Similar to last years topic: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/432914
Just received the annual email outlining my Flybuys point collecting.
Total: 193147
Standard: 157636
Bonus: 35511
Scanned card 189 times
Biggest reward was 8140 points on 4th August
Apparently I'm in the top 1%
Haven't received mine yet but hopefully they don't exclude supplementary cards like they did last year …
Just received the annual email
that the first year i got in the POSTBOX, wtf more paper waste i never signed up for
Slower year this time round. 84,078 points.
4,693 and it says I scanned my card 30 times which I don't believe it's that low unless it excludes my wife's card who I make pay for most of our shopping.
edit - it says I bought 8 loaves of bread and 4 bottles of milk, we'd go through that in a month so it must not include my wife's card.
onetwothreefourfivesixseveneight loaves and onetwothreefour milks.
Interested to know how do you make your wife pay ? Gun to the head ? Withold sex ? Forgot my wallet again ?
Interested to know how do you make your wife pay
I don't really, she's a stay at home mum so does most of the shopping when I'm at work.
45,946
156,556
Just shy of 224,000, with just over 50% coming from bonus points. I’m being punished now for it though, I’ve had zero new offers for bonus points for about 2 months, just the generic campaigns (Optus, flybuys travel etc.).
Same here, none since start of December. Except liquorland and first choice.
How did u accumulate that much?
I get bonus offers but mainly small things like 2000 points when you spend $120 at Coles, impossible for me to get 200K like this
Having a Coles Mastercard and funneling most purchases through that brought regular points. Most bonus points came from those “spend x get 10000 points” instore at Coles. Also I did take the Optus offer which suited my situation at the time (which gave a healthy bonus too).
Haven't received mine yet either
But what you buying to get 157636 standard points ? because the bonus points dont look good against that
Could be from credit cards
Damn Citibank
2 rejections this year (but the recent 100,000 + 50,000 points offer was too good to not try even with Cities strange criteria
Yup that's where I get mine from. My bonus rate is tiny because I literally haven't been given a new offer in 3 weeks.
Yeah, just under 125k from Coles Master Card. It's double points. I don't go out of my way to fulfil the bonus requirements. I use it enough to cover the annual fee on the MC. Most of my Coles shopping is with 5% discounted e-giftcards which is a better discount than using the MC. But all other purchaces are pretty much on the MC.
You collected
17,387 STANDARD POINTS
+
38,307 BONUS POINTS
A legend walks among us.
Congrats on making the top
4%
of flybuys points collectors in the whole of Australia.
My "regulars" were pretty standard:
Bread, milk, bananas and……… salami!
2,689,500 points Coles Mastercard + Car Insurance. 119,656 BONUS POINTS. A Solid year.
(Most of the points come from the mastercard spend though)
WTF
Did you buy a house with your credit card?
Business spend, I honestly don't know how they haven't kicked me off it yet. I also had 2 months of 5 points per $ bonus offers as well on the MC. Which gave me around 700k points.
What I love about the Mastercard is that if you use Coles Express fuel they'll punish you by doing 1 point per $2, but if you go anywhere else you'll get rewarded with 2 points per $1.
@Clear: I did not know that! We use flybuys points for fuel on personal car. Business car I go to Apco, 10c a litre cheaper so outweighs the earn rate. (At least locally anyway) I was going to do the business car at BP to get the velocity points, but again 10c a litre dearer
Do you convert over to Velocity?
Nope, I redeem for flybuys $$ did redeem some through flybuys travel though. Business earns around 1.3million amex pts as well, so eventually I'll transfer them to velocity or Qantas. I don't really understand how to book the flights etc. To get the most value yet.
What business are you in, if I may ask?
@Craze: Retail, also just realised that wasn't all of it, the bonus stuff went to the wife's account instead of mine!
Nope, I redeem for flybuys $$
Do you order things for free on the FlyBuys Online shop or do you get like Coles Giftcards with them?
@frostman: I just use them as the flybuys dollars mostly. So Kmart/Target/Coles/Coles express. I did have more than I could spend earlier in the year so I booked some flights through flybuys travel as the cost was similar to the airline price
@Soluble: wait, 2.6M points = ~ $13,000
Impossible Coles/Flybuys allows you to confirm them to this much money??
