5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Points)

[burmans]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

KF has the right to withdraw the promotion any time they like. It's in the T&C.

I think he is talking about retrospective changes here, I agree they have the right to withdraw the promotion but do they have the right to change the promo for people who have already enrolled?

 

[JohnK]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

I didn't think that the VA family pooling interface let you set up a family pool more than 2 over 18s.

What's to stop you from genuinely signing up 17 family members and then setting each one up for family pooling in turn? I don't think that's against the terms and conditions.

 

[Denali]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

Just signed hubby up and got this auto response:



Dear KrisFlyer Member,

Thank you for your email.
This is an automated acknowledgment. We will respond to you within the next 5 business days, upon verification that your enrolment is eligible for the promotion - "Join KrisFlyer today to receive up to 10,000 Bonus Miles".
For your information, our business hours for email correspondence are Monday to Friday (8.30 am to 5.30 pm Singapore time).
Yours sincerely
Singapore Airlines

 

[Ansettaddict123]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

What's to stop you from genuinely signing up 17 family members and then setting each one up for family pooling in turn? I don't think that's against the terms and conditions.

Yeah surely this is permissible?
Establish several pools and then family transfer among them, viola!

 

[VAG newbie]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

New tightened rules - Singapore Airlines tightens up free KrisFlyer miles promotion - Australian Business Traveller

It's actually reassuring with this "tightened" rules. All they really need is verifying that the person who signed up is not phantom and is really an Australian resident. So in a way they don't care if all 2.1 million Australians all signed up and transfer those points to VA as long as all these 2.1 million people genuinely exist.

This means for those of us who didn't create any phantom account, duplicate account, pets account should be able to breath a lot easily.

 

[smit0847]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

What's to stop you from genuinely signing up 17 family members and then setting each one up for family pooling in turn? I don't think that's against the terms and conditions.

The family transfer members all have to live at the same house.

I dont think 17 people would live in the one house.

 

[Denali]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

The family transfer members all have to live at the same house.
I dont think 17 people would live in the one house.

Ive watched Border Security. It can be done.

 

[strtrek]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

The family transfer members all have to live at the same house.

I dont think 17 people would live in the one house.

[h=3]1. Transfers are limited to family members[/h]Virgin Australia is very strict about keeping the transfer of Velocity points restricted to what it terms as ‘eligible family members’.This covers any or all of the following:

• Husband, wife, domestic partner or de facto
• Your parents, children, brothers and sisters
• Grandparents and grandchildren
• The in-laws: your son, daughter, brother, sister, father and mother in-law
• Uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces
• First cousins
• Any adoptee assuming one of the above relationships

 

[mini2]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

Ive watched Border Security. It can be done.

10 in a 3 bedders isn't exactly uncommon. Find a place with 5 bedrooms and a double garage, 17 isn't unrealistic.

 

[strtrek]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

10 in a 3 bedders isn't exactly uncommon. Find a place with 5 bedrooms and a double garage, 17 isn't unrealistic.

especially with sydney prices....not unusual for 3 -4 generations to be living under one roof these days....

on a side note...i was just thinking..there are 7 of us in my small dept, 3 of us live in a 3 generational household...average occupancy 10. just as well we all have very large homes....

 

[Clivem]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

What's to stop you from genuinely signing up 17 family members and then setting each one up for family pooling in turn? I don't think that's against the terms and conditions.

I don't think it is either ...... but you can almost bet the farm what has gone down over the last few days may well see things reviewed and tightened up a fair bit.

 

[strtrek]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

a friend sent me this....

looks like they are not even accepting emails anymore

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: Verification further information
Sent: 12/03/2015 3:54 PM
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
'[email protected]' on 12/03/2015 3:54 PM
Server error: '550 5.1.1 <[email protected]> recipient rejected *****"

 

[andye]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

The family transfer members all have to live at the same house.

I dont think 17 people would live in the one house.

Yes but you could have 3 separate family pooling addresses (say you, your brother and your sister) all with 6 people in them. Your brother and sister could then family transfer everything to you.

 

[andye]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

a friend sent me this....

looks like they are not even accepting emails anymore

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: Verification further information
Sent: 12/03/2015 3:54 PM
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
'[email protected]' on 12/03/2015 3:54 PM
Server error: '550 5.1.1 <[email protected]> recipient rejected *****"

The address is krisflyer-singaporeair.com.sg

I did exactly the same thing-wonder if it has been corrected on AusBT. My repeat email got an acknowledgment reply

 

[strtrek]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

The address is krisflyer-singaporeair.com.sg

I did exactly the same thing-wonder if it has been corrected on AusBT. My repeat email got an acknowledgment reply

thanks heaps for that........i'll let her know

 

[PlutekPlutek]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

I signed up for this almost a week ago but didnt get time to go back and do the transfer.

Logged into Krisflyer today and the 5000 points are there but when I try and link my velocity account I get this:

The partner promotion code is invalid.

Anyone else seeing that? Found a way around it?

I get the same error when I try to link the account. I emailed them a few days ago, and got a phone call back. Apparently it was because I did not have my passport number and passport expiry date in my profile which are apparently mandatory (although no asterix next to those entries when you're editing the profile).
Regardless of that, when I this morning went back to edit the profile and enter the passport details, I get the same error. In fact, trying to save the profile information with any changes results in the same error for me. I emailed them back and see what they say.

 

[VAG newbie]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

Yes but you could have 3 separate family pooling addresses (say you, your brother and your sister) all with 6 people in them. Your brother and sister could then family transfer everything to you.

It won't be allowed by council. People might be doing it but there are restrictions on how many people can live in the same house. You can have 17 people live in the same house if the house meets the requirement for 17 (eg. It has the plumbing requirements to meet 17 people. So you will need at least 8-10 bathrooms for that and council rates will be higher too.)

 

[Denali]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

....I get the same error. In fact, trying to save the profile information with any changes results in the same error for me. I emailed them back and see what they say.

I was getting an error because our suburb didn't exist in the drop down list and I couldn't type in "Others", even though "Others" is what the prompt was telling me to do.

 

[andye]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

I was getting an error because our suburb didn't exist in the drop down list and I couldn't type in "Others", even though "Others" is what the prompt was telling me to do.

I wrote my suburb on Line 2 of the address filed and selected Others on the dropdown-that seemed to work

 

[andye]

Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi

It won't be allowed by council. People might be doing it but there are restrictions on how many people can live in the same house. You can have 17 people live in the same house if the house meets the requirement for 17 (eg. It has the plumbing requirements to meet 17 people. So you will need at least 8-10 bathrooms for that and council rates will be higher too.)

No I was referring to grown-up brothers and sisters with genuine different addresses- each with 6 people in