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[VIC, TAS] 10% off $100/$250 Vanilla VISA Gift Cards (Incl. $5.95/$7.50 Activation Fee) When You Scan Registered Flybuys @ Coles

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10% off $100 and $250 Vanilla VISA Gift Cards when you scan fully-registered Flybuys @ Coles

Limit 5 Gift Cards per Flybuys account per day. 10% discount will be applied to the value of the card including the applicable activation fee. Total cost for $100 gift card is $95.36 ($90 for card and $5.36 for activation fee) and for $250 gift card is $231.75 ($225 for card and $6.75 for activation fee). Offer valid in VIC and TAS only in store at Coles Supermarkets (excludes Coles Online, Coles Express and purchases via giftcards.com.au), subject to store availability. Excludes all other states. Excludes $25, $50 and $400 Vanilla Visa Gift Cards. To quality for this offer you must present your fully registered Flybuys card at the time of purchase. While stocks last, no rainchecks. Gift Cards cannot be used to purchase any other gift card sold at Coles. Offer valid from 13/9/23 to 19/9/23. Refer to individual gift card for terms and conditions. Flybuys privacy, policy applies. Standard Flybuys terms and conditions apply and are available at Flybuys.com.au. Vanilla Visa gift cards are issued by Heritage and People's Choice Limited trading as Heritage Bank ABN 11 087 651 125 AFSL 244310 pursuant to a license from Visa Worldwide Pte Limited. Fully-registered Flybuys members must have joined the Flybuys program via the Flybuys app or flybuys.com.au, provided their firs and last name and verified their registration with a mobile number and email address. This can be done instore via the QR codes available, following the 'sign up' prompts. This promotion requires full Flybuys registration and is not available for use with an unregistered temporary card or for partially registered members.


The offer for other states is 30x Flybuys points on Uber & Uber Eats gift cards.

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    • +2

      Doubt it.

      Coles pushed out on update for its checkouts on 19 April 2023 to block customers from using any gift cards issued by Coles Group to pay for gift cards. I have tried using different types of gift cards issued by Coles Group to purchase different types of gift cards since then (e.g. Coles Mastercard gift cards, Ultimate gift cards, Uber gift cards) and I have triggered Invalid Product Mix error messages each time.

      Feel free to give it a go if you want, but I would be surprised if it worked.

  • +3

    Went to two Coles today, $250 ones already missing from the shelves. only $25, $100 and $400 ones left.

    • +1

      Chexk in the freezers.. OZB fav spot for hiding 😋

    • -1

      That's unbelievably lame

    • +1

      Yeah, my nearest Coles are missing both the $100 and $250 as well.

    • Yep! Same as my nearest Coles.

      • 10% off sale counts on new deliveries, not existing stock.

    • Update
      Went to one of the two Coles @7:15am, had 2 stacks of $250 cards, bought 5 as still have plenty Coles prepaid master cards.

    • +2

      Went in this morning to the same Coles I went to last night and can confirm the $250 were "hidden elsewhere" by an individual. Said individual walked in with me to the Gift Card display .. no $250 cards. Walked away elsewhere and saw him pay for 5x$250 of them cards. Likely picked up from a hidden spot.

    • I went today and only $100s left. I asked a staff member if they had any and she said "I have no idea" and stormed off.

  • If i purchased one of these, would i be able to link it through shopback to purchase example a 3% cashback $250 sca gift card?

    • SCA giftcard was 10% off in Woolies yesterday.

      • Oh dam it, missed it, probably expired now unfortunately

  • Just grabbed some and can confirm I was able to use it on Amazon straight away to purchase items.

    • -2

      An update: I just checked my Amazon order details for an unrelated reason and saw that the payment couldn't be processed off the Visa and it has charged my backup card. Luckily was able to cancel but as Wookie commented below I didn't wait 30min after purchasing so could still be loading.

      That said, I logged into the balance check website before trying it on Amazon and it did show a balance of $250.

      Will go to work and try it again this evening.

    • +1

      FYI Amazon don't actually charge your card until the order is in the process of shipping.

      To avoid the whole waiting to find out thing. You should just buy an Amazon gift card with it from Shopback or Prezzee.

      • I was trying to use it to buy the Activ Visa cards so I can load them onto my phone and use them as a tap and go card to avoid any signature required dramas.

        • Great idea! But $7.95 fee applies - and the max is $200 isn’t it? I wonder if you can purchase with discounted Amazon GCs…

          • @bargain-hunter: You cannot purchase an Activ Visa gift card or an OnlyONE Visa gift card on Amazon using Amazon gift cards. There is no way you can use the gift card balance on your Amazon account during the checkout process.

