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5% Cashback on PayPass Purchases @ ME Bank (New Customers Only)

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5% Cashback on PayPass Purchases @ ME Bank (New Customers Only)
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tightarse on 03/09/2014 - 20:29 mebank.com.au (2585 clicks)
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Apply before 31 December and you’ll receive 5% cash back when you Tap & Go™ on all MasterCard PayPass™ purchases under $100 for the first 6 months*. The money you get back goes into your account 30 days after the date of transaction. You’ll be saving whilst you spend.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:

*Available to customers who open an EveryDay Transaction Account (ETA) between 3/03/14 and 31/12/14 (extended). Receive 5% cash back on all contactless purchases made within Australia using PayPass Tap & Go for amounts of $100 or less for 6 months from the date your account is opened.

The 5% cash back offer will not apply to ATM transactions, payments pressing ‘Savings’, ‘Cheque’ or ‘Credit’, BPAY®, PayAnyone, Phone or Internet Banking, direct debits or credits, cheque or Bank@Post transactions.

The 5% cash back will be paid into your account within 30 days after the date the transaction is debited to your account.

Customers with ETAs opened prior to 3/03/14 are not eligible to participate. Only one cash back offer per customer and account.

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  • ofey on 05/09/2014 - 10:40
    +1

    Can anyone in the industry explain how these 5% cashback offers are funded by the banks?

    • jm48 on 05/09/2014 - 10:50
      +1

      I wondered that too.
      Maybe the companies that make the PayPass technology are part funding this (with the banks),
      to ensure its widespread introduction ?
      So these PayPass cashbacks maybe won't last much longer

      • jaybmate on 08/09/2014 - 23:16
        -1

        apparently banks charge the merchants extra when a paypass transaction is used, so the bank itself has incentive to encourage the widespread use.

  • arcticmonkey on 15/09/2014 - 19:08
    -1

    ME Bank are horrible and inflexible in my opinion. Apparently my wife opened a joint account with them which we never used and they wont give us the 5% cashback.

  • jm48 on 17/09/2014 - 13:07

    Just received an email saying

    We’re delighted to confirm that a new EveryDay Transaction Account .. has been opened

    Took a while - around 2 weeks.
    Maybe they were Ozbargained (1442 clicks) ?

  • blah on 18/09/2014 - 15:46
    +1

    I didn't get any notification from me bank after applying for this. It just randomly came in the mail yesterday but they sent it to me twice so I received two debit Mastercards with different numbers, what.

    • liquid metal on 20/09/2014 - 21:28
      +1

      I called them if my account is eligible for the 5 % and asked them as well why I received 2 cards. The girl said there was a problem with their system. Quite a lot of people received 2 cards. You need to call them to cancel one of the two accounts.

    • lostincanberra on 22/09/2014 - 11:10

      Same here. Took quite a while to receive a card - and then I get two. I've cancelled one.

  • JLum on 21/09/2014 - 12:29

    If I had a first home savings account with ME bank, does that exclude me from this offer? I'm not sure whether it is counted as a "bank account", given its a completely different type of account vs the transaction acc.

    • liquid metal on 30/09/2014 - 23:43

      Same here. First home saver and even had a transactions account before (which I had closed some months ago). Not a problem at all, received already my first cashbacks.

  • dkstorm on 02/10/2014 - 11:57

    I was one of the original people who got onboard with this offer. 6 months has now passed, so no more rebate for me. Where is everyone else moving to?

    • tooblue on 03/10/2014 - 12:52

      2% cashback from ING, with monthly deposit of $1000 ($2000?). Otherwise you can close all your accounts and wait for their next new customer offers (depending on how they define "new customer").

      • fujay on 04/10/2014 - 16:49

        in the same boat waiting for the new offer…

  • jm48 on 05/10/2014 - 13:33

    Still haven't received my debit card or welcome pack in the mail,
    one month after applying and 2 weeks after they actually opened the account.
    At this rate there won't be much of the 6 months left.

  • StonedWizard on 04/11/2014 - 21:13

    So you can apply for the card, use it to get 5% off and then cancel it after 6 months ?

  • tooblue on 05/11/2014 - 09:49

    Did anyone get transaction declined at Australia Post? My PayPass works in all other retailers except in APO which never succeeded.

  • sintro on 10/11/2014 - 22:03

    Is the mebank online banking down?
    Can't even login… this is hopeless.

  • jm48 on 11/11/2014 - 09:20

    Just logged in OK.
    Noticed my first 5% cashback on paypass payment.
    Finally, after a lot of stuffing around, like them opening 3 accounts for me, for some reason.

    • sintro on 11/11/2014 - 12:17

      So it took a month to give you the rebates? Did it add up?

      I reckon there are a lot of bugs in their systems. I have a feeling the login issue was because there was a problem with the authentication DB last night and the failed logins locked the account. Had to call up to unlock it.

      • jm48 on 11/11/2014 - 18:41

        It was only 3 days from my purchase to the paypass rebate,
        which OK.
        But it took almost 2 months to get the account opened.
        Maybe they were swamped with new applications and had to hire temp staff to process them,
        and they had no idea what they were doing.

  • fkwong on 25/11/2014 - 10:07
    +1

    ME Bank extended the deal again to 28/2/2015.

  • sintro on 25/11/2014 - 12:46
    +1

    PayPass payment did not work at Australia Post last week ("Invalid Transaction"), when I called them up they said it was a known issue and they are working on it. Anyone else tried?

    Had another problem at ARC Computers before with "System Error", apparently the reason was that the card is not compatible with some readers. Anyone else came across this?

    • sintro on 26/11/2014 - 00:26
      +1

      Didn't even work at 7/11 when I tried to pay for petrol. Had to use my ING card instead. Hopeless…!

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