Fly Buys

[Mom]

Well, I decided to redeem a few points today. My iron died from ironing transfers onto jackets :pinch: and a couple of buttons on our phone dont work very well. Makes answering a call difficult if you press the talk button and nothing happens :laugh:

Anyway, onto the FLY BUYS site and chose replacements and redeem the points. Ring Noel Leeming to see if they had these things in store as we have a 40 min drive to our nearest outlet, no point in going down if they dont have them. Lovely lady at Noel Leemings tells me not only do they not have them, but none of their stores stock these products!

What? So, I have redeemed my points for product that is not available. Sure I will get the points back ( I hope) but what a waste of time! How do you redeem these friggen points anyway. Ring the outlet and ask if they have anything you can redeem points for before you redeem them?

Anyone else struck this?

[crazybigal]

its happening with the liquor gift pack products from Liquor Land.
Most of the items are out of stock, some of them are products from europe and they are still on the boat!
Call the stores first if you have to travel a long way to avoid being let down.




Well, I decided to redeem a few points today. My iron died from ironing transfers onto jackets :pinch: and a couple of buttons on our phone dont work very well. Makes answering a call difficult if you press the talk button and nothing happens :laugh:

Anyway, onto the FLY BUYS site and chose replacements and redeem the points. Ring Noel Leeming to see if they had these things in store as we have a 40 min drive to our nearest outlet, no point in going down if they dont have them. Lovely lady at Noel Leemings tells me not only do they not have them, but none of their stores stock these products!

What? So, I have redeemed my points for product that is not available. Sure I will get the points back ( I hope) but what a waste of time! How do you redeem these friggen points anyway. Ring the outlet and ask if they have anything you can redeem points for before you redeem them?

Anyone else struck this?

[Sidewinder]

its all like sex, you know what you want but but sometimes if its far away it sucks when youg et let down.
or find out that everyone says no to you

[Nasty]

That happened to me a couple of times ... I contacted them directly and they refunded the points - but that is not what I wanted .. .I wanted the bloody heater that I had ordered!

[GOONR]

Same thing happened to me with a camera, couldn't find one in stock anywhere, ended up waiting for about 3 weeks till it came in from Kodak. The bloody thing broke in the end as well.

[zahria]

I leave the Flybuy thing to my missus, but she has had soime grief ordering stuff, invariably end up with a 3 week wait.
I've never been a fan of them, we end up losing more points than we redeem...

[Skyryder]

Well, I decided to redeem a few points today. My iron died from ironing transfers onto jackets :pinch: and a couple of buttons on our phone dont work very well. Makes answering a call difficult if you press the talk button and nothing happens :laugh:

Anyway, onto the FLY BUYS site and chose replacements and redeem the points. Ring Noel Leeming to see if they had these things in store as we have a 40 min drive to our nearest outlet, no point in going down if they dont have them. Lovely lady at Noel Leemings tells me not only do they not have them, but none of their stores stock these products!

What? So, I have redeemed my points for product that is not available. Sure I will get the points back ( I hope) but what a waste of time! How do you redeem these friggen points anyway. Ring the outlet and ask if they have anything you can redeem points for before you redeem them?

Anyone else struck this?


Nope but I'd like the phone for telemarketeers.:doh:


Skyryder

[ready4whatever]

I havnt ordered anything from them but flybuys is the reason i keep going to shell (yeah i know thats the big catch). i hope they dont eff it up. That and V power thats meant to clean my valves

[vifferman]

We've managed OK with FlyBuys - redeemed them for an iron, a kettle and a GPS, but overall I think they suck. The merchants (like Noel Leemings) that supply the goods are ripping the scheme off. If you look at the price of things in their stores, and how many points you need, it ranges between 5 and 8 points per dollar. When they have things that are on special and in FlyBuys Rewards, it takes months (if ever) for the savings to get passed onto a reduced 'price' in the FlyBuys catalogue.
The number of points you get for your spending is three-eights of 27% of not very much at all, so it takes ages to accummulate them, and they expire before you've got enough to redeem for something worthwhile. As an example, we spend maybe $1200-$1500/month at places we get FlyBuys points, and this amounts to maybe 60 points, which will buy us a paltry $10 worth of rewards.

We also belong to TrueRewards, and that's HEAPS better. The points accrete faster, each point equals a real dollar, and you can either get rewards or just use the TR card like a credit card and buy stuff, even paying partly by cash/credit and partly using True Rewards. The good thing is we can use our credit cards and FlyBuys cards so get points on both for the same transaction. Recently I bought an electric toothbrush with True Rewards and got FlyBys points on the item. Also, the points stick around for 3 years, unlike the meagre 12 months of FlyBuys.

[kwaka_crasher]

Rather than follow these 'loyalty' programmes all over town to collect a couple of points towards the 20 Billion of them needed for a toaster or telephone which isn't exactly what I wanted anyway, I prefer to simply shop where convenient and cheapest and buy my own fucking toaster or telephone with the money I saved, when the time comes.