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15% off Nintendo eShop, TCN The Kids/Teen/Him/Her/Cinema/Pamper/Pub&Bar/Restaurant, Google Play Gift Cards @ Coles

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Saw this today at Coles.

15% off gift cards including Nintendo eShop, The Kids/Teen/Him/Her/Cinema/Pamper/Pub/Bar/Restaurant gift cards and Google Play gift cards ($50-100 only)
Starting 25/11 ending 1/12

UPDATE: cards not activate or not scanning/discount at checkout. Coles are pulling all cards out and refund. Some people reported some cards are fine. Wait until this is resolved. Such a shame.

UPDATE 2: some people reported that JB-Hifi has lifted the restriction on $500 max Gift card purchases, so you could try your luck. Please buy max 5 cards only and leave them for other people (including me, haha, got none so far) so everyone can have a smiling Black Friday purchases.

PARTY IS OVER. Well done to those who got the cards. Pity to the people who could not get the cards (me too, tried 5 times, gave up, friend gave me few cards). What a good deal with such a shameful operation that left many people frustrated.


Mod Update:

Participating Retailers
The Kids Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), H&M, Foot Locker, Xbox, Platypus, Surf Dive n Ski, Hype DC, Booktopia, The Athlete's Foot, Toyworld, adidas, ASOS, Bounce Inc, Culture Kings, Holey Moley Golf, IMAX, INTERSPORT, New Balance, Quiksilver, Scooter Hut, Skechers, Strike, SurfStitch
The Teen Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), adidas, Foot Locker, Xbox, Platypus, Hype DC, Tommy Hilfiger, ASOS, Glue Store, Universal Store, Calvin Klein, Culture Kings, Surf Dive n Ski
The Him Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), ASOS, Universal Store, Culture Kings, Tommy Hilfiger, Hype DC, Platypus, Foot Locker, Xbox, Aquila, adidas, Glue Store, Drummond Golf, Academy Brand, Calibre, Calvin Klein, Diesel, Edge Clothing, Neverland, Surf Dive n Ski, SurfStitch, Timberland, Van Heusen, H&M
The Her Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), ASOS, Kookai, MAC, Princess Polly, adidas, Showpo, H&M, Universal Store, Sportsgirl, Platypus, Calvin Klein, Forever New, Glue Store, Adore Beauty, Aveda, Hype DC, Seafolly & Sunburn, Tiger Mist, Culture King
The Cinema Card All major cinema chains or local cinemas that accept eftpos
The Pamper Card Use this gift card at salons, day spas and beauty clinics that accept eftpos around Australia.
The Pub & Bar Card Use this gift card at pubs or bars that accept eftpos around Australia.
The Restaurant Card Use this gift card at restaurants and cafes that accept eftpos around Australia.

T&Cs

Excludes $20 and $30 Google Play Gift Cards. Excludes The Home, The Online and The Baby Card Gift Cards. Limit 5 Gift Cards per customer. While stocks last, no rainchecks. Offer valid from 25/11/20 to 01/12/20. Refer to individual gift card for terms and conditions. Google Play and the Google Logo are trademarks of Google LLC.


#Mod 24/11: "A maximum of $500 of Cards may be redeemed at JB HiFi (including online) in any one transaction". See pinned comment below.

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closed Comments

    • +1

      Update: The restaurant card even worked at vending machines.

  • So, I bought some 8x HIM CARDS, how do I check the balance? I want to buy something off jbhifi

    • +7

      whats the card number and pin? I can check for you now.

      • dont answer that

      • Good one!

      • Wait, let me pay off my tax with all the Google play cards first and I'll give you the info of this one

  • Anyone bought any this afternoon? Activation issues sorted?

    • Bought 1:45pm, Active Balance $0 as of now

      • Bought 5 at 12 still showing $0 active

    • Yes. But now JB only accepting $500

      • +1

        Item i have on hold is $499, so perfect for me :)

    • Bought 11.45am, all 10 activated at 4.10pm so the load time has blew out to about 4.5 hours, some people in the morning were having theirs loaded in bout 3 hours

    • bought 12pm, activated by 4pm

  • +1

    Just got back from JB. Was able to use 30 Him/Her/Teen/Kid gift cards. The staff was fine about it, tried to go when it was less busy. Took about 10 minutes put through all the cards.

    Edit: I checked the balance on all the cards before going.

    • Good stuff, how long before your balance was updated?, a few hours? And which JB was this? Thanks

      • +1

        I checked around 1pm and the latest purchase was around 10:30am. Went to JB Maribyrnong. They had quite a few staff on due to Black Friday sales, probably twice as many as usual.

