Since I took the effort to calculate this, I better share the result.
Each movie rewards 100 points¹, 125 if booked online. However, Telstra Thanks tickets net in 50 points each, even if booked online.
You need 600 points to see a movie. At the current Telstra Thanks price of $12.5 per movie ticket, each point is worth $0.02 only if you redeem them.
Since points expire in 12 months, if you only pay with Telstra Thanks, you need to see 12 movies a year to redeem any points. Which means Telstra Thanks users rarely gets to redeem their points.
Group buying won't help. For each person per movie, the online form only allows one cinebuzz card number to be filled in. Even if you buy 2 tickets in two online transactions for the same movie session, you only get the points for one³. I just experimented this (pardon the pun).
If you login to cinebuzz before purchasing online, for Moonlight Cinema tickets you have the option of "Moonlight $15 Cinebuzz Offer", which should net in 125 points instead of 50 (Telstra Thanks), but I haven't been able to test this. For the additional 75 points (worth $1.5) you need to pay $3.7 ($2.5 price difference plus $1.2 booking fee which doesn't happen with Telstra Thanks's $12.5 tickets) more. So it only make sense if your points are not much behind 600.
The EventCinema eVouchers² net in 100 points (125 if booked online) instead of TelstraThanks' 50 points, so if they are priced the same, one should go for EventCinema deals. It doesn't worth paying the $2.5 online booking fee in order to get the additional 25 points, since 25 points value at $0.5.
- https://eventcinemas.kayako.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1…
- like this:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/284339 - You score points with the first ticket, not the most point-worthy ticket. Also, it is worth testing, if you buy lots of tickets for one session and chose to join as a new member at the same time, would they stack.c
nice work :)