Buying Aquire or QFF Point to Issue to Clients

[Benn49]

Hi,

My Boss has asked me to look into seeing if we are able to buy and issue Aquire or QFF points to issue to our clients.

Though I might ask here to see if anyone has done this before, can it been done, or if they know a contact person to enquire about this.

Did a quick search and haven’t been able to find anything on this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[opusman]

I suggest starting at Qantas Loyalty - Customer Loyalty & Reward Programs Australia

 

[Benn49]

Thanks opusman

 

[dalereardon]

I did approach them and tried to do a deal for our business. Also tried to talk to Virgin but they were even more dismissive.

Qantas at the time only wanted to work with large national partners and said for technology reasons they can't easily add partners and too much admin cost for a small business to join the scheme.

Interestingly you can purchase and award Aadvantage miles, they are really friendly and easy to deal with. You get given a full online control panel and can purchase and distribute miles very easily. I didn't proceed with Aadvantage miles only because our customer base wouldn't be as interested in them. But if American organized an Australian credit card and promoted the scheme more in Australia then they would make a great partner.

Dale.

 

[cove]

I know one real estate agent who has a deal. I got to ask a couple of questions about this when we were at a social event.
Woolworths and the big banks have lead the way in the last 5 or more years but I believe there are a number of others.
All contracts with Qantas are likely to be subject to non disclosure clauses.

 

[dalereardon]

Were they a LJ Hooker Agent? The whole franchise group has a deal with Qantas that they can tap into.

Perhaps some of the industry associations need to do a deal with Qantas to cover all their members.

 

[cove]

NAB have a 250,000 QFF offer with a new home loan and I think I have seen LJ Hooker franchises offering some deal with a deal in real estate in recent years. I have friends who are considering this deal but you would be able to get a cheaper home loan elsewhere as the points cost gets built into the cost of that loan.
Woolworths made it look like Qantas points were quite inexpensive as a loyalty offer but after big give aways they appear to be pulling out due to the expensive nature of those points. One problem is that many of those Qantas points will expire in the hands of the Qantas member through account inactivity after 18 months or they will get redeemed on toasters at around 0.3 to 0.5 cents per point.
It is surprising that Woolworths didn't just vary the points earn deal to a $50 start and half a point per dollar spend and I guess they still have 4 weeks to figure that out.