15% Bonus Velocity Points for Your First Auto Transfer or 5% Bonus for Your Next Manual Transfer of Flybuys Points

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Link your Flybuys and Velocity accounts, turn on Auto Transfer and complete your first-ever Auto transfer to be rewarded with 15% bonus Velocity Points or 5% bonus Velocity Points on your next manual transfer.

*Bonus Velocity Points offer Terms and Conditions

Between 12:00am AEST Mon 6 May 2024 and 11:59pm AEST Sun 26 May 2024 (Promotion Period), Flybuys members who have linked their Velocity Frequent Flyer membership to their Flybuys account and make an eligible transfer of Flybuys points to Velocity during the Promotion Period will earn bonus Velocity Points based on transfer preference:

• 5% bonus Velocity Points on the value of Velocity Points received on your next manual transfer when you transfer a minimum of 1,000 Flybuys points to Velocity; or
• 15% bonus Velocity Points on the value of Velocity Points received on your first ever Auto Transfer when you transfer a minimum of 1,000 Flybuys points to Velocity. To be eligible, you must turn on Auto Transfer during the Promotion Period and the Auto Transfer must be your first ever Auto transfer.

Each Flybuys member is eligible for one allocation of bonus Velocity Points which will be calculated on the first eligible transfer that the member successfully completes during the Promotion Period. Bonus Velocity Points will be awarded to the member’s Velocity Frequent Flyer account within 4 weeks from the end of the Promotion Period. Bonus Velocity Points offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Flybuys' privacy policy applies. Standard Flybuys terms and conditions apply and are available at flybuys.com.au.

Velocity membership Terms and Conditions apply.

Manual transfer to receive 5% bonus Velocity Points
If you choose to make a manual transfer as your next transfer within the Promotion Period, you will receive 5% bonus Velocity Points on the base number of Velocity Points you receive on your first manual transfer from Flybuys to Velocity during the Promotion Period. A maximum of 10,000 bonus Velocity Points for completing a manual transfer will be awarded per member during the Promotion Period.

Auto Transfer to receive 15% bonus Velocity Points
If you choose to turn on Auto Transfer and complete an Auto Transfer as your first ever transfer during the Promotion Period, you will receive 15% bonus Velocity Points on the base number of Velocity Points you receive on your first Auto Transfer from Flybuys to Velocity during the Promotion Period. A maximum of 30,000 bonus Velocity Points for completing your first Auto Transfer will be awarded per member during the Promotion Period. This offer is not available to members who have already completed an Auto Transfer prior to the Promotion Period

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Comments

  • How to qualify as "first"? 12 months or 18 months?

    • +2

      Lifetime first or create a new account

      • How about delinking velocity account from Flybuys then relinking the same account again?

        By new account, I assume you mean a new velocity account.

        • +1

          New Flybuys account.

          Think of your first transfer as losing your v plates, you can't become a virgin again. So delinking and doing it again won't undo what's been done.

          • +1

            @abs898: So what you are saying is I can create a new flybuys account and become a virgin again? Say less

            • @CodeXD: Think of yourself as velocity point and Flybuys as a virgin.

    • This offer is not available to members who have already completed an Auto Transfer prior to the Promotion Period

    • lifetime first

  • I have 300k+ flybuys.
    What is the benefits of velocity point?
    Will all be transferred with auto transferred?

    • +1

      Benefits - if you fly Virgin or its affiliates
      Auto transfer will suck all your points across. Beware you only get 30000 bonus points (maximum), so convert some of those points to Flybuy dollars first.

      • +3

        You will only hit the max 30,000 bonus points if your transferred balance is 200,000 velocity points, or 400,000 flybuys points

    • +1

      You can easily swap to Qantas points also 1:1 through classifieds on here

      • What are people paying for points these days (not that anyone would do this as its against T&Cs)?

      • @Saul Goodman
        That's interesting. Where can I find the link to do that?

        • +1
          • @z28: You transfer your points to the other party's account directly and wait for them to transfer back? Seems risky. How to safeguard against the other party not honouring the transaction?