    • 30 cards, that must be above 500 right, it worked?
      ,was thinking iphone 11, but only got 5x100 =$500 Him cards,+ 100 card, ws under impression i can only use 500 of HIM card

      • At this stage it really just depends on the checkout person and the JB store. Seems like some let you do it some don’t.

      • Yeah, they are just eftpos cards. There doesn't seem to be a system limitation, just need to find someone that will let you put it through.

  • Bought 5 X $100 @ 11:56 @ 15:40 activated but no balance….grrrrrrr

    (Was only checking one of the cards, now checking 2)

    Waiting….waiting….

    Thinking I just should have paid full Black Friday price and f*&k the additional 15%

    In fact if I was guarnateed a refund from Coles, probably would…..

  • Coles South Perth aren’t even selling any gift cards included in the promotion. They say there’s an issue activating them and advise to go back tomorrow.

  • What's the best method to check card balance in Android?
    I see that they have TCN app but only for iPhone

    • It's on android

      • Thanks, the issue was with my Google account (under Argentina address due to the google family membership). Once I moved to AU account I can find it just fine

    • +1

      Which can't even send me an SMS verification code……(Android)

      • Yea, no SMS received it as yet…strange…unless their SMS server hammered too

      • no sms verification on ios as well

  • +3

    Bought $1500 worth from Coles; mainly $50 denominations as my local only had a few $100’s left. Store manager was a legend and just had me loop around each time with 5. Didn’t have any issues with activation.

    Then off to JB, first 2 stores struck out with hard limit of 5 per transaction - even mentioned buying and returning stuff - both times the managers said they would not return onto JB gift cards, but would have me escalate with TCN for a refund.

    On my third JB, they were legends and let me put through the lot in one go. All depends on who you get! Good luck!

    • which store was that?

      • Yes, please let us know. I would really appreciate it if you could tell which stores in Sydney are good to work with because of all the weeks for this promo to be run on, its come when I'm super crunched at work and sadly dont have much time to go travelling around.

        • +1

          Chatswood. You need to try and get them when it’s quiet - which was tough today! Fortunately I had some spare time to wait for the right moment.

        • +1

          I just went to Oatley, plenty in stock but no Restaurant or Pub versions

    • +2

      dedicated effort - kudos!

    • -3

      The store manager wasn’t a legend then was he. As he basically let you rinse the store dry of cards so nobody else got a look in

      • In my position, yes, he was a legend. Salty much?

        • To be honest my times worth far more than traipsing round stores to try and get some extra money off. But I still think it’s a dick move to flaunt the rules abs boast about it, such that others miss out

  • Do you have to activate/register the cards online before using them at JB?

    • Yes, cards need to be activated before use, which is where the issue is. Most cards appear to take hours to be activated after registration.

    • +2

      You don't, Coles does. It is meant to happen automatically during purchase.

      You should see on the receipt for each gift card it says approved, then it is taking a couple of hours for the funds to load.

      • Yes coles does that.. you can check online for balance.. it doesnt have option to activate..

    • Don't think this is the case. Bought 3 gift cards from Coles around 8am this morning went to JB Hi Fi at around 8:55am (15min drive), cards didn't work. Checked balance on one of the cards online around 10am and at that time it showed $100. Went to JB HiFi & all 3 cards worked. No need to activate online. Just wait & check online before heading to JB HiFi to save time & fuel.

  • +5

    Bought 5 cards at 11:45am, balance is finally showing on the site at 3:45pm.
    Patience my friends!

  • has anyone got instant activation after purchase?

    • nope.. waiting for 30 mins… still shows 0

    • yeah I did but bought them at 7:15am in Melbourne. Purchased 13 "Her" cards, waiting for JB to open at 8am and had no issues using them right away.

      • that's right, need to redeem asap before the news spread to JB.
        I should done this, but I need back to work and came back again at 1pm and too late.
        on POS cashier already have note printed of tcn T&C

        • I was skeptical on whether it would pay off or not. If not I would have ended up with extra cards which tbh would have been used on other things eventually, they last 3 years i think so worth the gamble

  • Just a thought. Are you allowed to change a payment method after you've purchased something? Eg. pay with your own card now to secure stock (at JB), and then when these gift cards finally show a balance, go back and ask them to refund the original payment method and process with the gift cards?

    • +1

      I've actually tried this before last year at one of the JB stores. The lady was really nice about it and written down on the receipt that I will be back the next day to pay with additional gift cards. She was also the same person processing it the next day (i.e. refunding the amount back to my CC and debiting the same amount from the gift cards). YMMV

  • Bought at midday, all my cards have zero balance!! Anyone had luck calling them, just rings out

  • +2

    some of the JB HI FI stores are catching up on the max $500.

