Flybuys Targeted Bonus Promotions

[JessicaTam]

Nice. Can you buy a Telstra prepaid recharge voucher at a self-checkout? How long do the vouchers last?

I don't use self checkouts.

The expiry date on the voucher I bought today is 13/11/2016 - yes, 2016.

 

[Austman]

Can you buy a Telstra prepaid recharge voucher at a self-checkout?

Found out today. Yes, you can. It's simple. Week 1 completed.

 

[rainbowgirl]

I spent $50 at Coles today and completed Week 1 of the 4 week offer. I got a note at the bottom of my receipt to confirm I had made the qualifying spend for week 1.
By my calculations these are the points I have earned for this transaction.
50 base points
2500 pro rata amount for week 1 of the 4 week offer
1000 points for spending $50 docket deal
100 points for the week 4 triple points coupon
50 points for a double points docket deal
75 points for spending $5 on milk
100 points for a fruit and vegetable coupon
200 points for a fruit and vegetable email
That's a total of 4075 points for a $50 transaction.

This means I got just over $20 of points which I'll be converting to flybuys dollars and using to pay for future transactions. From one point of view you could say that I got a 40% discount using points.

 

[mannej]

How quickly do the email offers post? On the same shop (admittedly only on Wednesday), the voucher offers have all posted as well as one email offer, but not two others (plus a liquor land offer from last week). The only thing I can see is the email offer that posted expired yesterday, where as the others are still ongoing.

 

[rainbowgirl]

Liquorland have their own timetable for posting offers. It may still be 4 weeks for this partner.

Most Coles offers post within 2 days. Offers that have a condition like "multiple points for your highest shopping trip during a certain time etc" will still take a couple of weeks to post, but at the moment this is less than the 4 weeks you had to wait.

I'm still waiting for a biscuit/cake coupon to post from a couple of weeks ago. I don't know whether this is a delay on this particular coupon or whether I will have to start a dispute on whether or not the product I purchased qualified for the offer.

Which Coles offers haven't posted yet?

 

[mannej]

150 for a Zoosh salad dressing/mayo and 200? For $12.50 or more of coffee (I hope this includes coffee pods).

 

[rainbowgirl]

150 for a Zoosh salad dressing/mayo and 200? For $12.50 or more of coffee (I hope this includes coffee pods).

It's possible that there is a delay in specific product group promotions. You might also have the issue with the coffee pods as I'm having with the biscuits from the bakery section.

 

[chrisishere]

So I've been buying a fair bit of stuff at Bunnings, Coles sells Bunnings gift cards and fly buys points are awarded for the purchase of them! Plus I have coles car and house insurance so 3 FB points per $1 spent at Coles. On top of it, if I spent over $100, I seem to get the 1000 points docket voucher if I spent another $100 in the next fortnight.

 

[rainbowgirl]

So I've been buying a fair bit of stuff at Bunnings, Coles sells Bunnings gift cards and fly buys points are awarded for the purchase of them! Plus I have coles car and house insurance so 3 FB points per $1 spent at Coles. On top of it, if I spent over $100, I seem to get the 1000 points docket voucher if I spent another $100 in the next fortnight.

You're doing a great job with collecting points. If you are going to be spending over $100 anyway once a month, make sure you do a Tell Coles survey each month. You can get a voucher for $5 off for spending over $100. If you use a 1000 point docket deal at the same time make sure the total after the Tell Coles voucher is still over $100.

Good trick with the Bunnings gift cards.

 

[benjy]

Really impressed with the timing of posting of points. Got a delivery today, which transacted last night, and the points and eligible bonus points have already been posted, well done FlyBuys!

 

[rainbowgirl]

Really impressed with the timing of posting of points. Got a delivery today, which transacted last night, and the points and eligible bonus points have already been posted, well done FlyBuys!

Yes, it's a pretty good set up at the moment. All of my points have posted from yesterdays transactions and I've converted them to flybuys dollars already.

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

Just noticed when buying a couple of $50 bunnings gift cards

* the posted out coupon for triple points didn't include the $100 of spend

* the double points shopping docked from the week before did.

Lets me earn 3 AMR points and 2 flybuys for the cards. Will have to see if the extra point I get for coles home insurance also credits for it.

Just makes it even better to try and buy the gift cards at the super market if you can.

 

[chrisishere]

You're doing a great job with collecting points. If you are going to be spending over $100 anyway once a month, make sure you do a Tell Coles survey each month. You can get a voucher for $5 off for spending over $100. If you use a 1000 point docket deal at the same time make sure the total after the Tell Coles voucher is still over $100.

Good trick with the Bunnings gift cards.

Didn't think of the Tell Coles survey, keep forgetting to do them but that's a good idea.

