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AllanSydney, NSW
Pathetic. Comment from a 38 year member Qantas FF Programme
To say that I am annoyed would be an understatement. I have been loyal to Qantas for 38 years. Held Chairman" Lounge and Platinum Status but now Gold and cannot find a Business Class Rewards seat to London that doesn't take me via China in April/May 2022.
Has anyone else had this experience? Come on Qantas - show some real LOYALTY to those who have been extremely LOYAL to you.
Allan
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ScullsGreater Melbourne (Metropolitan), VIC
- 12 reviews
- Verified customer
Great systems, quick transfer of points, great flight upgrades and offers
I am prompted to write this review as I am a member of a few Frequent Flyer programs and Qantas always is a stand out for me. However today they really surprised me further. In a great way.
I received 2 complimentary Qantas lounge passes as part of a credit card deal. These were honoured/available to the day promised.
I decided to use these lounge passes on a trip to Qld planned for later in the year.
A few weeks later I decided to take advantage of a Qantas classic reward upgrade to business class on one of the legs - give my trip an extra...Read more
nice start. I then realised I had wasted one of my lounge passes unnecessarily - a business class ticket automatically gets you into the lounge - no need for a pass (I'm not a lounge member). I wanted to know if I was able to cancel the lounge pass to use for another time, or if in fact I could do anything with it, thinking I may have wasted an opportunity. So I did a quick search within the Frequent Flyer site, and there was a link to the complimentary pass program. It said simply to "cancel" the lounge pass and the pass will be available for use another time.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
Disgraceful business practice. They take your money for items they have no stock of
Do not order anything from this disgraceful online store. They offer these amazing deals for items which they have no stock of and will not be getting stock of any time soon. I ordered the Sony WF-1000XM3 as did many other people, and the estimated delivery date quickly passed and was given a later date. This also passed with no communication from Qantas. Upon enquiry, I was given a date of approximately 2 months later. This store is profiting by holding onto your money for months until you give in and ask for a refund, which they then take ages to process.
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Liv V.Greater Melbourne (Inner), VIC
The worst customer service/business I've ever dealt with
Qantas has 'lost' 60,000 points gained thru my David Jones Amex card. I've rung them 5 times now, having to wait over half hours and they still can't get it
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Happy Cat
- 5 reviews
Doesn't even worth 0 star
They took 3000 points from my account and when I chat with them to how to unsubscribe, they took more than an hour of my time to get this done, but no luck. Worst customer service ever.
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Ian W.South East Queensland, QLD
Qantas Store (read: Qantas Scam)
Beware they offer for sale items they don't have in stock (illegal practice), take your money, make promises of delivery and end up cancelling after a few weeks. Has happened to me a few times now. I would avoid using Qantas Store. Very poor customer service, with call centre overseas.
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GusDee Why
- 2 reviews
Worst online shopping experience ever!
Used my daughter's FF points because they were about to expiry and made a purchase through the Qantas Rewards Store (a hand blender). Item arrived, but its plastic cup had been damaged in transit. Took me weeks to get through to the right people to try and solve it (very annoying!). Once the facts were established, their condition for a replacement or refund was a proof that I had cut the cord of the main unit (a working unit!). This may be common practice nowadays, but I totally disagree with such a waste and believe that there must be more conscious solutions for a simple cup replacement...
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Awful! cancel my order without even refund the money!
Buy a headphone from the store, first I was told the delivery is delayed then told the order has been canceled! I logged 4 tickets ask for a explain got no reply! 4 week pasted and I even don't get a refund!
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ashGreater Melbourne (Metropolitan), VIC
- 2 reviews
- 1 like
Zero stars wasn’t an option!
Ordered RM Williams on 4 July and after 7 weeks still no update. At the time of order they said they were in stock. I’m yet to be contacted and have just sent my second email to try and cancel the order. I would not recommend the Qantas store to anyone, they’ll tell you what you want to hear.
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Sharnee W.Darwin, NT
- 3 reviews
What a bunch of clowns
Like many others I purchased the Sony A7 III + 24-105 in the recent deal, only to receive an email a week and a half later saying that they had cancelled the order, with some lame excuse. I have emailed them 3 times with no response.
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BinhGreater Melbourne (Metropolitan), VIC
Terrible qantas program!
Terrible qantas program! I flight from Vanuatu to Melbourne and I have Silver card and they invite me to Qantas lounge. But when came to Sydney airport they cancel my ticket (at 6h15pm) and said moved me to flight 10h pm. When come to lounge the lady there said you can not come you should buy club membership $900? Why they invite me? Why they cancel my ticket without sorry and move this invite to changed ticket? So I have to spend 5 hours in Sydney airport with very rude treating from qantas club staffs!
Terrible qantas club!
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jwaussieMelbourne
- 17 reviews
Qantas Refuses to abide by eticket
On 14 june I booked a economy flight Melb to Jnb return the eticket states 66kgs and we now have 40 kgs luggage. A week before the trip qantas sends us a email stating 30 kgs - we complain 66 was on eticket they agree but no benefits just a apology. So if we take the 10 kgs more they will charge us $1000 plus - where is the customer service Qantas.
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MimiSydney, NSW
- 8 reviews
Too difficult to find any reward seats.
Ridiculous, i have close to 1 million points and wanted to buy return first class or business class seats for Europe. It is not possible. Pick up your game Qantas.
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DocGold Coast
- 4 reviews
- 2 likes
Same issue - Qantas Store
Logged a warranty issue with Qantas Store. 2 months and going. Have logged with ACCC. Product still under warranty. Customer Service in Phillipines, pathetic service. Not knowledgeable, no repsonse, they don't escalate or don't know how to, no comms from line manager or even supervisor. have to constantly chase up. Will see outcome from ACCC.