@frostman: It's a no cap point earn credit card. If that gets changed then I'd switch all my spend to Amex
You are the 1%
This year was probably lower than previous years because Woolworths came good last year for our household with many different incentives.
I was brought up on Woolies, but wife preferred Coles. Lately she is finding Woolies better these days in terms of service, store layout, price, quality/freshness etc (only compared to Coles though). Considering switching to the Woolies credit card…but I swear we hardly get any benefits from the Woolies reward card vs flybuys…
we hardly get any benefits from the Woolies reward card vs flybuys
That's how it's been for a few years now. But the last couple of months have been great and Scan&Go trial overlapping reward incentives were a bonus, and overlapping rewards helped.
On average we buy more fresh produce from Woolworths (Coles it's usually a lot of a one-off special such as cheap broccoli).
Not as good as last year but okay i guess
6,647 STANDARD POINTS
83,268 BONUS POINTS
You collected
8,161 STANDARD POINTS
+
357,370 BONUS POINTS
Woah Mr Bonus Basher!
Teach us oh wise one
Impressive!
Few credit card deal and you are there.
3,038 STANDARD POINTS
+
40,465 BONUS POINTS
0
I shop at Aldi
Just on 250k.
More importantly, what does everyone do with their points?
Every single one of mine gets transferred to Velocity
I use them as Flybuys dollars. What do you use the Velocity points for?
Redeeming business class flights to Europe
$10 off my Coles groceries… a couple of times a week… around $800 per year.
I’m
3,574 STANDARD POINTS
64,303 BONUS POINTS
Top 3% and updating my C.V. Lol
My Points:
196,000 STANDARD POINTS
677,900 BONUS POINTS
Top 1%
Other Useless Info :
Red Bull 250ml 4 Pack: 366 Times
Pepsi Max 2ltr: 976 time
Redeemed $900 Flybuys Dollars
Should mention
Flybuys Plus Member
Coles Mastercard Linked
Coles Car Insurance Linked
Please don't tell me you consumed 1,464 cans of Red Bull and 1,952 litres of Pepsi.
If you did, do you have any teeth? How's your heart?
Ha ha ha
Nah i bought them for a small business i have, cheaper to buy from coles than from supplier in most cases :P
Phew!
What is "Flybuys Plus" ?
I googled but didnt see much..
It’s still in beta I believe and not being offered to anyone yet.
Basically 10x points on fuel at shell and fresh food at Coles.
Discount store (theme park passes etc)
Free muvi rental every month
And some other features.
$10 per month so only worth it if you make more than 2000 points per month to offset the cost.
So about as useless as eBay plus….
@Spending2Much: Not issueless if you earn a fair amount of points (which I do) it essentially multiplies my main point earning methods to 10x the points.
70847 in; 194000 out.
Top 3% in NSW. Top 2% in my suburb.
Only 39 scans
I bought 9 soy milks and 7 salmon
3,845 standard pints, 80,072 bonus points ;)
5339 standard points and 43600 bonus points. It's been 25 years, 7 months since I joined (really?). Within the top 6% of collectors in Australia - thereby beating my realestate.com.au score of top 9% of users for two years running. Wonder where I sit on carsales.com.au?
I can beat you all currently today 15/1/2020 I have 38360 points
The thread is about how many points you earnt last year, not how many points you currently have.
Still waiting for my e-mail; I think they took me off the mailing list after I complained that 2018 data wasn't given to supplementary cardholders unlike 2017, so complained that I didn't get my primary cardholder e-mail …
Still waiting, but flybuys said i) supplementary cardmembers get the data this time and ii) if it doesn’t arrive by Wednesday, to let them know so they can follow up
My wife got a different email summary than I did - I believe she is a supplemental cardholder as she can redeem my points for $10 off.
@systmworks: I get the e-mails for both supplementary and primary in the one e-mail account, but I'm still waiting :(
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63,126,921. Wohoo half way to a $10 gift card……haha
Worst loyalty scheme ever! Been with it for a good 15 years now and still haven't got anything out of it.
