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Westpac Altitude Credit Card - $0 1st Year Annual Fee for Existing Customers, 1.25 to 3 Points Per $1 Spent

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Here's how you can earn back 1.5% of all your spending this year in the form of Woolworths gift cards!

For anyone who is an existing Westpac customer, you can now get the Altitude Black Rewards Credit Card for free - $0 annual fee in your first year so just cancel it before you reach your second year!

You get two cards with this - one Mastercard and American Express. The best thing about these cards are the rewards points on every purchase. The points can then be redeemed for Woolworths vouchers.

Here's the breakdown of the points:

1.25 points - Altitude Black World MasterCard® (Australian Merchants
3 points - Altitude Black World MasterCard® (Overseas Merchants)
3 points - Altitude Black American Express Card (Australian Merchants and Overseas Merchants)

They have a range of items you can redeem the points for but I'm sure OzBargainers would rather get cash back so just redeem them for grocery vouchers!

As an example: (https://altituderewards.com.au/public/redeem_product.aspx?de…)
4,000 points ($1,333 spent on American Express card) = $20 voucher
19,800 points ($6,600 spent on American Express card) = $100 voucher

If you calculate the saving, that's cutting 1.5% off EVERYTHING that you spend. Of course, make sure you pay your credit card bills before the due date to avoid the interest!

It's ridiculous how much you can save in just one year. Let's say your household spends (rent, food, bills, entertainment) around $4,000 per month. Over one year, you spend $48,000.
Convert that all into points and then vouchers, and that's 7 x $100 = $700 worth of Woolworths vouchers for the next year!

Mod Edit: Removed "$700+ cashback/1.5% off" from title - spending varies between each individual and points are used to redeem vouchers (NOT cash).

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  • no rewards points bonus deal?

    • Hm not sure what you mean?

      • Usually there's bonus points on sign on.

      • He wants a sign up bonus as well

      • -1

        the other cards usually have like 20-60000 bonus points on sign on

        been waiting for a deal with points for the black card for ages

        dont wanna bank with anz or whatever as they have shit banking apps

        • Yeah precisely - I know someone who worked at Westpac and got this card for free for no annual fee (ever!) so I was pretty envious! Luckily now it's available for everyone at least for a year. I suppose even if you pay the annual fee of $395, if you do claim back over $700 worth of vouchers, it's worth it anyway

        • Anz have shit banking app?? lolwut

        • @payton:

          ANZ app is probably one of the worst banking apps I've used. Try Commonwealth bank and you'll see the difference.

        • @payton: sorry

          ANZ have the shiTTEST banking app

          thanks for the correction

        • -1

          @fattyman:
          @fattyman:
          ANZ's app is fast and easy to use, supports 4 digit pin for convenience. I don't think that feature is available on Commbank's. Calling it 'shit' was just flippant. CBA's does have lots of features tho.

          When you're talking 'worst', the old version of Citibank's is a contender: it was ponderous and Citi tends to be so overly security conscious.

        • @payton:

          CommBank app does have the 4 digit pin feature.

        • @Ayanami:
          ah it is there, tucked away.
          Most other banking apps offer PIN login straight up after first boot but not CBA's.
          Thanks

        • @payton:

          Mine did?

        • @Ayanami:
          Have not seen the prompt come up a single time and I have the app on two phones, both Android.

  • Standard variable interest rates

    On purchases On cash advances
    20.24% p.a. 20.74% p.a.

    You have to hope you don't miss your payment!

    • Yes definitely - I'm assuming most ozbargainers are diligent enough to avoid that!

  • +2

    misleading title

  • +3

    hard to find someone accept AMEX as rent payment.

  • +2

    Yeah, nah, you need to change the title…there isn't $700 cashback, unless you spend $48,000!

    • Yep done! Sorry I based that off the average household spending statistic in Australia

      • I think you might need to tweak your model a fair bit. Have you had an AMEX before? The OzBargainer will find that many expenses deliver a greater saving if you avoid credit card completely. Eg BPay for rent; direct debit for utilities. Many retailers then don't accept AMEX. Your average earn multiplier will be a lot lower than 3 points per dollar and your total eligible spending will be far less than your total expenditure for the year.

