OK. So I accept that I might be sailing close to the wind with regard to the whole "Is it technically a deal?" thing; and "Does this belong in the forums?" thing.
But…what the hell…you only live once!
PART ONE
I was in Woolworths this afternoon, at the self-checkout, and noticed that the Amaysim recharge vouchers for the Unlimited Plan are still $39.90. This makes intuitive sense since the price increase does not take effect until Sept 1.
I have bought many of these vouchers before, and so I am familiar with the way that they operate. They do not add credit per se. That is, they do not add $39.90 to the total of your "Additional Credit." Rather, they credit you with one month of the Unlimited Plan per voucher.
If you were to purchase say, $50 of credit, then $50 would be added the total of your "Additional Credit." When your plan was due to renew, $39.90 would be deducted from this total, leaving you with $10.10 of "Additional Credit."
However, as I previously indicated, purchasing a $39.90 voucher would entitle you to one month of the Unlimited Plan without altering the total of your "Additional Credit." Furthermore, in the past I have purchased several recharge vouchers at a time. They are 'stackable' in that you can redeem them all at the same time and they will be honoured one at a time on a month by month basis. It is this fact that makes me think that this concept has some validity.
If you were to purchase multiple vouchers, and applied them to your account, prior to the price increase due Sept 1, then I believe that Amaysim would be obligated to accept and honour each of them. You would have legitimately purchased and paid in full for these vouchers prior to the price increase. Hence, no real problem.
This represents a $5 saving per month for each voucher pre-purchased, or in excess of a 11% saving.
PART TWO
Should you buy these recharge vouchers from Woolworths, there is the potential for additional savings. Woolworths currently have a "save $5 off your next shop when you spend $50." There are T&Cs attached to this offer, but it does not appear to exclude recharge vouchers. It appears it is due to conclude on Sept 26. However, it has been around for a couple of weeks now and so may be rolled over for a further week. There is a maximum of six $5 coupons per customer when shopping online, but this condition is not explicitly stated for instore shopping.
So add a few basics to your shopping basket to take the value from $39.90 to over $50, and a $5 discount coupon will be printed on the bottom of your receipt. The one I have received this afternoon has an expiry date of 29/08/2014.
Use this $5 discount coupon to purchase another basket of 1 x $39.90 Amaysim recharge voucher plus additional groceries to the value of $10.01 [or more]. This process can be replicated at least five further times.
This represents a further $5 saving per recharge voucher pre-purchased i.e., recharge voucher price would be effectively $34.90, representing a further 12.5% saving.
PART THREE
Extending this process further, use your ING debit card to get the relevant rebate.
5% ING rebate - $34.90 recharge voucher - $1.74 rebate
Therefore, the cost of recharge is potentially $33.16 [a saving of in excess of 26%]
2% ING rebate - $34.90 recharge voucher - $0.70 rebate
Therefore, cost of recharge is potentially $34.20 [a saving of almost 24%]
TL;DR VERSION
- Buy Amaysim recharge voucher from Woolies
- Add basic groceries to make minimum sale of $50
- Use ING card for rebate
- Get $5 discount coupon
- Repeat tomorrow using above $5 discount coupon [and each day until end of August]
Discuss…
This is the e-mail l rec'd from amaysim after l disabled my auto renewal. $5 off for next three months if l re-enable it.
Hi >>>>>, we can see that you've chosen not to renew your amaysim UNLIMITED plan. Also, we want you to be sure that the mobile plan you're on is the right one for you – amaysim or not.
We'd like to ask you to reconsider amaysim UNLIMITED by giving you more time to decide.
We'll take $5 off amaysim UNLIMITED for the next 3 months when you turn Auto Renewal back on. We don't want you to be out of pocket while you work out what's best for you. If you feel amaysim UNLIMITED doesn't work for you anymore, take a look at amaysim FLEXI.
With amaysim FLEXI you can mix-and-match talk, text and data based on your mobile needs. For example, you can add a Data Pack or additional credit to help keep costs down.
We'd love for you to stay on the right plan at amaysim - we're here to help.
Manage your plan
All the best,
Your amaysim Team
P.S. You can turn on Auto Renewal by texting UNLIMITED to 568