How many points did one get back in those days?
Take the liquorland example - spend $100, get $15 back. That's about the same as spend $100 and get around 2100 points back ( valuing Qantas FF points at around 1.4c for domestic flight)
Or Safeway which is better - spend $30 get $10 back. Which is about the same as spend $30 and getting 1400 points back.
Cheers,
Renato
I love, or rather loved, Point Runs. The challenge, and fun, with a Points Promo was how to maximise it, without buying things that you did not need. The last one was a long time ago now.
Most I would get tens of thousands on. Some were just a few thousand here or there.
Many were worth over a 100K
One was over 500k
Biggest was 2.9 million.
During a year they would add up very nicely. For many years I was after adding in some credit card joining bonii and normal spend clocking up a million or more each year, with virtually no business related spend, and not much from paid flights.
Point Promos have been virtually non-existant this year from CC's.
Everday has chipped in say 50k, with most from promos rather than 1 point per $1.
Fortunately CC joining bonii's have been good, and that has clocked up 500K otherwise it would have been a real drought. However such generosity tends to come and go, with most years not being as good.
I do suspect though that my days of easy points is coming to a close. Shudder the thought of buying points or interantional flights again as in 30 years, witha family of 5 for a big chunk of it, I have only rarely done so for my holiday travel, and mainly deep discount specials!
When I cottoned on to the promos (I started looking after reading about the
Pudding Guy) and how to maximise them, is when I started flying the 5 of us in J or F.
I do have a nice stash still, but I think it will be steadily whittled away.
So the current $15 here or $50 there does not oild great allure. Yes I am saving say a $1000 or so per year. But I am used to earning $tens of thousands of flights each year, and in some years a lot, lot, more.
