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House and Home is a trading division of Checkers, though I have never heard or seen that it counts as Checkers spend. There no ads about it either that I know about.
 
Tinuva said:
House and Home is a trading division of Checkers, though I have never heard or seen that it counts as Checkers spend. There no ads about it either that I know about.
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If it is a division of checkers, then it might. I know that Checkers Liquor does. The FNB website will have more details on that.
 
Ancalagon said:
If it is a division of checkers, then it might. I know that Checkers Liquor does. The FNB website will have more details on that.
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Checkers Liquor is mentioned in the Partners page. As is Shoprite, Checkers, U-Save, Checkers Hyper, but no House & Home
 
hmcd101 said:
Checkers Liquor is mentioned in the Partners page. As is Shoprite, Checkers, U-Save, Checkers Hyper, but no House & Home
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Then probably not covered then. Money Market is the same - part of Checkers but not eligible for eBucks rewards.
 
Aaaarghhhhh!!!!!

My bond debit order is only going off on the 1st.. which means I wont get the extra 500 points that 6 debit orders give you. Also if I go and get the tablet now, it will only count for next month's point earnings (anything done after the 15th counts for the following month) .. so I'm also out of those 1500 points whihc was my plan B.

bollocks bollocks bollocks

RL4 only :(
 
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Ebucks rocks. I know the saying, there's no such thing as a free lunch, but I'm not the one paying for it.

I don't mind paying the R300 every month in Bank fees.

Ebucks earned in February = eB28 000
Builders warehouse vouchers = R4 500.00 (18xR250)
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I see they pulled discounts on most vouchers. The only vouchers that qualify for discounts are Makro, Checkers, Incredible Connection and Cape Union Mart. When did this change?
 
peeryus said:
I see they pulled discounts on most vouchers. The only vouchers that qualify for discounts are Makro, Checkers, Incredible Connection and Cape Union Mart. When did this change?
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On the plus side, Makro seems to sell everything under the sun. Quality is debatable but regardless, the 40% off should make it worthwhile :)
 
StrontiumDog said:
On the plus side, Makro seems to sell everything under the sun. Quality is debatable but regardless, the 40% off should make it worthwhile :)
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They don't sell prams although Checkers Hyper do. Can I use 2x R1000 vouchers to pay for a single item? Does the change/balance get loaded onto a gift card?
 
peeryus said:
They don't sell prams although Checkers Hyper do. Can I use 2x R1000 vouchers to pay for a single item? Does the change/balance get loaded onto a gift card?
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With checkers, it's a physical card much like a debit card. What ever is not used remains on the card.
 
Time for a rant:

I'm sick and tired of FNB and eBucks passing the buck on ALL enquiries. I have called both re. the fact that one of the "rules" I am compliant to, does not reflect on my total monthly points. See below:

"Use between 10% and 90% of your credit card limit" This has a value of 1 500 points which would put me in the top bracket of 18 000 points or more.

Neither can tell me exactly what this means, but logic dictates that it means I should spend 10% of my CC limit every month to get those points. I spend more than that, but have never received those points.

eBucks call centre says it is out of their control and I must talk to FNB. No one at FNB can help me or even put me in touch with the correct people/department. WTF ?

I have now resorted to a more obvious one:

" Have an Overdraft Facility of R2 000 or more, a Temporary loan, a Revolving loan or a Personal loan" where I took a R 2000 overdraft facility, which will give me an additional 2 000 points and this will technically double my eBucks every month. I cannot wait to see if this will actually happen or not.

I have my doubts...
 
Re: "Use between 10% and 90% of your credit card limit"
Are you sure your running balance at any point in time is not exceeding 90% of your limit? Someone else earlier on in this thread confirmed the meaning of this rule.
 
Well that is the one rule I never had an issue with.

Example:
Straight limit: 10000
Budget limit: 10000

Thus
10% lower limit should be: 2000
90% upper limit should be: 18000

Monthly spend on straight: 3000
Monthly spend on budget: 0

and that triggers the between 10 and 90% spend rule on CC just fine for me every single month thus far.

Remember, you need to pay it off, and then use the same amount again next month. If your balance was lets say already on 2000, you need to take it to 5000.
 
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StrontiumDog said:
Re: "Use between 10% and 90% of your credit card limit"
Are you sure your running balance at any point in time is not exceeding 90% of your limit? Someone else earlier on in this thread confirmed the meaning of this rule.
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I do not even know what that means?

I do however use my CC like cash, so I never go into credit/debt or whatever. I.e. I always have a positive balance, even though I am transacting to an amount every month that exceeds 10% of my limit. That may be it then? I have limit of R85 000 and I spend approx. R10 000 per month, but 'cos that R10 000 is not credit, I do not get those points?
 
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MightyQuin said:
I do not even know what that means?

I do however use my CC like cash, so I never go over my limit. That may be it then? I have limit of R85 000 and I spend approx. R10 000 per month, but 'cos that R10 000 is not credit, I do not get those points? I may have answered my own question it seems, with your help of course.
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Did you take both your straight and budget limits into account?

If your monthly spend is 10 000, it would be easier to lower your limits to eg, 50 000 straight and 0 budget. That way you easily get to the required 5000 10% and will be far away from the 90% cap. Additionally that still leaves you enough emergency accessible funds if really needed.

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Oh and you must use it as credit. Leave that R10k in your cheque account, and when the CC reaches negative R10k, transfer it over to pay it off. Remember you get 55 days interest free.
 
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I've just received a notice to say I can get Private Client cheque card - but will it effect my ebucks with Platinum Credit and Private cheque? I think I remember a friend at work saying she didn't get all her ebucks because both weren't the same catagory
 
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