Discovery Vitality in 2016

[Necropolis]

Not true for me
On days I go to gym and reach my Fitbit step goal, I get 150 points for that, but none for gym.
Queried this with Discovery and they said only 1 activity per day will count (for both vitality points and vitality active rewards).

That sucks...

 

[cerebus]

Not true for me
On days I go to gym and reach my Fitbit step goal, I get 150 points for that, but none for gym.
Queried this with Discovery and they said only 1 activity per day will count (for both vitality points and vitality active rewards).

Oh....weird. Well if that's going to be the case going forward I won't be able to get more than 1000 points/week, max.

 

[SoTrue]

Not true for me
On days I go to gym and reach my Fitbit step goal, I get 150 points for that, but none for gym.
Queried this with Discovery and they said only 1 activity per day will count (for both vitality points and vitality active rewards).

On 17 Oct I got 500 points for 5 km parkrun, plus 200 points for 12 500+ steps for the day, which steps included the parkrun! I don't feel bad about it, as I also walked in shopping malls with my wife and played 6 tennis sets that afternoon.

 

[krycor]

I usually only get bonus step + event points, never full for both and where there's 2 events you get the max one and 0 for others besides bonus.

Not sure how non-official timed events work these days but 30km road cycle was a poultry 150 points so I just stopped bothering logging that and mtb

 

[air]

person on vitality facebook page posted you need a discovery credit card to take advantage of iWatch

'Oh how disappointing....
Found out that the iWatch will only be available to the select few who has a Discovery CreditCard.... '

Anyon else aware of this?

 

[xcaliber]

person on vitality facebook page posted you need a discovery credit card to take advantage of iWatch

'Oh how disappointing....
Found out that the iWatch will only be available to the select few who has a Discovery CreditCard.... '

Anyon else aware of this?

Was stated in other Discovery thread

 

[krycor]

person on vitality facebook page posted you need a discovery credit card to take advantage of iWatch

'Oh how disappointing....
Found out that the iWatch will only be available to the select few who has a Discovery CreditCard.... '

Anyon else aware of this?

it's all about cross selling.. thats who Discovery business model is.

 

[hellfire]

it's all about cross selling.. thats who Discovery business model is.

Yip.

 

[Tinuva]

person on vitality facebook page posted you need a discovery credit card to take advantage of iWatch

'Oh how disappointing....
Found out that the iWatch will only be available to the select few who has a Discovery CreditCard.... '

Anyon else aware of this?

it's all about cross selling.. thats who Discovery business model is.

First I don't think it is about cross-selling, or at least its not the full story.

I quickly read through some of the benefits of the Discovery card, and something I didn't know, is that you can buy istore items through discovery mall, and pay the item off over x amount of months, at 0% interest rate. Kinda like FNB's smart devices.

Now I assume, the iWach will work on the same principle, but if you hit your active reward targets, they also discount that monthly interest free payment for the iWatch.

Kinda cool, but I still don't like the fact that the Discovery card at the lowest monthly rate, is R35/month + some other fee at R7.50/month and that excludes joining the Discovery miles program.

But if you do happen to have a Discovery card already, I guess that is a small perk that makes it worth it.

 

[twr]

My gym visit for Tuesday is still not reflected on the rewards app,I've sent a query to vitality,so if it's not reflected by the end of tomorrow then i won't have reached my goal,not fair

 

[Archer]

Points seem to be updating now - everyone in our office now has the correct amount for the activities that they've done since last Friday

 

[cerebus]

Points seem to be updating now - everyone in our office now has the correct amount for the activities that they've done since last Friday

Yeah it's back to normal - normal being crashes every time I open the app and often within the app, but at least the points are working.

 

[Malasius]

Yeah it's back to normal - normal being crashes every time I open the app and often within the app, but at least the points are working.

That's correct gym visits are now showing points but it seems other device or app workouts are not syncing... as per usual. What I don't understand is if Discovery wants to implement a system like this surely they should build systems that actually work and test them?

 

[modern10]

You have to register at the parkrun organisation, www.parkrun.co.za. Then link with your Vitality profile - like so: https://www.discovery.co.za/discove...ntent/pdfs/vitality/park_run_profile_link.pdf

Oh

 

[Archer]

surely they should build systems that actually work and test them?

You funny guy

 

[Malasius]

You funny guy

haha

 

[Garson007]

Ah, ****it. Looks like you have to use the app to get your active reward. Since I have a windows phone, that isn't happening. The initial reward for just activation was on an sms though.

 

[Malasius]

Ah, ****it. Looks like you have to use the app to get your active reward. Since I have a windows phone, that isn't happening. The initial reward for just activation was on an sms though.

The app is only available for Ios and Android and doubt they will release a windows version any time soon or ever. Don't worry though you are not really missing out on much at all

 

[Malasius]

Anyone else having issues with vitality points not being added for device or app workouts?

 

[Tinuva]

The app is only available for Ios and Android and doubt they will release a windows version any time soon or ever. Don't worry though you are not really missing out on much at all

SO has a blackberry, so gave her my nexus 7 tablet I never use, and she uses that now for her discovery stuffs,

Anyone else having issues with vitality points not being added for device or app workouts?

I do.
Friday: Virgin active still missing.
Sunday: 30min walk tracked using mapmyfitness missing.

Normal vitality points for both those already came in.