Opt in to Earn 10 Bonus Points for every $1 spent

[straitman]

Originally Posted by Mal

The promotion was really geared to push Christmas spending on high end tv's etc to DSE, Tandy etc rather than their (sometimes lower priced) competitors. Same deal with Sanity who are in a big market tussle with the likes of HMV etc.

Mal,

Having said that remember that Retra Vision was also on the list and in our area they are the cheapest with brand names.

[mick]

Hey everyone,

Happy New Year! Judging by the sound of most of you, it's started off with a very healthy MR balance!

When I originally started this thread, I didn't really think I'd be able to take advantage of the offer, but thanks to FrankC and creeno joining the dots, I've discovered that Woolies is a much better place to shop over Coles .

I actually stumbled upon the opt-in offer completely by accident, when I was looking up bonus partners on the Amex website the day before the offer started. What I am wondering is, was anyone actually targeted by Amex for this promotion, or was any advertising seen or heard in the media promoting the offer? It just seemed a little on the quiet side, which seems odd.

Can anyone enlighten us?

[littl_flier]

Originally Posted by mick

I actually stumbled upon the opt-in offer completely by accident, when I was looking up bonus partners on the Amex website the day before the offer started. What I am wondering is, was anyone actually targeted by Amex for this promotion, or was any advertising seen or heard in the media promoting the offer? It just seemed a little on the quiet side, which seems odd.

Congrats mick. I did hear some radio advertising on both the Fox FM and Nova radio networks (B105 and Nova 106.9 Brisbane) and also saw a couple of ads in the newspaper. But they were all after this thread on AFF so I was probably more aware what they meant. I don't think I would have done very well out of this without the thread. Thanks heaps!

[Alanslegal]

Originally Posted by mick

Hey everyone,

Happy New Year! Judging by the sound of most of you, it's started off with a very healthy MR balance!

When I originally started this thread, I didn't really think I'd be able to take advantage of the offer, but thanks to FrankC and creeno joining the dots, I've discovered that Woolies is a much better place to shop over Coles .

I actually stumbled upon the opt-in offer completely by accident, when I was looking up bonus partners on the Amex website the day before the offer started. What I am wondering is, was anyone actually targeted by Amex for this promotion, or was any advertising seen or heard in the media promoting the offer? It just seemed a little on the quiet side, which seems odd.

Can anyone enlighten us?

Thanks for the heads-up for this promotion, it was about a week or so before I then received in my PO Box a promotional card from Amex advising this Offer as well as an email.........

[lovetravellingoz]

Originally Posted by sparoy

I bought $1000 gift voucher from The Good Guys and 10,000 bonus points posted OK. I then spend it on microwave and other electricals and bargained down as cash purchase. The 22" LCD monitor is out of stock. Good to know that I can get it next year still with the bonus points by using the gift voucher.

Today I made my final Wish Card purchases. All up I have purchased $10,000 worth of Wish Card, so 100K bonus points

Thanks to the OP and others, especially on info of pre purchase using Wish Card and The Good Guys gift voucher.

Yes The Good Guys posted fine for me too

A nice 100Kish points all up for me......including witha late $3000 of wish Cards. the shop assistant said someone is going to be lucky....and I thought yes, ME!!.

Though LOL Harvey Norman did not cooperate ..I went in to get a good price on a top end vaccum cleaner to then go to the TGG to have them price match.....only to get over 50% off!!!! on the model I wanted as they were clearing that item....so LOLlI just had to buy from them with only 1.5 points but with over 50% off up front!!.

[lovetravellingoz]

Well a bit of lucky timing for me as I had only just taken out the Maximiser to replace my Qantas Amex (The second free one nearing the end of its free period) and so after only just over a month now have almost 140,000 points


So the question is to long time Maximiser users is....do these bonus points deals happen regularly?

If so how often....and are they always this (10 bounus points) generous?

[NM]

Originally Posted by lovetravellingoz

So the question is to long time Maximiser users is....do these bonus points deals happen regulalarly?

If so how often....and arer they always this (10 bounus points) generous?

this is the first major promo of this type that I have seen since converting my RACQ Gold Amex Credit card to the Maximiser about 3 years ago. Here's hoping that that this type of promo is seen on a regular basis.

[lovetravellingoz]

Originally Posted by NM

this is the first major promo of this type that I have seen since converting my RACQ Gold Amex Credit card to the Maximiser about 3 years ago. Here's hoping that that this type of promo is seen on a regular basis.

Thanks for that....and yes heres hoping.

[beardoc]

Oh, dammit, I was following this thread until about a day before someone made the suggestion about Wish Giftcards - and then for some reason stopped reading it.

I would have ended up buying about $5000-6000 worth of cards (that's about as much as I spend at Woolworths and the Caltex Woolworths petrol stations in a year). Ah, well, chalk this one up to experience, I guess. I'll keep watching for another promotion.

[byrrul]

Many thanks to those that mentioned the Wish Cards, my local DSE thought it a bit odd when I bought a couple of thou worth, however they have been quickly used at Dan Murphys and what is left will be used at Woolies.