Tips to Boost your eBucks

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zerocool2009 said:
Mmmm, that doesn't sound right ? What card do you use ? Your debit card ?

LOL ... I learned the following now :

Withdraw all or some of the cash from the eWallet at an FNB ATM, without needing a bank card. The rest of the money can be withdrawn at a later stage
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It is correct. I ewallet from my phone and to my phone number. I use cheque account. The reason I think they do not count as an ATM withdrawl is because you can send the money to anyone as a form of payment, so if someone else sends me money via ewallet, do I get punished for it?
 
deni-do said:
It is correct. I ewallet from my phone and to my phone number. I use cheque account. The reason I think they do not count as an ATM withdrawl is because you can send the money to anyone as a form of payment, so if someone else sends me money via ewallet, do I get punished for it?
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Haven't done this before. Is this done via the app or by dialling *120*321#?
 
deni-do said:
It is correct. I ewallet from my phone and to my phone number. I use cheque account. The reason I think they do not count as an ATM withdrawl is because you can send the money to anyone as a form of payment, so if someone else sends me money via ewallet, do I get punished for it?
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Can't believe I only find out about this now, think this will really help when you urgently need cash and can't do cash@till. Seems like there is a R3000 limit (cost is R9.50) on a transfer to the eWallet and the limit on the eWallet is R5000. But that is more than enough.
 
deni-do said:
It is correct. I ewallet from my phone and to my phone number. I use cheque account. The reason I think they do not count as an ATM withdrawl is because you can send the money to anyone as a form of payment, so if someone else sends me money via ewallet, do I get punished for it?
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Now that we have know eWallet is the way to go, back to Cash@Till, is it limited to R1000, shops are not keen to give more.
 
INVESTMENTS
If you intend taking an investment from FNB, Tax Free Shares seem to be growing faster than Fixed Deposit (not guaranteed due to market forces). Its limited to R30k a year so next year I will be on R60k, giving me maximum eBucks points for Investment. Any thoughts?
 
Menz said:
INVESTMENTS
If you intend taking an investment from FNB, Tax Free Shares seem to be growing faster than Fixed Deposit (not guaranteed due to market forces). Its limited to R30k a year so next year I will be on R60k, giving me maximum eBucks points for Investment. Any thoughts?
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I use the TFSA from fnb. My 20k gets me R94 interest each month.
 
Menz said:
Now that we have know eWallet is the way to go, back to Cash@Till, is it limited to R1000, shops are not keen to give more.
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If I want more than R1000 I usualy call the Checkers ahead of time. Like the last time I needed R2500. Called them, asked if they will do it, and if they can get a cashier ready for that amount.

Got there, got my R2.5k and left a happy chappy.
 
hmcd101 said:
If I want more than R1000 I usualy call the Checkers ahead of time. Like the last time I needed R2500. Called them, asked if they will do it, and if they can get a cashier ready for that amount.

Got there, got my R2.5k and left a happy chappy.
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I needed R3000 last month. Cashier couldn't help so the Customer Service representative sent me to the Money Market who were able to give me R2000. I then walked to a different cashier and asked for R1000, which she was able to provide. If I needed more I would have just gone to more cashiers.

Bit of a roundabout way of doing things, but saves your eBucks.
 
Mythical- said:
I needed R3000 last month. Cashier couldn't help so the Customer Service representative sent me to the Money Market who were able to give me R2000. I then walked to a different cashier and asked for R1000, which she was able to provide. If I needed more I would have just gone to more cashiers.

Bit of a roundabout way of doing things, but saves your eBucks.
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I do it this way as well
 
Gtx Gaming said:
I use the TFSA from fnb. My 20k gets me R94 interest each month.
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I have a TFSA account (but not a fixed deposit) but as a "share saver" account. You are correct for the 30K limit per year.

According to me, this type of account doesn't earn any eB points at all.

To qualify for eB points, it need to be share investor or share builder (And min R10K if I am not mistaken)
 
zerocool2009 said:
I have a TFSA account (but not a fixed deposit) but as a "share saver" account. You are correct for the 30K limit per year.

According to me, this type of account doesn't earn any eB points at all.

To qualify for eB points, it need to be share investor or share builder (And min R10K if I am not mistaken)
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Reading the eBucks for Platinum. I also presume that the share saver account can get eBucks.

Have an FNB Investment Account (excluding an Equity Trading Account) and maintain a minimum monthly balance of:

Between R10 000 and R49 999 1 500

R50 000 or more 2 000

Have a scheduled transfer/payment of at least R500 into an FNB Investment Account (excluding an Equity Trading Account) and maintain a minimum monthly balance of R5 000 in the same account
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ActivateD said:
Thanks for the correction. It would have been nice of them to add it in considering we investing using their platform.
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I suspect it's always so cheap they can't cut any more profits with eBucks.

Whereas as the bigger share trader platforms have monthly or more expensive trading fees that make up for it.
 
Just to confirm, a global account will need to be active for an entire calendar month before the points are allocated to me?
 
SauRoNZA said:
I suspect it's always so cheap they can't cut any more profits with eBucks.

Whereas as the bigger share trader platforms have monthly or more expensive trading fees that make up for it.
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I opened a fixed flexi account (3 month period) to earn points. I don't want to invest massive into savings accounts. The return is so little. I just opened it to push me to Level 5

I read up in Dec 2014 about fees and investments, and that is why I opened a share saver account. The fees are super minimal.
 
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