Flybuys just sent out an email with your points earning stats for 2017. Most people with high points would probably have earnt it on bonus points.
What did you earn in your whole family in 2017.
We managed to get close to 100k with a small family. Most were from Coles. We could have gotten over easily if it wasn't for the incentives from Woolworths…
For those > 100k, what did you earn?
Say what?! How
Solid effort, I was just over 30k with all but ~800 from bonus points. Only started half way through the year though, can do better this time :D
10,000 points when you spend $50/week for 4 weeks? Bonus 2000 points from gift cards?
Great work
Over 100,000 points. Top 1%. yay…
Buy food and every gift card offer from Coles, buy grog from Liquorland, get petrol from Coles Express, get some essentials from Target or Kmart, use the Coles Mastercard. I tried Unlock Rewards but quickly deleted it.
Don't forget Coles insurance
I didn't think that one was worth it.
The email says the most common thing I bought was chopped tomatoes (tinned), bread, milk and Nice and Natural bars which I thought was quite interesting. Wonder what they'll try to sell me with that information.
Compare Coles insurance against others and it’s a bit light weight
Don't you find Coles Express prices around 10c-15c higher than BP, Woolies, 7Eleven etc.. ??
YES. I just paid $1.734 for 98 at Coles Express to take advantage of the 1000 bonus points for 30L fill earlier … The BP I drove past was $1.659
Exactly why i don't bother with Coles Express!
Even the points (flybuys > velocity) earned is like 1/4 of what I would earn at BP
Do you try to time the price cycles or was this an emergency buy?
You should try 711 fuel app with GPS spoofing, 98 is around 130 in parts of QLD atm
@bs0: I fill up at BP for the Velocity points (only deviated from BP this time because of the bonus points). Thanks for the suggestion though! :)
@bs0:
Agreed- I stopped using my 10c/L off offers at Shell as I was getting 10-50c/L off using GPS spoofing on the 7/11 app
@bs0: don't know why I lost confidence in 7/11 near my house. I filled once and it didn't last me long enough compared to other servos. Engine sound also didn't feel right.. haven't filled from 7/11 ever again and thankfully no problems afterwards…
@John Kimble: Thanks. It is different from Qantas FF.. yeah? Also, where can we check total flybuys accumulated in the account? I couldn't find it at one place, apart from with each transaction.
Speedway is generally 138.9 for 98 fuel on the cheapest day.
Generally 4 cents higher. I do compare and consider the offers available before each purchase. I do not blindly buy at any price. I have purchased fuel at Coles, Woolworths, BP, Caltex and 7-11 over the past year. I am not loyal.
Well…today Coles Express lost a sale today. Despite offering 1,000 bonus points (for a minimum 30 litre purchase) and a free ice cream they were charging 149.9c/L. Woolworths got my business at 125.9c/L.
In 2017 you collected 46867 flybuys points.
39,318 of those were BONUS POINTS!
Where/how do you get the amount of points you collected??
Email went out today
78,000 (48,000 as bonus)
That's a solid amount of non-bonus spend!
Top 1%
Just over 150000
Over 120,000! Top 1%! Helped by was it 6x points for return trip to HongKong:)
Top 3%
232,231 points (193,327 bonus)
0 points because Savas said Woolies is better ;)
382554 flybuys points.
322,635 of those were BONUS POINTS!
Were you in the top 1% or is there a higher level?
Are you asking if he won the flybuys points?
I dunno how you get 383k in points with 80-85% of them bonus points. doesn't make sense.
God mode.
60,877 flybuy points
58,617 of those were BONUS POINTS!
17500 points
15800 were bonus
3,420 Standard points
77,166 BONUS POINTS
You were in the
TOP 1%
in Australia
You were in the
TOP 2%
in Victoria
25% of my points came in March.
"You were the SECOND BEST points collector on your account!" - there are only two of us…..
most frequent purchases
26x mince meat
26x butter
25x muffins
18x milk
U bought 25 tubs of butter in March? OCD alert
no, 26 for the year
One every fortnight. What were you rubbing it on?
3757
313,062 (147,785 bonus)
Redeemed $1298 FlyBuys $
Top 1% for city, state and country
Top purchased item (62 times) Heinz Little Kids Brekky to Go Pouch (Mango)
186k here. 112k in bonus points.
84k+ on my flybuys account and 110k+ plus on the wife's.
Out of which 150k+ wer bonus!… 2017 was a good year
Considering how much was spent at Coles to get these points i wouldn't have said it was a bargain!
I spend much less there now with Aldi being just down the road
Yep agree. Most loyalty programs are overrated. FlyBuys generally gives you back about 0.5% of your spend (i.e. spend $2000 to get $10 off = 0.5%), although promotional bonus point deals can of course be higher. Whereas most things at aldi are cheaper by a much more than 0.5%.
I tend to shop at Aldi more and then go to Coles when they dangle a carrot for 20-25% off. At least that's 40 times better than just scanning the card.
I find if I shop the discount cycles for most well known brands (which last year were often fortnightly or every 4 weeks) I'd do better than shopping at Aldi, actually get the brands I want (and everything else you can't get at Aldi), plus I didn't have to wait an hour to exit the store, plus I get free flybuys.
Exactly, it's only the name brand stuff that goes on those discount cycles.
But there's a lot of examples of the generic Aldi stuff that actually rivals the quality of the name brand equivalent, and is perpetually less than the discounted price at Colsworths.
Here's one example: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/352437
And now compare it with the name brand discounting cycle: https://pricehipster.com/product/I9rWN9twtw__YWclnzXndA~HJA-…
I'm no Aldi fanboi though. I still spend more at Colsworths.
