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Feb 27, 2008 | 3:06 am

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Originally Posted by Jay71

Thanks everyone for the info about the points. It's probably impractical for me to make use of these points programs but handy know in the event I do.Thanks!

Not necessarily. Let's say you are buying 3 items priced JPY 10000, 5000 and 1000. Sign up and get the card. Do one transaction for the 10000 item. Lets say you get JPY 500 of points for this purchase. Next ring up the JPY 5000 item and get JPY 500 off and only pay 4500. For that purchase you get JPY 225 in points. Ring up the 1000 item, only pay JPY 775 and you get JPY 38 points. Those you will not be able to use unless you find a small item around that price.

Assuming that my points percentage were correct, and I don't recall what they actually are, you'd have saved 775 JPY on purchases of 16000 or about 5%.

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