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.
Has anyone checked the TCN T&Cs - It looks like there is a limit on the number of cards you can use at JB. It also says you can't use to purchase a JB gift card. I had a problem once before when trying to convert these cards instore at JB
Here is the link: https://thecardnetwork.com.au/pages/terms-conditions
That's a very good point. It does say quite clearly in the T&C's "A maximum of $500 of Cards may be redeemed at JB HiFi (including online) in any one transaction".
Is anyone able to verify this?
Couldn’t you buy something from JB and just return it and be issued with a JB gift card as they cannot reload the cards ?
Haha, Can anyone confirm this works?
Has anyone tried this and does it work? I need to use 7 cards :(
Yeah it clearly applies to jb hifi so better buy 5 only
JB accepted 6 $100 vouchers when I bought Breville Coffee machine this morning. I bought 6 X $100 HER vouchers (at 15% disc) from Coles using 3% discounted Coles gift cards - Net paid $475, pretty good deal.
Hey, can you explain this deal to me please? I want to buy a 3k TV from JB. I can buy these gift cards over the counter at Coles? 6 of the $500 cards? They're 15% off, making it 2550. Then just walk into JB and pay for my purchase with the cards?
@jdib: There are no $500 cards. You'd have to buy 30 $100 ones, and find stock.
Well that throws a spanner in the works! Only $500 and can’t use to purchase JB gift cards 😞
Hold on is that just the T’s & C’s of the EFTPOS gift card?
The way I'm reading it, it would seem it applies to the JB HiFi cards, as they outline that: "Certain Cards distributed by THE CARD NETWORK are subject to these purchase limits or restrictions:" with JB HiFi being listed directly under that.
It's super vague in language. But that's my interpretation unless someone can validate otherwise?
We kinda need to find out before splurging $1600 on gift cards where we can only use $500 😞
not sure what is the current policy, i brought a phone back on May, instore,used 6 gift cards with mixture of jb egift card, ultimate home gift card and other i can not remember. just find out the receipts it shows
EFTPOS-VISA-MC ONLINE $100
EFTPOS-VISA-MC ONLINE $100
EFTPOS-VISA-MC ONLINE $100
ONLINE GIFT CARD $100
ONLINE GIFT CARD $ 50
eGIFT CARD REDEMPTION $149
total 599
i think even the EFTPOS limit is 500, we can still mix with other sort of gift card, and we are actually still take advantage of the 15% off.
@ce5himm: I have used 40+ $100 ultimate home gift cards at once with no problem. I know they are different gift cards than the current deal (different t&c), but I'm just pointing out that there isn't a "eftpos limit"
Ignore this looks like the same T’s & C’s for all cards. Looks like you’ve saved us all a lot of running around JKnoch92
I bought $1000 of the HER cards and $200 of the HIM cards through the Shopback Gift Card option and used them in one transaction at JB HiFi a week and a half ago. There was a huge drama with the cards not loading into Applepay Wallet properly and it took me four hours to finish the transaction (with no apology or follow-up from TCN), but they worked in the end. I have now learned - from my own experience - that TCN are useless when something goes wrong on their end and they also don’t care. Fair warning.
TL;DR: $1200 HIM/HER cards bought through Shopback worked in one transaction at JB HiFi a week and a half ago.
Did Apple Pay aggregate them into one or they are separate? I.e you need to scan it 12 times to redeem them all (assuming 100 denomination)
@takuarc: No they are individual. You will have 12 TCN cards in apple wallet. That's how I learned you can only have maxium of 12 cards in Apple wallet. I had to load some on my watch before I go so I don't need to load more card into wallet mid transaction.
Was this the physical or digital card?
@exc3113nce: digital
I had the same issue the first time and it turns out it is the network issue - the reception was quite bad.
And second time, I connected to the mall's free wifi, and it was quite smooth. I used all 12 of them.
