Get an extra 30,000 Velocity Points
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@Brick50: No. Closed the card in March and thought I'd have another crack for the bonus points. Was auto declined before I could upload payslips or any other docs.
@Blokeinhisundies: Bugger, not sure then
Hoping my card shows up closed on my report before this deal ends, if I get declined for this one will immediately apply for a different card before credit check hits
@Brick50: The hard enquiry is more annoying than anything as I thought I'd be declined anyway. Only applied because I saw someone else comment they had no credit check as well.
I ended up being approved for a STG Amplify Platinum card (50K points, $3000 spend in 90 days) and have a pending application for ANZ Rewards Platinum (70K points, $2000 spend in 90 days) which also qualifies for this 30K bonus point promotion according to the Velocity website although I would never apply with ANZ again. The process has been horrendous and after two weeks I am still none the wiser as to whether I will be approved or not. Do not recommend lol.
@Blokeinhisundies: My partner just finished the bank of melb amplify qantas platinum which was 60k points, 3k spend and we were meant to receive an annual fee refund too although that hasn't come through yet.
I was excited when I saw that ANZ "rewards platinum" card, as I am cooling down from both ANZ Black FF card & ANZ Platinum visa card and it seems to be its own card with own cooldown periods.
However unfortunately I do not think it is eligible for the 30k bonus, I believe the website is quite misleading as under the other cards it shows either 30k or 10k bonus points but does not mention it for that ANZ card.
ANZ you always have to call and try and argue with their offshore call centre and try to explain what a financial year is, why it doesn't start in January and everything else there is to know, You won't get approved unless you keep calling basically until they approve you over phone.
i closed mine in april. considering applying lol
I closed my Virgin card a week ago. Too early to re-apply?
Can't apply for Amex, WPC nor NAB cards (still serving cooling down period).
Would like to ok know also
Keen to know also, closed mine couple days ago. Commenter above said they were approved 2 days after closing previous one, anyone who tries please get back to us
How long does it take for this bonus to come through?
I applied for the one at the start of the year and then went with the amex velocity platinum card. Finished the required spend and got the 120k points through amex but I haven't gotten the 30k points from this offer?
It comes through with your first lot of points usually
in the exact same boat!
I've also escalated this with VFF on the phone a number of times, and there's still nothing being done. I'm sure they'll come through at some point, but it's pretty appalling
Just received my Virgin card. Will I be eligible if I activate it today?
No. You need to apply in offer period, no activate. But give them a call and ask if they can still apply a bonus to your card.
Why is no one talking about the $129 Virgin Australia Gift Voucher with the $74 Virgin Australia Velocity Flyer Card?
Seems like a no brainer to go for that one
The Virgin Australia Gift Voucher is a Special Feature available to Primary Cardholders only and provides one Virgin Australia Gift Voucher to the value of $129 (AUD) each year, in the form of a $129 travel credit in a Virgin Australia Travel Bank. You will become eligible for your $129 Virgin Australia Gift Voucher 1 month after card approval in your first year
The Virgin Australia Gift Voucher is available to Primary Cardholders only and provides one Virgin Australia Gift Voucher to the value of $129 (AUD) each year, in the form of a $129 travel credit in a Virgin Australia Travel Bank. You will become eligible for your $129 Virgin Australia Gift Voucher 30 days after card approval in your first year and 30 days after your card anniversary thereafter provided you have made a retail purchase as the Primary Cardholder in the 2 months prior to requesting your voucher online at online at https://virginmoney.com.au/products/credit-card/gift-voucher, your account is active and in good standing and you are a Velocity Frequent Flyer member. Gift voucher is not redeemable for cash and is not reloadable. See Virgin Australia Gift Voucher Benefit Terms & Conditions and Terms of use for full details.
https://virginmoney.com.au/products/credit-card/gift-voucher
Yeah looks great!
Has this always been a feature of this card?
yes
Still waiting for the T&C to be included in the application page.
Up to 60,000 bonus Velocity Points offer is available to new and approved Virgin Australia Velocity Flyer Card account holders who apply by 26 June 2024. 30,000 bonus Velocity Points will be awarded for every month $1,500 or more is spent on eligible purchases for the first 2 months from card approval (spend period). Purchases must be processed and charged to your account in the relevant month to count toward your monthly spend.
Only if you use it. I have wasted the last 2 i have. TBF i had 3-4 virgin money cards in a year.
What…why not sell them on classifieds?
