Posted by A on 12/22/05 07:43

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:24:36 GMT, Lordy.UK <spam@recycle.bin> wrote:

>> >> was tempted by the ridiculously low prices
>> >> but read too many complaints then the ipoints scam was exposed
>> >
>> > "Scam", what "scam"... ?
>> >
>> > Saved me a fucking fortune that iFidelity thing did, on top of their
>> > already fantastic prices.
>> >
>> well lucky you, it didn't save any $ for people who racked up
>> craploads of points only to be told by Dvdsoon they would no
>> longer honour them
>
>Points ? Who gives a flying furburger about points ? There was
>nothing decent you could buy with them - are people really that
>desperate for poxy little badges and keyrings ?
>
>The discount of around 30% that was available from the card itself was
>the point, not some poxy little points that could be exchanged for
>worthless tat.

The maximum discount was 20% to Platinum members (who spend >$5000 a
year) plus free shipping.

Platinum members (and I was one of them) also scored quadruple (x4)
ipoints so it was very easy to gets lots of free stuff (I think I got
4 Kill Bill Shirts, 1 Spongebob Squarepants pillow, 1 set of 15 golf
balls, and 2 crappy tupac magnetic poetry sets)

The problem was that Platinum members spent a lot of money with
DVDSoon and as such tended to have a huge number of pending orders. I
had over $1000 pending when they went funny around May/June but
managed to use some up and got chargebacks on others. I lost $300 at
the end of the day.

I still came out on top given the savings I made on the whole but am
annoyed with their actions.

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