マイレージポイントを獲得する最良の方法

マイレージポイントを獲得する最良の方法

What steps could you take right now to maximize your point earning potential? Sign up bonuses, credit cards. Worked out that it was cheaper to buy points by buying wine than it was to buy points outright. It’s the power of points, baby. How easy is it really to earn Quantis and velocity points? What are the best opportunities in Australia to earn them? And should you be buying them from the airlines directly? Good day. I’m Tobias Fenus and joining me today are two of the most avid point collectors I know. It’s Brandon Lou and Chris Chamberlain, both of Point Hacks. How’s it going, guys? Hey, Dogy. Pretty good Friday. Let’s talk points. This is good. To kick things off, I want to start with a listener question that will no doubt lead into some frequent flyer point collecting strategies. Bri889 on Instagram asked, “Just started. Best tips for first entering this space. What have you got?” Yeah, so I I reckon it’s pretty important to know what you want to achieve, right? And when you first get into the point space, are you here to save money or hopefully like most of us, you want to get into business class at a, you know, pretty good price? So, I reckon set those goals first. Um, and kind of know where you want to go, how many people, and then from there, you can kind of work out, you know, what sort of points program you might want to link up with. Nice. See, for me, I’d say just get started. Like, sign up to Velocity. It’s free. Sign up to Corner’s Frequent Flyer. Search for our article to see how to do that for free. Don’t pay the $99.50 joining fee. That’s the first thing to learn as a beginner. But if you’re already doing things that are earning points, you know, if you’re already flying occasionally, shopping at supermarket, which we all do, if you buy fuel, all these sorts of things can earn frequent flyer points. And I mean, just get started. I mean, who cares if you’ve got some corners points and some velocity points longer term, you might want to like consolidate or work towards a goal, but just get started. If you’re already doing it, get those points in your account now. Yeah, like earning points on everyday spend, right? That’s that’s the easiest way to get started. Uh, that actually brings us to our topic. Crazy. Let’s start with the easiest stuff. Um, the most obvious way to earn points would be through flying with a particular airline, right? Airline, alliance, their partners. Um, if if you’re flying, you know, frequent flyer points are the name of the game really. That’s the that’s the easy route. If you’re already doing that, you’re probably already putting your frequent fly number on the ticket. But I say that and I see so many people actually who don’t, even in business class, like they put their boarding class down, you happen to see it as you’re walking past. It’s like, dude, you could have earned like 5 10,000 points just for this flight if you’re on a paid ticket. What are you doing? Just put the number on the ticket. Okay. So, you’ve put your number on your ticket. What would be your next step? Um, shopping with Coohl’s and Molly’s. I mean, shopping is always good for your day-to-day boost. Um, so in Australia, we have everyday rewards, which is linked with Quonus and Flybys, which is linked with Velocity. So, you know, if you’re doing your shopping with those kind of big chains, you should always be swiping your card and then earning the points. And then within those loyalty programs, they often run bonuses. So, it’s something to keep an eye out for, especially uh flybys, for example, has that popular 10,000 point offer where you hit a weekly shopping target over four weeks. And if you do that, you that’s easy 5,000 velocity points in your balance. Nice. And I I know with you, Brandon, as well, you’re a bit of an expert when it comes to gift cards points. I have to admit, I can’t be bothered dealing with all of the little gift cards. I’m scared I’m going to lose them or the company’s going to go under or something. But you can buy things. I mean, you buy Uber gift cards. I do. And look, this is this is not um planted at all, but I came prepared. This is one I prepared earlier. Yeah. So, this is one I got yesterday while I was in Melbourne because, you know, I flew over, took a Uber, I was like, “Oh, I don’t have any Uber credit left.” So, I went off to Wise. Um, right now they have 20 times bonus points. So, I bought $200 worth of Uber gift cards and that credited me with 2,000 Quantis points straight away. And there’s another tip with Uber actually. Um, you can retrospectively apply the credits to some of your past purchases or your rights. So, anything within the last 30 days, if you paid for with a credit card, you can add this credit and then go back and swap it. So, then you get the refund on your card and then you’ve, you know, used the credit that you’ve just purchased. I told you it was the expert. Like, I’m just there. I’m like, man, I’m just paying on the credit card. Look. