Credit card reward programs bonus point offers

Dboc1987 on 07/06/2017 - 15:30
Last edited 07/06/2017 - 15:31

Hey OzBargainers.

Just a query to avoid a bit of potential backlash. Would it be considered a "bargain" to point out if there are particularly attractive bonus points being available from a particular retailer? For example, the company I work for has partnered with CommBank Awards to offer 10 bonus points per $1 spent, which is a great offering if you have a commbank awards member, but I didn't want to upset the greater masses by posting it as a rep post and having people comment negative things about it. Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Dan

Financial

Comments

  • Skramit on 07/06/2017 - 15:35
    +5

    Post it and let the ferals decide.

  • r0k on 07/06/2017 - 15:45

    Personally, I am interested in what you're offering.

  • inherentchoice on 07/06/2017 - 16:28
    +1

    I think you can post it but you would need to declare your association and honestly I think you will be lucky to get more than 3 votes for this deal. 10 CBA award points is worth about $0.07 so it's not even 7% off really. Not to mention there's only a very small percentage of OzBargainers who will have a card with CBA awards.

    • Dboc1987 on 07/06/2017 - 16:35

      That was sort of my thinking. I will put my hand up straight away to say that I don't know much about reward programs etc not having a rewards card, so wasn't sure if it was an a sensible thing to post or not. The packs etc are already really good value, so the attraction of bonus points might have been a good thing to promote. Thanks for the feedback though

      • inherentchoice on 07/06/2017 - 16:37
        +2

        If there's a good pack that is a legitimately good deal you'd have better luck posting that pack as a deal on it's own and then mention that there's also bonus points for CBA awards customers.

        • Dboc1987 on 07/06/2017 - 16:45

          There lies the problem, we aren't posting the packs as store rep anymore due to a few people picking them apart and muddying the waters. So I might just leave it be for now and if a customer decides to post a deal in the future, I'll suggest an inclusion of the bonus points after the fact.

        • inherentchoice on 08/06/2017 - 09:55
          +1

          @Dboc1987: This is OzBargain the community will critique and pick apart every deal posted. That's how we collectively identify what are legitimately good deals and filter out the spam.

          I have posted deals that are cheaper than previous deals but only fetch 20% of the votes. For example at $26 this item fetched 48+ votes and yet when I posted it at $23.95 it only got 11+ votes.

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