Thank you for that. From previous comments, it seems like some stores don’t know/care about these T&Cs. However, with this sale and stores likely to be flooded with these gift cards, their policy might change. I guess it depends if you’re willing to take the risk or not.
My plan was to get $800 worth of cards to use for a PS5 once it becomes available. Now I think I’m going to pass and maybe get a couple of cards for smaller purchases.
when you said some stores did you mean jbhifi stores? anyone got rejected with over $500 in the past?
Yes, JB Hifi stores. I’ve never tried myself but other people succeeded in using more than 5 cards or converting them in jb hifi vouchers.
Agree. Just like the recent AppleTV4k JB price error, I reckon they'll be OzB-alerted pretty darn quick if not already. But may depend on your local JB staff if clued up!
I was hoping to do the same.
Sorry if this is a silly question, isn't it a possibility that you can buy an $800 device by splitting the total payment between $500 worth of gift cards and the rest by cash/card?
yes, you can split payment
I think this is pretty essentially information and should be added to the OP. It will prevent some people being stung when trying to use 5+ cards.
Hey thanks so much for this… was gonna drop $1.5k+ on these tomorrow but not anymore.
Feel like a mod should pin this to the top of the comments.
Just a week ago I combined my 18xjb hi fi gift cards(not from him and her,ect) $100 gift cards into 2. Max amount is $999. Managed to redeem velocity rewards in time before they went bust XD They used gift card to buy gift card :D
Did the T&C just get updated? It's amazing that nobody noticed this restriction until a few hours before it went live.
JB card is fine, you can do whatever you want. Problem is they hardly discount at 15-20%
Price matching would be the move here.
I wonder if this is new T&Cs. I used multiple cards during 10% cashrewards deal (all digital TCN cards 2 x $200 Home, $200 Him, $200 Her, $250 JB gc) in JB for iPad last week and pay for the rest of the balance using credit card. It went through without issue.
You can use you digital HIM/HER as a normal credit card, and buy jb card on their website
These are physical though?
JB do change of mind returns. Can't you just buy something for $500 and return it?
I think the main difference here is that these are 15% off the physical cards which appear to be EFTPOS cards that cannot be used online. Which is where the terms come in for transactions, and purchasing gift cards. Most people here purchased digital cards (which let you buy gift cards etc).
All showered and ready to head out to 4 coles stores… thanks for posting this
Also check the last page - there appears to be issues currently atm and some cards are being taken off the shelves.
Legend, was still going to try.. looks like I’ll do 5% off through work digital cards
I also used $2500 worth of TCN cards on a TV last month. After buying the cards you can choose to transfer them to normal JB gift cards or transfer them to the mastercard option. Also tried with the mastercard to buy JB gift cards on their website and that also worked multiple times.
Were these digital or physical cards that you converted?
Both I guess, bought as digital, changed some straight away to JB gift cards, others I changed to the eftpos mastercard option (same as physical) then used those to buy $100 JB gift cards online one at a time.
@BeerCrisp: If you bought them as digital I don't understand how they can be both? How exactly do you convert a physical TCN GC to a JB GC through JBs site? What details do you need to enter to do that please?
@EddieDaHead: These TCN cards come in eftpos mastercard form and can be spent at the listed retailers. As such, you use the card either in store or online to buy JB Hi-Fi gift cards one at a time. You then use these multiple gift cards to purchase the product. That's how I did it at least.
@BeerCrisp: could kindly advise on how to do this? i dont understand how u can use these online?
I used 12 gift cards with 3 jbhifi gift cards the week before last week in store without any issues.
Has this been proven otherwise by anyone? I just called 3 different JB stores and all said there's no limit on the number and/or amount of gift cards we could use.
Just bought iphone 12 using these cards onlyat Hoppers. Stocks levels are an issue in vic though
Checked the link again - the limit has been removed. Mod/ OP please update post!
Can you please link me to it or give me a screenshot? thanks in advance
It’s the same link, they just updated the content.
https://thecardnetwork.com.au/pages/terms-conditions