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so with that one, definitely keep an eye on point hacks. We also post them on our Instagram as stories. uh where we’ve often got Brandon in there uh posting about which uh gift cards are giving you 20 times bonus offers for both flybys and woollies. So definitely uh give us a follow over there if you’re interested in earning points that way. Um next. What about stores owned by Velocity and Quantis? I mean you’re pretty big wine connoisseur, right? Yeah, but I always get bottled. I have I have too much wine in my house. This is the problem. Yeah, I mean these these days I don’t really drink too much at home. I like giving wine and things as gifts and you can earn a lot of points by buying it. So if you’re into cornis points, you need some more Quantonus points. Look at the Quantis wine store. You can get sometimes 10,000 20,000 points by buying a single case of wine. And there was a point in time where I did a little bit of mathematics and I worked out that it was cheaper to buy points by buying wine than it was to buy points outright. I was a little bit short of a flight redemption. I was trying to get home from Paris one year in in business class and uh I needed I think about 20,000 points and I looked at other routes like buying top up points and it was cheaper to buy wine with bonus points and then have a house full of wine on top. The case is a bonus. Yeah, keep an eye on those dealers. Like you’re basically buying points with free wine. Yeah, sounds amazing. Unless you have a drinking problem. Yeah, I actually don’t drink it. This is the problem. I have full of wine and I’m like, “All right, there we go.” Yeah, I I’ve seen the point hacks office at some point. Yeah, we have too much wine. It’s almost like a a seller, right, for people and we still don’t drink it. Yeah. Yeah. And of course, when you’re buying the wines, um it’s always good to stack offers where you can. So Quantis wine, for example, sometimes has triple points offers. So instead of earning one point for the dollar, you’d earn three points. And if you’re a Quantis premium member, then instead of free, you get nine points per dollar. And um of course, you should pay with a points earning credit card. So every every dollar counts towards your next goal. Um, have you guys used the uh Chrome extension that allows you to buy um earn quantis or velocity points when you’re on certain stores as well? No, I haven’t. I choose not to because I’d rather Quantis not have all of my browsing data, which is what it gets when you put that extension in. So, if I’m shopping online, I go straight to the Quantis Mall instead. So, they are going to know what you buy in that transaction. And that’s fine because you know exactly what you’re doing and you’re going to get points for it. But, um, I’m in the habit of doing it. If, you know, if you’re not a journalist and you don’t don’t want the airline knowing what you’re going to write about them soon, um, it’s fine. Just, you know, put it in the browser and, uh, it’ll pop up if you’re on a website. Um, and you’re going to miss out on earning points if you haven’t clicked through. So, press a button, click on through, and get extra points. Yeah. You can also earn points from other forms of travel as well, not just flying, right? Of course. Yes. So, there’s car hire, there’s transport. So with Khire, both Konis and Velocity have partnerships with a lot of the major brands. And even if you’re a member of an international frequent fly program, they will often have the same sort of partnerships as well. Um, and then there’s Uber and there’s DD as well. And hotels. Hotels. That’s the big one. You’ve got to stay somewhere when you’re flying. And if you’re going on a road trip, you can earn freaking fly points that way as well. So you can earn points when you fill up your car. You can earn points at the hotel. Um, with some of the programs, you choose whether you want to earn hotel points or airline points. And sometimes you can earn both at the same time. So a core is very good for that. You can link it to your Quantis account, earn a core points and earn Quonus points. So then you can book your next flight and your next hotel from Yeah, it’s a great partnership. And you if you have high enough status, it also goes the other way. So if you book a hotel stay, you also get points for Quantis. So it’s a really good partnership. Yeah, that that’s one I I make use of quite often as well. And I you earn Quantas points by staying, but you can also use a core points to transfer to Quantis as well. So you can double dip that way. Yeah, you can. I wouldn’t suggest it. Accore points are really valuable to use towards hotel stays in particular. The when you transfer them to Quantis, it doesn’t get you anywhere near as much towards what a flight would cost if you’re buying it. So yeah, so it’s good to have up your sleeve. Um yeah, it’s a one to one transfer rate, but if you can get those 40 off, is it 20 or 40? Yeah, it’s 