Discovery Vitality 2020

SykomantiS said:
Okay, So I seriously need to look at hitting the weekly goals.
I'll need to find the relevant info to get my facts straight. They're not dropping this perk for 2020 and onward?
Then, I do not have a fitness device. How high does the weekly target rise at it's max, and is it still possible to hit the limit without the aid of a fitness tracker? Sorry if these sound like really noob questions.
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Yep you can still reach max goal of 900 even without fitness devices . Would mean park run and gym everyday day through.

The gym booster has been dropped but if had before the start of the year you still get the benefit. This pays the extra 25% require to get gym for free. To get this you need hit the weekly goals. The new version requires you to bank with them.
 
I think I had gym booster- but like I said, I didn't hit my weekly goals. Does it get cancelled then or fall away?
Also, the 900 points per week- so that is 7 gym visits and a park run? So gym + park run on a Saturday?

Currently the gym tracker in the app says I'm saving 60% on gym fees. I have 76/36 visits and have basically been hitting the gym like crazy as of 1Jan - I want to drop 10kg before my wedding in March. Not seeing anything about about gym booster but I'm assuming the fact that I'm at > 50% means it is activated?
 
SykomantiS said:
I think I had gym booster- but like I said, I didn't hit my weekly goals. Does it get cancelled then or fall away?
Also, the 900 points per week- so that is 7 gym visits and a park run? So gym + park run on a Saturday?
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6 gym visits
parkrun on saturday / MyRun on Sunday
 
SykomantiS said:
Okay, So I seriously need to look at hitting the weekly goals.
I'll need to find the relevant info to get my facts straight. They're not dropping this perk for 2020 and onward?
Then, I do not have a fitness device. How high does the weekly target rise at it's max, and is it still possible to hit the limit without the aid of a fitness tracker? Sorry if these sound like really noob questions.
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Max weekly goals is 900 points.
ParkRun = 300, then 100 per gym visit/1000 steps for the other 6 days.
 
SykomantiS said:
I think I had gym booster- but like I said, I didn't hit my weekly goals. Does it get cancelled then or fall away?
Also, the 900 points per week- so that is 7 gym visits and a park run? So gym + park run on a Saturday?

Currently the gym tracker in the app says I'm saving 60% on gym fees. I have 76/36 visits and have basically been hitting the gym like crazy as of 1Jan - I want to drop 10kg before my wedding in March. Not seeing anything about about gym booster but I'm assuming the fact that I'm at > 50% means it is activated?
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You'll need to be on a '1 club' membership to get to the 75% off. Not the membership where you can go to multiple clubs
 
jman said:
You'll need to be on a '1 club' membership to get to the 75% off. Not the membership where you can go to multiple clubs
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I have the multiple clubs option. There are two clubs I usually visit on the regular, with another two/three that I rarely visit for whatever reason. So does that mean I'd never qualify for the 75% (or 100%)?
 
Has anyone double checked that their total spend for the previous month (which defines your spendband and thus determines how much cashback you receive on the current month's purchases) is correct? According to my Discovery Bank App, my current cashback on Healthy Food is 37%, but according to my calculations it should be 40%.

I have a Black Card (not Bundle) and Silver Money status.

I queried, and they told me that:
- my qualifying spend for December is just over R18,000.00,
- I fall in spendband 6
- my healthy food cashback amount should be 35.5% (even though the bank app shows 37%, and even though it should actually by 40%).

I know that their numbers are incorrect, because according to my Miles Account my qualifying spend for the calendar month of December is over R26,000.00. I confirmed this by calculating all of my qualifying purchases for December by hand (no export to CSV functionality yet?!), and came to the same amount - over R26,000.00.

So, according to Discovery's own numbers (see attached table) I should be getting 15% on top of my usual 25%, so 40% caschback on Healthy Food.

