QFF points under $30 on Woolworths Everyday Rewards

[auriga]

I just bought my daughter a new laptop for Uni.

With DSE awarding FF points I had a look there, but I could get a better specced (ie Cor2Duo, rather than Core Duo, 4GB RAM, rather than 2,1MB more cache, etc) Toshiba for a much cheaper price at MLN.

So I went sans-points

It's always a little bit painful when that happens!:mrgreen:

 

[Warks]

Speaking of DSE I went to buy the laptop I looked at yesterday when it was $599 - at the time I was told it was that price until Monday (today). Well it must have been 9am today as it was suddenly $799!
Toshiba Satellite L510/00Q Notebook (XC6404) | **** Smith Online Store

I wanted the badger the staff about it but couldn't get served to save myself today (after they were all over me yesterday).
Will look further.

 

[Warks]

Meanwhile some Fairfax goose is slagging off EDR:
Step right up: one per cent off! - Travellers' Check - Travel - Sydney Morning Herald Blogs

It's not as though you gain anything by NOT joining it. You're paying for it anyway so get something out of it.

 

[samh004]

Meanwhile some Fairfax goose is slagging off EDR:
Step right up: one per cent off! - Travellers' Check - Travel - Sydney Morning Herald Blogs

It's not as though you gain anything by NOT joining it. You're paying for it anyway so get something out of it.

Getting a little off-topic, but is this journo seriously complaining that we now have longer (better) shopping hours? What, I shouldn’t be able to buy the ingredient I forgot at 8:30 halfway through cooking dinner?

This is how the system works by my reckoning: about 10 years ago, Australia's two big supermarket chains lobbied state governments to remove restrictions on their trading hours. This enabled them to drive out of business most competing independent local supermarkets and fruiterers, leaving only a handful of corner shops.

I’m thinking this journo would rather live in the past.

 

[oz_mark]

Getting a little off-topic, but is this journo seriously complaining that we now have longer (better) shopping hours? What, I shouldn’t be able to buy the ingredient I forgot at 8:30 halfway through cooking dinner?

You should be able to go buy it at a servo, or local milk bar, and pay through the nose for it. None of this fandagled supermarket stuff.

 

[medhead]

Meanwhile some Fairfax goose is slagging off EDR:
Step right up: one per cent off! - Travellers' Check - Travel - Sydney Morning Herald Blogs

It's not as though you gain anything by NOT joining it. You're paying for it anyway so get something out of it.

Umm, if you read the whole article you find that he is writing something to link up with the Choice report that says loyalty programs are a waste of time. I tried to find a link to the same story in the australian, but couldn't find it online.

to quote the first sentence from the Oz "Shopers are the biggest losers when it comes to loyalty reward programs"

So AFF a forum of biggest losers?

Or perhaps consumers are lossing because we all make full use of loyalty programs?

 

[samh004]

Not sure if this was the story featured on ACA tonight, but there was definitely something about how it would take $15k to get a $50 voucher with Coles and $10k to get a $50 voucher with Woolworths.

I guess they had to pick a redemption they all have, but the $50 voucher option seems the worst.

At the end they said the best values was Myer I think, as it only took $2500 to earn a $50 voucher, but all I thought was, you have to shop at Myer, and last I checked, I can’t buy groceries there

 

[serfty]

... At the end they said the best values was Myer I think, as it only took $2500 to earn a $50 voucher, but all I thought was, you have to shop at Myer, and last I checked, I can’t buy groceries there

... more to the point, spend $2500 at Myer and you have spent $1000 too much ...

 

[odysseus]

... more to the point, spend $2500 at Myer and you have spent $1000 too much ...

It depends, I've found better bargains there than I have at DSE, so my perception's the reverse.

 

[serfty]

It depends, I've found better bargains there than I have at DSE, so my perception's the reverse.

Specials are specials!

But why buy a shirt from Myer for $69 when you can get similar from Targét for $19?

I have a "Myer One" card but have never found a cost effective way to use it.

 

[NM]

Specials are specials!

But why buy a shirt from Myer for $69 when you can get similar from Targét for $19?

Or from Best & Less for $9.99

 

[samh004]

Specials are specials!

But why buy a shirt from Myer for $69 when you can get similar from Targét for $19?

I have a "Myer One" card but have never found a cost effective way to use it.

Or from Best & Less for $9.99

I would’ve said Big W, then when you buy 2 shirts you can double dip

Plus they’re often cheaper than Targét.

 

[NM]

I would’ve said Big W, then when you buy 2 shirts you can double dip

but would need to start with 3 shirts for no points until you get to the $30 threshold.

 

[oz_mark]

But why buy a shirt from Myer for $69 when you can get similar from Targét for $19?

...or even Rivers since they headed downmarket...

 

[drron]

... more to the point, spend $2500 at Myer and you have spent $1000 too much ...

Boom Boom.
Very well said.Since the inception of the Myer one card I have yet to get to my first $20 voucher-most of my spending there comes from gift cards for filling out surveys etc.

 

[Smackbum]

My wife had been pestering me to buy her an iPod for a while last year so I got her a 5th generation 8GB Nano for Christmas. $159 at Myer. I have never seen it cheaper anywhere else, before or since.

I also recently bought the Lonely Planet Vietnam guide at 35% off ($27) when some stores were charging $45.

That said, I wouldn't be thinking of them first if I needed some new clothes.

 

[drewbles]

I made 4-5 sample sub-$30 transactions at safeway last week. not one of them appears on my EDR account, and none xferred to QF. Seems to be normal here.

 

[JohnK]

Something is not quite right. How can someone receive Everyday Rewards points for transactions under $30 when everyone else only starts earning Everyday Rewards for transaction over $30?

But why buy a shirt from Myer for $69 when you can get similar from Targét for $19?

Many years ago I used to buy the Pacifica brand of trousers although each store would put their own label on them. I used to buy them for $39 at Target/Lowes and exactly the same trousers at Myer/David Jones were $79.

I really fo not understand why people do not shop around and just believe that they are always better value and quality at the upmarket stores. Or is it more of a case they do not want to be seen shopping at the generic brand stores?

 

[medhead]

Something is not quite right. How can someone receive Everyday Rewards points for transactions under $30 when everyone else only starts earning Everyday Rewards for transaction over $30?

I have to agree, but haven't bothered over analysing the OP to ask for clarification. I certainly can't agree that having 6, 14, and 14 points transferred 'flys in the face' of points only over $30, if the transactions where for $36, $44 and $44. Someone else raised the point of the amount of the transactions, but the OP hasn't got back to tell us the answer.

 

[We Won't Shop There]

I would have thought clever frequent flyers would buy their cheap clothes overseas instead of buying the same clothes in Oz at prices inflated by greedy multinationals.