        • Personally no, but I have seen friends and family (who are very frugal) redeeming heaps of vouchers through their Westpac points even with the 1.5 points. They don't actually expire on you - then again these people have had the luxury of having their annual fee waived.

  • I would prefer coles platinum MC with $89 annual fees.

  • A better deal is the Platinum card which has 40k bonus points (after $1000 spend within 90 days).
    https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/credit-cards/rew…

  • What't the best card at the moment with low fees to earn Qantas points?

    • https://www.anz.com.au/personal/credit-cards/frequent-flyer/… <— 75,000 points and $nil annual fee for first year. Cancel after first.

    • If one wants a card that earns Qantas FF points, yet, cannot be bothered with having to cancel after first year (due to annual fees), then the fee-free Qantas Amex Discovery card is quite good.

      You also get the cashback offers from Amex, which to me is an attractive ongoing feature (recent discussion here).

      Granted, you get a more modest 15,000 points on application (using a referrer), compared to the huge bonus points with other card, but once applied, the benefits (rewards and cashback offers) are ongoing.

    • Granted, you get a more modest 15,000 points on application (using a referrer),

      Apologies. This should read

      Granted, you get a more modest up to 15,000 points on application (using a referrer),

      Some of the bonus points has to do with "spend in Australia on selected Qantas products and services." (Per card application T&C).

  • +1

    So after all that, the deal is just annual fee free for the first year? Everything else is just bog standard points redemption scheme stuff.

    In fact, a real OzBargainer would not bother redeeming for cash or vouchers, but business class flights by transferring points to partner airlines, because that's the best bang per buck.

    • +1

      Perhaps. Though not everyone takes flights often, but everyone does buy groceries. A cash back/voucher offering would be suited to the wider population vs getting business class flights

      • +1

        In the case of groceries, you're still better off using ING for 2% Paywave cashback.

  • Am I correct in my research that payments to the ATO do earn points? But only when paying via Amex and only 1.5 points (or 0.75 QFF points)?

    • Even so much higher surcharge. Prob not worth it for qf points..not worth that much

    • Am I correct in my research that payments to the ATO do earn points? But only when paying via Amex ……

      Yes & No. I have paid my tax bill for the last couple of years on my Altitude Black Mastercard, earning points in the process.

      However, there is also a fee for paying by CC.

  • I've just recently moved to westpac and I miss how commbank allows you to exchange your reward points to visa gift cards which works out to be the best for me as I can choose where to spend it on.

    • i thought you can on the rewards website

      you can even use points to pay off your card directly

      • No option that I can see to exchange it to a visa gift card and I called the Altitude Rewards number as well who confirmed that they do not have a similar offering..only gift cards for select retailers.

        There is an option to exchange points to cover your annual card fee but its limited to only once a year

        • a mate of mine said they have this feature called spend and erase

          like if you go buy some groceries, you can "erase" the transaction by essentially converting points into straight credits that offset that payment

  • Westpac are the biggest bastards

  • David Jones Amex is better than this.

  • World master card can get you starwood gold membership for free?

  • +2

    I got the nab card with 15 months interest free on purchases. I am gonna spend all the money on the credit card and put money aside into the mortgage. Pay it off at the end. Plus I still get points for spending money. Pretty good deal I think.

    • Thanks for sharing! Might give that a go actually.

    • Does your technique work?

      • Well its something I have not seen anywhere else before. usually you get interest free balance transfer offers but this is offering 15 months 0% interest on purchases which I have never seen before. So it basically means whatever your limit is you can max the credit card and pay it off in 15 months. I guess, they are counting on people to not pay it off in lump sum at the end and pay interest on the balance. This will only work for people who are good with putting money away and will clear the balance in 15 months. We spend around $40k a year. I am gonna try and get my wife $20k limit as well so all the spending goes on credit card and we put that money aside in home loan. In theory, it works great. lol

        • Mmm true.. Thanks for the tips.. Any credit card that does this with no annual fee??

  • Misleading title, the 1.5% depends entirely on what you redeem points on, and assumes you put everything on the amex (not all places accept amex).

    Nothing special here imo.

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