BG 300 Points Razmatazz

Hey BG gave me 300 points because of really late shipping. Went to use in BG app and points is grayed out. Chat with one BG rep and told “Oh you need to activate wallet”. Checked and BG wallet is from Bank to wallet. Not what I want. Second rep said “ Oh can you wait few days as I escalated to higher dept”.
Before I was able to use a bit of BG points no problem. Is there a conspiracy at BG land or does this sound familiar to members??

I was gonna order a light with a Fin code for someone, and there’s a big stink on the BG site about 20bux-off coupons for new signups. “Okay, here, sign up and you can get 20bux off the light.” Woo-hoo!

Well, no. He signed up, and “20bux” is something like 3bux off for anything if over 20bux total, 5bux off for anything over 50bux, and 12bux off but only for “fashion items”. Well, that kinda sux, but 3bux off at least pays for most of the shipping, eh?

Okay, so we click-through Fin’s link, put the light in the cart, apply the Fincode. Great so far, but… no coupons available. Huh? We just did the “get coupon now!” thing, and it was listed in “My Coupons”. Now? Gone.

Okay, so re-get the coupon, reload the cart-page, apply it. Yay! 3bux off. Apply the Fincode… 3bux disappears.

One more go’round, but it’s pretty clear, no stacking of any coupons. It’s strictly either/or.

I kept my mouth shut, but his reaction was about what mine would’ve been, “Wow, they can go to Hell…”.

No sale.

Funny thing is, there would’ve been a sale had we not gone through all the bait’n’nothing. Lure someone in by deceptively promising “20bux off” (no limitations of any kind listed on the teaser), get ’em worked up, then yank it away? Well, that kinda leaves a nasty taste, y’know?

Boy you sure went for a ride! It’s like there’s a cutoff for points or something. Sorta like “ okay this sucker has 3 digit points now. Give him hard time or you work o/t without pay!” Either way, by hook or by crook I’ll get my points. Just have to wait for “higher dept”.

Had a barrel full of points (I think about 800) but they kept it very hard to convert to actual discount coupons.
The loops and shenanigans with so many conditionals - I just dropped the whole thing!

Just recently (about a month ago) saw their points to coupons not existent. Or maybe buried deeper?

Now set up Adblock for those adverts. May also cut their banner promos w/ uBlock.

I rather have an actual monetary value to my searches than a possible discount that may or may not work.

Edit (addendum);
They haven’t quite gotten the art right about fidelity points / cards. You have to keep it simple and well laid out. Costco offers lower priced items for some membership (albeit too expensive for my simple needs), Mountain Equipment Coop gives a 5% discount, Canadian Tire reverted back to their paper money.
But BG lures with false claims.

Is Banggood The Cave of Tricksters. They are specialists.

Don’t hold your breath MoreLumens, I now have 3002 points because they are utterly useless.

From what I can see (and have seen), coupons don’t stack. So if you get “20bux” in coupons (which might very well be 100 coupons of 20¢ off), you can’t stack any of ’em. Disappointing.

Coupons and points are practically useless, because almost all items are in promotion or flashsale.

Only specific coupons can be used, but if you add a item in promotion or flashsale to the order, it cannot be used either.
Also the item can be put in promotion or flashsale and cannot be used either.

There is Point Mall where they offer to use the points as part of payment but you have to be very careful, it is advisable to look the price of the item outside of Point Mall.
Sometimes the price is lower outside the Point Mall (you pay to use the points), other times it is the same (just to use the points, without any real benefit to the customer) and other times it is worth buying at the Point Mall.

I think they know me, they don’t offer me any more “compensation”. When they offered them to me, I replied that they would give me a refund to my PP for 50% of the value equivalent to the points offered…

I have 21,969 points with VIP5 but those points are useless.

i stop spending on Bangood for 3 months now as they charging GST but i doubt they pay the tax to my goverment rather ripping customer off.

im starting to think they are scamer