You still redeem points for >2 campaign reports

As a Canadian bzzagent, I feel neglected by the new system. MyPoints is practically useless to me. Most of the ways to earn extra points on the site are not applicable to Canada
and the rewards are primarily geared to US members. Bzz has not offered Canadians anywhere near the campaign opportunities as our American counterparts are offered. Bzz is an American focused company and I am one of the token Canadians. I think I may file for divorce.

armybrat wrote:As a Canadian bzzagent, I feel neglected by the new system. MyPoints is practically useless to me. Most of the ways to earn extra points on the site are not applicable to Canada
and the rewards are primarily geared to US members. Bzz has not offered Canadians anywhere near the campaign opportunities as our American counterparts are offered. Bzz is an American focused company and I am one of the token Canadians. I think I may file for divorce.

I can certainly understand where you're coming from. The giftcertificate.ca stores are useless to me -- well, I guess if I really wanted to go to Old Navy or the Gap I could drive an hour to use my $25 gc. With the price of gas here (more than the US), that's not too likely to happen! BzzAgent hasn't done much to thank us in all of this!

Rebecca1340 wrote:

armybrat wrote:As a Canadian bzzagent, I feel neglected by the new system. MyPoints is practically useless to me. Most of the ways to earn extra points on the site are not applicable to Canada
and the rewards are primarily geared to US members. Bzz has not offered Canadians anywhere near the campaign opportunities as our American counterparts are offered. Bzz is an American focused company and I am one of the token Canadians. I think I may file for divorce.

I can certainly understand where you're coming from. The giftcertificate.ca stores are useless to me -- well, I guess if I really wanted to go to Old Navy or the Gap I could drive an hour to use my $25 gc. With the price of gas here (more than the US), that's not too likely to happen! BzzAgent hasn't done much to thank us in all of this!

I would have to drive two and a half hours to go to Old Navy. Not worth it for a $25 gc and gas at $1.31.9/litre! BzzAgent has stung us!!

I absolutely agree.

I am really ticked with MyPoints right now. I want to redeem for a gc & will send it to my daughter who lives in Florida.....but I have been waiting for half an hour to go from the login to a page that loads and am getting nowhere!!!

I wound up losing all my bzzpoints rather than dealing with them -- they just weren't worth the aggravation for me. It just seemed like a way to make my life simpler. I still think we got screwed, I just don't have to try to deal with MyPits now.

trax wrote:Well, Chelle - you are lucky to have a walmart!

With reference to a point made by Rebecca on duty. Here is an example:
Purchased made on line: 1 cd - approximate value $14.97
Shipping to British Columbia from Connecticut
Completion Price $53.97

Holy shit!

edbson wrote:

trax wrote:Well, Chelle - you are lucky to have a walmart!

With reference to a point made by Rebecca on duty. Here is an example:
Purchased made on line: 1 cd - approximate value $14.97
Shipping to British Columbia from Connecticut
Completion Price $53.97

Holy shit!

And that's very typical.

Honey - the federal government receives the duty on goods purchased from the USA. There is a basic duty tax; goods and services tax; provincial sales tax and the a service fee which is paid directly to Canadian (several curse words here) Revenue Agency. Depending on what you have purchased there can be more taxes. It is not worth it.

Now after writing about the duty, etc., let me raise my blood pressure up a little more. When it comes to gift cards, my points, whatever - to be honest, I am so pissed. Generally, I am not lost for words but here I am. It is simple, Canadians got screwed.

Furthermore, mypoints and gift cards well, they don't mean a damn thing if you are not receiving any campaigns.

Divorce - yep, I am thinking about it - but right now I really should have a drink to calm myself down - but geez and yikers is it 10:15 a.m.

Could you have someone in the US purchase things for you then mail them?
Would the package still be intercepted by customs?

Yep, customs still gets to open them if they feel like it. Personally, I don't think we should have to sneak around like that anyway.

I have a step son residing in the United States. Even when they bring a gift up for us; they must state what it is, where it is going, why it is going there, does it poop, it is like baby poop. . . .

You never want to screw acround with border agents; you speak when you are spoken to and just answer the question, do not add anything. Then, get the hell out of there!

Scar wrote:Could you have someone in the US purchase things for you then mail them?
Would the package still be intercepted by customs?

Customs can open any package, even a gift. We would still get nailed for duty & GST.

Damn!

Crappity crap crap.. they are already gone Rebecca? I have been losing sleep over that

They are gone. As you can see from this thread there was no reason for me to keep them.

Rebecca you could have got the Gift Pass and at least purchased Chapters gift certificates. They are good online too. You would have had enough to purchase at least 39 dollars worth of stuff for the free shipping. If you didn't want books or music, you could have donated them to a school or something.

i can tell you for fact that you still get mypoints for your reports past 2 per campaign. LOL i submitted and had 4 approved today alone.

sati, we knew ( or I did , lots of these folks are behind me or just never belive me... hmmmm... ) that you still got points, you just cant fill a honeycomb, you cant go up in levels past two reports per campaign. So, ....

For me the point before was getting points AND advancing. Now I get a portion of the points I once did, and dont advance. hence my 2 report limit.

I wanted a top 100 spot, lol. I didn't and still don't care much about the points. For me it was all about the quality, now there is no quality score, lol. I must admit I liked watching my numbers, top 100 had nothing to do with points, at least I don't think they did.

spiritia wrote:Rebecca you could have got the Gift Pass and at least purchased Chapters gift certificates. They are good online too. You would have had enough to purchase at least 39 dollars worth of stuff for the free shipping. If you didn't want books or music, you could have donated them to a school or something.

Dealing with MyPits isn't worth the headache. Besides, I could never get far enough into the site to confirm it was a Canadian chapters card and not one that would be worthless here. After you throw in that reports are only worth around 50 MyPits points or around 7 or 8 old BzzPoints, I would rather ditch them than save points for years and years with a carrot dangling in front of me that I'll never get due to lack of campaigns here.

I also was very frustrated when I looked at the mypits website to see what I could redeem for my points that I could actually use here in Canada. I really don't believe that I will get anything from this switch.

It's extremely frustrating -- especially when you hear that even people from Toronto don't have many of the stores local to them! If anyone was going to have variety it would have been them!