Choice of Free Cheeseburger or Large Fries or Small Sundae on Your Birthday Month
This can found in the Rewards and deals tab.
Note: The MyMacca's app was recently updated to reward users birthdays. If you signed up to the app before August 2022 you will need to input your birthday into the app to receive birthday rewards. Head to the "Rewards & Deals" tab to input your birthday.
Yes, when the stars are aligned.
must be a national issue - mine too. Wonder if the machines are actually down or they just dont like too many order via the app.
One conspiracy theory says that the major shareholders of McDonald's are also shareholders of the company that provides and services the ice cream machines, so the whole system has an incentive to let the machines constantly break down instead of replacing them with more reliable ones, because it helps those shareholders get richer.
Wouldn’t they make more money actually selling sundaes…
@smartazz104: nah cause it cost 500 for the machine to be repaired, the machine technician can be there within 30 mins when called and literally takes 5 mins to 'repair' it.
thats 35 mins of downtime.
assuming maccas makes 90% profit on their sunday, thats 0.9 * $4.
assuming they can sell 2 sundaes a min at max rate, the max they can make in 35 mins is $4 * 0.9 35 2 = $252.
maccas can make $252 if they sell at theoretical max rate of 2 per min for 35 min.
Or they can call the repair technician, he charges $500, he gets $80, the shareholders for repair company keep $420.
So $420 >$252 (at max rate, max possible profit, will likely be much lower)
@smartazz104: They can afford to take bigger hits, because where are you going to get food in unfamiliar places?
There was a film as well…
Sundae Too Far Away
Maybe someone who works there can confirm.
I have always assumed the machines require a very long time to clean, which just isn't worth the money they make
Takes a long time to clean and it's a daily task approximately 2 hours to do shake and sundaes
What a horrible thought for your birthday!
YUK YUK YUK !
Happy bday, OP! I hope you can claim this more than once.
Thanks :)
Multiple accounts
I did actually claim twice on this tbh. 2 consecutive months dont tell maccas!
Small Sundae - so generous :-/
They know its winter so they were looking after you in case the large sundae made you sick
Awesome , i now have 12 accounts
and that works? wow! Nice
365 accounts is better. On a leap year, enjoy a day of healthy eating
Your liver thanks you on that leap year.
Was available end of june in my app. I set my birthday for July in all 10 accounts just incase it wouldn't add an offer for the current month.
Best of all if you use this with a percentage off offer (if lucky enough to get that and not hash browns). It takes that percentage off the price of the free items menu price.
So if its a 25% off voucher, you save an extra dollar by adding the cheeseburger to your order. Does the same when claiming food on points.
I set my birthday for July in all 10 accounts
Now you gotta wait a whole year to be rewarded again. You should have spaced them out so you can at least claim a reward once a month
Just need to create more accounts to cover rest of year😉
Just move the full stop in my emails across another spot and get new accounts.
Nah 10 is enough. Though it was only to increase chances of a decent deal when i wanted to use them. 90% of my offers are coffee and/or hash browns.
Though its awesome when you get weekly deals like $6 big mac and cheeseburger meal and can have it multiple times throughout the week.
When I placed an order that also had a free item using my points I noticed that you didn't earn any points for the entire transaction - so OzBargainers be warned - if you are redeeming points do that in a separate transaction so you still earn points on the stuff you pay for!
Thank you for the tip :)
I missed that when claiming my points. Thanks for the heads up
Hmm doesn't match hungry Jack's free whopper…
Yes, better deal but only valid for 2 days.
2 days before, on the day and 1 day after, unless something's changed this year
Let me fire up my one of many accounts.
Do you need to show your photo id when you claim it? I don't always carry my licence with me, when I go out to eat (and don't need to drive)
If from NSW, then you can add your D/L in the service NSW app
I claimed it last month via drive through and no one checked
So if you claim it through drive through then you can’t make an excuse to not show your license, otherwise you’ll be driving without your license? 😅
I didn't believe that when I read it. After research, found WA is the exception and it is not required to be carried.
Yeah it's not an issue here at all. Been pulled over a few times and I only gave police my proof of age card and they didn't complain about that
I'm from WA. We just spent a few months driving around the Eastern states recently. I didn't even take my drivers licence with me. It never occured to me that was an offence until reading this thread.
Also in some states, they can give you a fine for every open bottle of alcohol in your car…if you decide to take a sip when you pick up your ozbargain alcohol purchases. 🤯
Awesome, I got $1 large chips! Thanks OP
If I put in this month, will I still get the reward?
No idea. The Reward becomes available on 1st of the month and stays till end of that month. Not sure if adding mid-month would give you the reward.