Has anyone else actually double checked that theirs is correct? I do not have much confidence in a product where I constantly have to double check and audit everything. I spoke to both Vitality Rewards and Discovery Bank, and they are now manually calculating my spend, since the system does not give them the correct numbers. I will post an update.
 

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SykomantiS said:
I have the multiple clubs option. There are two clubs I usually visit on the regular, with another two/three that I rarely visit for whatever reason. So does that mean I'd never qualify for the 75% (or 100%)?
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Ok, so if you achieve all your goals in a month, and have gym booster, the max you'll get back is 85%
 
Arcturus89 said:
Has anyone double checked that their total spend for the previous month (which defines your spendband and thus determines how much cashback you receive on the current month's purchases) is correct? According to my Discovery Bank App, my current cashback on Healthy Food is 37%, but according to my calculations it should be 40%.

I have a Black Card (not Bundle) and Silver Money status.

I queried, and they told me that:
- my qualifying spend for December is just over R18,000.00,
- I fall in spendband 6
- my healthy food cashback amount should be 35.5% (even though the bank app shows 37%, and even though it should actually by 40%).

I know that their numbers are incorrect, because according to my Miles Account my qualifying spend for the calendar month of December is over R26,000.00. I confirmed this by calculating all of my qualifying purchases for December by hand (no export to CSV functionality yet?!), and came to the same amount - over R26,000.00.

So, according to Discovery's own numbers (see attached table) I should be getting 15% on top of my usual 25%, so 40% caschback on Healthy Food.

Has anyone else actually double checked that theirs is correct? I do not have much confidence in a product where I constantly have to double check and audit everything. I spoke to both Vitality Rewards and Discovery Bank, and they are now manually calculating my spend, since the system does not give them the correct numbers. I will post an update.
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Okay, so it seems like they are struggling with purchases that have been made in the previous calendar month, but only clear in the next month. I.e, I made purchases on 30th and 31st of December, which only cleared on 2 and 3 January. On my app, these purchases are still shown as having happened in December, but their system seems to work on the date the purchase was cleared. So, something to be aware of.
 
Arcturus89 said:
Okay, so it seems like they are struggling with purchases that have been made in the previous calendar month, but only clear in the next month. I.e, I made purchases on 30th and 31st of December, which only cleared on 2 and 3 January. On my app, these purchases are still shown as having happened in December, but their system seems to work on the date the purchase was cleared. So, something to be aware of.
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Yeah this is same for ebucks would of counted on ebucks for next month.
 
The new reward categories are tailored to our members’ unique needs:

Ð 150 – 199 = Coffee, popcorn, and charity donations
Ð 300 – 599 = Meals, and in-store shopping R100 vouchers
Ð 600 – 1000 = Online shopping R250 vouchers
Ð 1001 – 5999 = Shopping and spoils R500 vouchers
Ð 6000 – more = Gifts and gadgets R2000 vouchers

Got this in email that was sent out now
 
Gtx Gaming said:
The new reward categories are tailored to our members’ unique needs:

Ð 150 – 199 = Coffee, popcorn, and charity donations
Ð 300 – 599 = Meals, and in-store shopping R100 vouchers
Ð 600 – 1000 = Online shopping R250 vouchers
Ð 1001 – 5999 = Shopping and spoils R500 vouchers
Ð 6000 – more = Gifts and gadgets R2000 vouchers

Got this in email that was sent out now
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Cool, so it seems the new minimum will be 150 miles. From what I can tell, the only real difference is that your miles won't expire, but reward points did
 
So what's the general consensus, keep points and let them convert to miles or spend your points now?
 
I went with spend points now, it sounds like with the conversion the value will be less than what you can do with it now
 
Gamer said:
So what's the general consensus, keep points and let them convert to miles or spend your points now?
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Converting mine. As you get bonus play also.

I want R250 exclusive books voucher which I can buy now. But converting will get me 1500 miles from the 250 points.

The voucher with miles will cost a max of 1000 miles.
 
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