Looks like I have a big bus ticket buying shop ahead as NSW stops selling paper bus tickets on 31.12.15 and after that you can only purchase OPAL cards.
The sting is that for around 45% of bus/train users - OPAL is more expensive than the cost of a Travel 10 ticket (ok old parlance used).
Did this years ago just before they phased out the old clunky cardboard 10 ride tickets - kept us going for another 4 months!
How? No expiry printed on the tickets so they cannot refuse them even if they take out the ticket readers.
Also time to pre-plan conversion of WoW cards into Bunnings, JB Hi Fi, etc purchasing for next year.
Spreadsheet time!
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On another thread I saw that Flight Centre cards are 10% off this week at Big W (I think it was) so finally able to use them.
Use 5% off cost Wow cards to buy 10% off Flight centre with 5% surcharge = 10% off
Used FC price match this year for booking 5x European return tickets, so I foresee a pleasant points haul from using
cash rewards to buy WoW cards at 5% off using Velocity Amex at no surcharge to buy Flight Centre at 10% off. Now to find that thread and confirm my memory was correct.
Found it - Not Big W but WoW!
I bought 1 x $200 and 1 x $100 yesterday. Waiting for them to be emailed out. The terms & conditions from Woolworths say that they are Big W store egift cards and will not work at other Woolworths branded stores, so it will be interesting to see if that is correct.
Woolworths have got Flight Centre gift cards 10% off this week. I picked up 3 x $150 cards to pay the last portion of our family cruise holiday.