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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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              • @mmcs: VicRoads is a funny one. Some people can't bring themselves to pay the $2.60 quarterly admin fee even though they are already saving heaps more than that by paying with a gift card.

                • @capslock: The issue is when the annual is already due, it would be too late for you to switch over now.

    • +2

      You can split pay rego @ vic roads office, max 3 cards + cash
      can't do this in post office or online
      so the best way is to change it to half-yearly and pay it in 4 cards (2 cards X 2 transactions).
      admin fee will be something like $5 in total

      • +2

        I d rather pay another $5 to save me 2 trips to vicroads which potential waste an hour each.

  • +5

    https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/210713/106526/photo_20…
    Plenty of stock at my local Coles @5pm, somewhere in Melbourne SE
    sometimes stock arrive during lunchtime. worth checking in the evening.

    • +2

      That is an amazing display and how all stores should be stocked

      Not 2 or 3 little rows like my locals :(

    • Where please?

    • Wow!!

  • I’m amazed when I see ppl pulling out a couple k in cash and pays for these cards. Perfect way to get rid of your cash sales.

  • +3

    Just came back from Coles Southern Cross. There are plenty of $250.

  • Just tried to use one to buy a gift card from Shopback… no dice! Anyone managed to get this to work?

    • I managed to buy x4 AirBnb gift cards. It won't let me link anymore cards, says that it detects suspicious behaviour, try a different card issued by a different merchant.

      • Interestingly I tried a $200 and a $50 purchase and it has allowed this… just not $250!

  • Has anyone used it to bpay via BeemIt?

    • Prepaid cards (this) don't work on beemit

  • I've just registered a new flybuys account online for my missus, verified email and phone. Tried to scan it along with a few giftcards, didn't get the discount… any ideas guys?

    • Need to wait 24 hours

      • thanks!

      • 24 hours have passed since I registered flybuys for my wife. Still didn't work for whatever reason…

        • i tried 48 hours after registering and it wasn't working

        • So I found that after I completed all the steps in "Getting Started" and tried again the next day, it worked.

          But by now all the $250 would have gone…

  • Are those safer than digital or worse?

    • I'd say worse because in the past people have sliced open the packs to get the details then sealed them up and put back on the shelf. Apparently they made it harder to do with different packaging though. I've never had a problem though.

  • Looks like these don't work through prezee paypal, anyone else have the same issue? Coles mastercard worked for me though.

    • couldnt use these to pay for my electricity and gas when mastercard worked fine.

  • are shops reporting they getting more of these every other day?

  • Could not find any stock in Melbourne SE Pakenham area

  • +1

    Plenty @ Mowbray for Launceston peeps (all four of us).

  • Ive almost given up

    Only 50s at 5 of my local Melb stores.

    They have nicely refilled all shelves with $50s……

    • Just go straight to the counter

  • +1

    I need to remember to buy more than I think I'll need next time the digital card goes on sale. Running around looking for stock of this physical card is too hard.

    • Yes, stock is close to impossible this time.. no deliveries it seems

  • @WookieMonster I tried to purchase something worth $40 with this card from woolies yesterday and press enter when asked for PIN however card would not work. It worked at petrol station before going to woolies. Had sufficient funds and also worked at coffee shop today. So wondering what can be the issue for woolies.

    • -1

      What was the error message you saw on the EFTPOS terminal at Woolworths (or the error code printed on the receipt)?

      • Sorry I can’t remember it but I tried 3 times. No luck

        • +2

          Without knowing what the error message was, it would be tricky to know why your card was rejected in the first place.

          I have seen recent commentary that some redemption attempts at Woolworths will trigger a Card Over Limit error, but I have no idea what would cause that.

          Your transactions could have also been rejected, because Woolworths was unable to contact the gift card issuer, or Woolworths was refusing to process the gift card, or some other weird unexplainable error…

          • +1

            @WookieMonster: I tried to use them at Woolworths Metro store today to buy The Perfect Eftpos gift card but got the "Items Not Allowed" message. Then tried to use the Cokes Mastercard gift card and got the same as well. Looks like wollies have blocked these cards to purchase another gift card.

            • +1

              @dealsgrabber: I heard a few weeks ago that Woolworths blocked the Coles Mastercard gift card from being used to pay for a Perfect eftpos gift card. However, I think you should still be fine purchasing closed-loop gift cards (other than gift cards issued by Woolworths Group) at Woolworths using Coles Mastercard gift cards and Vanilla Visa gift cards:

              • I had no issues using Coles Mastercard gift cards to purchase a Super Adventure gift card last weekend.

              • Someone reported that they used Vanilla Visa gift cards to purchase Ultimate Home gift cards a few hours ago.

              • +1

                @WookieMonster: I think I now know what may have happened. The lady at the counter might have acted smart and purposely selected gift card as the payment option. When I asked for payment to be split into multiple cards to which I told Visa card, she would have acted smart and selected gift card as she probably understood I was using prepaid gift cards. I think she was just being oversmart!

