Comments on: Do you have Flybys? http://zombieskittles.com/do-you-have-flybys Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Screenbeard http://zombieskittles.com/do-you-have-flybys/comment-page-1#comment-1457 Screenbeard Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:59:00 +0000 http://zombieskittles.com/do-you-have-flybys#comment-1457 For me it's just a matter of if I think I'll get use out of it. If it's a buy 5 get 1 free coffee card at a place I go to often it's a no-brainer. On the other hand, I used to work for Coles and did the math on the Fly-Buys deal and worked out (I can't remember even the ball park figures so I'm making it up) that on the level of groceries I was buying at the time I'd have to use the Fly-Buys card every shop without fail for three years. But the redemption time was 12 months (or something like that). It just wasn't actually possible for me to use it and get any benefit so I just didn't bother. Might have changed now, and I buy more now than I did then as a poor student, but I just can't be fucked any more. For me it’s just a matter of if I think I’ll get use out of it. If it’s a buy 5 get 1 free coffee card at a place I go to often it’s a no-brainer. On the other hand, I used to work for Coles and did the math on the Fly-Buys deal and worked out (I can’t remember even the ball park figures so I’m making it up) that on the level of groceries I was buying at the time I’d have to use the Fly-Buys card every shop without fail for three years. But the redemption time was 12 months (or something like that). It just wasn’t actually possible for me to use it and get any benefit so I just didn’t bother. Might have changed now, and I buy more now than I did then as a poor student, but I just can’t be fucked any more.

]]> By: Zombie_Plan http://zombieskittles.com/do-you-have-flybys/comment-page-1#comment-1456 Zombie_Plan Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:46:00 +0000 http://zombieskittles.com/do-you-have-flybys#comment-1456 See, that's a sort of paranoia that suggests that the police have ties in all those things. I'm no expert in police tactics or anything, as my only experience really is TV shows, but it seems to me that the information wouldn't be public and the authorities would need a warrant or some such thing before accessing information about you. They most likely DO track such information, but more so they can see exactly where their sales are most popular in what location, and build a database to improve themselves, you know? See, that’s a sort of paranoia that suggests that the police have ties in all those things. I’m no expert in police tactics or anything, as my only experience really is TV shows, but it seems to me that the information wouldn’t be public and the authorities would need a warrant or some such thing before accessing information about you.

They most likely DO track such information, but more so they can see exactly where their sales are most popular in what location, and build a database to improve themselves, you know?

]]> By: Ruben http://zombieskittles.com/do-you-have-flybys/comment-page-1#comment-1455 Ruben Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:22:00 +0000 http://zombieskittles.com/do-you-have-flybys#comment-1455 My primary concern has always been that companies don't give things away for free. Often when they claim to they're doing something else; in this case it's most common for them to add you to some sort of database and keep track of what you buy. For something like coffee shops that's fine by me, I've got cards for Starbucks, Coffee Bean, Dome and Hudsons, but for something like Woolworths where they can track a disparate range of things it's a bit scarier. For example, imagine you were having a BBQ and you bought some kerosene. The next day the police start interrogating you because you there was an arsonist in your neighbourhood and they used kerosene. Seems far fetched, but it could happen. Then again it works both ways. I've already started of thinking ways to game the system; like doing shopping for someone else to throw off their data on me, or doing something random like buying nine trolleys of toilet paper with chewing gum, then TP someone's house. My primary concern has always been that companies don’t give things away for free. Often when they claim to they’re doing something else; in this case it’s most common for them to add you to some sort of database and keep track of what you buy. For something like coffee shops that’s fine by me, I’ve got cards for Starbucks, Coffee Bean, Dome and Hudsons, but for something like Woolworths where they can track a disparate range of things it’s a bit scarier.

For example, imagine you were having a BBQ and you bought some kerosene. The next day the police start interrogating you because you there was an arsonist in your neighbourhood and they used kerosene. Seems far fetched, but it could happen.

Then again it works both ways. I’ve already started of thinking ways to game the system; like doing shopping for someone else to throw off their data on me, or doing something random like buying nine trolleys of toilet paper with chewing gum, then TP someone’s house.

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