40. Yeah, if you 2,000 points, €40, it’s about 60. Yeah, get the 40 off per 2,000 points. It’s a really good rate. Yeah. So you guys mentioned Uber and DD. Can you break down exactly how they work? Yeah, so DD is a partner with Velocity. So you earn a point per dollar spent on any ride in Australia. And with Uber, it’s a bit different with Quantis. Um I think airport it’s just airport rides. That’s right. So to or from to or from is fine, but your normal day-to-day rides and Uber Eats orders don’t normally earn Quantas points. And with DD as well, it’s one point per dollar only on like the base fair of the trip excluding tax. So I often if I get a home from the airport, if it’s $50, $60, I earn maybe 30 something points once all the tolls, airport pickup fees, and everything else come out. So it’s it’s good, but it’s not one point per dollar to what you see on your credit card state. But it’s still a nice little top up. Yeah, it is nice. Okay, so flying, shopping, all kinds of travel, hotels, uh Uber, DD, everything can earn you points if you set your accounts up right. Uh after the break, we’re going to jump into some more advanced point hacking strategies. Do you like my setup? Now, this is the part of the show where we normally do a sponsored ad. But because this episode is for beginners, I just want to help set you up for success in your point earning journey. And the best way to do that is to tell you about our free subscription. There are two options. You can get weekly news, hacks, and deals sent straight to your inbox. So, that includes those weekly gift card deals Brandon was talking about, as well as any notable bonus point offers. Or if you already have a comfortable stash of points but just can’t find the flights you want? Our reward seat availability and alerts will let you know when new reward flights are available. Looking for inspiration about what to spend your points on? Each week we’ll send you full itineraries, all of the available dates we found, and even step-by-step instructions on how to book. Our free subscription has already helped tens of thousands of Aussies unlock better travel with the power of points. If you want to join them, there’s a link in the description. All right, welcome back. Uh we’re very excited because we’re about to talk about our personal favorite way to earn lots of points. You can get well over a 100,000 points with a single sign up. What is it, Brandon? Sign up bonuses. Credit cards. Yes. Um so the biggest and probably the easiest way for many people to earn points is through a credit card signup bonus, which is as a new customer, you apply for the card and if you’re approved and you meet all the requirements, they give you, you know, the big joining fee. Sorry, the the big joining. The joining fee pays for the points in people’s minds. That’s it. Might cost a few hundred, but you get 100,000 points, which could be enough to fly business class overseas, get yourself into a flatbed. So, you know, it’s a pretty good trade-off. Pretty good deal. Yeah. Uh and a lot of other sort of services offer signup bonuses as well. So, if you’re looking at insurance, you know, health insurance to a less extent, car insurance and travel insurance, um you can often get, you know, tens of thousands of points that way just by signing up for their policies. But it’s important that you always compare your policies beforehand to make sure you’re getting good value for the points. Even home, electricity, gas, there’s a lot of companies use them as incentives to get you in the door and then maybe you keep earning points going forward, but maybe a different company offers you some points to uh switch your business. So they’re always doing that as an incentive to try and win you as a customer. So the way to win as a customer is keep your eyes open and always consider whether the, you know, companies you’re transacting with, the providers and things you’re using, whether they still actually meet your needs or whether a signup bonus somewhere else comes at the right time. Yeah. How do you find these signup bonuses, Chris? Uh, well, I mean, Toby is I’m glad you asked because uh if you head to the Point Hacks website, I wasn’t actually thinking that, but yes, but uh yeah. No, but seriously, on the Point Hacks website, we round up a lot of the latest credit card signup offers. We sometimes run exclusive offers just for our readers. So, um, keep an eye on our website as well. Um, just look at the airline websites because they they list their partners and they also, you know, the airlines want to sell more points, right? So, they’re going to encourage you to take up things that mean other businesses are buying those points. So, Quantis has uh a lot of tools on its website to show what has bonus points offers at the moment. um you know where those offers are, what companies and things you can earn from and Velocity does the same thing. So uh often if it’s a good enough deal, it’ll be right there on the homepage sometimes uh in