Tips to Boost your eBucks

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Hope the ebucks calcs are correct and stay. Got 7k this month for checkers
 
How do you guys get so much for Checkers? I thought there were limits to Checkers?

Or do the limits change with Reward Levels?
 
SauRoNZA said:
How do you guys get so much for Checkers? I thought there were limits to Checkers?

Or do the limits change with Reward Levels?
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Checkers & Shoprite spend limits and rules
The amount on which you earn eBucks is limited to 20% of your total monthly qualifying FNB Private Wealth Cheque and Credit Card spend or a total rand spend (on Checkers & Shoprite purchases only) of R15 000 per month, whichever occurs first.

NOTE:
Your FNB Private Wealth Credit Card spend is considered first towards the spend limit.
 
All depends on their spending. If you on PC or plat, your total monthly spend is R15k, and of that 15k, R4.5k was at Checkers, then yes you can earn 7000 ebucks (R700) on reward level 5.

The cap is not based on reward level, its usually flat out 30% (up till this month, 20% as of next) of or your total monthly spend, just like fuel is capped at 20% of your total monthly spend.

PW guys usually get a lot more ebucks in total because they can also get 100% of their monthly payment on the smart device (capped to 5000 ebucks/month) back which is a nice huge bump.
 
My eBucks are coming in. So far, I've got R190 for Checkers, R160 for online credit card. Still waiting for Fuel and Shopping Credit card.
 
SauRoNZA said:
How do you guys get so much for Checkers? I thought there were limits to Checkers?

Or do the limits change with Reward Levels?
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The rule as of 1 July 2015:

The amount on which you earn eBucks is limited to 20% of your total monthly qualifying FNB Platinum Cheque and Credit Card spend or a total rand spend (on Checkers & Shoprite purchases only) of R10 000 per month, whichever occurs first.

Then according to the level you are on ... you will get the % back.

I assume, lets say I am on level 5, and I spend R3000 at checkers ... I will get 4500eB (R450). correct me if I am wrong please
 
The 30% cap based on total spend got reduced to 20% as of 1 July. So if spending 10k total last month (June) you could get up to 15% back (RL5) in eBucks on up to R3000 spent at Checkers. Now, if spending 10k total you'll only earn 15% up to R2000 spent at Checkers.

So in these two scenarios spending 3k at Checkers for June and July, you'd be capped at eB4500 and eB3000 respectively.

We should have made the most of June Checkers spending while the going was good :(
 
Got my allocation for June, eB13,980.

eB4000~ from fuel and eB6000~ from Checkers. eB1500~ from electricity.
 
Got my allocation for June as well :)

In total for June spend = 11k Eb (that's a record high for me)
 
I received 7500 ebucks this month, which compared to some members here may seem measly! But this type of earning would've normally taken me about 3 months to make. I made a couple of changes to my ebucks habits and it's clearly paid off.

I set up an autopayment on my credit card to stay on RL5 (I accidently ended up on RL5 last month due to a temp loan=2000 points) and got my husband a secondary card on my credit card (he's on RL3). So now we do all our spending from that account.

Also, I have a prepaid meter through Netvendor, so I didn't qualify for the 15% back on electricity. But I found out that you can use the Easypay website to buy Netvendor vouchers, which counts as an online purchase! Also paying my rates account through Easypay now, rather than EFT.

Simple changes, and I'm making money. This ebucks thing is awesome.
 
Have points been allocated as yet?
My ebucks have been allocated but for rewards it says I do not qualify :wtf:
I made sure I paid myself before month end this time!
 
Nicely done Nicole!

Nimz... Points are still coming in drips/drabs. The RL on the website is not updated yet (for me at least).

Is ebuckstravel a good way to spend ebucks for kulula flights? Looks like I can get 40% discount on the kids & I but not the wife as she does not have a qualifying FNB account. Do I need to book the whole flight with ebucks?

I'm also diamond on discovery so which one do you think is better?
 
nicolenaik said:
I received 7500 ebucks this month, which compared to some members here may seem measly! But this type of earning would've normally taken me about 3 months to make. I made a couple of changes to my ebucks habits and it's clearly paid off.

I set up an autopayment on my credit card to stay on RL5 (I accidently ended up on RL5 last month due to a temp loan=2000 points) and got my husband a secondary card on my credit card (he's on RL3). So now we do all our spending from that account.

Also, I have a prepaid meter through Netvendor, so I didn't qualify for the 15% back on electricity. But I found out that you can use the Easypay website to buy Netvendor vouchers, which counts as an online purchase! Also paying my rates account through Easypay now, rather than EFT.

Simple changes, and I'm making money. This ebucks thing is awesome.
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I agree ! :) Awesome tip .... easy ... and you get rewarded according to the level you are on !
 
Nimz said:
Have points been allocated as yet?
My ebucks have been allocated but for rewards it says I do not qualify :wtf:
I made sure I paid myself before month end this time!
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It seems like all the points (on my side at least) have been allocated.
The ebucks website also hasn't been updated for me in terms of RL, as it shows that I still need to qualify. But on the FNB website, under the ebucks tab, it looks as normal for me.
 
Nimz said:
Have points been allocated as yet?
My ebucks have been allocated but for rewards it says I do not qualify :wtf:
I made sure I paid myself before month end this time!
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Do you have a matching credit card and cheque account ? (I had that same issue)... I had gold on my cheque account, and platinum on my credit card. (But I don't think that rule is important any more as the new rules don't specify that as a requirement)
 
abudabi said:
Nicely done Nicole!

Nimz... Points are still coming in drips/drabs. The RL on the website is not updated yet (for me at least).

Is ebuckstravel a good way to spend ebucks for kulula flights? Looks like I can get 40% discount on the kids & I but not the wife as she does not have a qualifying FNB account. Do I need to book the whole flight with ebucks?

I'm also diamond on discovery so which one do you think is better?
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Use diamond benefits where you can.

For the flight bookings iirc you only have to pay eB 5000 of the ticket in eBucks to get the 40% discount.

Last i looked, as it applies to my situation eBucks on flights was a waste of time and eBucks.
 
zerocool2009 said:
Do you have a matching credit card and cheque account ? (I had that same issue)... I had gold on my cheque account, and platinum on my credit card. (But I don't think that rule is important any more as the new rules don't specify that as a requirement)
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It seems your points for each type of cards get combined .
I have already downgraded my platinum cc to a gold last month.
Waiting patiently to see what will happen . My gold was on level 1 and platinum was on level 3 (platinum not qualified because of no platinum cheque card )
 
StrontiumDog said:
Use diamond benefits where you can.

For the flight bookings iirc you only have to pay eB 5000 of the ticket in eBucks to get the 40% discount.

Last i looked, as it applies to my situation eBucks on flights was a waste of time and eBucks.
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Thanks man!
 
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