AA discount

[aiki]

If you are an AA member or use their card, bomb their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/AAsmartfuel?sk=wall with messages of annoyance at the $40 minimum spend to get the petrol discount.
They are showing no regard for us at all. Their excuse is it is the petrol companies policy but as far as I'm concerned it is their card.
It's only a small amount of discount but the principal of discrimination is worth standing against.

[wickle]

Are u going to bomb "flybuys" site as they run same sort of program.

[Woodman]

I don't see the problem.

The retailers where you can gain smartfuel points have minimum spend thresholds before the points are activated so whats the difference.

[aiki]

Flybuys usually have a $20 limit which is pretty easy to spend unless you are on a scooter, if you are then get off the road you nuisance, as for using the cards for points, the stations i've been to don't allow or can't be bothered if you don't spend the $40.
Most of us can't spend that amount at one refill ergo the promotions excludes the motorcyclist and only benefits the car user.
Come on people it's not a difficult concept to get your head around or is it a case of one too many spills without a helmet on.
Like the ACC levy if you don't tell them you aren't happy as the consumer you will get shafted.

[ffirman]

What I ended up doing was to apply for a Shell (now Z) fuel card. It has no min monthly spend, costs $2 mn, they bill you at the beginning of the next month, and they knock off 5c/l no matter what. So if you buy at least 40l /mn that will cover the cost of the card, and then you get the extra savings. That is outside of the convience of not having to pay up front, and getting a month of basically free credit.

I got it in new years, and so it has been great....

Fran

[Lelitu]

aiki

one question.
let's say you spend enough to get 0.1$/L off
and a 20L tank, bone dry

that's 0.1*20 = $2 off the full tank
less than the cost of 1L of gas.

is it even worth the effort it takes to pull the card out with every purchase?
basically if you have enough money to spend to get a decent discount
you have enough money to spend that the discount isn't worth your effort to get it.

it only starts to make economic sense on a much larger tank, with much more frequent fills.

edit - fix my broken math

[aiki]

aiki

one question.
let's say you spend enough to get 0.01$/L off
and a 20L tank, bone dry

that's 0.01*20 = $2 off the full tank
less than the cost of 1L of gas.

is it even worth the effort it takes to pull the card out with every purchase?
basically if you have enough money to spend to get a decent discount
you have enough money to spend that the discount isn't worth your effort to get it.

it only starts to make economic sense on a much larger tank, with much more frequent fills.

I know it's not much but the principle stands. It's all about marketing and promoting these savings to the consumer to try and entice us to use their products. But what they are really saying is they don't give a stuff about some of their customers. I regularly spend more than $40 on a day on gas but it isn't in one fill.
Yes I think it is always worth the effort to tell them you aren't satisfied. How do you think their ads would look if they said "excludes motorcycles" on the end.

[Gremlin]

Left a message... been a member for over a year.

When I first joined my intent was to get the kick-backs to be credited to the account, and hopefully make the membership free in future years. Shortly after Repco changes with less specials, Vodafone drops off... I get less and less. Then they bring in smartfuel which is stupidly complex and I've had such a variety at Caltex once it was introduced. One couldn't understand how to process, then you have to spend at least $40, which the Hornet can't do, only the BMW can.

It's ridiculous and effectively it's back to basic AA Plus membership. Only other benefit is you can get discounts on Interislander etc.

[Lelitu]

I know it's not much but the principle stands. It's all about marketing and promoting these savings to the consumer to try and entice us to use their products. But what they are really saying is they don't give a stuff about some of their customers. I regularly spend more than $40 on a day on gas but it isn't in one fill.
Yes I think it is always worth the effort to tell them you aren't satisfied. How do you think their ads would look if they said "excludes motorcycles" on the end.

they're really not exculding anyone that would derive any benefit from it
if you consider what your time is worth, by the time you pull the card out enough to get the discount built up to a decent level, and use the card to claim said discount, you've spent more time than the discount is actually worth
so you're effectively spending *more* on the fuel.

'tis why I don't bother with any of the fuel discount schemes, they're quite literally not worth the amount of hassle it is to just hand over the card/reciept/voucher, because the bike uses so little fuel.
now if the discounts were around 0.80$/L they'd start to make sense for bikes, but then petrol stations would go under when offered to cars.

[MSTRS:Me]

aiki

one question.
let's say you spend enough to get 0.01$/L off
and a 20L tank, bone dry

that's 0.01*20 = $2 off the full tank
less than the cost of 1L of gas.

is it even worth the effort it takes to pull the card out with every purchase?
basically if you have enough money to spend to get a decent discount
you have enough money to spend that the discount isn't worth your effort to get it.

it only starts to make economic sense on a much larger tank, with much more frequent fills.

Am I missing something here? Where did $2.00 discount come from?
$0.01 (1 cent) per litre x 20 litre = $0.20 (20 cents).

[Renegade]

its like the mobil deal, spend $4 in store and get .04 cents off a litre now id have spend a lot on gas to get that $4 back, more than a few tanks in the SV

[Scuba_Steve]

Flybuys usually have a $20 limit which is pretty easy to spend unless you are on a scooter, if you are then get off the road you nuisance, as for using the cards for points, the stations i've been to don't allow or can't be bothered if you don't spend the $40

Flibuys is 20l for 1 point, thats around 43$ at the moment, on a bike you've pretty much never been able to get flybuys points and your complaining about AA fuelcard Not only that your only complaining about the instant discount (which is retailers decision), I believe you'll find the accumulated discount you can use on any amount of fuel upto 50l

if your that worried next time you fill the car ask to accumulate rather than spend then when you fill your bike you can use the accumulated points, not a sensible way to do it but neither is complaining to AA about BP & caltex setting a 40$ spend limit to get the instant fuel discount when it's the retailer that decides the price

[Owl]

After 3 years and 2 cards, there are only 2 items we can purchase with 95 points.

[Gremlin]

I've got Flybuys as well, so use a lot of Shell. Remember that all the litres are added together at the end of the month for extra points. Something like 1 point per 100L or something.

I get the odd points from all the mileage I do, and the BMW can take over $60 of gas

[Paul in NZ]

I was an AA member for decades and then told them to shove it when they started flapping their gums around the increase in bike rego.

The NZAA strongly opposes the continuing cross-subsidy for motorcycles. The consultation document states that if the owners of motorcycles were charged a levy that was unsubsidised by the other vehicle classes, it would be approximately $1500. There is no basis in equity, logic or fairness to continue this policy and it artificially encourages the uptake of an unsafe class of vehicle, by not covering their true costs. That said, we do not seek full recovery, but would like a strong price signal to identify the increased risk of motorcycles.


http://www.aa.co.nz/assets/about/eve...07-10-2008.pdf

Face it - the AA don't like motorcycles or motorcyclists and frankly every dealing I have had with them has been shonky. (the maps were good though) I bloody hate them....