all.

Efficient yes, but where's the excitement in that? Do you/will you spend that much in John Lewis/Waitrose then or are you saving the vouchers for a larger purchase in the future?

I like to mix mine up with a (current) mixture of Aldi, BP, Iceland, J D Wetherspoon, Poundland (new one near where I live does take contactless, but an old one in Reading does not!) and Waitrose.

I've kept a spreadsheet of the running totals for my wife and I and we are very different: her biggest contactless spend is Waitrose and mine is Aldi (mainly ales at £1.25 a bottle)!

Westie983

I have done the same with the gift vouchers, although I do spend most of the £100 money on fuel. Not that its been as consistent as I would hope.

badger09

I managed the princely sum of £3.90, less my husband's £2 prepay voucher for the Independent at the Co-op today.

How the other half live :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

colsten

Spidernick wrote: »

Efficient yes, but where's the excitement in that? Do you/will you spend that much in John Lewis/Waitrose then or are you saving the vouchers for a larger purchase in the future?

I am not looking for excitement when I make contactless payments. My regular monthly spend with Waitrose has been well over £200 for years, and I usually spend well over the contactless limit in one go. So buying vouchers is ideal for me as I can then put the TSB debit cards back into the safe for a month, and I don't have to keep records of umpteen small purchases.