I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this.
I recently returned from a Europe trip where a few relatively expensive purchases were made. Some of these were made on the AMEX Platinum Charge and some on a CitiBank Mastercard.
On the final EU departure point (LHR) I dutifully went through the hassle of queuing up to register for the tax refund. I thought that I would put the refunds all back to AMEX as that had had the biggest "hit" during the trip.
All sorted and sure enough the refunds started rolling back into the AMEX 5-6 days later with the last one (from a different company) taking about six weeks.
I just noticed at the weekend that as the GST/VAT refunds have hit the AMEX account my MR points have taken a similar reduction. As some of the charges were not even made on the AMEX I find this rather annoying.
Using that logic everytime we make a payment then the points would be reversed and we would never get any!
I am overseas again but plan on calling them when next back in Australia.
Tallfont
I recently returned from a Europe trip where a few relatively expensive purchases were made. Some of these were made on the AMEX Platinum Charge and some on a CitiBank Mastercard.
On the final EU departure point (LHR) I dutifully went through the hassle of queuing up to register for the tax refund. I thought that I would put the refunds all back to AMEX as that had had the biggest "hit" during the trip.
All sorted and sure enough the refunds started rolling back into the AMEX 5-6 days later with the last one (from a different company) taking about six weeks.
I just noticed at the weekend that as the GST/VAT refunds have hit the AMEX account my MR points have taken a similar reduction. As some of the charges were not even made on the AMEX I find this rather annoying.
Using that logic everytime we make a payment then the points would be reversed and we would never get any!
I am overseas again but plan on calling them when next back in Australia.
Tallfont