topic Re: Increase in points for Instant Win in Redemption

Increase in points for Instant Win

shamit — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:45:00 GMT

I see the new instant win for today June 1 is a Ace Hardware card. And it is 75 points. I guess we can expect this to be the case going forward. Just another increase in points needed for redemptions.

Re: Increase in points for Instant Win

andrewtoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:50:03 GMT

Points inflation in the Rewards program is very much a scourge on all Mem-anity.🙃

Hum-anity, all humans...Mem-anity, all members.

Re: Increase in points for Instant Win

rednexsrus — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:44:34 GMT

@shamit @andrewtoo @SummerOnTheWay1

Come on guys don’t be so surprised, instead of raising the $$$ value of the points only gift cards, we get a raise in the points cost of the instant wins. After all a raise is a raise, is a raise and that’s admins way of thinking.

Re: Increase in points for Instant Win

rednexsrus — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:33:21 GMT

@shamit @andrewtoo

hi guys

AND THEN THERE WERE 3. Admin the wise and powerful OZ has decreed there will be an increase in required number of points (75) to play on the 3 INSTANT WINS (poor DSW & Mix It Up gets to stay @ 50 points) for a short time.

Looks like you were right shamit the new points requirement going forward for all instant wins are soon to be (75) MWAH

THATS ENOUGH TO BRING A TEAR TO A GLASS EYE 😫

Can somebody please explain to me what ( invalid HTML is)

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Re: Increase in points for Instant Win

Karyn8 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:08:00 GMT

Plus the value of the instant wins has gone down. When there is $10 wins for 200 people that equals $2000. Now with 10 rewards of $100 = $1000 so essentially the instant rewards program gives out less rewards. With the way inflation is going up and up I wish we could see the program get more generous.

Re: Increase in points for Instant Win

SereneSeagull — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:03:55 GMT

@rednexsrus HTML is hypertext markup language if I can remember correctly. Whenever I see it in my posts here it’s from a cut/paste I’m adding to my post from something. I’ve noticed it can usually be disregarded by hitting the reply button again and it posts successfully.

Re: Increase in points for Instant Win

rednexsrus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:10:27 GMT

@SereneSeagull

Hi Serene

thank you, that explains it. Usually when this happens to me I have cut and pasted some text. I just never could figure out what was the invalid HTML. As you said, by just hitting the reply button usually works. If not I just copy all my text, go to my word processor, and paste, then copy that, return to AARP & paste in my post again. Leave it to admin to make things difficult.

IT IS WHAT IT IS

Re: Increase in points for Instant Win

rednexsrus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:13:52 GMT

@SereneSeagull

I still have difficulty using the QUOTE function 😖

My senior moment 😆