            • +1

              @WookieMonster: Thanks @WookieMonster. Didn’t think so but I used to buy Restaurant Choice GCs using my Amazon credit so wasn’t sure!

          • @bargain-hunter: The title shows the fees but at checkout it's just $200 and free shipping so I was trying to check out with a $200 and a $50 in the cart. I can't try it now as I have to work but here's the link if you want to give it a go.

            https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=activ+visa

            • @daanish: The issue is: it is very difficult for you to dispute when the card is not properly activated. It happened with Auspost giftcard sale.

              • @Neoika: What do you mean by that?

                As in because I didn't pay any activation fee I would be left without a leg to stand on if the card doesn't activate?

                That's not something I thought about but ab important consideration. Cheers

                • +1

                  @daanish: Can confirm this works, card arrived from Amazon properly activated. Good tip

  • How long do these take to activate? Tried paying a bill with it and it go declined.

    • +2

      Did you wait about 30 minutes between purchasing the gift card and attempting to redeem it? In the March 2023 deal, that was how long I had to wait before the gift cards would work.

      In earlier deals, I had to wait up to 4.5 hours…

      • +2

        No I haven’t. Thanks WookieMonster. Usually the Coles Mastercard would work instantly. Hence I thought it would be the same.

        It worked. Thanks WookieMonster

  • +1

    Darn it, I can't purchase $300 Supermarket cards from Shopback, curse their security protocols on giftcards.

  • -5

    Discount not working in NSW, tried few Coles but no discount reflected. Customer service says discount is only on Uber card which have 30X points.

    Sorry my bad didn’t read the post correctly and got super excited :)

  • +1

    As usual there is little to no stock in the south east. With traffic so bad these days it is not worth it driving around looking for stock.

    • I was just at Southland, managed to get x10 $250 with my wife's and my FB cards.
      Still plenty left, I estimate about 40+ cards remaining at the time I purchased approx 10am

  • +4

    No stock at my 3 locals. Usually no issues

    Racks were empty so i suggest they have been hidden yesterday perhaps

    Bring back the online 10% deal

  • Notice the total was slightly higher than the Mastercards? Like $2 more for 5 cards

    • +2

      obviously activation fee is different….

  • Has anyone used these cards in store at JB to purchase Apple gift cards. Will these cards work?

    • They should.

    • +4

      You should use them to buy the Ultimate cards that earn 20x points at Woolworths this week and then use those cards to purchase Apple gift cards at JB Hi-Fi.

      • Gr8 idea, any fees involved?

      • I was wondering if that's allowed? Can these be used in Woolies?

        • Yes you can. I just purchased the Ultimate cards from Woolworths using the Vanilla GC using self checkout.

      • Why don’t you just buy the iPhone in JB?

        • You could but the original commenter said they wanted Apple gift cards.

        • Is there much of a difference between buying from JB vs Apple in terms of support?

  • vanillabalance.com doesn't seem to wanna give me my balance, the website looks like it's built in the 80s. Anyone else?

    • Yeah had the same issue.

  • Purchased today in Ringwood and shelf was chock full, i would estimate 100 cards and probably more hidden away.

  • Hi all do anyone know if we can add this to any digital wallet?

  • Anyone know if you can pay quarter multiple times into VicRoads?

  • Tried to use the GC at Coles but get error message about daily limit exceeded! And the amount was only $14!!!!

    • +1

      Called the helpline and was told to wait 24 hours before use!??

  • +8

    Lol. A $250 Vanilla Visa card I purchased less than an hour ago appears to have already been stolen:

    13/9/2023 - 11:22:25 - Activate And Load Card - $250.00

    13/9/2023 - 12:01:28 - [POS Purchase] Pre-Auth Transaction-POS Signature Purchase PAYPAL *THEDR - $233.20

    Available balance: $16.80

    • +2

      That's scary?!!

    • I'm not trying to victim blame or anything, but did you check that the packaging was intact before you purchased?

      From the timing, I would think someone is recording the details off the cards in store, then checking the balance once per hour until someone activates them, then spending on them as soon as they get a match.

      • Packaging was definitely intact and there were no signs of the sort of tampering we've seen in past incidents.

        • Yikes, even worse then.

    • I wonder if the same card number is printed and packaged twice, just like the digital Coles Mastercard.
      In previous stolen cases, usually the remaining balance is under $5.
      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/721415
      The theft would be too generous for not spending the remaining $16.80 lol

    • +1

      Also CVV is required to add a card into your Paypal wallet.
      On the other hand when a card is stolen, CVV is not required in that transaction, like TikTok or Healthy Massage

    • Thanks for sharing and sorry to hear your experience. I think I'll pass this time round…

    • Christ….you'd think they would want to improve the security on these so people hoard them and forget to use them like with other gift cards. I've been bitten by these before which is why I decided to use them right away but within 1 hour after purchase is so unlucky.