How do you do that? I thought I read somewhere on ozb that you cant advertise these types of things?
@txb: "You can't make an ad to sell", but didn't you say you sell them on classifieds?
So just double checking, could we sell our virgin gift voucher, is it hard? what is it mainly used for besides price of flights?
How do we activate this? I can see the offer but nowhere to activate in the app or browser
Does anyone know where I can check the date of closure for my previous Westpac credit card?
I received an email on 26/7/2023 confirming the closure and it says “Your account is marked for closure and your card has been deactivated. A confirmation letter will be sent to you.”
I’m guessing the date of the letter is the closing date but I don’t have it anymore and want to apply for this bonus offer
Try Wisr (free credit checking file checking) they give you insight into your Experian and Equifax credit files. It will include all the cards and credit checks you've ever had with open and close dates.
Amazing thank you!! Hasn’t been 12 months for me yet unfortunately :(
Velocity has terrible redemptions, where you guys flying?
Convert to Singapore airline points, they have a lot of flights to and return from Asia even around Christmas
Depends on the routes I guess but I've gotten so much utility out of my velocity stash, even during peak travel season. Redeeming J to/from the US is piss easy, tokyo on ANA J is also easy, EU availability is a little challenging. You just gotta be flexible, it's a plus if you're somebody who can do last minute trips for example planning 2-4 weeks out.
Thanks fellas :)
Given me some inspo
No worries! I'll give you some more inspo - 2 months back I chucked a sickie at work, flew out to tokyo the same night (in biz), back to work 5 days later like nothing happened : D Night flights so slept 6-7 hours on both legs, worked out beautifully.
What's your Velocity status? I struggle with anything beyond economy, and you can forget buying flights that involve transferring to domestic connections in the USA.
No status unfortunately. I find it difficult to find flights to&from USA in business earlier than 6-8 weeks, exception being bne-sfo and syd-iah last year, which I remember finding 3-4 months out.
I'd say that's one of the limitations of velocity, being unable to connect onwards in USA/Canada. Aeroplan happily allowed me do YYZ-SFO-SYD in J last month on one ticket but velocity didn't, even though the availability was there.
@adam7070: I find it impossible to get any business class seats during school holidays. Getting stick and tired of trying tbh
How are you J on ANA? I've looked at it months out and can't even find a single award seat.
I last used mine for PER-MEL and MEL-SFO, but got much more use from Qantas points with DXB-PER 1st, YVR-LAS, LAS-DFW, DFW-NYC, NYC-LIM business, PMO-LHR-PER business.
I'm guessing NYC-LIM on AA/Latam? QFF definitely has a lot of utility.
Yeah, LATAM.
All flights in the same order as above:
Virgin, United, Emirates, WestJet, AA, AA, LATAM, BA. The last one should read PMO-LHR-DBX
Emirates was obviously the best, but BA was nice. LHR-DBX was delayed 23 hours, so they reimbursed up to $400 for a hotel, $70 for food, plus travel costs and gave me $1000 compensation.
How many points did that set you back all up?
378400 points plus taxes
29k GRU to CPT on South African in economy
112k CPT-xSIN-MEL on Singapore airlines in biz
Hamilton Island
Last week I booked a Jakarta-Doha flight on Qatar business class for December holidays, and then Doha-Tbilisi on Economy. For the return leg, I redeemed Istanbul - Sydney on SQ premium economy on the first week of Jan 2025
Thanks OP approved for velocity flyer within 10 minutes, 4th time around churning this card.
What time did you apply for the cc?
4pm~
That’s efficient! Churned this card earlier this year (closed in Feb) I was conditionally approved at ~1pm and submitted supporting docs. Hopefully will get approval soon!
@Crowing: Update: Application has been approved.
I applied for this deal when it was on in Nov-23 and closed account in Feb-24. Applied again in Mar-24 when promo was on again but got rejected straight away. Been 4 months since rejection and approved this time
How long between the time you closed the cars and applied for the next?
the same card? 3 months
wait they don't have 12 months cooling period like others?
Has anyone applied for 2 cards at different companies to avoid telling them about each others cards? I always pay mine at the due date so not worried about too many cards but they are so stringent nowadays.
This is the way. They usually flag a credit inquiry a few days after application so I always do 2 applications at a time.
Ah cool cheers. I tried it last week and it worked.
I've did 4 in the space of 1 week. All 4 got approved.
@bobwokeup: Apply in batches is the way to go these days. Your credit score will take a beating but will go back to normal after all credit cards are closed.
