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elyobo replied to  Spizz on ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Credit Card - 60K Velocity Points + Complimentary Virgin Flights and 2 Lounge Pass $225 Annual Fee
Probably. I just had a dispute with them and it was not at all easy to get it resolved, although it did eventually end up getting sorted...
19/09/2017 - 21:49
elyobo replied to  letmesingh on ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Credit Card - 60K Velocity Points + Complimentary Virgin Flights and 2 Lounge Pass $225 Annual Fee
65k gets you a business class flight one way Melbourne or Sydney to Bangkok, 70k gets you the same flight return, both actually operated by...
19/09/2017 - 17:37
elyobo replied to  nightelves on ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Credit Card - 60K Velocity Points + Complimentary Virgin Flights and 2 Lounge Pass $225 Annual Fee
[@nightelves](/comment/5092010/redir): > nightelves 5 hours ago > The taxes alone makes it not worth it in my opinion. Well *someone*...
19/09/2017 - 17:35
elyobo replied to  nightelves on ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Credit Card - 60K Velocity Points + Complimentary Virgin Flights and 2 Lounge Pass $225 Annual Fee
[@nightelves](/comment/5091924/redir): Thanks for explaining why your comment was not helpful ;)
19/09/2017 - 17:16
elyobo replied to  nightelves on ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Credit Card - 60K Velocity Points + Complimentary Virgin Flights and 2 Lounge Pass $225 Annual Fee
[@nightelves](/comment/5091150/redir): Yes - did you even read what the original question was? I don't care about your flight, but I'm...
19/09/2017 - 16:35
elyobo replied to  nightelves on ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Credit Card - 60K Velocity Points + Complimentary Virgin Flights and 2 Lounge Pass $225 Annual Fee
All points bookings incur taxes as well; Velocity tends to have far lower taxes than flights booked with points on Qantas though, e.g. my...
19/09/2017 - 13:08
elyobo commented on I need approx 5k for appliances/furniture, where's the 'cheapest' money at?
Get a virgin money / citibank credit card (ideally high flyer or equivalent with high available balance), use the cheque to self option to...
18/09/2017 - 11:16
elyobo replied to  tsunamisurfer on Property market :( Betting on The House - Four Corners)
What a bizarre position to take. And when banks do collapse (and they have; see the massive GFC bailouts in the USA, for example), I take...
18/09/2017 - 07:45
elyobo replied to  ggrant on Free 250g Block of Mainland Tasty Cheese @ Woolworths
Don't recall them ever selling that; if it was a more aged cheddar than the Tasty, then I'd have been keen. Vintage is good, better than...
18/09/2017 - 07:37
elyobo replied to  Architectonic on Property market :( Betting on The House - Four Corners)
Absolutely, but everyone says "it's different this time because [insert some reason why Aussie prices will go up forever here]" and...
18/09/2017 - 07:35
elyobo replied to  Diji1 on Property market :( Betting on The House - Four Corners)
That's definitely what they've said, but there's so much money tied up in it now that I wonder if they would really be willing to do that....
17/09/2017 - 23:04
elyobo commented on Property market :( Betting on The House - Four Corners)
> I know the property market is crazy, what i didn't know is a couple with a mere 60+75k pa income can borrow over $1.2m for 5 investment...
17/09/2017 - 23:02
elyobo replied to  enigma48 on How you guys get into programming jobs? Thanks Heap :)
I studied computer science at university and work as a developer; most of what I studied is not really of much use to me as a developer,...
17/09/2017 - 22:53
elyobo replied to  hotrod01 on Free 250g Block of Mainland Tasty Cheese @ Woolworths
To be fair, they're also donating 10k blocks of cheese to OzBargainers...
17/09/2017 - 21:53
elyobo commented on Free 250g Block of Mainland Tasty Cheese @ Woolworths
None left @ Woolworths QV, Melbourne CBD. Maybe restocked in the morning if 10k weren't snapped up today already...
17/09/2017 - 21:10
elyobo replied to  Cheesytruck on Free 250g Block of Mainland Tasty Cheese @ Woolworths
"Cheesytruck" is apparently an accurate name though.
17/09/2017 - 20:28
elyobo commented on Free 250g Block of Mainland Tasty Cheese @ Woolworths
If only my local WW would start selling 1KG blocks again, the local Aussie blocks of cheap cheese are all crap, Mainland "tasty" is the...
17/09/2017 - 13:48
elyobo replied to  tryagain on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
[@tryagain](/comment/5083175/redir): Yeah, birth rates are the main thing. Most people take their parents' religion (or lack of it I guess;...
17/09/2017 - 09:46
elyobo replied to  inasero on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
[@stormii](/comment/5080605/redir): Nice, was not aware of that quote but it pretty much sums up my thoughts. The god that GregMonarch...
17/09/2017 - 07:17
elyobo replied to  tryagain on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
[@tryagain](/comment/5080837/redir): Atheism is expected to decline because it's most common among the more educated and in the more...
17/09/2017 - 07:12
elyobo replied to  GregMonarch on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
> we have the highest rate of children leaving the church in human history Indeed, things are quite plain, so plain that even children can...
16/09/2017 - 07:37
elyobo replied to  twincinna on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
Sorry, neg vote was accidental (wide screen, wrong comment), but can't see how to undo it... Edit: figured it out and removed, holy crap...
15/09/2017 - 23:06
elyobo replied to  Scab on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
Logic checks out, I might have to convert. Just have to decide which now...
15/09/2017 - 23:03
elyobo replied to  inasero on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
[@Pastry](/comment/5080338/redir): That would be an entertaining outcome :D
15/09/2017 - 23:00
elyobo replied to  haru on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
Common misconceptions like "it doesn't endorse them", I hope?
15/09/2017 - 23:00
elyobo replied to  Pastry on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
I do see a lot of people saying that they're voting no because of bulling etc, but it really seems like a bunch of people that wanted to...
15/09/2017 - 22:57
elyobo replied to  ozy on Bible Society Australia: Spring Flash Sale - 85% off Selected Books and Bibles (Variable Shipping)
[@tryagain](/comment/5080059/redir): (Presumably) not being Christian, that doesn't apply to him - but it does to the Christians he's...
15/09/2017 - 22:53