Note: there is no official confirmation yet that closing and reopening your account will reinstate your 5% wave & save rebate for another 6 months, this will become clear after July 1 when the original promotional period has ended.
Update 3 July 2013: From comments, users have reported that reopening their accounts reinstated the 5% wave & save rebate.
For those of us worried about our beloved 5% discounts coming to an end at 30 June (under the original promotion) - fear not! I'm happy to confirm… closing your account and signing up again will get you 6 more months of 5% discounts for all paywave purchases under $100.
Here's what I did:
- Transfer existing funds out of ING & wait to clear
- Ring ING on 133464 to close account
- Next day: sign up again online, transfer some funds
I confirmed the 5% discounts on my new card, though it took 2 days for my transactions (and discounts) to appear in my transaction list.
Also, I got a call from a customer services officer… thankfully just to welcome me and explain how to use the card. She told me some un-promoted information:
- After 6 months, the 5% discount will drop to 2%, providing you deposit at least $2k per month (eg. salary) … yeah, there's no need to do this for the current 5% discount
- There is no end date (at this time) to sign up to receive 6 months of 5% discount
- ING has a target goal of 30,000 cards for the promotion - so that's when this deal might end. How many OzBargainers we got, Scotty?
Also worthy of note is that when you close your account you'll receive an email advising that you can continue to log in to your closed account to see your statements for 2 years.
And of course, in December if the 5% promotion is still being advertised… then I suggest you close your account(s) & sign up again!
Happy spendings.
TL;DR:
- close account
- open new account
- done
(thanks illumination)
did you use a new or existing client code?