@nightelves: Yeah makes sense. I’m also not worried about my credit score as I know it’ll even out in the long run. 2 cards are enough for me though haha
Are you eligible for the Westpac cards if you closed their Qantas Black Card recently? T&C doesn’t mention Qantas cards under eligibility, not sure.
According to the Westpac t&c, you cant get their bonus offer unless 12/18months after closing period.
Yup read the T&C again, thanks mate
American Express is down to 60k points again
Ended up revisiting the page this morning, personalised offer of 70k points - pushed me over the edge.
70 + 30 - 100k point for the Amex seems like a good deal!
Ended up applying to my first CC hopefully all comes through easily
"Oops - something went wrong"
Got this error when I tried to apply for the Virgin Money Flyer card the last 3 times this 30k bonus promo was run.
Each time CS would say it's a technical issue they're aware of and to try again in 24 hours… over and over again.
I must be blacklisted, or their systems are hopeless.
Try disabling ad blockers. Disconnect your VPN if you’re on one. Try in a private/incognito window.
Yeah did all that :(
Even grabbed an old laptop, installed a new copy of Windows and ran it from a different internet connection
Is that in the section employment details? Try pressing save and exit instead of continue. That worked for me..
Incredible… that worked
Could be your address
Also getting this issue (16th June) none of the above fixes worked for me - anyone else getting stuck here?
I did 2x things and then it worked so I'm not 100% sure what it was.
Yep thanks, restarting the application with a manual address worked… weird. Cheers!
Does anyone know what "existing customer" means in the context of Westpac. Is it as simple as signing up for a checking account and then immediately applying for a card?
Pretty much that.
Just sign up for a profile instead of creating any account.
why on earth i signed up for the high flyer instead of just the flyer card in the previous deal is beyond me. Anyone know if virgin does annual fee refunds?
Planning to close my high flyer virgin card on 4/7. Does this give me enough time to re-apply for this deal?
Does anyone know if Virgin Money are still offering 5k bonus points for holding off uploading docs for a few days once approved?
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/14458411/redir
Yes, they still offered me 5k extra points when I applied last month.
I got this offer unexpectedly yesterday when I called up to confirm something to do with the document upload.
Applied last night, didn't upload any docs, got a call this morning from them and mentioned I was still shopping around, then the guy mentioned the extra 5000 points if I upload docs in 24 hours
I signed up for the Virgin Money card a few months ago when they had a similar promotion. It could just be me… but its been an absolutely awful experience and I'm not sure I'd recommend it, even for the bonus points alone. First my card was sent late, then the credit card and the bonus points weren't credited, now regular points aren't being credited at the correct rate. All of which is an ongoing issue im trying to resolve with both Virgin and Velocity. You gotta call their offshore customer service team for everything and each representative gives you all tell you different info, I've probably had like 3 hours+ worth of customer service calls. Thought I'd share just in case anyone wants to know.
Never had any issues with them.
You most likely did not make the eligible spend, hence maybe why you missed the bonus points.
And what is the rate of points are you expecting vs what you are getting?
glad it might just be me. But nah, something went wrong with my account after they investigated. I made the eligible spend and got the bonuses now. But yeah for regular points, without doing the rate on the math, I've got like 650 points for like $5kish spend (regular retail).
Currently applying the Virgin Money and got an email saying they might contact HR. For those who apply, do they really do this? Seems really weird to me.
No. I got the same thing last time I applied.
Ignore that. Privacy law won't let your HR tell anything about you to anyone without your consent.
Just a stupid default email. They know it and won't call anyone but you.
Does anyone know how long Amex take in general to accept an application? Is it worth calling them etc? The automated email said 5-10 days but keen to hear from others
Yep, it is worth to give Amex a call.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Applied at 7 am, called at 2 pm - application approved over the phone and received confirmation email and text.
Applied and got rejected for the virgin money card. :(
Apparently they only accept citizen or PR. (I only find out because I look for the BOQ eligibility).
You’re right. I called them up, only available for citizen or PR.
Which is dumb because they should have stated that so people’s credit score wouldn’t take a hit for nothing.
If they can state required income, not sure what’s stopping them for stating citizenship clause if that’s critical.
Application denied. Haven't enrolled in a new card for well over a year, but the last one was the Citi prestige I cancelled a few months ago. Anyone else get declined who is/was with Citi?
@Blokeinhisundies: First time having the card?
Can confirm 100% we both got credit checks first time but we both did not get checked out second time feb this year