Blatant spam from UBank? $50 "voucher"?!?

inherentchoice on 18/12/2014 - 11:26

Received an email from UBank:

You've been particularly good this year.

And we want to say thanks for making UBank home with something special – a $50 Naked Wines voucher.

Cheers! Have a drink on us.

Sounds like you can get some wine completely free for being a good customer right? Nope, not at all. Basically it's just a buy 6 bottles and get $50 off deal. Is that even a deal? Would it even make the OzB front page?

I guess it wouldn't be so bad if it was a genuinely free gift, but surely this reeks of blatant advertising!

Anyone else get this spam? Is UBank getting paid to peddle this advertising?

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  • 36
    Yes, UBank is spamming people.
  • 5
    No it's not spam it's a genuinely good reward for "being good this year".
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Comments

  • chinospot on 18/12/2014 - 11:48
    +3

    Considering I have 10+ Naked wines $50 off cards that came with an order this is clearly just advertising.

  • kabigon on 18/12/2014 - 12:13
    +4

    I've received similar birthday offers in the past, where you're 'given' store credit but of course there's a prohibitive minimum spend. They must think we're pretty dumb…

  • RockyRaccoon on 18/12/2014 - 12:24
    +3

    It's a bank, they don't know any other way but to double speak. Mandatory to get admission to the bankers club.

    At the Christmas party

    Banker1 hey lets offer our customers some cheer
    Banker2 Great idea - how can we make money out of that
    Banker1 By giving them a coupon where we get referral bonus
    Banker2 Great idea - here's a bonus on your salary
    Banker1 Great I can buy some more meth for Christmas

  • CyberMurning on 18/12/2014 - 15:02

    the question, can we get free wines with this voucher? like $50 can get us any 6 wines incl delivery?

  • Gunther on 18/12/2014 - 15:03
    +3

    Definitely spam - I sent a 'friendly' email to customer service advising of my disappointment.

  • de22 on 18/12/2014 - 18:08
    +2

    The worst part is…I went onto the naked wines website without clicking on the Ubank email.
    Immediately I was offered a $20 off voucher for completing a survey on my wine tastes etc. After clicking through the survey, I was offered an "introductory bundle", which was discounted by 75% off RRP, and with the $20 "voucher" from my survey, came to $39.99 + delivery.
    I then clicked on my Ubank voucher from the email. Immediately I was offered the same "introductory bundle", which was discounted my much less, so that even with my $50 "voucher" from Ubank, the total price was $49.99 + delivery!

    Total, and utter spam. Not even worth a click, and damn I felt good pressing "shift-delete" on that email.

  • goosegog on 18/12/2014 - 18:51
    +1

    Never tried these " Naked wines" but we seem to be getting their voucher offers from many sites - including UBank. Not interested as they seem to be trying to flood all on site companies with them. If they're that good why the need to discount so much?

  • Bargainbag on 19/12/2014 - 15:09

    Whether you think the offer is spam or not, Naked Wines are great.. but beware they are not a one off cheapy OZbargain thing, their model is a kind of subscription that sponsors independent wineries to make wine (you commit to $40 a month which accrues and then you buy when you want, quit when you want). Great wine at reasonable prices and very interesting business to user system (phone app, social website etc). I've been using them for over a year now and have been very impressed by the quality and the regular offers they promote on their site. If you don't need the voucher pass it on to one of your wine drinking friends, they will thank you! I'm a Ubank customer but I was unable to use the voucher as I have already taken advantage of a similar offer last year.

  • freemoneyhunter on 24/12/2014 - 01:23
    +1

    I thought it was a rip off too. I don't care, I hardly ever hear from Ubank.

    Probably if you use the $50 voucher and purchase wine, Ubank gets a $10 kickback or something.

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