Beginning this month, well, really next month for early shoppers like us since January is the introduction / transition, February will fully usher in the revised loyalty incentives from Melaleuca. The former incentive was called Loyalty Shopping Dollars which is changing to Shipping On Us. Maybe they just didn’t like the fact that a joke could be made about earning LSD with your Melaleuca product orders.
Loyalty Shopping Dollars for several years now have been credited with each order, activated by watching short Learn to Earn videos, then redeeming the cash value on product orders. Now it’s simpler.
I have always felt Melaleuca’s LSD was good stuff and it helped me appreciate the thinking and R&D behind their products. But seriously, the new incentives cater more to the fact that not everyone shares that level of interest or wants to watch the videos, and, even allow for guilt-free procrastination by removing the 5% extra savings you could previously get by ordering before the 20th of the month. Now you don’t have to learn anything or get up off your butt to order early. It’s easier and it’s automatic with each product order. Even the busiest among us and those with the shortest attention spans can take advantage of it.
Being a Melaleuca customer requires no minimum orders if you don’t mind paying full price and that remains the same. To qualify for 30% to 50% savings you must maintain a 35 point or more (about $60 to $70) minimum monthly order exactly as before—a requirement clearly covered when joining the shopping club, and outlined in my Melaleuca Points and Pricing featured post. If your monthly orders are at minimal levels, things for you will change very little. But since even empty nesters like us can and do go easily well above that 35 point minimum, the enhanced savings add up faster.
Melaleuca has initiated a standardized shipping of $10.22 which most customers should welcome after never knowing until checkout exactly how much it would be. This fixed rate will be just slightly higher for minimum orders but significantly lower for larger orders. The best news is you can get either 100% shipping reimbursement or a 50% shipping reimbursement based on the following: Orders 39+ points get the 50% rate of $5.11 but orders 44+ points get the entire $10.22 back which equates to free shipping. Since larger orders previously had higher shipping costs, that means additional savings above the free shipping.
By comparison, a 45 point order placed on or before the 20th of the month would have earned $6.75 ($4.50 after the 20th) in Loyalty Shopping Dollars under the previous loyalty incentives instead of the $10.22 in free shipping under the new incentives.
The Shipping On Us dollars are automatically applied as loyalty incentives to use on your next order, regardless of the time of month you order, and the only action required is clicking a checkbox to redeem them. It’s an additional solution to help make our busy 21st Century lives at least a little bit easier—and save money.