EDR Targeted Bonus Point Promotions

[sumthinfornuthin]

unlikely................................unfortunately

 

[JohnK]

And the silliness continues

Brother - 10c off fuel voucher for $80+ spend on fresh fruit and vegetables
Mum - $10 off at Big W for $100+ spend
Dad - $10 off at Big W for $100+ spend
Brother - $10 off at Big W for $100+ spend
Me - Find Sandta to win a prize

I cannot believe the people in marketing are getting paid megabucks to think up this rubbish....

 

[Skyring]

461 pages and counting! :shock:

Yeah, I picked up a bunch of points. Some weeks a thousand or so. Never got any of the massive neverending offers, buy cat food from every supermarkt in Sydney, sort of thing.

Pretty much dried up now, and my fuel spend is capped as to how far we can drive a Golf. And yes, there's a bunch of house brands on the shelves.

But so what? From what I can see, FlyBuys is still as coughpy as ever. If I want good value groceries, I hit Aldi. No rewards program, they slug you on credit cards, but by jingo, they have the basics, they are efficient, I'm in and out in a few minutes, and I'm not spending on extras I don't really need.

Woollies is running this program with a profit-driven eye. Any points given out are well and truly paid for by the customer. We're never going to score big on something like this, not unless there's some loophole left unplugged.

And on that note, the really big scores I hear about aren't mentioned here. A few weeks ago a friend of mine pulled out a certain piece of plastic, waved it under my nose and informed me that he had gained a hundred thousand points for no great spend. All legit, all a great lark, nothing ever mentioned here.

You know how to get onto these things? Nobody mentions the bus here. You have to build up a profile, know the right people, trade information, be a fair dinkum good guy, be useful and helpful.

Like so many of the regular posters here. Honestly, I totally dips my lid to some of the folk, who are ever ready with helpful advice, links and stories. You know who you are. You have made my participation in this crazy world of status runs and points and programs and sweet deals a joy over the years. I've had some wonderful adventures, seen some amazing places, met some outstanding people.

I'll look into this thread from time to time. But if it is just going to be people whinging about how sad it all is, then where's the fun? Where's the reward? Might as well go and read a trip report, flying first class in someone's back pack. That's always good for a daydream or two.

 

[Deleted User]

Skyring you are correct, we have all started to complain about the lack of offers at WOW now, but hey, this is a public forum and you can chose to read or ignore this thread as you wish. I think its important to chat about the good and the bad in regard to the EDR program, and even really negative comments in here are still on topic in my opinion, so I see nothing wrong.

The problem is that we AFF mob are clever, really clever, we know what we like and we get upset when we can't get what we want. EDR has been a good little points earner for us all but everything comes to an end eventually. Things will change and there will be other opportunities, for all we know the Flybuys marketing team may be reading this thread and planning a program to move all us AFF over to their loyalty program, yes its a remote chance, but it is possible...

The sad thing is that because we are all clever here, we look for other opportunities elsewhere, we move on to the next "big thing" and WOW lose most of our loyalty as result, however Mr & Mrs Average who are not as aware as most of us here are now being loyal and rewarded less, I read this as WOW in a better position on all fronts, and the customer now paying for less.

For all we know the good old days at EDR will not return, and the "game" has already been played. WOW may now have their target market share and now it is time to improve the bottom line. Smoke and mirrors trick perhaps or even the ol bait & switch....?

Anyway we only shop at WOW on the odd occasion, we cycle the family's EDR cards, activate only the reasonable offers and forget the rest. We pay only with a discounted wish card, we no longer spend at BWS or WOW liquor, we go out of our way a little to go to Dan Murphy with our wish cards and get a price lower than the "nobody beats Dan Murphy's" price. We always buy fuel when it is cheap (Bottom of cycle - ADL low price ~$1.32/L) we use the large fuel discount vouchers only and don't use the standard 4c vouchers as there is no value there. When we get fuel we get as much as we can and fill two cars on the one voucher, in most cases this is approximately ~120L and on the high vouchers netts ~900 QFF. The fuel purchase is on a 5% discounted wish card so effectively we get both a $ discount and points from fuel, claim the GST back from the fuel for business use, tax deductible the rest and the fuel comes out at less than $1/L

This forum is a wealth of information, thanks to people such as cove I rarely fly whY, and life is good at the front of the bus...

