Life’s Too Short for Loyalty Programs
Continuing with my theme of things I hate, this week’s thing is loyalty programs.
I’ll avoid the unnecessary editorial and get right to the point, or better yet, points:
- Life’s complicated enough
- Loyalty programs lock you in so you feel compeled to do business with them
- You gotta manage all those cards, stickers, stamps, etc.
There’s probably more. Those are the basics. I have just one loyalty program left - the airlines points on my credit card. (Bet you thought I was gonna say my girlfriend, didn’t you?) Some day I’ll get rid of that program too.
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September 1, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Ah yes … the good ol’ Girlfriend 2.0 to Wife 1.0 upgrade.
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September 1, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I dumped a mastercard that had air-miles about a year ago in favour of a visa card that offers 1% back.. If you don’t travel often, it’s definitely a better way to go, and you don’t have to keep track of anything. They just send you money once a year.
Air-miles are a sham.
Oh, can I have your subway points?
September 1, 2006 at 7:33 pm
When did we get a subway??!
And all this time I was driving a car like a chump.