Originally Posted by ozstamps
Can someone please remind me and others what date in July the Telstra card surcharge takes place upon?
IMHO using miles for domestic trunk routes, given the many sales these days is a ridiculous waste of miles.
26 July
http://www.telstra.com.au/paymentpro...gfee/index.htm for all the details.
Trying to regain some FF cred... the last lot of points I redeemed were for U seats PER to the East coast, so 45k=$1085 or 2.4c/point. (Much earlier was a 45000 point round Oz trip in Bus Class with the full 5 stopovers before the rule change!)
So I probably was undercalling the value of the points!
Also I found the old Telstra fee thread (sorry for starting a new one!) and it reminded us that the 1.69% is GST exclusive... so for most of us it's more like 1.859%, or $9.30 per $500 paid.
If you have a Amex Maximised, $500=750 points, at 3c/point = $22.50; at 2.4c/point = $18.
decisions, decisions. Pay $9.30, get $18 worth of points, lose $10 in Home Loan interest...might have to forgo the points and rely on work trips to get them... SCs are more my target anyway!