$60 to earn 800 points? Good?

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pottsy

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Quick Sunday question. 800 points for $60 is good value, isn't it?
I'm deciding whether to book Syd-Melb with Qantas $199 and earn 800 points or Jetstar $129 (no points).
Thoughts please?
 
I'm deciding whether to book Syd-Melb with Qantas $199 and earn 800 points or Jetstar $129 (no points).
I note a Max Bundle should cost an extra $85 on this route. That will earn at the fully flexible rate and could potentially be even better value – provided it credits without much trouble.

Eg. Qantas $199, row 4 if you're lucky and 10SC/800 points; Jetstar $214, row 1 included seat selection and 20SC/1200 points.
 
Quick Sunday question. 800 points for $60 is good value, isn't it?
I'm deciding whether to book Syd-Melb with Qantas $199 and earn 800 points or Jetstar $129 (no points).
Thoughts please?

Points are certaily not worth that.

To give you a reference point, if you paid that much for all your points - a one-way economy reward Melbourne to Sydney would cost $600 + $39 taxes.

However, I’d pay $60 not to fly JQ. :p
 
As others have already said the answer is no, but just in case you had any doubt, Qantas sells 1000 point blocks for $56 - and that's widely considered the worst possible way to build a points balance.
 
Thanks, would you mind sharing how please?

Sure. But there’s no magic to it.

I use WW rewards and convert to QF points.

Last month I had a rare offer 1200 WW points for a spend of at least $0.05. That’s equal to 600 QF points.

Granted that’s a rare offer, take a look at the weekly or fortnightly offers reported by others here.

You can easily pick up the 800 points you are chasing just by purchasing groceries which I assume you’d do anyway.
 
I've had similar offers for BWS, you just have to go a few weeks without swiping and they'll try to lure you back with something big.
A couple of months ago, coupons started appearing on the end of dockets offering 2K EDR points for $50 BWS spend (worth $10 or 1K QFF).

You had to buy once to get the voucher offer on your dockets and use the same EDR number when buying the booze on a subsequent transaction.

More recently these reappeared at 2K for $60.
 
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