reward scam

[julienrl]

I just realized that the pay as you go rewards are a scam you can never cash in on.

These are the terms and conditions:
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Being able to enjoy a new phone has never been easier. Just keep topping up to watch your phone discount grow in value to a maximum of 200 MyRewards dollars. You’ll receive MyReward dollars in increments of 5 and you can start redeeming with as little as 50. We’ll send you a free text message each time you’ve earned more MyRewards dollars.

Not ready for a new phone yet? Take your time – your current MyRewards balance will remain active for one year from the time it’s earned.
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The points only remain for 12 months, and you need to have 50 points to spend them. You only get 5 points for every 100$ you spend, this means you need to spend 1000$ per year on your top-up cards to be able to get the "wonderful" 50$ value of the rewards......

wtf.

Any comments?

[Kronk86]

Pay & Talk usually ends up being more expensive in the long run anyway. Buy another prepaid phone for $50 if its a big deal :)

[julienrl]

its not about having or not having a 50$, its the fact that you have to spend 1000$ per year to get any benefits from their rewards, making them a big virtual shaft.

[urbnlgcy]

You're throwing the word scam around pretty easily. This is more of an incentive that few people care about (Telus prepaid customers) and fewer will ever cash in on (Telus prepaid custumers that spend way too much on prepaid). It doesn't make it a scam.

You say: "pay as you go rewards are a scam you can never cash in on."
And then say: "you need to spend 1000$ per year on your top-up cards to be able to get the "wonderful" 50$ value of the rewards."

So it's not that you can never cash in on it, it's just that you need to be spending a high amount on prepaid for this to be relevant (which I a'ssume excludes you.) If people are spending this amount, Telus SHOULD be tossing them some of change back for phones anyways.

More than anything, this is a poor promotional program that those folks in marketing should scrap this and come up with something a little better. I highly doubt this will help retain or gain even a laughable amount of clients. Back to the drawing board, purveyors of cute animal commercials.

[holiday]

Back to the drawing board, purveyors of cute animal commercials.

now this is a funny line! :)