the middle. So you you can’t miss it. Yeah, for sure. And yeah, if you want to um browse around a bit more on Fridays, we have the weekly deals roundup. So if you take a look at the end of the week, uh we’ll publish the best deals that we found that week. All right, let’s talk about um some more advanced stuff. Um payment platforms. Now, this this is something that you may need a business for to do. U but how do these things work? Stuff like pay.com.au. Yeah. So, the the premise is if you’re earning points on a credit card first is usually you earn points based on the number of dollars you spend on a credit card. Um that’s something most people can do as an individual, but if you own a business, that’s clearly a much larger opportunity to earn uh bigger pile of points. And so, platforms like pay.com.au, U which is a sister company of point hacks allow business owners to pay things that they wouldn’t normally even be able to use a credit card for things like supplier invoices payroll superanuation things like that you can put that through the platform you can use a credit card to earn points on the credit card or you can also earn pay rewards points even on bank transfers so you can transfer money out of your bank account pay a small fee that earns points it gets paid to your supplier like EFT or Bay or however they like to be paid and you earn points in between and those points can be transferred to it’s about nine or 10 airlines now and several hotel programs and uh it’s a great way for people to uh be able to fly on points and because those transaction fees are often deductible for businesses too. So there tax deductible points that you can use to save money on business travel. That sounds pretty good. I I haven’t set one up for myself but I feel like I need to after that. It’s uh it’s great for our team travel. It really is. Yeah. And you know, my partner and I, we run a small business, so we do also, you know, personally use pay.com.au to put most of our expenses through and also, you know, pay us through peranuation. Just makes it a lot easier. That’s linked. Are there any other similar platforms that um people might be able to use personally? For personal transactions, there’s probably Snip is the best option uh because it lets you use your existing credit card and as long as it’s a personal bill, um the fees are relatively okay. But if it does become a business transaction, then um the fees are a bit higher. So you might want to explore your options. There’s also the Payment logic personal mobile app. So you can pay a lot of Bay bills. It’s 1.25% for American Express, including GST. So it’s the lowest transaction fee I found for MX on one of those uh platforms. But yeah, it doesn’t work for things like big tax payments or all that sort of thing. But if you have a little like a personal bill payment, a rates bill, water bill, stuff like that. Yeah. Like um cheap and easy way to earn points and you earn full points, not the government rate even if you’re paying a government bill. And that’s the beauty of those third party payment processes. But you do just earn the full uncapped rate. Um it doesn’t count as a government spend even if you are paying the government. Just whatever earning rate the credit card would normally have up to its earning cap or if you have a card with no cap, then just have fun. Yeah, who knows? Um speaking of cards, uh another great way to earn Quantas or Velocity points might be through transferring through their other partners such as MX or Accore as we spoke about earlier. um how how does that work and what are some programs you’d recommend looking into Brett? Yeah, so a lot of credit card programs are what we call flexible points programs and these are great because you earn the points in the bank’s uh proprietary currency and then later on you can transfer those points to an airline of your choosing. So a lot of banks have propriety programs. So off the top of my head there’s AMZ, there’s Westpak, NAB for example. And a lot of these points can be transferred to partners such as Velocity and Asia Miles. And Quandis uh most credit cards with Quantis are direct earn cards, but there are a few where you can transfer Quantis points. Yeah, it’s a really rare feature cuz Quantas cracked down on it. Uh I think it’s around 2009 they made people opt in to automatically earn Quantis points from their credit card. So the only ones now that are manual transfer that are personal cards are those that are linked to American Express membership rewards asset premium which is a mouthful of words that says you need the really expensive metal card from MX the platinum experion card and that gives you the ability to manually convert points to Quantis frequent fly your personal account otherwise you have to have a cornis branded card to corners but you know if you’re open to other frequent fly programs a flexible points card um is a great tool to have you know in your arsenal um especially because it gives you the flexibility to