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Qantas Staff Credit Union Platinum Visa - 30,000 Bonus Qantas Frequent Flyer Points

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Have been looking around for a new credit card with a generous points bonus, and low or no annual fee.
This card fits the bill with no annual fee for the first 12 months, generous points accrual (1 to $1 for Visa - usually you only get that for AMEX) and includes a host of perks, such as o/s travel insurance.

Earn 5,000 points in the month your card is issued - plus, make an eligible purchase with your card each month for the next 5 months and earn an additional 5,000 points per a month, to a total of 30,000 points.

Join now and take advantage of:
Earn up to 30,000 bonus Qantas Frequent Flyer points in the first 5 months when you make eligible purchases and receive the card before 31 December 20122
Earn 1 Qantas Frequent Flyer point for every $1 spent on eligible purchases1
Earn 2 Qantas Frequent Flyer points for every $1 spent on Qantas products and services3
Complimentary Qantas Frequent Flyer membership, valued at $82.504
Complimentary overseas travel insurance
4.99%p.a. on balance transfers and purchases for your first 5 months6
Annual fee of $195 (waived for the first year)
Up to 46 days interest free on purchases8
Free additional card holder
24/7 worldwide Visa Platinum Concierge Service
Access to Visa Platinum entertainment offers

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  • +3

    Annual fee of $195 is a killer for it

    The 30000 points would be chewed up in next years fees and still probably not enough

    • +3

      You can generally cancel the card before having to pay the renewal fee. Often when you ring up to cancel they'll offer you another free year just to keep you on the books. Don't know if it's the case with this deal.
      I'd like to know if the card comes with a pin number / pay pass. My qantas amex gives 1.5FFpoints/dollar but I have to sign for everything so it's more of a hassle at the supermarket etc.

      • ParaBellum, AMEX actually started using chip cards about March/April of this year, kind of a pain since I since up in Feb. Anyway, all you need to do is call up and say I want a chip card and it'll be mailed to you in about 5ish days. The only hassle is that it will have a new number so if you have any auto debits you'll need to change them to your new number BUT your old number and card will still work for about 60 days.

        • Thanks Trav, will call them now to ask about a new card and see what's happening with the renewal fee. This one looks like a good deal, probably have to shuffle some things around but worth it for another Perth-Melbourne round trip.

    • Just read it more that the 30k isn't a given, it's earn up to 30k bonus points

      At 2 points per $1 spent upto 5k point each month

      • +1

        "make an eligible purchase with your card each month for the next 5 months and earn an additional 5,000 bonus points per month. If you don’t make an eligible purchase with your card, you forfeit your points for that month and all remaining months."

        Its seems just one eligible purchase is required for the 5000 bonus - although "eligible" is not defined.

        • +2

          Eligible purchase is quite simple actually. It really almost means any old purchase, with the exclusions of interest payments, cash advances and I think gambling related purchases iirc.

        • What are 'eligible purchases'?

          Eligible purchases means the purchase of every day goods or services from merchants accepting your Credit Card (including GST payable for those goods or services by you) and excluding the ineligible transactions listed below.

          What's an ineligible purchase?
          Balance transfers
          Cash advances
          Special promotions
          Purchases of foreign currency or traveller’s cheques
          Business Expenses
          BPAY transactions
          Any fee or charge, including any government charges or duties and any fee or charge for your membership of and participation in the Qantas Frequent Flyer Program
          Interest and finance charges payable or paid on your Card Account
          Enforcement expenses
          Transactions which are disputed, fraudulent or involve the abuse or unauthorised use of your QSCU Visa Platinum Credit Card
          Payments and purchases which are refunded or reimbursed; and
          Payments made by you to other QSCU loan accounts.

  • i applied for it before and they wanted me to close my current bank credit card and amex before they can issue me one which i don't understand why…which is sux.

    • -6

      I would have thought this type of request would be illegal (restraint of trade / market manipulation). No idea who you would report this to but the ACCC would be a good starting point.

    • -1

      They wanted you to close both? I can understand that their credit assessment might be that the new card should not be in addition to the existing cards but to replace one of them. If they required closing of both then that sounds a bit strange on the surface of it.

    • +2

      Alchemist - Making comments on individuals circumstances and quoting legalese, would be a little risky and unhelpful. Depends on factors like credit worthiness etc.

    • My points came through on time. Card was easy to cancel.

  • I applied for this a couple of weeks ago for the points.. they are a credit union, so they are pretty old school when it comes to documentation - you'll need to send in 3 months of bank statements, mortgage statements etc. which is a bit of a hassle compared to the fully online applications of the banks..

  • Oh, also they sent me a $50 Cellar Masters voucher which I used to get a carton of Coronas delivered for less than $5 (despite the voucher's t&c's)

  • I got this card earlier in the year with the same deal.
    No problems signing up, although it took a while with all the checks/documentation and membership requirements.
    They wanted me to decrease the limit on my Amex which I could do online and was happy to do.

    Nearly got all of my points now - last set of 5000 comes in this month.
    Just make sure you use it regularly and there's no problem.
    Easy card which will be cancelled in Q2 next year to avoid annual fee after raking in ~40K free points (including purchases)

  • My experience was pretty painful I have to say.

    Have to send them a LOT of documentation. Last 3 statements for savings account, payslips, home loan, and EVERY credit card that I have.

    Even after that it still took over 2 weeks to get the card.

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