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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
Many BP stations are participating in Velocity points now too.
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Yes, if you give them your Velocity card you get a point per dollar. If you then pay with Qantas Cash or a credit card that earns points you'll get half a point a dollar (they have a 2.25% surcharge for using Amex, making the exercise pointless). So spending say $60 on petrol can earn 90 points.
They all add up, but they are small fry compared to the supermarkets.
Last year I decided to earn points and used Qantas Cash, which pays half a point per dollar. And in the last 12 months I earned 19,000 points.
About 15,000 of those points I earned in supermarkets. If I'd had one of the two Amex cards I mentioned earlier, instead of 15,000 points, I'd have had six times that amount - 90,000 points - which is more than enough for a return trip for two to Perth, or two return trips to Brisbane. Which was why I felt like a dill when I looked into it more carefully.
The downside is that the David Jones card cost $99 a year, and the Platinum Edge card costs $195 a year (but you do get one free return trip a year with it if you are on the Virgin scheme).
Cheers,
Renato