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AnneSydney, NSW
- 3 reviews
- 2 likes
Terrible service, selling products that they don’t actually have available.
I recently ordered a product using my points. When it hadn’t arrived after 2 weeks I was forced to chase up the order. I was then told the product wasn’t available anymore. I asked why no one called me to inform me and wasn’t given an answer. I asked them to follow up with the manufacturer to find out when the product would be back in stock. Instead of calling me I received an email saying they can’t tell me how long and that they (Qantas) had cancelled my order.. suboptimal service at best.
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Legend69Metropolitan Adelaide, SA
- 5 reviews
Disgraceful
Booked accommodation using points, arrived on long haul flight from Australia only to be told the accommodation has no record of my booking. QFF help line voicemail only. Woeful service.
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Ralph W.Perth, WA
Terrible. Customer service is non existent.
I joined qantas frequent flyer, have flown several times and my status says no points. I claim missing points from my previous flights manually via link but still zero points. The date of the flight keeps changing, that is if I select my flight date when claiming, it registers as another random date and the claim is rejected. Have repeated the process many times, same problem. In addition, I have the qantas app on my phone and it knows which flights I have been on, then why isn't it registering my points?
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J CMetropolitan Adelaide, SA
- 6 reviews
- 2 likes
qantas has to do something
I read all other's terrible reviews for Qantas frequent flyer program. I have mine. Qantas points- online store, Qantas hotel, Jetstar flight, all are not reflecting on the account. I have to ask Qantas for every item. Someone is sitting at that desk, monitoring all the points across the country. Just one person. That's why all these cannot be done on time. You ask, wait, perhaps those points might come, one day. If lucky, you "earn" your points. To me, this is horrible service. Head should roll- can't do proper job.
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Zelly5Sydney, NSW
- 2 reviews
- Verified customer
Qantas.....admired big Australian no more!
Please be aware of the nightmare experience that trying to deal with Qantas Frequent Flyer has become. Unbeknown to us due to a bank oversight my husband’s FF flyer account was not active for eighteen months. Therefore all his points were deemed expired. This was conducted under Qantas’ Terms and Conditions; why are they so blasé` about following their own Terms and Conditions which are that a member will be notified 60 days before expiry.” Whilst we make every effort to let our members know the status of their balance through online Activity ...Read more
Statements and by sending notifications within 60 days of the Qantas Points expiring, we understand that this can sometimes be missed and we would like to help you reinstate your well earned Qantas Points” So how can any global, successful flagship Australian company be so incompetent in forwarding an email such as my recent one from Qantas FF: it is not acceptable that their own T & C are so loosely regarded and acted upon. It has been an absolute nightmare dealing with FF call centre; sadly like the majority of most call centre’s they are run on fear and profit. Where no decision can ever be made outside the script. I have come to the realization that there intention is to wear you down; full of false platitudes, questionable practice. With rarely a resolution. Please all be aware that this is the new face of the flying kangaroo. Extremely poor business model; little integrity and even less customer care. So after eight weeks; hours wasted trying on their useless 132313 number; the next step is NSW Fair Trading. To test if T & C’s only have to be upheld by one party. Give Velocity a chance; nothing could be worse than the new face of the big Australian.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
RatelSlangSouth East Queensland, QLD
- 7 reviews
Used to be ok, absolute waste now
Diminishing reward flights, more flights to accumulate points. It was "worth it back in 2015/2016" but simply not worth it anymore. I feel sorry for all the people signing up for expensive credit cards to get bonus points just to sit with useless points...
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Questions & Answers
Carole S.asked
HOW can I join Virgin Frequent Flyers points please??
No answers
Emmeasked
I'm considering getting a Qantas frequent flyer card - All the reviews seem terrible but the main issue seems to be expiry of points. I've read the following on the Qantas website:
Your Qantas Points will not expire as long as you earn or use Qantas Points (excluding family transfers or the conversion of points from Aquire) through your Frequent Flyer account at least once every 18 months. This includes earning or using Qantas Points with our program partners. The time period starts from the date of your last activity (in the case of earning points on eligible flights, that is the date the flight was taken).
This seems okay to me as I would definitely use points/earn points every year.. Is the expiry the only issue people seem to have?
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Hi Emme, the problem is you don’t earn points on partner flights well not Jetstar that’s for sure. So unless you know you will fly with Qantas you could fly regularly and not earn points. I earn pts regularly and just struggle to spend them. Getting a points seat on Qantas is like pulling teeth. Jetstar is easy though, go figure. And I have had issues with the store as well. The programme itself is complicated and outdated. Give the points a dollar value and let ppl spend them would solve a lot of problems. Hope that helps.
Hi Emme. Lost points is only part of the problem with this scheme. Getting any ff seats is extremely difficult, the taxes attached to ff seats are huge and often make it as cheap to fly with another airline, and you will often earn no points at all on your flights if they are discounted fares - but you will always get the annual charges.
Shop around: much fairer schemes are out there.
My points haven't expired. I have had a problem getting valid points credited to my account. Don't join this program. Explore what other airlines are offering.
act952asked
I am a Gold status FF. I average 4 flights a year to USA cities through Lax with Departures usually
thru Term 4. My status allows access to Qantas Club Lounge which is in Tom Bradley Term. Term
4 departures requires QC Lounge members to use AA Lounge in Term 4. This lounge is exceedingly
inferior to QC Lounge & I feel does not meet the advertised benefits of Qantas Club membership
(The many QC members I speak to when in the AA club are all equally disgusted with the AA Club offerings) I am searching for method to access QC Lounge in [name removed] when my departure is
scheduled from Term 4.
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