Tips to Boost your eBucks

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abudabi said:
Cool.. My kids' school fees can now be put on credit card. You can either do a once-a-month swipe at their office or fill in some form. I'm guessing it's like a debit order that goes off your credit card? If so does that still attract the normal CC swipe percentages?
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Anyone care to comment on the bit in bold? I seem to recall that you can fill in a form for DSTV to also go off your CC.

Do these types of transactions attract the normal swipe % ?
 
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droidx said:
I have never bought a gift card at makro, as mentioned above makro's system is jacked up with regards to what you earn on and what you do not earn on.
So I doubt you will get ebucks for swiping your ebucks card while purchasing a gift card.
I haven't tried it though so perhaps the person who received the ebucks can show us the breakdown of his earn?
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Just checked, I have earned ebucks using the gift card / swiping ebuck card combo.
But only received a small amount back, better than nothing I suppose.
 
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abudabi said:
Anyone care to comment on the bit in bold? I seem to recall that you can fill in a form for DSTV to also go off your CC.

Do these types of transactions attract the normal swipe % ?
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I would say it will be a normal debit on your credit card. Like anything else you pay via debit order on your credit card.
 
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Method said:
I would say it will be a normal debit on your credit card. Like anything else you pay via debit order on your credit card.
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Cool.. but all my debit orders normally go off my cheque account so have no idea if it has eB earning potential. Hence me asking what the earn is (if any).

Tx
 
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abudabi said:
Cool.. but all my debit orders normally go off my cheque account so have no idea if it has eB earning potential. Hence me asking what the earn is (if any).

Tx
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I don't think you will get any eBucks earn as it is not a swipe? I think you will also pay for the debit order if you are on gold, because gold cc is not in a bundle where you pay a fixed rate.
 
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StrontiumDog said:
Are you calling SYNERGY a liar? ;) :p SYNERGY, what say you?


Hmm... you should have blanked out your account number completely.
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Paying for one card only that's included in the bundled pricing. As you can see, it shows as different accounts. AFAIK PC was called graphite before.
 
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SYNERGY said:
Might be due to the fact that it was a graphite account that got upgraded?

On Platinum it shows as one.
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Woah, why do you have 5 credit card accounts? And you're calling 3 of them Graphite to differentiate them from newer PC cards?
 
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Sinbad said:
Go to the store, find a sales assistant. Tell them what you want. They'll order it for you, you pay with your voucher. Easy. Bought my gas oven like this. Online exclusive...
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Thanks I just did this, although what a ball ache.

* Phoned store and got told to phone online store.
* Online store tells me store should help. Explain they aren't and get told online store will call me back.
* No call back
* Phone store again, get told I can order in store but I need to come in to do so, can't be done over the phone.
* Arrive and the staff on the floor are confused as to how this works. Finally find someone who knows and they start to assist, HOWEVER they can't place my order via the eBucks voucher as there's no option on their PC's to do that for stock that isn't on the floor. I'm thus made to convert eBucks voucher > store gift card as that options exists, and then buy the item via store gift card.

Now i'm waiting for a call back to confirm a delivery ETA.

PAINFUL MAKRO, PAINFUL!
 
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jsheed_sa said:
Thanks I just did this, although what a ball ache.

* Phoned store and got told to phone online store.
* Online store tells me store should help. Explain they aren't and get told online store will call me back.
* No call back
* Phone store again, get told I can order in store but I need to come in to do so, can't be done over the phone.
* Arrive and the staff on the floor are confused as to how this works. Finally find someone who knows and they start to assist, HOWEVER they can't place my order via the eBucks voucher as there's no option on their PC's to do that for stock that isn't on the floor. I'm thus made to convert eBucks voucher > store gift card as that options exists, and then buy the item via store gift card.

Now i'm waiting for a call back to confirm a delivery ETA.

PAINFUL MAKRO, PAINFUL!
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They should just place the order and give you an invoice.

You then go with them and the invoice to a till to pay, and pay with the voucher. Done it more than once.
 
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Method said:
Yep, it's not a swipe.
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I actually think it is treated as a swipe. We have online and physical card processing facilities. On the online side, the payee can select recurring monthly or single transactions. If they select monthly, the system simply processes a normal card not present transaction against the credit card on a monthly basis. It should show as a swipe on the payees' account.

Ps. Haven't tried it myself yet so could be wrong. If a transaction is processed against a card it should reflect as a swipe.
 
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I actually think it is treated as a swipe. We have online and physical card processing facilities. On the online side, the payee can select recurring monthly or single transactions. If they select monthly, the system simply processes a normal card not present transaction against the credit card on a monthly basis. It should show as a swipe on the payees' account.

Ps. Haven't tried it myself yet so could be wrong. If a transaction is processed against a card it should reflect as a swipe.
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It's considered as online transaction not swipe
 
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Was commenting on this thread and subsequent responses that a monthly multichoice credit card debit will not earn eBucks.
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I would say it will be a normal debit on your credit card. Like anything else you pay via debit order on your credit card.
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StrontiumDog said:
Woah, why do you have 5 credit card accounts? And you're calling 3 of them Graphite to differentiate them from newer PC cards?
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I blocked the first names. Fathers account. Big family :p 5 cards - 1 account actually.

I'm on platinum fee saver.
 
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