I have seen this type of discount level before. You make your regular purchases as normal, and then when you reach a certain $$$ amount, your costs go down by a percentage.
For instance, I think it is RSOwens who has or had the structure that if you reach one level you get 40% off, but when you reach another level, you receive 50% off the catalog prices. (they may have changed this structure).
I think that is a great idea of yours to implement this for your regular clients. I'm going to do some thinking on how to do a benefit for my regular clients. They might not reach a high $$ level, but they are loyal clients.
In regards to your bank, I'm thinking that closing your account and then reopening should qualify you. It would be a pain for you to change account numbers on a number of things (checks, bank stamp for instance), but the cost would be less than a plane ticket.
We had this happen when we bought the house our business is in. The week after we closed, the bank sent us a statement and in that statement it said that if we opened an account during the month of August we'd get an IPod. We opened our account in July. I should have gone down there and pushed it - I think I would have won - but was neck deep in the moving/remodeling phase and it wasn't high on my priority list.
Depending on who you talked to, you might want to keep going higher and find out how important you are to your bank as it is. Talk to the board of director members, the bank president etc. If you are not important enough to satisfy with this small item, then I'd think about changing banks completely.
Cindy |