Gift Cards at Supermarkets

[Radio8tiv]

So is there anything more that you can do than to get your wish/Dan's cards for a 5% or more discount and then using these cards at self checkout to buy other store gift cards such as jbhifi for points as well as promos?

Another reason to buy the gift card like this (for me anyway) is that my local JB charges to use an Amex, this way I get 4ppd no fees instead of 1 with fees

 

[BettyB]

yes I agree, it sounds weird in theory, but like the fact that they sell jbhifi cards means they have some sort of reciprocial agreement

did you know that you can even return coles goods and woolworhts?

eg ive done that by accident over the years, taken a small coles good back to woolworths and as long as it wasnt a perishable or a coles branded good, they just refunded it

I don't think you understand how these relationships work.

But you may as well try using a JB card at Woolies to purchase a WISH card to see if it will work. I can't see it working though.

 

[SOPOOR]

Another reason to buy the gift card like this (for me anyway) is that my local JB charges to use an Amex, this way I get 4ppd no fees instead of 1 with fees

sounds good, I too will be doing this from now on,

 

[SOPOOR]

I don't think you understand how these relationships work.

But you may as well try using a JB card at Woolies to purchase a WISH card to see if it will work. I can't see it working though.

no, i probably dont know exactly how these relationships work, nor does anyone else on here

was just asking

 

[foggy]

no, i probably dont know exactly how these relationships work, nor does anyone else on here

was just asking

You cant return something bought in coles at woolworths unless they sell the same product(same barcode) at both stores and you have a receipt for buying the product at both stores.

Woolworths will not accept jb hifi giftcard as a payment method. The only way you could get 5% * 5% (9.75%) off is if woolworths ran a promotion where you could buy jb hifi giftcards at 5% off (usually in the form of bonus woolworths points now)

I hope this clarifies.

 

[SOPOOR]

You cant return something bought in coles at woolworths unless they sell the same product(same barcode) at both stores and you have a receipt for buying the product at both stores.

Woolworths will not accept jb hifi giftcard as a payment method. The only way you could get 5% * 5% (9.75%) off is if woolworths ran a promotion where you could buy jb hifi giftcards at 5% off (usually in the form of bonus woolworths points now)

I hope this clarifies.

yes, clear,

was trying to see what everyone else is doing and if im missing out on any opportunites

very handy tip to know

 

[N860CR]

A real word of warning for those buying store gift cards at Coles.

As mentioned earlier, I have two Bunnings gift cards from Coles that didn't activate. To summarize;

1) Returned to the store, manager wasn't available so told that I would be called the next day to have the cards replaced
2) Days later, no call received so I contacted Coles customer care. They're emailed back initially saying "we can't help with your enquiry, call the gift card call centre on ###. Go back to the store and get your cards back"
3) After telling them that's not really good enough, got called by some guy with an attitude who basically yelled at me down the phone saying "we can't help you, we've done everything right". He eventually offers to transfer me to the gift card call centre.
4) Speak to the gift card call centre (tell the whole story again as the guy provided no info) and they say "no its the stores problem, they need to be returned to the store"
5) I'm about to get on a plane so I email the Coles guy and tell him what the gift card people said. I never hear from him again
6) I call Coles customer care again and speak with someone who does a lot of "so sorry so sorry what a bad experience etc". They say they will followup and call me back. I also asked to be CCd into the email they said they were sending to someone. "Yes yes" they say. I never hear a word from this person again.
7) Call Fair Trading NSW. They confirm the store is responsible. They advise to send a letter of demand and if they don't respond open a complaint with Fair Trading.

All this stuffing around for $40!

I really have to stress that if you buy gift cards from Coles make sure you use a credit card so a chargeback can be initiated.

 

[d00dz]

Coles sucks..

My experience with woolies and cards not working...

Bought two $250 Caltex/Woolies petrol cards. From self checkout.
Left and (forgot to rescan the cards on the eftpos machine).
Months later ~2 months I used the cards at the petrol station both were not working!
Emailed woolies customer cards and they investigated and found out that the person at the checkout didnt do their job properly (probably my fault too) as I didnt know you need to re-scan the cards.

They called and said my cards are working and apologised.

I used a eGift card and told them I used it too, because my local woolies/caltex doesnt accept woolies eGift Cards wtf, they didnt care.