But for your one example, you can buy a Colesworth branded pizza for $3 which I find to be the best tasting out of all the premade pizzas (Even Dr O and waaaay better than McCain).
There are a lot of private label stuff at Colesworth which are actually just as good quality as the Aldi stuff, probably supplied by the same manufacturer in some cases. I just think the advantage of Aldi of way overstated now if you are smart about buying things from Colesworth.
Over 150,000 fly buy points was in the top 1% in Australia
top 1% in victoria
6465 points and 4237 were bonus points. Top 27% in OZ.
I deliberately try not to scan the card as it seems to get me a lot of targeted promotions for $$$ off at Coles.
63,630 (55,933 bonus)
Redeemed $14
Top 2% for city, state and country
Top purchased items Liddels Lactose Free milk / Maggi Onion Soup Mix / Sweet potatoes
I only scanned my flybuys card 36 times in 2017
Most points are from Health insurer (Medibank) and Kmart Tyres and Auto
no email.. probably didnt earn enough at coles.. although i earned about $60 at woolies.. so thats about 120k points.. i am sure more than 100k would have been bonus points..
Sorry, only 12k - you're 10x out.
treu.. thanks for correcting.. maybe i wasn't thinking much while typing… or just bad maths
According to these poll results, earning >100k points only gets you in the top 27%.
Your point needs clarification, > 100k is better than 1% of the Aus population.
However, compared to the responding OZB'ers it's not as high because:
You hit the nail on the head and beat me to it.
100k is better than 1% of the Aus population.
How did you work that out?
Flybuys provided that statistic. See the comments.
OzB is like Whingepool.
Everyone is earning 200k per year somehow ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Not true. It means there's a higher percentage of >100k'ers completing the poll (or maybe even being an OzB member) compared to the general population.
193,623 points, of which only 9,191 were bonus points.
Top 1% in all categories.
Wow you spent over 180k in cash at Westfarmers stores in a year? You must be their favourite type of customer!
Lol, no, I have a Coles Mastercard.
139482 (23923 of Bonus Points)
Partner Account: 39729 (26780 of Bonus Points)
Total of 179211 which equates to $896.
After the $99 Annual Fee on Coles Master Card, the total reward earnings is $797.
just curious - if there is any special bonus for holders more than a million points? mine is 500K plus at the moment.
Why would they give you a bonus for holding a massive liability on their books?
If I had 500k I would be so terrified of an overnight changes to the T&Cs robbing me of what I could exchange them for. If I were you I'd use them ASAP.
They should at least give people a medal or something, because of the opportunity cost incurred by those people just holding onto the points.
You know you could earn some interest on the money you use instead of the points you're accumulating.
In short - No!! I have over 1 mil Flybuys points
Why don't you use them?
I do when I need to. I redeemed over 200k about 14 months ago to use for an Etihad Business class flight to London.
@serpserpserp: it converted to 80k Etihad guest miles, which went towards the 120k I needed for the business class upgrade
+1
384,654
People who got over 50,000 points (excluding bonus) how did you get so much? Did you really spend $50,000 last year?
I’m assuming a lot of these must come from credit cards but I don’t see the point, Amex spend into QFF gets you far more value I would have thought?
For the record I got 2772 points because I don’t reallly bother.
I find those 10,000 bonus points very wide ranging. Sometimes it was 4 weekx $50 or %60,70, especially if they hadn't seen me ina while. then suddenly it'd be spend $200 pe rweek for two weeks to get it.
I only ever bothered when it was $50-80 spend a week, usually for 4 weeks, as it is just too hard to spend $200 in one shop legitimately without wasting money just to get some bonus points.
STill.. i find it's much better to not shop for awhile and they seem to auto send you things to entice you.
Honestly think I'll not bother swiping the card unless there's a good bonus offer. Seems to be more worth making them freak out that you're not shopping there and get the bonus points compared to collecting the pitifully low number of points. That or maybe grab a few cards and cycle them. Doesn't work if they match to the credit card though I guess…
I'm pretty sure your nana's booze run is actually accountable for 90% of your points ;)
it's the secret to her longevity, she's 90 in May.
I had car insurance and Coles CC, so tripped point every dollar I spent.
99664 points
6013 bonus points
… clearly I am doing something very wrong here as most people in this thread seem to get majority through bonus points. I do most of my grocery shopping at Coles, but their Flybuys offers are rarely interesting or useful to me. Most of it is spending on my Coles Mastercard.
Suspect the bonus offers are targeted to people that don't do most of their shopping at Coles.
They want to attract people that would not otherwise shop there, if they've got your money anyway, why bother? Loyalty schemes are often quite the opposite of what the name suggests.
Only 10000 (4000 bonus points) top 19% however I'm ok with that because I don't bother hunting for more points and have shopped very little at the big shops this year having tried many different delivery boxes and meals (all for good discount of course).
126333 out of which 46131 are bonus points.
How does people get 80-85% bonus points?
Also, why people use two different cards. Me and partner uses same coles CC + add-on card.
You get better targeted offers if you split your shopping between 2 accounts. These offer pay a higher percentage back in points. For example I usually spend $200 at Coles over 4 weeks to get 10,000 points. I usually use coupons and dockets and other email offers and pick up another few thousand points during that 4 week period. So that's 200 base points and around 12,000 bonus points for that 4 week period. That's how you get around 95% or more bonus points and less than 5% base points. By using 2 different cards flybuys don't know what your average basket load is and give you targets which are lower than you usually spend in a week rather than much higher targets which some people complain about.
In 2017 I collected 54006 flybuys points. 50,677 of those were BONUS POINTS!