Based on page 35 of this week's catalogue and in-store posters, there are two types of gift cards that are part of this week's gift card offer:
Category Visa Gift Cards | Prepaid Visa Gift Cards |
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No Purchase Fee Applies | $5.95 or $7.95 Purchase Fee Applies |
Dining Gift Card | Visa Green Gift Card (See Note 1) |
Fast Food Gift Card | Visa Congrats Gift Card |
Home Improvement, DIY & Tradie Gift Card | Visa Birthday Gift Card |
Night Out Gift Card | |
Spa & Beauty Gift Card |
A WARNING REGARDING THE PREPAID VISA GIFT CARDS:
NOTE 1 — Please note that the Variable Load $25-$500 Visa Green gift card does not immediately earn any points at the checkout. I purchased a variable load Visa Green gift card (the one with the new packaging) with $500 loaded onto it, but received zero points. However, the Everyday Rewards team confirmed that all denominations of the Visa Green gift card are eligible for bonus points, as long as it is purchased during the promotion period and the Everyday Rewards card was scanned before the transaction was finalised. It will likely require follow-up with the Everyday Rewards team to get the bonus points for the Visa Green gift card and there is a risk that the team provided wrong information, so proceed with caution.
NOTE 2 — Do not purchase the prepaid Visa gift card in the old packaging. I scanned one of these gift cards as well, and the checkout showed zero points. The Everyday Rewards team also confirmed it is not part of this deal. If you are interested in the prepaid Visa gift cards, ask the staff if they have the prepaid Visa gift card in the new packaging stored somewhere.
Additional notes:
This deal requires an Everyday Rewards account. If you do not have an Everyday Rewards account, use this link to get 1,500 bonus points as a sign-up bonus. The sign-up bonus points can take up to 30 business days to be credited to your account. If you sign into your new account through the Everyday Rewards app, you will get a special booster offer for 1,000 bonus points for shopping at Woolworths.
The category Visa gift cards can only be redeemed at merchants with specific Merchant Category Codes (MCCs)1 (similar to The Cinema, Pub & Bar, Restaurant and Pamper Gift Cards from TCN). Please refer to the link in the table above for a list of permitted MCCs for each category gift card.
The prepaid Visa gift card in this deal is only accepted at merchants who accept prepaid gift cards. Examples of merchants who do not accept prepaid gift cards include Suncorp Benefits, Menulog, Cashrewards' gift card portal and Woolworths Group’s gift card portal.2
For those of you who are wary of prepaid Visa/MC gift cards after the recent (likely) BIN attacks on Coles Gift Mastercards (and I don't blame you), the upshot is that Indue (the card issuer, and yes, they are the same card issuer as Coles Gift Mastercards) allows you to dispute any fraudulent transactions.
You cannot use EFTPOS gift cards with a card number starting with 5021 to pay for these gift cards at Woolworths. I tried this myself and was greeted with an Items Not Allowed error.3 I have not tested buying a prepaid Visa gift card using another prepaid Visa gift card, but it's safe to assume Woolworths has blocked that too.
If you have another question (e.g. can I use multiple cards to pay for gift cards, can I use Everyday Rewards Dollars to pay for gift cards), please check the FAQ page for gift card deals, as the answer may already be on that page!
Offer terms and conditions:
Offer available from 17/11/21 to 23/11/21 on all denominations of gift cards pictured in Woolworths supermarkets, Woolworths Metro and Woolworths MetroGo only, while stocks last.
Excludes Woolworths Online and Ampol Woolworths Metro.
Standard points will not be earned on amount spent on gift cards, but the relevant number of bonus points which you qualify for under this offer.
Bonus points can take up to 14 business days to be loaded onto your Everyday Rewards Card from date of purchase.
Refer to individual cards for their terms and conditions.
Limit of 10 cards per transaction and one transaction per day per Rewards Member.
Selected OnlyONE Visa and Visa Everywhere gift cards are subject to a purchase fee of $5.95 (or $7.95).
As a reminder, 2,000 Everyday Rewards points is equivalent to $10 in Everyday Rewards Dollars or 1,000 Qantas points.
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MCCs are four-digit numbers (as outlined in ISO 18425) assigned to merchants to categorise the type of goods or services provided by the merchant. ↩
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The reason for this is some merchants require 3D Secure, which enables a payment processor to verify billing addresses and request two-factor authentication codes (where required). Prepaid Visa/MC gift cards are designed to be non-reloadable, disposable cards, so enabling support for 3D Secure would cost too much for card issuers. ↩
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The reason is to stop team members from utilising their 5% off discount on (nearly all) gift cards at Woolworths and use an EFTPOS gift card to pay for an OnlyONE Visa gift card and then continue the cycle and attempt to profit off it… ↩
A $500 home improvement card is good value for anyone that likes to shop at Bunnings.
The only other one worth getting is a $500 variable load green card but it seems to be a gamble as to whether that is included in the promo. It appears that it may not be if the points are not loading at the time of purchase.