Groupon’s Spanish website is again selling Iberia Plus Avios at a discount for maximum amount of five transactions or 100,000 Avios.
You can link your British Airways, Avios, and Iberia Plus accounts and transfer Avios “currency” in between them.
You can access Groupon Spain’s website for this offer here.
Here are the amounts sold and prices:
– 2,000 Avios for 19 euros = 0.95 euro cents per Avios
– 4,000 Avios for 49 euros = 1.23 euro cents per Avios
– 8,000 Avios for 99 euros = 1.24 euro cents per Avios
– 12,000 Avios for 149 euros = 1.24 euro cents per Avios
– 20,000 Avios for 259 euros = 1.30 euro cents per Avios
Note that you can buy maximum of five sets but only one of the 2,000 Avios ones.
Conclusion
Interesting avenue for Iberia Plus to continue selling Avios. Surprised that Groupon is still around. Some people still use this coupon site?
This is about the lowest price that you can buy Avios and, if needed, can later transfer that to BA or Avios (UK shopping scheme) accounts.
During the previous sale, some purchasers had issues getting the Avios deposited to their accounts. As expected, the customer service received from Groupon or Iberia Plus was nonexistent.
Never again I will use this.
Last time, after buying it, they didn’t send me my miles.
I sent an e-mail to Groupon and they just said that was a problem from Iberia. Iberia told me it was a groupon problem.
And that’s it. I lost my money and had the impression of being an idiot in believing on them. Since I’m from Brazil, I didn’t have any way to get my money back or my miles.
And I really imagined that this kind of thing just happens in my country…
You would clearly be very surprised at how popular Groupon is in Europe…
I just bought 5×4000 points and got a “Card already used” Why? Because you HAVE to use the email address of Groupon to convert the points. That worked fine.
Just my two cents: the last deal was so aggravating that’d I recommend to anyone thinking about doing this that they’d skip it. Surprised they are doing it again because there were clearly a lot of communications issues between Groupon and Iberia.
I tried to do this when they offered it in December. It was a total nightmare and I never got the Avios. In the end after months of dealing with Customer Service (en espanol), I couldn’t get the groupon to work and the avios to deposit. Groupon and Iberia continued to point fingers at eachother. I had to initiate a chargeback with Paypal to get my money back. Many others on FlyerTalk had an equally frustrating experience. YMMV
It’s pretty straightforward – was in December, is now.
”
1/ Buy & pay for your Avios
2/ Go to your coupons
3/ Open the coupon (a pdf file)
4/ Redeem the coupon here http://ticket.groupon.es/ticket_es/iberia/ by entering the codes from your coupon
5/ Enter you e-mail (used at groupon) and Iberia account number
6/ Receive your confirmation with the text
“Hola Grouponero,
Mira tu Tarjeta Iberia Plus en 30 dias laborable ya habrás recibido tus Avios.
Gracias!”
Passing on this now, but did buy last go-round and it worked super easy with no issues. Strange, seems to be hit or miss for different folks.
I think the price was better last time too, wasn’t it? This gives your Avios at about par value, so little point in speculative buying – especially with the risk of their system fouling up again.
In my case, I had big problems with the offer, but eventually the Avios came through (after I had given up on them).
Posted fine for me within a week or so. Maybe they have cleaned up their act.