choose. So, if you want to fly with a particular airline and they have better reward set availability than the other option, then you can just transfer your points to that airline if they’re a partner. So, I’ll I’ll I’ll let you in. You and I were just talking about this off camera, but about 10 minutes ago, I just booked a first class reward seat on Singapore Airlines that’s only open to Singapore Airlines Chris Flyer members, but converting points into Chris Flyer, which get processed instantly. Redeem it. I think it’s about $66 and I’ll be drinking glasses of champagne on the flight. Where are you flying? Singing. Uh Singapore, Hong Kong. It’s a quick little uh it’s like four hour daytime flight, but why not? I’ve always wanted to do Singapore first class. And if I can do it for less than the price of an economy class ticket. I mean, I will be there bright and early. You You’ll drink down the taxes in your first glass of champagne. Well, in the lounge, too. Yeah, exactly. The private room. So, all made possible with points. That’s the power of points, baby. Um, so you can actually purchase points directly from Quantis and Velocity. We did allude to that before with the uh comment that you made about wines. Chris, should you buy them? It’s a bit of an edge case. Um, like I reckon if you’re just short of a reward seat and you really want to book it, then, you know, that’s probably an okay reason to buy points. Just make sure the price is, you know, kind of reasonable for what you are willing to pay. U because it will probably cost you like a few hundred if you’re just a bit short to top up. But if you have the luxury of time then what Chris mentioned you know Quantis wine virgin wines they’re probably a bit more of a cost effective way to boost your points balance. I have to admit I have never purchased Quantis points or velocity points directly from the programs. The rate is too high for I think what the the value you get back from the points. If you’re going to buy points there are some overseas programs and that becomes a very uh advanced frequency move. I used to buy United Miles when I purchased Life Miles from Aviana before which is South American program but it’s a bit harder. This is down another rabbit hole. So if you’re a beginner and we’re just talking Quantis and Velocity, I would say don’t buy them unless look there the small edge case is if you’re like I don’t know a couple of thousand points short, you can book a reward flight which gets you that free ticket and avoids paying full fair. Like if it costs you buying a couple thousand points, that’s fine. If you’re starting at zero and you see this is what a flight cost, I’ll buy the points. make sure the price generally it won’t work out. Like there’s a few cases where it could like sometimes Vloi does do like 40% off and it can be good but you really have to crunch the numbers to to be sure. In most cases you’re probably better off just buying some wine from Yeah, in most cases. Yeah. Or finding that, you know, that next big signup bonus, especially if you’ve got time to hunt around. Yeah. Check out point hacks.com for all of that. Um, so I think still redirects. Yeah. Um, so if you’re starting out or just refining how you earn points, what steps could you take right now to maximize your point earning potential? How would how would you go from zero to starting to earn points on everything you can? I think Chris had it right at the start. You know, just just get started. So um sign up for those two main programs in Australia and then if you’re feeling keen you can also sign up for the big international ones. So for example Singapore Airlines Chris Flyer Cafe Asia Miles and anytime you’re flying with them and you have opportunity to earn points with those programs just go for it so you can start building your balance. And I think you had a good idea too of planning where you want to fly to because there’s no point having a huge stack of velocity points for instance if you mainly fly to South America where they have no partners. um there’s no point having a huge number of Quantis points if you’re mainly trying to get business class to Europe which is very hard to find. So I think it’s important to look you know where you want to fly to which airlines can take you there potentially and which frequent fly programs they’re partnered with. And if you’re already flying like you fly a lot for work for instance make sure your frequent flying number is on the boarding pass. We mentioned this earlier but I will say it again because a friend of mine was doing so much work travel and they were still velocity red and I could not understand it because they were flying overseas in business class. I’m like I need to look at this. you’re you’re having a laugh. You’re either not traveling or you’re doing something wrong. And he wasn’t putting his frequent flying number on the ticket. He thought like, “Oh, it’s got my name on the booking. Airlines’s not going to know who you are.” So, we sat there one