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| Thread ID: 84415 | 2007-11-04 20:38:00 | Super Gold Card - GOOD NEWS | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 608330 | 2007-11-04 20:38:00 | Yes I have at last found a use for my SUPER GOLD CARD. Nice to be appreciated in our last years. Of course my aged relatives in the UK get all sorts of free health care with theirs and also from next April free travel anywhere in the UK. They have to put up with only free travel locally till then. But at last I have found a use for the NZ Gold card. I bought some arts supplies and was told I got discount if I had the Super Gold Card. Which I produced with a happy flourish. Of course as I was going to the tech for an arts course I was also entitled to the same discount as a student. But even if I didn't have either a gold card or students card all I had to do was fill in their application card for their own card giving everybody the right to the same discount. Guess what! I feel as though I am being done over yet again. Has anybody found any advantage yet, justifying the government spending millions on this device Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 608331 | 2007-11-04 20:43:00 | I saw on the buses, (Stagecoach) the other week, up here in Auckland, you'll also get 40% off for bus fares as well. If you show the driver this card. My flatmate got a list of whats discounted a while ago, in the mail, but it was really bugger all. As most of the shops etc werent even in Auckland. Most were in CHCH, and somewhere else. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 608332 | 2007-11-04 21:24:00 | It saves me at least $12 a week on public transport. (I don't go far.) Add that to the lack of parking hassles as well as not having to drive in Auckland traffic and it is almost like Gold icing on my cake. :thumbs: | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 608333 | 2007-11-04 22:47:00 | It saves me at least $12 a week on public transport. (I don't go far.) Add that to the lack of parking hassles as well as not having to drive in Auckland traffic and it is almost like Gold icing on my cake. :thumbs: But didn't that superannuitant travel discount exist already? When I was last in Auckland (before the gold cards appeared), a friend bought a train concession ticket by showing her red superannuitant card, which I saw her use also at theatre box offices. Dunedin buses have always given age concessions. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 608334 | 2007-11-04 23:03:00 | Of course my aged relatives in the UK get all sorts of free health care with theirs and also from next April free travel anywhere in the UK. The free rail travel not necessarily a bonus to all. A long time ago BritRail introduced a ten-shilling-go-anywhere-anytime for pensioners and my old mother (long since gone) terrorised my sisters in various parts of Britain by arriving without notice and carrying just a small overnight bag. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 608335 | 2007-11-05 00:25:00 | But didn't that superannuitant travel discount exist already? When I was last in Auckland (before the gold cards appeared), a friend bought a train concession ticket by showing her red superannuitant card, which I saw her use also at theatre box offices. Dunedin buses have always given age concessions. I don't know, I saw the commercial for Gold Cards in the Bus, tried it and it worked. Better than Lotto tickets. I wonder if it would work for a "proof of age" card if I am asked in pubs? Now for a get out of jail free card :thumbs:. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 608336 | 2007-11-05 01:56:00 | What a jerk Winston is,go anywhere Australia, UK and they look after there old folks. His card is a farce and no doubt he will want a pat on the back for the rubbish. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 608337 | 2007-11-05 02:07:00 | I don't know, I saw the commercial for Gold Cards in the Bus, tried it and it worked. Better than Lotto tickets. I wonder if it would work for a "proof of age" card if I am asked in pubs? Now for a get out of jail free card :thumbs:. Out of curiousity I passed my Super Goldcard over recently for proof of identity. They laughed at me and more or less said "What's that?" It must have some use!! Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 608338 | 2007-11-05 02:54:00 | Gold Card + Orcon = Discounted phone line & broadband. $ 11 / month saved & increased usage to 5GB. Can't be bad. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 608339 | 2007-11-05 03:34:00 | Out of curiousity I passed my Super Goldcard over recently for proof of identity. They laughed at me and more or less said "What's that?" It must have some use!! Ken ;) Ah, but proof of identity's a different matter. We're curious to know where it's proof of entitlement to a discount - a new saving that you wouldn't get without it, that is. |
Laura (43) | ||
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