Originally Posted by
wordsew
I have been a voracious reader of flyer talk and several well know travel/points blogs. I remember reading about a guy that bought a ton of pudding to reap millions of airlines points or another who spent the day driving rental cars down the street between rental agencies effectively hacking the system for a large number of points.
Does opportunity like this still exist? I just feel like I missed that boat.
Here in Australia we just had an opportunity with Flybuys where you could get 1000 Flybuys points (worth $5 off your Coles Supermarket shop) for various Gillette razor and blade purchases. It was a targeted promotion but a number of people got it including myself.
The offer did not set a limit on the number of times you could redeem this.
At the same time there was a qualifying Gillette product (ladies razors) on sale for $3.92. Theoretically you could buy 1000 of these razors (cost $3,920), get 1 million Flybuys points and thus get $5,000 off your supermarket shopping. This would effectively profit you $1,080.
After 2 days Flybuys changed the conditions to limit the number of bonuses to 10 per person but will honor bonuses for purchases made prior to the change.
cheers Peter