            • @EarlyBird: Never done this so can't answer. Anyway ozbargainers are all honest people :))

            • +1

              @EarlyBird: I did it couple times, find those who has done it before with other users commented (of course it can still be fake)
              and a bit of trust… I once did a Teams call and do it with screen sharing

            • +1

              @EarlyBird: Someone with a long history on OzB is very unlikely to rip you off, or just get them to send first.

    • i got 100k flybuys, just wondering how many i will get with 15% bonus when i convert ?? and how much they will be worth ??

      • 50000 + 7500 bonus

  • Perfect timing, thanks OP. 4 accounts with ~500k in flybuys, will all get the 15% bonus :)

    • Maximum 30000 bonus points, so you have been warned.

      • That's a one way flight PER-SYD. Nothing to be sneezed at.

        • I meant he only gets 30K bonus points even if 500K are transferred. Should only transfer 400K points.

          • @z28: 120-150k flybuys in each family members account(x4). So 250k Velocity total and around 37k bonus.

  • +1

    I’m planning to wait till the final day so that I can accumulate more points prior to auto transfer to maximise bonus points. Is the transfer immediate once I turn on auto transfer, or do I have to wait a few days?

    • +1

      I'm wondering the same, and whether I have to hit the next 1000 points for it to transfer the lot.

      • +2

        Has been practically instantaneous for me in the past. To be on the safe side, you can do it on 24th or 25th.

        • Cheers. Points transferred, still waiting for the bonus. Hoping I haven't previously used the auto-transfer!

  • Any way to know if have already done an auto transfer? I can’t remember

    • Check your velocity and/or flybuys activity? Not sure how far back you can go.

      • I’ve had transfers. But doesn’t tell me if auto or manual. I think they’re manual but would be good to check

        • I believe an auto-transfer would be large (would sweep almost all of your flybuys in 1000-point blocks), provided you had a lot of flybuys points at the time. However, there is always a chance you may have done an auto-transfer and not had many flybuys, so would be difficult to tell.

    • I just asked a live chat agent.

      • And were they helpful and able to tell
        you? Flybuys and Velocity don’t allow you to go back far enough to check online

      • +1

        Live chat with flybuys or velocity?

    • Check your past velocity transactions and if it says "Points received from FLYBUYSAS" then it was an auto-transfer. Manual transfers are recorded as "Points received from FLYBUYS". That AS probably stands for auto-sweep.

      • Are you totally sure? I have ones I know are definitely manual which have FLYBUYSAS

        • +1

          I cannot be 100% sure sorry but this is the pattern I am seeing on two of my accounts where I recently (last 2 years) turned auto-transfers ON or OFF….

  • +1

    Flybuys account is in my name and velocity account is in my wife's name. Can I still do the transfer and get bonus points?

    • Not sure but you can always create new velocity account, get bonus points and transfer it all to your wife.

      • Can you create a new account with same name & transfer points across to original account?

  • +1

    Anyone know the date bonus points will arrive from this promotion? https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/834682

  • Great so this is the may velocity point promo

    Was hoping for a credit card transfer promo

  • Thanks OP, have been waiting for this! ~200k flybuys would net me 15k bonus points - enough for a one-way in Business class to Sydney.

  • Did we ever get anything higher than 15% in the past?

  • Do the bonus points come as part of the first auto-transfer, or will it come separately some time after?

    • +1

      "Bonus Velocity Points will be awarded to the member’s Velocity Frequent Flyer account within 4 weeks from the end of the Promotion Period."

  • it's been 4 hours and it still says "Auto Transfer is switched on" "Tranferring…", neither points balance has changed.
    How long should it take?

    • On the transfer page, it says to allow 48 hours to transfer.

    • I turned on auto transfer, initiated the transfer from flybuys to velocity. Transferred and arrived in velocity account the next day.

      • yes got mine the next day too, thanks.

          • +1

            @moneytomyway: "Bonus Velocity Points will be awarded to the member’s Velocity Frequent Flyer account within 4 weeks from the end of the Promotion Period."
            11:59pm AEST Sun 26 May 2024 (Promotion Period)

  • After done the first auto transfer, can I switch it off, or I have to leave it on until the end of the promo period?

    • I would wait until the bonus is received.

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