Sure it is harder to do a trolley run, or harvest low lying EDR bonus points, but we still try to play to our advantage. After all its just a "game" and sometimes the fun is in playing and not necessarily winning... But when you do win, that keeps you interested in playing the game once again

 

[sumthinfornuthin]

At least you are getting offers.
i have been consistently sending negative feedback and it would appear that I am now "persona non gratis" I now get sweet ** offers, not even coughpy ones.

Stupid realy.

 

[cove]

Woolworths is building a Dans in Bullcreek in Perth that will open in January I think. I have loaded up with Woolies 5% off Gift cards and am ready to use the work ute for relieving them of their opening specials!
Shinaro10x this forum can be a little addictive so I am pleased to hear you are using low numbered seats on Qantas planes! If we have a second night out you might want Suites on Singapore Airlines flights on long hauls or maybe a run on an A345 all business class before they finish. That to me represent fine examples of the best results of the Game.

 

[Deleted User]

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Not much of a bonus here, these emails are nearly in my definition of spam, and not the canned type available in isle 8 in my local supermarket :shock:

 

[JessicaTam]

Not much of a bonus here, these emails are nearly in my definition of spam, and not the canned type available in isle 8 in my local supermarket :shock:

I am a little concerned that you eat so much spam you know which aisle it is in!

 

[Deleted User]

I am a little concerned that you eat so much spam you know which aisle it is in!

Never eat the stuff, but the woolworths app tells me it's in isle 8

 

[rainbowgirl]

We got one offer on my account. Spend $40 accross various fresh food departments across the week at WW for an 8 cent fuel voucher. Forget it. It's not worth even trying for me. I have a 12 cent fuel voucher from EDR, more 8 cent vouchers than I can use from Coles and I'm guessing that this weekend will be a Flybuys high value voucher weekend, so I don't need an EDR 8 cent voucher. I have no idea which card I'm going to use this week at WW. I'll only be spending the bare minimum there.

 

[blackcat20]

Nothing for me so far, and despite ignoring offers (except one), I seem to be accumulating 10c vouchers very rapidly. My "expired vouchers" list also shows vouchers I never had...very odd.

 

[whatmeworry]

No offers on 6 accounts... I guess EDR really wants me to go to Coles where prices are down down down

 

[Hvr]

Well Aldi has good stuff and with the lack of meaningful EDR offers I am finding more of them. Could be hard to go back. The safe way for Woolworths would've been to make sure the offers kept coming.

 

[Deleted User]

With the 21st of December marking the beginning of a new era, i.e this world is ending as per Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, I have a plan...

I'm going to start shopping at Coles "New World"

Coles New World Restock Ad 1980's - Coles TV Ad - YouTube

Coles New World Dollar Dazzlers 1986 - Coles TV Ad - YouTube

Coles New World (Australian ad, 1981) - YouTube

COLES NEW WORLD AD - YouTube

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So who here is joining me...? WOW free zone from 21/12...?

 

[Trashy]

No offer across 3 accounts... Good job woolworths with your Christmas spirit!

 

[serfty]

Just received an offer:

 

[nickfromeastryde]

Who Hoo (is that how you spell it) but whilst not the best offer I've ever had, it is a start hopefully of the return of bonus points. Maybe they have been listening and noticed the huge reduction in our family spend

 

[nickfromeastryde]

And an even better offer on another account (it actually isn't better value but more points on a spend we will probably accomplish anyway)

 

[DeKa]

I just got the $370 / 1000 points one too on MrsDeKa's card. MrsDeKa's EDR card has not been used for about a month.

 

[QF WP]

I got the same offer as nickfromeastryde and DeKa, Mrs LW got the spend $150 offer. Makes sense, as most of our purchases are on my card.

Damn, she shopped at Wollies yesterday, so doubt we'll get another change to rack up $150 (which she did easily)...

Oh well, there goes 1k points