Eh? You're doing it wrong
Flybuys is one of the easiest schemes to get value from.
$980 worth of shopping for my points last year. Pretty good for a card that costs $89 and not spending a cent on interest. 198k points for the year.
This is the best value from a points system I could find excluding sign up offers.
5,660 STANDARD POINTS
+
67,034 BONUS POINTS
33 scans only
Top 3% in au, 2% in WA
Not bad as we mostly shop at woolies
1,369 STANDARD POINTS
14,187 BONUS POINTS
You scanned your card 34 times
I earned almost exactly the same as you, but only scanned it 39 times. I'm in top 16% of Vic/AU supposedly. I wonder how they work that out then, I'm only about 100 points below you for 2019. I've been a member for a whopping 24 years.
124,065 standard points
42,485 bonus points
Scanned my card 133 times.
Saved $790 off my grocery shop by redeeming points.
Email says I am in the top 1% of Flybuys collectors in Australia & Queensland.
I dont understand how people are earning 10 times more bonus points than standard points ?
When I got 3x more standard points than bonus points.. and I always activate all the FB offers that appear in my Coles Credit Card app.
I did
You did what ? Understand ?
Update - it looks like there are lots more FlyBuys offers in the actual FlyBuys app (that I didn't use) that do not appear in my Coles credit card app :/
I dont understand how people are earning 10 times more bonus points than standard points ?
Credit card sign-on bonus(es). Bonus points were 93.9% of my total.
Was a bit surprised the stats didn't track my most frequent purchase - which was a Coles brand product.
I don't have their credit card or app and only used their offers that came through my email. If there's an opportunity to stack offers, I grab it. I also use the paper offers which get sent out in snail mail.
I was awarded Flybuys top 1% in Australia.
I use this "status" whenever I have need to complain.
975 STANDARD POINTS
+
11,400 BONUS POINTS
2,410 STANDARD POINTS
+
87,397 BONUS POINTS
Scanned card 44 times.
Redeemed 2000 points.
Currently have 90,496 points worth $452.48 flybuys Dollars.
Been member 8 years and 3 months.
Coles 85,178 points
Liquorland 2,055 points
eBay 1,205 points
I would redeem those points. You never know when the schemes will devalue their points.
18,617 Points (9,445 STD & 9,172 BONUS)
Scanned card a cool 189 times
Hit the top 17% of points collectors in WA.
Points from Coles, Coles Insurance & Kmart
Meh
56,534 STANDARD POINTS
57,134 BONUS POINTS
I am the 1%.
Yeah probably the first and only time I will be in the top 1% of anything…
103k and 98k on my back up card.
I missed two 10k bonus points during the year due to getting mixed up on which card to spend.
Collected 1,452 standard points, 8628 bonus points. Scanned card 185 times, and am in the top 28%.
Regular purchases: avocado and strawberries
Can you use the pts to buy physical gift cards at Coles ?
https://www.flybuys.com.au/rewards#/money-off-shop/gift-card…
I googled your question. It's amazing, try it sometime.
I’m aware of eGift cards but for example my target card Ebay is useless as no codes can be used with them and one use when I messed around with them one time . Hence the question about trying to get the physical Ebay card .
You didn't mention what type of physical gift card. The link I found is a physical Coles gift card.
They only have the following: https://www.flybuys.com.au/rewards#/search?query=Gift%20card…
You collected
9,242 STANDARD POINTS
+
42,123 BONUS POINTS
2,387 STANDARD POINTS
+
93,618 BONUS POINTS
Had a better year last year . This year the bonus points promotions havent been as frequent
Top 3% My flybuy is also used by my 2 brothers
63,618 STANDARD POINTS
+
10,754 BONUS POINTS
Coles Credit Cards 52,724 points
Coles 15,146 points
Coles Insurance 4,685 points
Top 4 buys. 3L Milk, 500g Coles Winter Veges, Chicken Thigh Fillets, Frozen Siu Mai
60,170, putting me in the top 4% of WA.
Though I'd imagine there's a bunch of throwaway accounts throwing the figures off