Dooyoo miles - unfair!!!

I logged into my account before just to see how my miles were doing. I discovered that I have to redeem 2,910 in 30 days (although there is no date as to when this '30 days' commenced) I have a total of 52,350 miles which means I don't have enough to withdraw cash, which is what I want to do. I love books, but don't wish to use my dooyoo miles for books - I want cash!!!

So, what do I do? So that I don't lose the 2,910 miles after 30 days, I'm going to have to use some of my other miles.... which means, I'm never going to get to the grand 55,000 mark in order to cash in without paying up £5. At least Ciao let you cash in any amount you like once you've hit the £50 mark.

Do dooyoo think we write the reviews for the good of our health?!!! I know they pay more than Ciao, but quite honestly I think it's bad that they set a time limit on the miles.

Hard up and disgusted of Scotland

Yes this is a pain, having a time limit. However you could cash in say £5 worth of amazon vouchers and carry on writing hard for a while to earn back the extra.

The amount you have to cash in is equivalent to £2.91 so you should be able to get this back with 3 or 4 reviews if you read a lot.

xx

That was a very optimistic answer but go for it Louiza !

I know! I know! But I've been out of the loop for over a a month since hubs was so ill and also looking for a new job (redundancy looms ever closer) so I've not been able to do much reading! I posted a quick review on there yesterday but it's not crownworthy stuff I'm afraid! You're right of course, I shall just have to pop up a few more reviews or bite the bullet and cash in for Amazon vouchers instead. Never thought of selling them on ebay! Excellent idea!

The other alternative Louiza is to sell em to me for prizes for the site.

Selling them to thingywhatsit is a good idea!!

Write some opinions and stop moaning...

Off topic I know but I had NO idea you could sell Amazon vouchers on ebay, what a clever idea LOL Might try that one myself!

Cerberus wrote:

Write some opinions and stop moaning...

I'll moan if I flamin' well want to!!!

I will buy amazon vouchers too

marcellep wrote:

I will buy amazon vouchers too

for face value? or at a discount....

drewboy wrote:

marcellep wrote:

I will buy amazon vouchers too

for face value? or at a discount....

Well if I can get a small discount then even better. I buy alot of amazon from Ebay and usually get them for a £1.00 to £1.50 less.

My miles expire this month and I'm frantically hurrying to get some reviews published to round up to the required number of miles for an Amazon voucher. It is the first time I have cashed any in. As for when the miles expire I think that it maybe exactly a year ago from the date you submitted your first review eg, if it was 24 May 2005 then they would expire 24 May 2006. I maybe be wrong though.

how many miles have you got so far ?

I've got 19490 at the moment and 1380 expire in 30 days. So not many more needed to reach the 20k mark.

I am sure you will do that. Looks prettily easily reachable.

Ooh! since I started this thread, I took Sirge's advice and posted up a couple more reviews and now I only have about 730 more points to go before I get the magic 55,000 points to withdraw cash!

I checked the date I joined dooyoo and it was 18 December 2004 - yet this is the first time I've seen a 30-day expiry on some of my points.
I only used to keep a cursory watch on my points, but started making a note when we had that spot of bother where we temporarily lost lots of points and some of us got the lot back and others didn't. I know I lost some. This is definitely the first time I've seen any points with the 30-day expirary limit though.

Wonder why?!!!

what name do you go by on dooyoo and what is your last review. I'll go and give you a few more 3p's to help get to that total. x

Angus wrote:

have to agree with angus there, you really dont wanna be accused of a clicking cartel, now do you?

drewboy wrote:

Angus wrote:

have to agree with angus there, you really dont wanna be accused of a clicking cartel, now do you?

Oops - hadn't even thought about that. Just thought of it like helping someone out, similar to the new readers thread??

Oh well.

sirg0508 wrote:

Louizalass wrote:

Wonder why?!!!

Am I missing something as to why you think you shouldn't have miles expiring?

D

No! not at all! What I meant was I'd never noticed before that any of my points were due to 'expire after 30 days' A thought struck me and I re-checked my reviews and I see my first one was written on 8.5.05 and I was counting from when I actually joined dooyoo.

So, I've got to the 8th May. I just need the dosh rather than amazon vouchers to faff about with putting up on ebay! It was a very expensive time driving 180 mile round-trip, staying at the hospital at £20 a night etc when hubs was in hospital recently! Am dirt poor!

sirg0508 wrote:

misterwriter wrote:

I've got 19490 at the moment and 1380 expire in 30 days. So not many more needed to reach the 20k mark.

You only need 10,000 miles for a voucher - instead of rushing out reviews, you could easily cash in for a £10 voucher and know that you can reach another £10 voucher after another review which you can take time over.

D

Yeah I did think about doing that. I just wanted to get a £20 Amazon voucher, as all goods on Amazon over £19 qualify for free delivery. I've never rushed any reviews yet and don't want to either. I will fit them in when I have the time. If I lose a few expired points it doesn't matter really.

misterwriter wrote:

sirg0508 wrote:

misterwriter wrote:

I've got 19490 at the moment and 1380 expire in 30 days. So not many more needed to reach the 20k mark.

You only need 10,000 miles for a voucher - instead of rushing out reviews, you could easily cash in for a £10 voucher and know that you can reach another £10 voucher after another review which you can take time over.

D

Yeah I did think about doing that. I just wanted to get a £20 Amazon voucher, as all goods on Amazon over £19 qualify for free delivery. I've never rushed any reviews yet and don't want to either. I will fit them in when I have the time. If I lose a few expired points it doesn't matter really.

You can use more than one amazon voucher on each purchase I think and they don't expire for a year so you could ask for a £10 voucher then do reviews to make up the other £10 voucher but use them at the same time on Amazon if you see what I mean! x

sirg0508 wrote:

It's only £15 for free delivery but you can use as many vouchers as you want to - If you click on Your Account, and Apply a gift certificate to your account... you can add them as you get them - just remember to spend them before the expiry dates.

I've had well over £200 in there at one point. Just remember to tick the box if you want to use the vouchers instead of your card.

PM me if you need any help!

D

Thats a good tip! I didnt know that. I jsut cashed £40 out in Dooyoo but asked for a £20 and two £10s as I didnt know how I could apply it to more than one order, if you get my meaning!