Tips to Boost your eBucks - 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022

[Meister-Man]

With the new ebucks rules, maybe it's just me, but I was looking at premier vs pc and for me pc is no more difficult to reach lvl 5 than premier.

 

[lucifir]

With the new ebucks rules, maybe it's just me, but I was looking at premier vs pc and for me pc is no more difficult to reach lvl 5 than premier.

I will only know once the calc tool is functional again.

Why is the calc tool only functional again in August, when we actually need it now to check how we doing with the new rules.

 

[Meister-Man]

I will only know once the calc tool is functional again.

Why is the calc tool only functional again in August, when we actually need it now to check how we doing with the new rules.

Calc is updated for new rules.
However track my rewards it's not live

 

[eddybsb4u]

Noticed that too when I made a snapscan payment on PayFast a couple or minutes ago. One down for the month, three to go.

What do you pay on PayFast?

 

[eddybsb4u]

Allocated points or eBucks? The VCC to pay for streaming services requirement for points is new from this month.

I was shocked too to hear that

 

[Speedster]

What do you pay on PayFast?

It was my annual @EasyUp Web Hosting fee

 

[airborne]

I just upgraded to Premier via the call centre, absolutely no hassle, there was no credit vetting, didn't even ask what my income was, just said I qualified and would I like to confirm the upgrade. When I asked about my limits they said I can change them at a later date.

When I tried a few days ago they said I qualified but the system wouldn't allow the upgrade to go through.

One thing that is a bit strange is the call centre confirmed that a Premier requirement is a min monthly deposit of R13.5k but the Premier page on the website says different:

"The account for you if you earn between R240 000 and R849 999 per year. Experience dedicated banking service and get access to a world of rewards and benefits at R229 p.m"

 

[lucifir]

Calc is updated for new rules.
However track my rewards it's not live

meant track my rewards

 

[Gtx Gaming]

I just upgraded to Premier via the call centre, absolutely no hassle, there was no credit vetting, didn't even ask what my income was, just said I qualified and would I like to confirm the upgrade. When I asked about my limits they said I can change them at a later date.

When I tried a few days ago they said I qualified but the system wouldn't allow the upgrade to go through.

One thing that is a bit strange is the call centre confirmed that a Premier requirement is a min monthly deposit of R13.5k but the Premier page on the website says different:

"The account for you if you earn between R240 000 and R849 999 per year. Experience dedicated banking service and get access to a world of rewards and benefits at R229 p.m"

Min amount js for ebucks earn , qualify is more. But they qualify basically anybody that's willing to pay the fees

 

[mr_norris]

I just upgraded to Premier via the call centre, absolutely no hassle, there was no credit vetting, didn't even ask what my income was, just said I qualified and would I like to confirm the upgrade. When I asked about my limits they said I can change them at a later date.

I had a similar experience. In respect to my other dealings with FNB (signing up for gold, getting shafted, changing to Gold Fusion later, getting shafted), it was smooth. It did take a 50 minute phone call though :|

 

[icarusza]

With the new ebucks rules, maybe it's just me, but I was looking at premier vs pc and for me pc is no more difficult to reach lvl 5 than premier.

I think getting to PC is not that hard, but where you might lose out is on Smart Spend. I think the tiers are quite a bit higher so if you're not spending significantly more per month, your total ebucks earned could end up lower.

 

[airborne]

For those that upgraded Aspire to Premier this month do your Kauai rewards and discount level immediately come back online once you've upgraded?

I'm assuming they will use whatever ebucks level you reached in June on gold to work out your Premier level in July?

 

[airborne]

I had a similar experience. In respect to my other dealings with FNB (signing up for gold, getting shafted, changing to Gold Fusion later, getting shafted), it was smooth. It did take a 50 minute phone call though :|

It's smooth and then the "fun" starts when the upgrade is done, lots of issues?

 

[STORMERSFAN]

I just upgraded to Premier via the call centre, absolutely no hassle, there was no credit vetting, didn't even ask what my income was, just said I qualified and would I like to confirm the upgrade. When I asked about my limits they said I can change them at a later date.

When I tried a few days ago they said I qualified but the system wouldn't allow the upgrade to go through.

One thing that is a bit strange is the call centre confirmed that a Premier requirement is a min monthly deposit of R13.5k but the Premier page on the website says different:

"The account for you if you earn between R240 000 and R849 999 per year. Experience dedicated banking service and get access to a world of rewards and benefits at R229 p.m"

Did they keep your existing limits!? (it's a mission to change limits just by the way) Did they say how long it would take to get your new cards and did u get them delivered to a branch.. Did u have to tell them u need the extra cc or do they send it automatically? Thx

 

[airborne]

Min amount js for ebucks earn , qualify is more. But they qualify basically anybody that's willing to pay the fees

The call centre said the R13,500 minimum monthly deposits is to prevent your account being downgraded, they didn't mention ebucks once, that's why I find the website stating R240k pa min a bit strange.

 

[eddybsb4u]

It was my annual @EasyUp Web Hosting fee

I think I also need to move my Axxess hosting to EasyUp. I’m having issues with Axxess that they can’t solve. They can’t separate my statement. I requested that they send me a separate statement for hosting and another one for Fibre instead of sending one statement with everything. They say that they can’t do it.

 

[Meister-Man]

I think getting to PC is not that hard, but where you might lose out is on Smart Spend. I think the tiers are quite a bit higher so if you're not spending significantly more per month, your total ebucks earned could end up lower.

Not really, R20k pm spend on PC gets you R400pm in ebucks and R20k pm spend on premier gets you R420pm in ebucks, so quite similar.
Obviously PC has higher caps, so that's beneficial and then of course if you are a high spender the increased smart spend is great.

 

[STORMERSFAN]

For those that upgraded Aspire to Premier this month do your Kauai rewards and discount level immediately come back online once you've upgraded?

I'm assuming they will use whatever ebucks level you reached in June on gold to work out your Premier level in July?

Let's hope so

 

[airborne]

Not really, R20k pm spend on PC gets you R400pm in ebucks and R20k pm spend on premier gets you R420pm in ebucks, so quite similar.
Obviously PC has higher caps, so that's beneficial and then of course if you are a high spender the increased smart spend is great.

What are the monthly fees like between Premier and Pc?

 

[airborne]

Will my credit card automatically also get upgraded to Premier, in the app my cheque account now shows as premier but the cc still gold?