Bankwest Transaction account [General Discussion]

[coles525]

Me bad, forgot to press play this morning for energy australia.

Lucky I can complete it tonight.

 

[EestiTiger]

Hi team - I have followed this thread with much interest over the past year!

I automated my phone bill a while back as a bit of a proof on concept, but with min payment of 20c and a bill of only $20 a month - it was chickenfeed when I read what you guys are doing! I have written another script for energy australia but I wanted to ask a question of the guys who cycle through 50 (or more) energy australia transactions...

How long have you been doing 50 (or more) transactions?
At the end of the billing cycle when you still owe a bit of money do you let your energy australia direct debit do a debit for I assume, only the amount outstanding?
Anyone had any feedback from energy australia?

Starting to get annoyed about not seeing December's points arrive from QF yet...

 

[coles525]

Hi team - I have followed this thread with much interest over the past year!

I automated my phone bill a while back as a bit of a proof on concept, but with min payment of 20c and a bill of only $20 a month - it was chickenfeed when I read what you guys are doing! I have written another script for energy australia but I wanted to ask a question of the guys who cycle through 50 (or more) energy australia transactions...

How long have you been doing 50 (or more) transactions?
At the end of the billing cycle when you still owe a bit of money do you let your energy australia direct debit do a debit for I assume, only the amount outstanding?
Anyone had any feedback from energy australia?

Starting to get annoyed about not seeing December's points arrive from QF yet...

I'm only in my 1st billing period with power/gas. But when I logged in a day or 2 ago, I was nearly $120 in credit for the next bill.

If the next bill still has money owing, it will go onto the QFF 'normal' credit card on the actual due date. Not 1 day earlier!

 

[burmans]

Me bad, forgot to press play this morning for energy australia.

Lucky I can complete it tonight.

You know you can schedule it to occur automatically?

 

[EestiTiger]

Spoke too soon! QF has credited my account with points A new PB just over 8400 points.

 

[Danger]

My December points have now posted too.

 

[coles525]

You know you can schedule it to occur automatically?

Nooooo......

This with the use of Imacro?

 

[cxthomps]

Hi team - I have followed this thread with much interest over the past year!

I automated my phone bill a while back as a bit of a proof on concept, but with min payment of 20c and a bill of only $20 a month - it was chickenfeed when I read what you guys are doing! I have written another script for energy australia but I wanted to ask a question of the guys who cycle through 50 (or more) energy australia transactions...

How long have you been doing 50 (or more) transactions?
At the end of the billing cycle when you still owe a bit of money do you let your energy australia direct debit do a debit for I assume, only the amount outstanding?
Anyone had any feedback from energy australia?

Starting to get annoyed about not seeing December's points arrive from QF yet...

I have been doing 400 transactions per day for the last 4 months.
I don't direct debit, I manually pay the outstanding. Not sure I woudl trust them to get this right
I once spoke to a customer service rep from Energy Aus, he noticed the number of transactions on the account and commented, but beyond that didn't really care.

 

[Nutcase]

I have been doing 400 transactions per day for the last 4 months.
I don't direct debit, I manually pay the outstanding. Not sure I woudl trust them to get this right
I once spoke to a customer service rep from Energy Aus, he noticed the number of transactions on the account and commented, but beyond that didn't really care.

This is remarkable. Ive only just stumbled across this thread. You're very resourceful. I take it youre paying by Bpay?

EDIT: Just realised youre using the debit card feature. You're still costing them a transaction fee but thats only about 0.04 per transaction.

The only time EA would ever pick this up is if some BA does any analysis on the amount of Bpay transactions that are happening and the reason for an uptick or if Bank West do a similar thing.

Make hay while the sun shines I say.

 

[scubabe]

Make hay while the sun shines I say.

That's pretty much my thoughts on the matter too

Now, can someone give me more info on how to schedule the jobs in iMacro? I'm off camping for 4 days over Aust Day and I won't have access to the internet to do my transactions, and I'd really rather not miss out on all those points...

 

[Veeedka]

I have been doing 400 transactions per day for the last 4 months.
I don't direct debit, I manually pay the outstanding. Not sure I woudl trust them to get this right
I once spoke to a customer service rep from Energy Aus, he noticed the number of transactions on the account and commented, but beyond that didn't really care.

How are you doing 400/day? Multiple cards, I assume?

 

[cxthomps]

Yes, multiple cards, method to obtain discussed much earlier in this topic.

I am actually waiting on 2 more cards, then I think I can squeeze 2 more out of them before I will need to go into hiding and never ring or visit a branch for a long time.

 

[Kangol]

Yes, multiple cards, method to obtain discussed much earlier in this topic.

I am actually waiting on 2 more cards, then I think I can squeeze 2 more out of them before I will need to go into hiding and never ring or visit a branch for a long time.

For the same account? What is your reason? PM if you don't want to make it public

 

[Veeedka]

Yes, multiple cards, method to obtain discussed much earlier in this topic.

I am actually waiting on 2 more cards, then I think I can squeeze 2 more out of them before I will need to go into hiding and never ring or visit a branch for a long time.

Definitely curious as to how as well if you're doing this on the same account..

 

[cxthomps]

Multiple accounts, wife and 2 kids over 18 really helps.

I tried to get some 'backup backup' cards for an account a while back but they wouldn't go for it unfortunately.

 

[Kangol]

Multiple accounts, wife and 2 kids over 18 really helps.

I tried to get some 'backup backup' cards for an account a while back but they wouldn't go for it unfortunately.

How did they go for the backup cards in the first place? I was under the impression that they have tightened up in more recent times...

 

[cxthomps]

Personally I haven't experienced any tightening up of the rules, perhaps I am just lucky with my local branch. I have got to know a couple of the desk clerks and wait until I see them working before I attempt anything.

 

[Kangol]

Personally I haven't experienced any tightening up of the rules, perhaps I am just lucky with my local branch. I have got to know a couple of the desk clerks and wait until I see them working before I attempt anything.

I'm interested in what you've asked for when talking to them - ie. you have a standard, then upgrade to a plat. But after that, asking for another standard will come up on their system as having one already. Do you ask for another standard card as a "backup, just in case" - or something like that? Because if you say you don't have the original one (damaged, lost or whatever), then they will cancel the old one for security reasons...

 

[cxthomps]

PM'd you Kangol.

 

[Veeedka]

PM'd you Kangol.

If you wouldn't mind, can you PM me the same info? They looked at me pretty funnily the last time I went in to change card types, so I haven't been back since..