Too bad I hate woolies stores inside layout

 

[koconder]

the post office stocks what seems to be an increasing number. I'll get to it and make a list when next I am in one which is quite a bit lately (before it gets "newked"*)

*AKA shayned

I tried chrn on auspost, guy looks at me and says thats debit card only

 

[WeeWillyWonka]

Went to a number of different Coles stores in my area to buy some MasterCard Prepaid Gift Cards and could not find any $100 cards and only a handful of $50 cards. Found this strange because my Coles have always been well stocked, even during FlyBuy promotions. I asked where the $100 cards were and was told that some stores now stock Vanilla $100 visa gift cards (with $5.95 activation fee). They work in exactly the same way too.

Anyone else been told this?

 

[exceladdict]

Went to a number of different Coles stores in my area to buy some MasterCard Prepaid Gift Cards and could not find any $100 cards and only a handful of $50 cards. Found this strange because my Coles have always been well stocked, even during FlyBuy promotions. I asked where the $100 cards were and was told that some stores now stock Vanilla $100 visa gift cards (with $5.95 activation fee). They work in exactly the same way too.

Anyone else been told this?

No but I have noticed the vanilla cards around the place. I noticed that woolies are now stocking Only1 so maybe they made a swap.

Vanilla cards are issued by heritage bank (of qantas cash fame) as opposed to only1 being issued by indue. Neither can reload Coles RMCs

 

[Dr Ralph]

No but I have noticed the vanilla cards around the place. I noticed that woolies are now stocking Only1 so maybe they made a swap.

Vanilla cards are issued by heritage bank (of qantas cash fame) as opposed to only1 being issued by indue. Neither can reload Coles RMCs

No change to the online version:

https://store.colesprepaidcards.com.au/store/singleload

 

[andye]

I have seen some $200 Vanilla around but seem to remember they had a higher activation fee. Cant make them "work" without a sweetener though

 

[unfunkable]

Does anybody know what the maximum amount is you can charge a VPAY prepaid credit card?
cheers

 

[albyd]

I've seen Vanilla cards at Target as high as $250 denomination. Have bought them for $7.50 activation fee with some of my CG & M GCs bought with the Myer amex promo so I could spend some of the $$ outside of Coles group with the Amex credits helping to fund it. Haven't seen them in Coles so far.

 

[borsa]

I've also posted this on the David Jones/Amex thread.

Does anyone know if buying a Gift Card from Coles counts towards receiving reward points on the DJs/Amex card that can be converted to Qantas FF. For example if I was to buy a card for $1000, would this be counted as a supermarket purchase, as I believe that on the monthly statement it may not show up as a Coles purchase?

 

[prozerran]

Gift cards from coles and woolworths supermarkets physical stores shows up as a supermarket purchase on the Amex Edge card.

I've also posted this on the David Jones/Amex thread.

Does anyone know if buying a Gift Card from Coles counts towards receiving reward points on the DJs/Amex card that can be converted to Qantas FF. For example if I was to buy a card for $1000, would this be counted as a supermarket purchase, as I believe that on the monthly statement it may not show up as a Coles purchase?

 

[exceladdict]

I've also posted this on the David Jones/Amex thread.

Does anyone know if buying a Gift Card from Coles counts towards receiving reward points on the DJs/Amex card that can be converted to Qantas FF. For example if I was to buy a card for $1000, would this be counted as a supermarket purchase, as I believe that on the monthly statement it may not show up as a Coles purchase?

Any purchase from a physical coles store certainly should. But don't scan your FB card as your average spend targets will go through the roof, and you won't get any FB points for the trouble.

Coles online prepaid cards, etc, which don't take amex anyway, won't count as it's a different provider.

 

[Mr_Orange]

I've also posted this on the David Jones/Amex thread.

Does anyone know if buying a Gift Card from Coles counts towards receiving reward points on the DJs/Amex card that can be converted to Qantas FF. For example if I was to buy a card for $1000, would this be counted as a supermarket purchase, as I believe that on the monthly statement it may not show up as a Coles purchase?

It should be, yes. That is the whole point of this thread as the Platinum Edge earns 3ppd at supermarkets.

 

[Chicken]

Does anyone know if buying a Gift Card from Coles counts towards receiving reward points on the DJs/Amex card that can be converted to Qantas FF. For example if I was to buy a card for $1000, would this be counted as a supermarket purchase, as I believe that on the monthly statement it may not show up as a Coles purchase?

If you buy it at a Coles supermarket, using the check out at the supermarket, then the merchant is classified as Coles supermarket, and AmEx will give you the points you per usual e.g. 3 points per $1 if you use Edge card.

The EFTPOS terminal at a cash register cannot tag your purchase as anything else other than what is programmed as (except special cards like Motorpass / Motor Charge but they are another topic).