Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

marmitelovemehateme

nettiebobs wrote: »

When you say 'phone', do you mean smartphone or the landline plug in one? If it's the landline one i'll be shifting mine immediately.

nettiebobs....Its the landline if you have digital phones...

Also check that all electrical devices that cause interference are at least five feet away from the router and its wiring.
The worst offenders are:

Flashing Christmas lights (especially cheap ones)
Halogen desk lamps.
Electrical dimmer switches.
Stereo or PC speakers.
Televisions and monitors (especially older style ones)
Low quality 900MHz cordless telephones.

emerald21

pacifica9 wrote: »

ATM update: Bclys contactless says 'sorry unable to read your card (non-B card) but produces the goods.

Who is our expert on android pay Do we know ?

Honeybee1978

Any one for Popcorn? Popcorn on COS is 75p back in Tesco and they are 1.00 at the moment in store, so works out 25p per pack and you can claim 12 times on 3 varieties.

Glyndwr_2

michaels wrote: »

Thanks

Don't suppose you tested using multiple £10 gift cards on one transaction / splitting table bill into multiple transactions to use multiple cards?!

Glyndwr wrote: »

No, sorry, but it's treated as an eGiftcard, so I would expect to be able to use more than 1 at a time.
You can only claim 1 turkey stamp per visit but each person can claim on their own app, Not sure how they work that, but the T&Cs don't say it has to be different transactions.
I would mention you have several cards before you start so they can potentially deal with the issue then if they need to split it.
Don't forget the 40% off is for 4 people max.

Multiple 'cards' do work in one transaction.

silvercar

cloz wrote: »

Evening all, can I pick the Elite brains pretty please? I know some of you are landlords on here. We are looking to purchase out first buy to let property. We have found a property which would be suitable and it has been on the market since May last year as has a tenant in situ but the estate agent is unable to tell us the cost of the ground rent and service charges, is this normal? would think after over six months on the market they would know this information by now?

You also need to know if the flat's lease allows you to let the property - some don't. Never assume that the previous owner checked this out.

Also check the type of tenancy the current tenant is on, you don't want to acquire a regulated tenancy.

pacifica9

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Where abouts do you tap the phone please?

These are both B’rclay ones.

It appears not all B ones have the contactless - I found two other branches lacking, per your pics. The one I found that has it has a small raised box to the bottom left of the ATM shelf bit, with the contactless symbol.

HILLBERN

WARNING

We have had trouble with AP..eventually we had all codes etc though and we were up and running, so we thought, but in 2 supermarkets the contactless ap wouldn't work...
As soon as you touched the image of the card a pop up came up called SPENDLYTICS it has the same red logo at Santander bank, it asks you to open, which then takes you thru to google playstore to then download and open...it then asks for your log in id...this login is the gateway to your personal online bank:eek::eek:

We have rung Santander who have now blocked and suspended our account due to this being a potential scam that they hadn't heard off.
it may legit but ???

pacifica9

HILLBERN wrote: »

WARNING

We have had trouble with AP..eventually we had all codes etc though and we were up and running, so we thought, but in 2 supermarkets the contactless ap wouldn't work...
As soon as you touched the image of the card a pop up came up called SPENDLYTICS it has the same red logo at Santander bank, it asks you to open, which then takes you thru to google playstore to then download and open...it then asks for your log in id...this login is the gateway to your personal online bank:eek::eek:

We have rung Santander who have now blocked and suspended our account due to this being a potential scam that they hadn't heard off.
it may legit but ???

Tapping you card shows you the transactions you have made when you tap the image of your card. However, you dfo not need to tap your card, or even have AP open. As long as your phone screen is unlocked it will work. HTH.

Underneath your list of transactions is a link to Spendlytics install. Yoyu do not need to do anything with this.

I have used 2 x Santander cards previously with no probs.

Anon

HILLBERN wrote: »

WARNING

We have had trouble with AP..eventually we had all codes etc though and we were up and running, so we thought, but in 2 supermarkets the contactless ap wouldn't work...
As soon as you touched the image of the card a pop up came up called SPENDLYTICS it has the same red logo at Santander bank, it asks you to open, which then takes you thru to google playstore to then download and open...it then asks for your log in id...this login is the gateway to your personal online bank:eek::eek:

We have rung Santander who have now blocked and suspended our account due to this being a potential scam that they hadn't heard off.
it may legit but ???

Odd that they don't know about it as it is on their website - it must be specific to using a Santander card (so I will avoid that one, thank you ).

https://www.santander.co.uk/uk/help-support/spendlytics

HTH

Anon

Anon

HILLBERN wrote: »

DH finally got ap on new phone, all ok but just gone to ss in s and cant do contactless, any ideas?

Double check that the back is pushed on properly - I had this issue after I had put the SIM in. Put a little pressure on the back cover where the NFC chip is and ensure it is clicks into place. It may not be this, but I have had it happen a few times when flicking between SIMS etc.

HTH

Anon