afternoon putting through a bunch of retro claims and a couple of days later he was suddenly gold because he’d done far too much travel. So, put your number on the table. And the same applies to hotels as well, you know. Um it’s very easy to leave out your hotel membership number when you’re booking or even, you know, you might not even be a member of the chain. So, just go um all all the chains are free to sign up. So, you just sign up and get your membership and make sure you put it on cuz sometimes even base members get perks at hotels that free Wi-Fi. Yeah, free Wi-Fi. Um I’m staying at the Lantern at the moment and as a base member I get 5% off dining which you I’ll take. Yeah, that’s sounds pretty nice. Um that’s a good shout on the retroactively claiming points as well. How far back? So, it it depends on each program. If you haven’t been a member already, if you’ve only just signed up, sometimes you can claim about a month into the past. If you are already a member, but you just weren’t using the account. Some airlines will let you claim six months. If they’re really generous, maybe 12 months, but um I think six is a very common. Yeah, six is common. Um so, but sooner rather than later is always key. Yeah, cuz you want to make sure that half the time I put a points claim in, it comes back rejected for some silly technical reason that was not really even a problem in the first place, but you got to put it in a second time, it’s like, “Oh, here’s my ticket number or whatever it is.” You want to allow enough time for it to not work the first time and come back and submit it because you don’t want to miss out on those rewards. Another tip is to always hold on to your boarding passes because they often want proof that you traveled. info, you know, you flew and they should be able to see it. They still be like, you know, send me a photo of your boarding pass and your PDF itinerary, like it’s got the ticket number and sometimes like the booking class and all that sort of stuff. So, keep all those records until you’ve got your points credited. And travel insurance asks for boarding passes as well if you have to claim. They’ll often ask for your boarding pass into and out of Australia. I’ve done that before. And you know, there’s a lot of mobile wallets these days. So, it’s a good idea to try archive or screenshot your boarding passes if you do have them digitally. Wow. Okay. That’s that that’s actually a good tip. That’s not something I’ve thought of before. Well, thanks guys. That was uh a really really good chat about the basics of earning points. Of course, there’s heaps on minutia with all this stuff. So, if you want to uh learn a little bit about any of the topics that we covered in this chat, uh head to the show description where we’ve got links to a bunch of stuff and you can just head to the point hacks.com.au U website as well to find basically hundreds of guides written by these two guys here uh about how to start earning points and then how to spend them which is the fun stuff. Thank you and as we say at the end of every episode, every point counts. Every point counts.

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How easy is it really to earn Qantas and Velocity Points without flying Business Class every week?
In this episode of the Point Hacks Podcast, Tobias sits down with Brandon Loo and Chris Chamberlin to break down every way Aussies can start earning points right now, from supermarket shops to 100k+ sign-up bonuses.

We cover:
✅ The essential first steps to start earning Qantas and Velocity Points, even if you’re a complete beginner
✅ Everyday earn hacks through supermarkets, fuel, Uber/Didi, hotels and wine stores
✅ How to multiply your points with bonus gift card offers and stacking techniques
✅ Why credit card sign-up bonuses are the fastest way to jump straight into Business Class
✅ Business and personal bill-paying platforms that let you earn points on things that normally don’t
✅ When (if ever) you should buy points outright vs. getting them via wine or transfer partners
✅ Retro-claiming loopholes. How far back you can go to recover missed points

⏩ Chapters:
00:00: Intro & Welcome
00:33: Where to Start: Setting Goals & Signing Up for Programs
01:58: Everyday Earning: Supermarket, Fuel & Loyalty Programs
03:02: Gift Card & Uber Hacks for Bonus Points
04:27: Wine Stores & Buying Points
06:13: Browser Extensions and Qantas/Velocity Shopping Malls
06:36: Travel Earn: Hotels, Car Hire, Uber & Didi
10:02: Biggest Boosters: Credit Card Sign-Up Bonuses
11:25: Insurance, Utilities & Other Sign-Up Deals
12:36: Advanced Earn: Business Platforms (Pay.com.au, etc.)
14:05: Personal Bill Payments
15:18: Flexible Bank Rewards & Transferring to Airlines
17:33: Should You Ever Buy Points Directly?
18:39: Final Tips

🎬 Credits:
Guests: Brandon Liu & Chris Chamberlain, Point Hacks
Vision Mixing: Sean Pereira
Camera Operation: Joshua Weckert
Produced, edited and hosted by: Tobias Venus

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