    • Yikes, this should be sticky at the top as a warning

    • +2

      So what happens now?

  • Trying to pay ATO bill - does it matter what "Cardholder name" is? Should it be empty, "FOR YOU" (lol) or my name?

    • ok it worked with "For You". Card was declined just until 30 mins after activation sharp.
      You need to pay $249 for $250 card to ATO to account for the fee.

  • I registered a new Flybuys card last night for my wife to purchase these, however when attempting to purchase a few $250 cards at Coles the discount didn’t come through. The checkout attendant couldn’t explain why the discount didn’t show. The flybuys account has had all details inputted you would expect - any ideas why the discount isn’t showing? She has already received through some flybuys offers via email. Is there a need to do something else to get flybuys to offer discount on these cards for a new account?

    • Assume that the FB card was scanned?

      • Yes and showed a flybuys logo on the checkout. No issues scanning it in.

    • I remember seeing a condition with the Coles Mastercard special that you needed to be a Flybuys member for X duration in order for the discount to be valid. It might be a similar thing here. I can't remember what that duration was however.

    • From the previous deals there's a waiting period of 24 hours for new flybuys registrations before they work with these deals

    • +1

      Family Linked flybuys cards also don't work. My mum's is linked to mine and wouldn't work after I bought my 5.

    • Vic/Tas?

  • I cant seem to use Paypal to purchase prezze gift cards any more. anyone else having issue?

    • +1

      Just did it and it worked. In Paypal you have to select the card you want as the "Preferred when paying online".

      • Didn't work for me - "Unfortunately , your order was unsuccessful due to payment assessment from our processor…..".PayPal does send an email saying "You authorized a payment to Prezzee Pty Limited".

  • For anyone trying to pay their Council Rates, these cards didn’t work initially. But it worked after 1 hour, so there may be a delay in activation of the card.

    • Seems to be a lag between activation and becoming operational, as in my case, after calling helpline and 1 hour later it worked for me.

  • Lynbrook coles just re-stocked 30 mins ago

  • Any luck that QLD might have this promotion soon?

    • I doubt it. The trend has been to run this offer in February for NSW/ACT and then in September for VIC/TAS. None of the other states or territories seem to get Vanilla Visa promotions.

      Your best bet will be a 10% off Coles Mastercard gift cards promotion. They'll probably run one of those on 18 October though who knows which states and territories will be included.

      • Cheers thanks for the info!

  • +1

    Plenty 250s stocked at a few of my local Coles. However had to pay for them at the service counter as they apparently don't work at the self checkouts

    • +2

      3 Will normally work at Self serve, anymore and it requires the manager password which the service desk staff normally know/where the Manager hides

  • +1

    5 stores in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne - No $250's there must be something going on, spoke to a Manager who knows me and she said not many have sold, so they must be hidden :(

    Will try again tomorrow as she said more stock was coming

  • Any way to pay rego with these? On the vicroads website, it seems you have to pay the entire amount in 1 transaction.

    • +3

      Change your rego into quarterly instalments. Otherwise someone else said that they went into a VicRoads office and the staff there allowed split payment.

      • Thanks mate. The admin fee on changing to quarterly payments makes my inner ozbargain sad I'm not getting the full saving.

        • When I checked, the difference was 2 cents, so yeah hand in your ozbargainer license if you have to pay an extra 2 cents and a CC fee for using a discounted visa card.

          • @HopSkipJumpFallSplat: https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registration/registration-fe…

            Key things to know:

            A service fee of $2.60 applies for every 3 and 6 month registration renewal, unless you hold an eligible concession card.

            so splitting it in to quarterly payments means you are paying $10.40 more than if you were to have paid yearly.

            • +1

              @fufufu: Oh yeah thats a bit rich of them, I'm on concession and the difference was 2 or 3 cents, pretty sure 2 cents.

              • @HopSkipJumpFallSplat: So were you able to pay for the second installment after you paid for the first or do you have to wait for the due date? I assume you did it online.

                • +1

                  @fufufu: Mine was past due so it was fine, was already on quartely from previous card deals.
                  From memory you can't pay a second upcoming rego until x amout of time before it's due and I can't test that as a payment is being processed atm.
                  Yes, did it online.

      • -1

        @capslock Vic roads office, you mean they actually still exist.

      • Has anyone been able to pay by calling Vicroads? Australia's out of money…banks and government agencies have all been closing doors. My nearest Vicroads office is more than 30 minutes drive away…

        • you can pay it online.

          • @mmcs: You can't do split payment online, even with Bpay.

            • @wangasm: don't split it, just pay for 3 months at a time

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