Getting the Most out of flybuys?

[Reggie]

Re: Not enough FlyBuys points - so what good is it?

OT - as usual. For those who dont work in the Mining Industry, back when underground metalliferous miners were paid on piecework rates ie tonnes mined, or metres drilled etc, 3 days prior to their actual pay day, they were given a summary sheet showing them what their crew would be paid for. So if they were drillers how many drilled metres, or for loader operators, how much tonnes they had shovelled, or miners how much tonnes of ore they had broken. Anyway this sheet was know as the grizzle sheet, so every pay fortnight the miners would be given their grizzle sheet, so they could look at it and compare it to what they thought they should be getting, and then go and complain/argue "grizzle" with the foreman that they had been ripped off, and the surveyors were theives etc. It was worth looking forward to every fortnight.

 

[oz_mark]

Re: Not enough FlyBuys points - so what good is it?

& of course, when paychecks stopped being cash/cheque and became direct deposits, the salary disbursement notice enclosed was renamed -

"Job Satisfaction Certificate"!

I don't even get that anymore, just a PDF.

 

[NM]

Re: Not enough FlyBuys points - so what good is it?

I don't even get that anymore, just a PDF.

I just get a URL to a HTML page that I can print if I want a copy.

 

[Tiki]

Re: Not enough FlyBuys points - so what good is it?

Arent "pinks" the ownership documentation for cars in the US that people race for in movies?

When I was growing up in California, pink slips were exactly that. Don't know if it's still the same, haven't owned a car there in 20 years.

 

[nowork]

Hi,

I was wondering how you guys get the most out of flybuys?

I have read about the Coles Source Card and linking NAB Visa to Flybuys so you can get 4 points for $5 and then obviously purchasing some bonus products, but does anyone have any other greater ideas?


Cheers.

 

[simongr]

I took the card out of my wallet - I think the reduction in weight assisted in reducing my related carbon emmissions when flying on mileage runs to generate more benefit than from flybuys over the past 7 years.

In all seriousness I have found FB to be an incredibly hard program to generate much value from.

 

[serfty]

I took the card out of my wallet - I think the reduction in weight assisted in reducing my related carbon emmissions when flying on mileage runs to generate more benefit than from flybuys over the past 7 years.

In all seriousness I have found FB to be an incredibly hard program to generate much value from.

I do get some value out of it:

Look here: http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/community/fly-buys/not-enough-flybuys-points-so-7432.html

Most recently I redeemed a $50 Coles Group & Myer Gift Card for 6,250 for Fly Buys points.

In the early days I was a member of some wine club with heaps of bonus points. In 2000 I redeemed a MEL-BNE-MEL flight on Qantas for 29,000 Fly Buys points (no taxes back then) - I was able to enhance this with paper upgrade certificates to J.

 

[coco50]

I just use it in the normal course of everyday living. If I buy at Coles, KMart, Shell, Liquorland etc. I use it. Usually rack up about 10K in points every 3 years. But I feel it isn't a program to chase point in.

 

[oz_mark]

It is a reasonably hard slog to get much out of it these days, ceratinly more so thatn when Myer was in it, but I collect them on my normal day to day spending, and usually get to redeem something every now and then.

 

[wallacej]

Similar to others here. If I happen to shop somewhere that takes the card..great. mostly petrol though!

Also similar to others every few years (generally before they start to expire) I redeem. I have been to restaurants, got linen, appliances etc over the last few years.

I just take it as payment for letting them keep tabs on my spending! Something for nothing for sure. If the price is built into the product already, I might as well get the benefit, so long as I am paying no more than I would anywhere else for the same product.

I like to thank those that don't use Fly Buys as I see them as subsidising my rewards ..

 

[lovetravellingoz]

When Fly Buys was first lauanched it was good......but they then devalued it.


With shopping at Coles supermarket, Petrol and Kmart and Myers it used to generate for me over one domestic flight per year....without really altering my shopping patterns. I probably gained about ten flights from it....but then it all changed and they grossly devalued the points.

I went from more than an airfare per year to struggling to get one before the points ran out...


The ColesMyer shareholder discount card was also ceased which used to get me 5% discount.

I also changed my house...and safeways is closer that Coles by a fair margin...and there is no way I would drive the extra 5 minutes for the small worth of the points..

I tend to pass a cheap Safeways for petrol too...and nota shell...so I normally redeem the 4c voucher at Safeways.

End result is now Flybuys is probably only worth $60 to $100 in Coles vouchers per year (mainly earned from Kmart, Myers and target...with rare Cloes and shell visits). Though I did recently get a $20 voucher for buying $80 of meat.



So as said above t is not worth going out of your way for....but if I am their I swipe it..

 

[oz_mark]

Though I did recently get a $20 voucher for buying $80 of meat.

They must have had different versions of this. Apparently my voucher was for buying $60 worth of meat.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

They must have had different versions of this. Apparently my voucher was for buying $60 worth of meat.

I am probably just misremembering the exact amount.....

 

[oz_mark]

When Fly Buys was first lauanched it was good......but they then devalued it.

I remember the devaluation well. Earning rate went up 4 times (1 point per $20 became 1 point per $5), but the redemption rate went up 20 times (a 550 point reward became an 11000 point reward

They added some bizarre VIP point thing, but never really explained how you got them, but deleted these later.

 

[docjames]

Basically, it's (now) a useless program.

Agree with all others here, if you're at Coles/Shell/NAB etc, use it. And get one airfare or one $20 credit every 3 years. Useless.

 

[serfty]

Basically, it's (now) a useless program. ... Useless.

"Dunno about that" thinks me as I digest my breakfast, the toast being cooked on a 'free' flybuys tefal toaster ...

 

[oz_mark]

"Dunno about that" thinks me as I digest my breakfast, the toast being cooked on a 'free' flybuys tefal toaster ...

I've had a few awards from it as well (back in the day I even got a mystery flight), but has become more diffciult in recent times.

 

[mzy]

Try swiping your FlyBuys card twice at Coles - once at the start of your transaction and then once again after you have paid, ie. so that it is registered for the following customer. I have been doing this for a few months now and I get away with it about half the time. Occassionally, the check out operator will notice and sometimes the following customer will, but worth a try. Hmm, is this wrong?

Cheers, M

 

[simongr]

I dont think that is entirely ethical.

 

[Alanslegal]

i gave up on using FB....

i remember a number of years back they were giving 10c per litre off fuel vouchers for xx_x amount of FB points....

i redeemed like 5 vouchers but never received them and didnt bother chasing them up.....