Tips to Boost your eBucks

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zerocool2009 said:
You will.

I don't know on what package you are but this is the rule for premier:

Your card swipes and/or Cash@Till™ withdrawals exceed your ATM and FNB branch withdrawals (1 000 points)
OR
You only swipe your card and/or use Cash@Till™ (no ATM or FNB branch withdrawals) (1 500 points)
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Can you still eWallet money to your own cell to avoid loosing points with ATM cash withdrawals?
 
RVQ said:
Can you still eWallet money to your own cell to avoid loosing points with ATM cash withdrawals?
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You can. Costs R9.50 per eWallet transaction.
But (as i have mentioned before) I dislike the idea cos it defeats the purpose of having a bundled fee to cover all transactions.
If it's gonna save you dropping a level, then go for it.
But... try and feel dirty once you're done :)
 
for cash@till, does it matter if i use my cheque card or my credit card?
 
bar1 said:
for cash@till, does it matter if i use my cheque card or my credit card?
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Yes, the funds will be drawn out of the account connected to the card you use, with credit card withdrawals attracting interest immediately (not subject to the interest free period)
 
I've started to only use my PW credit card from April onwards, whereas I previously mainly used my cheque card - I went from a monthly average of 3500 points to 13 000 - this is amazing!
 
Is this a known issue, or am I the only one not receiving the discounted airtime bought through the ebucks shop?
 
Gamer said:
If you pay in the shop to settle your account, it'll probably count as a normal purchase (2%), not fuel (15%).
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Yep. I pay in the shop but don't they use the same speed point when you pay per transaction
 
Aqua_lung said:
Is this a known issue, or am I the only one not receiving the discounted airtime bought through the ebucks shop?
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Known to me. Evidently not known to the eBucks team. At least ten emails back and forth with them acting thick as bricks with the last suggestion from them last month to try the following (which I have not had time to look at or try):

Please try the below and try and purchase the airtime again. As per feedback we received it is a browser issue and not a problem on the eBucks shop.

Please clear your cache as per below:

• Open the browser's Tools option and then click on Internet options.
• Click on the "General" tab.
• Click on the Delete... button that appears below Delete temporary files, cookies, saved passwords and web form information.
• Make sure Cookies is ticked, and then click Delete.
• Try your purchase again.

On Firefox and Chrome, the browsing history is usually found under "Privacy" within the browser's Settings section.
For Internet Explorer:
• Open the browser's Tools option and then click on Internet options.
• Click on the "General" tab.
• Click on the Delete... button that appears below Delete temporary files, cookies, saved passwords and web form information.
• Make sure Cookies is ticked, and then click Delete.
• Try your purchase again.


Regards,
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I'm thinking of ditching Premier Fee Saver, there's no advantage to it any longer so might as well just pay the bundled R199 fee. I wonder what rule changes might be coming around that and monthly fees and whether I should wait till June to decide...
 
Speedster said:
Yes, the funds will be drawn out of the account connected to the card you use, with credit card withdrawals attracting interest immediately (not subject to the interest free period)
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I mean, does it make a difference in terms of points toward my reward level?

Edit: will i lose points if i use my CC and not Cheque card?
 
I don't think you will lose points, but you will be charged interest. What credit card are you on? Remember cash@till is better than ATM
 
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StrontiumDog said:
I'm thinking of ditching Premier Fee Saver, there's no advantage to it any longer so might as well just pay the bundled R199 fee. I wonder what rule changes might be coming around that and monthly fees and whether I should wait till June to decide...
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I am waiting till June.

Last year's rule for the new fee saver guys, you needed a balance of R50 000 or R75 000 which was crazy.
 
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Finally on RL5... Account is set up properly now.
Made 6k in ebucks for the previous month so far. :D
 
I am on gold, been on lvl 5 for about a year or so

Only getting 6 - 8k a month

What needs to be done to get more ebucks back?

Shopt at checkers weekly/monthly
Do quiet a bit of fuel spend

What other tricks are there that I can adpot to maximise?
 
crawler said:
I am on gold, been on lvl 5 for about a year or so

Only getting 6 - 8k a month

What needs to be done to get more ebucks back?

Shopt at checkers weekly/monthly
Do quiet a bit of fuel spend

What other tricks are there that I can adpot to maximise?
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Upgrade to Premier. You are probably maxing out on gold.
 
crawler said:
I am on gold, been on lvl 5 for about a year or so
Only getting 6 - 8k a month
What needs to be done to get more ebucks back?
Shopt at checkers weekly/monthly
Do quiet a bit of fuel spend
What other tricks are there that I can adpot to maximise?
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Your eBucks return is very dependent on your total spend, and then dependent on where you spend.
What's your qualifying spend? (i.e. total physical card swipes + online spend)
My qualifying spend is around R8k/month and I get in the region of eB4500 - eB5000 /month
Of the R8k, about R2.5k is Checkers+Fuel , so the largest portion of eB comes from that (eB3750).
The rest is from credit card swipes and paying utility bills online.

Your basic strategy should be:
- Shop mostly at Checkers (but watch out for exceeding the 20% cap)
- Pay online as much as possible (EasyPay for utility bills, and perhaps use SnapScan/Zapper etc where possible)
- Watch out for the 20% fuel cap

If you're hitting the Checkers cap, just move your shopping elsewhere.
A thought just occurred to me... I wonder if someone was hitting the Fuel cap and (once in a while) they chose to pay for it as shopping (i.e. use the machine inside the shop)
That would up the qualifying spend and push up the Fuel cap.
...but that would be a bit of manual work, and you'd really have to be spending alot on Fuel.
 
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