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I may be wrong but here are the patterns i've noticed on Flybuys offers: - Booklet offers each quarter (i.e. 12 weeks of bonus points offers, via mail or app); - a quarterly 10k point challenge (i.e. "Spend $x per week for 4 weeks) that roughly slots inside the above offer; - the one-off offers...

2012 Barossa Shiraz up today (sorry, no link - on phone) $70>$26, Halliday 95pts. Wondering if its Maverick Greenock Rise, except VM may be playing fast and loose on the rrp (as a 'cellared wine') or the alc% (14% on their site vs 15.5% for the maverick). Thoughts?

Decisions, decisions... there's the woods crampton 2015 Mataro for $200/dozen after AGL voucher, or Lindemans Limestone Ridge 2013 at $140 for 6... If the mataro was in a sixer I'd be on it like a fly on...

Oh, I could complain about Aus post... and I will. A few months ago I watched a courier drive up to our letterbox (halfway down our driveway), and put an undeliverable card in the letterbox. As I walked towards the letterbox/courier they reversed away from the letterbox and drove away! Last 3...

Thanks JohnK, didn't think of short-checking. It is all on one itinerary, and yep, when the routing came up in this class I was not going to argue :cool: never been to HK and have 8 hrs between flights so will run around town for a few hours.

Hey all, sorry to ask a baggage question here but can't seem to find the answers anywhere. Used up 40k pts to fly F class SYD-BKK-HKG-SIN on TG (last leg UA), but can't wrap my head around whether or not I can (or should) collect luggage in BKK and again in HKG. I should state I'm happy to fly...

I could speak for a few of us here, Unfunkable, in saying "I was once like you" - insofar as having a honeymoon buying period stocking a cellar with what appear to be bargains. As one comfortably out the other side of that honeymoon period, this bargain stacks up hugely in my eyes with some of...

Thanks B Man and everyone else on the Cellarmasters Mystery, I'm also thinking (hoping/praying?) it's Leconfield. Served up the 2010 at my wedding last year and the FIL enjoyed it a lot, so at $12/btl less cashback (had a $25 voucher laying around), a case of this should make the man happy come...

For those poor souls who suffered at the shoddy hands of grays/winemarket or whoever would not fulfil their 2014 avatar orders - under $24 bottle delivered in a sixer. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/323396 Meanwhile, I just saw a $60 price tag slapped on it at a BWS!! Surely it wasn't even a...

Just posted a deal up on Ozbargain - today only, Glenfarclas 21yo for $139 posted, with a free bottle of Duvel 750ml belgian beer! Great whisky, incredible price. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/322290

If I were to vote on my favourite champagnes in the sky, F class goes to Singapore's Dom Perignon Vintage (sorry, Krug NV, just didn't see why people were fussing over you). They also pick up the J class award with their Charles Heidsieck Brut reserve NV - this one stood out to me as something...

About a month or so ago, went to a 40th party in the bush, and came across this bottle sitting on the table in the marquee. I couldn't believe my eyes! It hadn't been opened, but I reasoned that "it wouldn't have been brought out if it wasn't meant to be drunk, right?" So I set about opening...

Just tallied it up, I've earnt about 115,000 fb points since the the start of this year. Been moving most of mine out to Etihad. 70,000 of those flybuys points got a return J class VA flight SYD-CNS, points I was able to earn for under $200 - got offered 750pts per item for an item that cost...

Your thinking seems jumbled and I can help - there IS always a hole in your head that needs more Shiraz!

While it is no good for us savvy consumers here, that makes sense for VM and the winemakers. I wonder which winemakers feel they have been burnt or their brands damaged in dancing with VM? I'm thinking of things like the Mitolo Cantiniere & various other "made for VM" wines still under the...