  • Just grabbed some and self checkout had a limit of 3 instead of 5.
    Staff let me put it through in two transactions thankfully.

    All show approved so no issue with activation it would seem
    Now to see how long till funds appear on card.

    • dawn, I've been to so many Coles and non have stock left

      • This one (Armidale) had heaps of $100 him cards (but the ones wthout jb logos)
        I got the last of the $100 Her cards i could see

    • showing as active but no balance yet when i check on tcn site

    • 5 hours later, still $0 balance :/

  • Purchased gift cards at 11am, showed approved on Coles receipt, active but $0 showing when checking balance on The Card Network.

    It took 3.5 - 4 hours for the loaded money to appear on the gift cards

  • Purchased at 10:12am, 1:22pm now, active but $0 :/

  • from experience today, they take about 3-4hrs to activate before you can use them, not the end of the world if your not desperate to use them instantly.

    • I was planning to get a TV from jb in 1 hour. Trying to go to Coles now too. No use getting him card because it will take 3 hours to reflect?

  • +1

    I too bought 2 "Kids" $30 cards from Coles (1pm), and till now (4:30pm), they are still nil balance even though the cards are showing as "active".

    Hopefully it will come through soon, as I need to use them asap to get a gift from JB hifi

  • Can anyone confirm if/how physical 'The Restaurant Gift Card' can be added to Google Pay?

    • Found you can do this from their webpage (https://card.gift/pages/the-restaurant-card) under Go Digital.

      • +1

        Will they combine if you add multiple cards to the app? Or will i have to ask the restaurant to split payment if there is not enough left on one card?

        • They are showing as separate cards in Google Pay. I presume you would need to ask restaurant to do split payments if you don't have enough on a single card.

  • I only found some ‘home’ gift cards in my local Coles, is it no difference if I just want to use it in jb hifi ?

    • +1

      no 15% off the Home gift cards

  • bought a few at 13:45 today, so far $0 balance

    • +1

      Bought some at 12pm, balance just got updated around 5pm… don't think their system was built to handle the sustained volume of activations

      • now it's 20:45pm still nothing

  • +1

    Ok update from my 4 this morning purchased at St Marys at 7:46am, my coles have refunded me for the 4 I purchased. New cards on sale and let me go get more no issues. Got 20 (3 max through self check out but they let me just do then one after another. My local JB (will confirm store tomorrow) told me no limit on gift cards just will need a copy of my licence over $500

    • I got refund as well, while the local store will not sell any card like that. I will try in another store tomorrow.

    • I am on the way there. Did you buy new HIm or Her cards?

      So you processed 20 X $100 GCs through self serve checkout in 7 transactions?

      • Both 7 her and 3 him. Still some there didn't want to get to many

        • +1

          Thanks mate

          Hopefully my refund won't be issue and they will let me buy more

          • @Ash-Say: The young girl at self check out was awesome just let me stand there haha.

            • @BMX221: Going to try at self checkout. Hope she is still there

              Did you get refund first from service desk and then went inside to grab cards?

              • @Ash-Say: I went there first, I must have been the first one as she was to sure what to do and had to call someone so while she was doing that I got the new ones. They will scan one card then put in the amount you paid in their computer to refund you the correct amount.

    • Sorry bought 10 not 20

      • Got refund without any issue, however no $100 was left.

        Didn't bother with $50s

        • Oh bummer there was some when I left. I might check it out again in the morning and I'll let you know.

        • St Marys only had $30 and $50. Just left

  • +1

    Bought at 10:10 WST, it's now 14:18 and still $0 balance

  • Got a him card today from coles as grabbed the prezzie offer earlier today.
    But is there not a way to check balance of the him card without scratching the card for pin?
    I believe some have not got anything in there cards or takes a bit of time for it to go in.

    What if i scratch off the pin and nothing is there would coles not think i already used it?
    Probably not use it till mid next month or possibly sooner or even grab more if there is something i fancy before then.

    But my receipt says it's activated but that means nothing if no money in it which i would need to know.

    • MM same, how are Coles supposed to accept a refund if the pin is scratched off?

  • bought 5 x HIM cards ! money loaded

  • +5

    Woot. Purchased 5 X $100 at 11:56 . Finally activated 16:20.

    Straight into JB and am typing this on my new replacement Flex 5 Chromebook.

    Bit of debacle really. I think next time I'd just buy at normal Black Friday price for all the grief (yes you can take away my Ozbargain badge :p )

    • How is it? Good laptop?

    • same reason I'm grabbing them.
      Flex 5 at $425 is a deal

  • Is this the right card to buy?

    https://ibb.co/2qY5Vdv

    • +1

      no
      wrong brand, wont be discounted

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