{"id":10722,"date":"2013-03-15T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=10722"},"modified":"2013-03-15T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T06:17:25","slug":"the-worst-loyalty-program-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=10722","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Loyalty Program In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=10723\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10723\" alt=\"nintendoclub\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nintendoclub.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nintendoclub.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nintendoclub-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I generally do okay by my various loyalty cards and reward programs that I belong to.\u00a0 Every tenth cup of coffee I buy is free, I get goodies that come with my magazine subscriptions and I&#8217;ve racked up enough air miles in the last couple of years to fly to New Zealand for free.<\/p>\n<p>Some rewards programs are better than others but there is no contest when it comes to the worst of the bunch.\u00a0 Hands down, it would be Club Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last six years I&#8217;ve been patiently registering products online and accruing my reward points with every Nintendo console and game I&#8217;ve purchased.\u00a0 This includes my Wii, my three DSs, my sister-in-law&#8217;s Wii, my Wii U, my 3DS and about fifteen games.<\/p>\n<p>Up to now, I&#8217;ve just been sitting on my hoard of points because the prizes you can claim are <em>absolutely terrible<\/em>.\u00a0 There&#8217;s stuff like face towels, pencil cases, shoelaces, stickers and an empty white box.\u00a0 I know that Club Nintendo in Japan and America lets you cash in points for free games and custom game controllers so I waited in the hope that Nintendo would remember Australia exists and give us some of the good stuff.\u00a0 To be honest, I&#8217;d be happy for anything that looked like it had a net worth of greater than $2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10727\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=10727\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10727\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10727\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10727\" alt=\"prize\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prize.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prize.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prize-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who can resist such fabulous prizes such as shoelaces, pencil cases, face towels or empty white box?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently got an alert from Nintendo telling me to hurry up and spend my points because they arbitrarily decided to make them <em>expire<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks a lot, jerks!\u00a0 So&#8230;forced to spend my points, I looked at the barren wasteland that is Club Nintendo&#8217;s catalogue in Australia and made my choice.<\/p>\n<p>Today, my reward from Nintendo for spending a couple of thousand dollars with them arrived in the mail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=10725\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10725\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10725\" alt=\"bookmarks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bookmarks.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bookmarks.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bookmarks-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Three bookmarks.\u00a0 Good going, guys!\u00a0 I feel amazingly valued as a customer.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally do okay by my various loyalty cards and reward programs that I belong to.\u00a0 Every tenth cup of coffee I buy is free, I get goodies that come with my magazine subscriptions and I&#8217;ve racked up enough air miles in the last couple of years to fly to New Zealand for free. 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