Ok thanks. If that’s the case, I would say the answer is likely no.
it's a no, my bd is in this month, just input the bd just now and nothing…
can confirm, i input it last month
& the answer is still no D:
Got this a few weeks ago. Was pretty weak sauce compared to $15 from Nando's and a whopper at hungry jacks.
Shame Subway removed their free sub.
The deal on its own isn't that great, but between accumulating points and the other offers you get I feel Maccas ends up giving you the most for the least. Though that's with cheating and having multiple accounts to increase the odds of decent rewards. With just one account i would probably rarely go there. My original account never seems to have a decent deal.
They'll run this for a couple of months and remove it no doubt, so good luck to those that have a birthday real or set to the next few months.
It's been running for a long time already
Doesn't work when I put July or August. I guess I need to put September and wait?
Pretty sure at the start of the month, they apply it to people with their birthday that month. So if you added it for August now, I don't think you will get it. September is the safest bet.
Where do you where your birthdate? I can't see it in my account details?
go to your rewards/deals tab and scroll down until you see it
Ah, thank you!
Hadn't used Macca's app for last couple weeks…
Now, on sign in, it's asking to verify my email, on every one of the email log in's.
That's a new thing. Maybe since app auto updated?
Got the deal, but couldn't claim because I was isolating with COVID :(
I wish there was a way to claim deals and get them delivered
Not sure I could eat a whole cheeseburger
where is the input screen for birthday? not showing on rewards and deals?
I added the birthday in Sept during August, but I can't see in it the app right now. When/where does it appear during the month?
Maybe they disabled it for this month because of the monopoly promotion
ideally yes not only that, they definitely tots forgot the prize fall with who’s in its comp with it & still on with me, as of Lack of supply or shortivity. Maccas should reimburse for these efforts for we selves.
I think it came through a day late. I did the same and today I see the birthday reward but I don't recall it being there yesterday.
I'm thinking the free large fries are the go too at this time of the year with Monopoly on - 2x Free Monopoly tickets.
eyeball on the thinking!
If possible, I'd an iced mocha instead.
They can keep thr Large Fries or Small Sunday for genocide support. Not going thr ever.
"Great" symbolic recognition of our birthdays with $1 value Cheeseburger or unhealthy Fries/Small Sundae.
Be mindful if the effort to get there is not costing you many times more ;)
I enter my birth month in one account, then I log out.
Log into another account enter a birth month, log out.
Then login to first account again and it hasnt retained the birth month.
Login to secound account and it hasnt retained the birth month either.
Has this happened to anyone else??
Probably the stingiest ever from a big company. But freebie is freebie, why not if you happen to be there anyway.
Got an email to ask me to check the app for the bday freebie but its nowhere to be seen on the app 😅
Same here. It's normally easy to find.
Same here,
Got both email and app notification but deal is nowhere to be seen in the app. :/
I have asked mods to check if mcd is still offering this deal.
Ironic how Macca's gave the IOF freebie during their operation to unalive Palestinians
Lame, not even a bargain when free
Wow it is my birthday every month!
Seems to be a problem this month in the app showing the deal. If you email customer services they should be able to fix it, but tell them it’s a common problem and they should sort it out for everyone. The more emails from customers the more likely they will fix.
Dummies are sending me a cheeseburger voucher instead of fixing the app.
I don't think so their CS team and IT team sit next to each other.
Probably their CS team would be in Manila and IT team in India.
Did anybody else lose their birthday promo? I got the push notification, clicked on it but it wasnt visible in the rewards section. Have logged out and back in, no luck.
Yeah cant find it anywhere too.
Which maccas email do we send to? To tell them about the problem.
I couldn't find one in the app 😥
Found it. Its at more. Buttom has about, contact, legal.
submitted request yesterday, no response or confirmation email though.
@mmjjbb: "Recently, our MyMacca's team were made aware of some issues with MyMacca's birthday reward offers. This issue was escalated through to our Global team, and we can now confirm an update to the app has been pushed through, and should have resolved any issues such as yours.
We recommend uninstalling and reinstalling your app to ensure you have the most updated version, as well as restarting your device itself.
If you have done this and are continuing to have trouble, please confirm for us your MyMacca's email address and phone model, and we'll follow up with our Digital team."
@tinx: Rooting does not affect. If you feel that is the case, you can use dual space apps that hides root
@Iluvfreebies: This is the response when I said it still didnt work: "We’re sorry to hear you have had some issues with your MyMacca's birthday reward offer. As a token, we'd like to offer you a voucher. Please let us know your preference,
Simply reply with the number corresponding to your choice, and we'll send you a voucher for your selected.
Kind regards,
Lewis
McDonald’s Customer Service"
$5 minimum spend required to activate the bday offer now!
Sundae isn't an option at my Maccas. The machine is only in operation one day a year.