I did receive the spend $130 per week for four weeks to receive 10k points which I should easily manage with some gift cards and the usual grocery shop. (Also lucky that I can buy certain items for the work social club fridge that does help add up)

 

[jlien]

Had the spend $80 x 4 on my card, and spend $50 x 4 on the missus' needless to say we went for the latter.
Completed the first week's shop, didn't have a lot of stuff we needed to get so stocked up on things for the home that were on discount. Spent $51 and had $26 worth of savings. Think everything was somewhere between 30-50% off which was nice.

Onto week 2.

 

[RAM]

Had the spend $80 x 4 on my card, and spend $50 x 4 on the missus' needless to say we went for the latter.
Completed the first week's shop, didn't have a lot of stuff we needed to get so stocked up on things for the home that were on discount. Spent $51 and had $26 worth of savings. Think everything was somewhere between 30-50% off which was nice.

Onto week 2.

Same here, stocking up on 30-50% off does make it hard to get over the spend threshold and that is what they want! It is designed to get you to break your financially structured spending habits, and once that dam bursts...

Same with regular offers to increase CC limits. Having inside knowledge (by asking head of CC for world's largest issuer) it is absolutely insidious.

The theory is to increase two further times after you have stopped paying off your purchases in full each account. Why 2 times? That seems to be the sweet spot for people not being bankrupted by it (5% bankruptcy within 5 years was the figure he quoted I recall).

Shopping points follow similar ethical pathways without hopefully such penury!

 

[jlien]

Same here, stocking up on 30-50% off does make it hard to get over the spend threshold and that is what they want! It is designed to get you to break your financially structured spending habits, and once that dam bursts...

Same with regular offers to increase CC limits. Having inside knowledge (by asking head of CC for world's largest issuer) it is absolutely insidious.

The theory is to increase two further times after you have stopped paying off your purchases in full each account. Why 2 times? That seems to be the sweet spot for people not being bankrupted by it (5% bankruptcy within 5 years was the figure he quoted I recall).

Shopping points follow similar ethical pathways without hopefully such penury!

Not surprising, these schemes were not developed for the benefit of the consumer, but that doesn't preclude us from taking advantage
In this case, i probably would have only spent about $20 if it weren't for the offer. However that extra $30 were on things I do use and need and would be purchasing later anyway, and most probably not at the 30-50% off that I got during the weekend

 

[rainbowgirl]

I just received an offer for 750 points for buying steak at Coles. The offer seems to imply that it applies to any steak but at the bottom of the email in tiny tiny print it excludes casserole, blade and sandwich steaks. Be careful of this if you get the offer as I believe the wording in the main part of the email is misleading. I usually read the fine print but I'm guessing many people wouldn't read all the terms and conditions.

I've just finished eating a lovely blade steak I bought from Woolworths cooked just the way I like it. I was considering trying out some blade steak from Coles as a result of this offer but now I won't even consider taking up the offer. Coles actually had a chance of getting me to buy more of their meat and less of Woolworths meat but ruined it for themselves with the fine print.

 

[RAM]

I just received an offer for 750 points for buying steak at Coles. The offer seems to imply that it applies to any steak but at the bottom of the email in tiny tiny print it excludes casserole, blade and sandwich steaks. Be careful of this if you get the offer as I believe the wording in the main part of the email is misleading. I usually read the fine print but I'm guessing many people wouldn't read all the terms and conditions.

I've just finished eating a lovely blade steak I bought from Woolworths cooked just the way I like it. I was considering trying out some blade steak from Coles as a result of this offer but now I won't even consider taking up the offer. Coles actually had a chance of getting me to buy more of their meat and less of Woolworths meat but ruined it for themselves with the fine print.

and there was me thinking it had given you indigestion!

 

[Oneworldplus2]

We've now stopped spending at Coles altogether and moved to Woolies as their offers have now all reset to entry level.

Both Coles and Woolies think they can forever increase the floor to trigger the weekly offer. Then when a loyal customer moves to the competition the offer to bring them back has to disproportionately large vs the spend.

I am exactly the reverse. I haven't shopped at Woolies for a couple of months or so as there have been no EDR offers worth worrying about.

I have even gone one step further. The offers are so bad (from WOW and Coles), l've gone to Aldi.

 

[flybuys]

I just received an offer for 750 points for buying steak at Coles. The offer seems to imply that it applies to any steak but at the bottom of the email in tiny tiny print it excludes casserole, blade and sandwich steaks. Be careful of this if you get the offer as I believe the wording in the main part of the email is misleading. I usually read the fine print but I'm guessing many people wouldn't read all the terms and conditions.

I've just finished eating a lovely blade steak I bought from Woolworths cooked just the way I like it. I was considering trying out some blade steak from Coles as a result of this offer but now I won't even consider taking up the offer. Coles actually had a chance of getting me to buy more of their meat and less of Woolworths meat but ruined it for themselves with the fine print.

Thanks for your feedback, which we will pass on to the wider team here; we're sorry you won't be taking up this offer.