Flybuys - Bunnings gift cards no more?

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  Geewhizz on 03/08/2013 - 11:56

  Click_it, it appears that there are no longer any store gift cards, only gift cards being for AFL clubs.

  It now seems to be just $ off at participating stores … would have to buy a gift card instore, I guess.

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  tonka on 03/08/2013 - 11:58

  If you are spending on groceries, why not just get supermarket credit for $100 and spend your shopping money at Bunnings instead.

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  sparkles on 03/08/2013 - 12:31

  +1

  I just cash in for Fly Buys Dollars which I generally use on groceries (that I would buy anyway) or bargains I find at Target (like the recent $9.99 Disney Blu Rays).

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  [Deactivated] on 03/08/2013 - 12:35

  Despite occasional emails suggesting that you can redeem your points (with a sneaky potential-point-losing twist in the fine print of those emails)(if after the appalling need to 'activate' online prior to redemption instore you fail to do so within a specfic timeframe), the reality is that neither Flybuys nor Wesfarmers (Coles/Bunnings) actually want you to redeem your points at all.
  The changes that were made awhile back were designed to decrease motivation for people to do so.

  The almost halved-value points (except on Coles own supermarket clothing)(2500 points used to make for a $20 Coles giftcard, now 2000 points will get you $10 at the till - after 'activation') , and now the removal of the Bunnings giftcard, just stinks.

  Yes, the points don't expire like that used to, but the motivation to specifically shop at Coles, Kmart etc. because of FB points - for me anyway - went away along time ago.
  Good luck to the people who are still keen and motivated (and do surveys and the like).

  (Apologies for all the parentheses) :)

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    sparkles on 03/08/2013 - 12:41

    +1

    I actually think FlyBuys is pretty good these days, it used to be useless and would take eternity to earn anything (if at all). It's something for nothing, and there seems to be plenty of easy ways these days to get a lot of points in one hit ie. Medibank, surveys, bonus point offers. And it seems to work, pretty much glitch free. My only gripe is that it's near impossible to keep tabs via the website on whether you are actually receiving all the correct bonus points.

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      [Deactivated] on 03/08/2013 - 12:58

      Overall, the points accumulation/redeemable value/likely to redeem equation, was - behind all the smoke and mirrors - skewed more in favour of Flybuys. The removal of the Bunnings giftcard option just makes it nastier.

      With the old set-up, most households would easily accrue enough points before any of the early ones expired to have at least one, or maybe more than one, $20 Coles giftcards or $50 Bunnings cards mailed out to them. LOTS of people did just that. Flybuys/Wesfarmers clearly didn't much like that.

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        Click_It on 03/08/2013 - 15:27

        Yeah we used to earn $50 or $100 in Bunnings card each year without really trying. Ironically, this year we started focusing our efforts and have already doubled our old efforts (20,000 in just 6 months) and now they've moved the goal posts, and by move I mean, the football ground just become a bare park with a bit of a stinky swamp where the posts once stood :)

        I guess we could do the flybuy dollars thing, never really understood what that was, so it's exchanged directly at Coles? I see the argument raised above, save money at coles, spend the savings at Bunnings and whilst that's logical enough I'm inclined to just shop elsewhere now such as Aldi and save money from the start.

        We were about to get ourselves a Coles Mastercard after paying down our other CC. Now, probably not going to happen.

        Anyway thanks for all the responses. I guess I'll put my 20,000 to flybuy dollars until its all gone.

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  [Deactivated] on 03/08/2013 - 22:00

  +1

  20,000 points is $100 worth of flybuys dollars. You can use them at Coles and there are other flybuys partners you can use them as well including Kmart and Target. You swipe the flybuys card at the register like an eftpos card and then enter the pin that you set when you redeem the reward on the website. You'll need to let the checkout person know how much you want to use of the flybuys dollars in the transaction before you swipe the card. You don't have to use the whole $100 in one transaction.

  I think it's only been in the last few weeks that the Bunnings card redemption option has been removed. I have no idea why they did this. Scroll down further in the Flybuys facebook page and you'll see other people who have complained about the changes in the redemption policy.

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    Click_It on 04/08/2013 - 13:00

    Thanks for explaining. Oh well all is not lost. Normally I steal all the points for my Bunnings goodies, at least with flybuys dollars the missus can still use it at Target or even Coles. I don't really shop at Bunnings much these days as I feel they're a ghost of their former selves so I'll let the other half have the points :)

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    Abbycat on 04/04/2014 - 18:09

    Thanks! I had no idea how this worked!

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  [Deactivated] on 03/08/2013 - 22:10

  It's probably cheaper for flybuys to have redemptions in flybuys dollars instead of physical giftcards. They've had to spend a lot of money on the technology required on the new flybuys cards but they are saving in postage costs of sending out the various gift cards. They are also probably saving money by limiting the use of the points(flybuys dollars) to certain flybuys partners rather than having to pay Bunnings for their giftcards. I'm only speculating here as I really don't know how things like this work.

  Flybuys have also increased the points required for some of their physical items like appliances and entry tickets to venues. They claim that their costs have gone up to purchase these goods and they had to put the point values up. I know that Bunnings is a Wesfarmers business but it still costs Flybuys money to get the Bunnings giftcards. It has to show up as a cost to Flybuys in order to sort out the profit margins for each section of Wesfarmers.