I want to enter a comp which requires 30 Visa card purchases for an entry.
I'm sure I've read on here about people making 10c purchases with gift cards, but maybe I'm misremembering.
I'm wondering if there's some way of making small purchases to quickly get to the 30 transactions rather than having to divide my shopping into more transactions. Any ideas?
Imagine actually wasting your time on crap like this.
How is it any different from anything else on Ozbargain? Sheesh!
Being cheap is a hobby. I love being cheap.
For me, ozbargain is to get a good price on something I was going to buy anyway. It's not spending an hour of my time to get a chance to enter a competition.
Maybe there are dedicated folks who does a $30 Woolies shop, and split payments $10c x 300 times, to get 10 entries to the comp.
My same sentiment applies.
Methinks the cheapest thing in the supermarket might be you, OP.
I'd buy that for a dollar.
Just go to self serve and do split transaction, thats what I used to do.
If it isn't busy and you are courteous nobody will care. The staff might even be interested if you say, I am doing some split transactions because I get a competition entry for each.
If it is busy, come back later.
My local Woolworths started having cameras on top of self checkouts. If it thinks you haven't scanned everything like leaving some items in your trolley during checkout, it will complain and you will need staff to clear the error. Might take a while to do this 29 times. :P
Nah with woolies you can split pay for everything checked out. Scan everything, then select split payment. You can then do multiple $0.01 transactions or however you want, tap and pay with the same card again and again with set splits. I often use this method when banks require 5 transactions in a month to quality for bonus interest.
Send custom value amazon gift cards to yourself.
What's the prize that you can't live without ?
(that's if you defy odds and win)
I believe this is the Visa Competition some banks are running, first prize is $100,000
Let's hope the odds support 'reward for effort', then.
I regularly get stuff for nothing.
I take treats to a corella in a cage in a store I go to. Some nuts. Some tasty vegetation. A piece of fruit. It means I buy one piece of fruit that is charged by the kilo. The self service checkout is programmed with a minimum likely weight for things like fruit that is charged by the kilo. One apple. One banana. If I get a small one the checkout often fails to detect there's one on it, and simply refuses to proceed. When that happens the self-service checkout operator always tells me to just put it in my bag for free.
My grocery store has a discounted rack and often have 20c or 50c items.
Honesty
isn't the answer easy? find loose fresh produce very cheap per kg/g. put like one green bean onto scale. pay.
Buy 1 grape in 30 individual transactions