SMART Buddy Rewards Program
Posted by Rex | Under Uncategorized Monday Jul 20, 2009
Weeks ago, I was getting promo messages in my SMS inbox from Smart Telecom about their rewards program and so, since I was a little bored, I decided to give it a try. I registered by sending REWARDS to 9800. I’m a prepaid “Buddy” subscriber by the way.
I also got messages from 9800 telling me that my point were about to expire so I should redeem them already. I guess Smart was already keeping track of my point even before I registered.
Curious as to how many points I have already accumulated, I sent INQUIRY to 9800. To my surprise, I already had a whopping 31,830 points! Since 5 points are rewarded for every P1 transaction, that means I already spent P6,366?
I really don’t know how I got that much points but it seemed like a lot and I was excited to check what I could redeem with it. Probably free air tickets? Haha!
Haha indeed. After testing REDEMPTION to 9800, they told me I have two options. I could redeem (a) 100 Smart-to-Smart texts [expires in 2 days] with 5,000 rewards points or (b) P300 Buddy Prepaid Phonekit discount with 30,000 rewards points. Not very useful!
I was expecting much more. I rarely text more than 20 SMS a day so option a’s 2-day expiry is too short. Then, I already have a phone so why would I buy another phone just to use the P300 discount?
Well, 31 thousand reward points isn’t so much after all. But small rewards are still better than no rewards. I just wish Smart would also convert the rewards points to airtime for Buddy subscribers. Then maybe I can use it for mobile surfing. Smart Gold offers P50 bill rebate for 12,500 points and Smart Bro Prepaid P30 load for 7,500 points.
Smart Rewards also has discount packages in collaboration with some stores but I could hardly get information since their website isn’t very useful and has quite a lot of bugs. What do the other 20 million + subscribers have to say?
UPDATE: 22-Jun-2010
You may now redeem the following
SMART BUDDY (to send to 9800)
- 100 Smart-Smart SMS (valid for 2 days)/5000 pts/Redeem 100
- All Text 10/1300 pts/Redeem AllText 10
- All Text 50/6200 pts/Redeem AllText 50
- Lahat Text 20/3000 pts/Redeem LahatText 20
- Smart Load 15/3800 pts/Redeem SmartLoad 15
- Smart Load 100/25000 pts/Redeem SmartLoad 100
SMART GOLD (send to 9800)
- P50 bill rebate/12500 pts/Redeem 50
*Rewards will be credited within 48 hours
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hahaha .. Kewl…:D
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Gintry ko ni after reading ur blog. I have 13730 points. i redeemed 5000 points. Mat 8730 pa na biling. Ok an ni kesa sa wala a. hehe!
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They are credited after about a day right?
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try this…
redeem 500 pts.
10 smart-to-smart
valid for 1day
INSTANT 10 to 9800
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Rex Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
This would have been a really good option but it’s no longer available =(
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smart network is nice but i hate there unli promo because for me its not really unlimeted because you are not free to call anytime….=(
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hay naku, smart is one of the most expensive network. haix. I know a network which is very cheap but the signal naman is not sufficient. nami lang gid sa smart kay my cgnal almost everywhere but the service sometimes i dont like. hmf! well, kamahal gid ya sang broadband . pero loyal ko sa smart 6years na. broadband and sim. haix. tani may loyalty award man sila. haha. kag unlitx be nga 1day himuon nalang 5pesos. total damo man sila subscriber! they can do also the sun cellular net’s offers (excellent service). hay naks..
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