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Foxhound5366
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So like most FNB customers, I see eBucks as a neat little bonus ... every so often I have enough of them (as a result of just living life normally) to buy a present for myself or my wife, and that's fun. I don't see any harm in it, because it really is 'money for nothing' ... so long as I don't do anything proactive to earn eBucks, I can enjoy them with a completely clean conscience.
However, as some threads here on myBB show, there are some people who are *very* serious about eBucks, and have seriously complex mathematical systems to boost eBucks rewards.
For these people, I just have a simple question: is it worth it?
I mean, at the end of the day, what sort of percentage saving are you earning by proactively pursuing eBucks, compared to a life without any eBucks?
My basic presumption is that eBucks, '50% off sales' and all the rest of promotions are just loaded means of getting consumers to spend money that they wouldn't have otherwise. eBucks appears particularly like that, where you end up having to spend increasing amounts of real money in order to win fake money back.
Side-note: I'm wondering whether the percentages of savings here are as high as on that American show, 'Extreme Couponing', where people end up doing whole shopping sprees on vouchers and sometimes getting money *back* at the till (the ultimate shopper's dream). I somehow doubt it.
However, as some threads here on myBB show, there are some people who are *very* serious about eBucks, and have seriously complex mathematical systems to boost eBucks rewards.
For these people, I just have a simple question: is it worth it?
I mean, at the end of the day, what sort of percentage saving are you earning by proactively pursuing eBucks, compared to a life without any eBucks?
My basic presumption is that eBucks, '50% off sales' and all the rest of promotions are just loaded means of getting consumers to spend money that they wouldn't have otherwise. eBucks appears particularly like that, where you end up having to spend increasing amounts of real money in order to win fake money back.
Side-note: I'm wondering whether the percentages of savings here are as high as on that American show, 'Extreme Couponing', where people end up doing whole shopping sprees on vouchers and sometimes getting money *back* at the till (the ultimate shopper's dream). I somehow doubt it.