              • @WookieMonster: I just used coles gift MasterCard to buy ultimate gift card. But bloody hard to use in front of staff as they are keep saying that “not allow to use gift-cards to buy gift card”. I just bought $3500 ultimate gift cards (obviously different rewards cards and different Woolworths) but only managed to use $1400 coles gift MasterCard and rests from credit cards. The conclusion is Woolworth banned coles gift MasterCard to buy Woolworth giftcard plus prepaid visa and eftpos cards but not for third party gift card “yet”.

          • +1

            @WookieMonster: Thx mate. I tried later at another woolies today and purchased same thing and transaction went through without any issues.

  • Can these be used directly on the apple website to buy apple gift cards instead of going through Prezee?

    • +1

      You can use this to buy Ultimate gift card at Woolworths first, then use Ultimate gift card to buy Apple gift card at JB.

  • +3

    The new Coles in Caulfield Village seems to have plenty of stock of the $250 Cards.

    https://imgur.com/a/7GbMbnV

    • Why cant Coles near me have rows of them like that?

      • +1

        I think the real question is why your local Coles cannot have rows of gift cards like this

        (Yes, I know, that photo is from an old promotion…)

    • Apparently they still have lots of stock in store but not on display, got mine from the kiosk

      • Thanks for sharing! Drove around to 5 different stores with no luck. Gave this store a call and they said they had heaps at the back. Can confirm that we purchased 5. Staff there need to grab them from the back though.

  • Is it safer to transfer these to an eBay giftcard? I'll be making a purchase in about a week or so, don't want to risk either storage method being hacked but not sure which is safer

    • I also wanted to do so but was only able to buy 3 from shopback before payment failed and I couldnt find any other online gift card seller accepting this card. I might gonna try to find some in store in WWS

      • The same thing happened to me.

        • +1

          finally found a few 711 that stock tcn and swapped for ebay

  • Has any one been able to split RACV annual payment

    • I rang them about it and they said maybe in-store and then not certain.

  • +1

    Has anyone successfully used these cards with Australian Unity/Wellplan Rewards?

    I would like to try and use these cards to then buy Apple gift cards (6%) discount and subsequently buy a new phone… my math brings this to a 13.6% discount but hoping someone else has tried this!

    • Doesn't let me buy from Bupa rewards, possibly won't work with Australian unity. Sorry couldn't be of more help.

    • Yes, worked for me on AU, bought a Woolworths gift card with no issues.

  • The following fees are applicable to your Card:
    Monthly Maintenance Fee (commences 7th month from date of purchase) $2.50
    Foreign Exchange Margin (on converted amount) 2.5%

    By the looks of it, there's a monthly maintenance fee if you keep the card for too long.

  • Getting insufficient balance error, looks like there's a pending $1 charge. So hard to bloody use these cards. I guess I'll wait and try again later.

    • More trouble than they're worth!

  • -1

    Great product!
    Purchased at 4pm, attempted to use at 5pm - failed.
    Checked balance; "blocked for fraud"
    Checked balance again an hour later; "please activate"
    Tried to call the 1800 number in the documentation, unable to connect at all.

    Ridiculous!

    • Welcome to the party.

    • More trouble than they're worth

  • Heaps in tassie

    • Can’t seem to find any $250s up north.

    • None in Sandy Bay and New Town

    • North west

      • I found a total of 5.

      • Oh sweet they restocked just before the deal ends lol. Cheers!

  • Any $250 stock sightings today in South East area?

    • +1

      Doncaster had a box about 2 hours ago. Said it was transferred from Mitcham.

  • -1

    Used 4 of $250 cards to buy 500x4 home cards from woolies.

  • I believe there is a limit on how many cards can be used at a single merchant a day/or a time period. But I just can't find a way to confirm it.

    I've tried to use the cards to pay my council rates, I was able to use up to 5 cards before "transaction was declined" error. But then the next day I could use the same cards which were declined the day before, but can't go above 5 cards.

    Today I tried to swap the cards by buying store credit of an online electronic store, I could only use 4 cards before the similar declined message was displayed. I'll try again after 24 hours and see. My theory was someone else could have used 1 card before me at the same store. If that's the case, potentially ozbargainers will probably need to "fight" for the 5 slots per day at a popular store in the upcoming days! This is ridiculously funny!

    @WookieMonster, is this something expected? Do you know the approx limit per day/period of time of these cards? Thanks alot!

    • These type of limits are commonly enforced per customer by the merchant or their payment processor for security/fraud reasons. There are many places that do this, all with differing limits. To name a few well known ones: ATO, JB Hifi, Sniip and Shopback

      • I'm pretty sure declined status is from the card issuer, not from the merchant side. (I'm a software developer familiar working with a few different payment gateways)

        I've got to try with other online merchants who automatically requested 3D Secure, which apparently failed for this prepaid card. In a flexible payment implementation, they should continue the payment without authentication for Prepaid Card. But they of course can argue that they "follow" the best-practices.

        If merchants enforce Strong Customer Authentication for online transactions, these type of prepaid cards will not work at all.

        I guess we need to be ready to hop through all these hassles to save ourselves a few bucks :D

        • Many merchants use "Declined" as a generic error message. The ATO portal also says "Declined" if you use too many cards, where it's actually them blocking the card, not the issuer. And yes this card will usually fail where 3DS is required.

          • @wangasm: yeah, that's true. Merchants can just use "Declined" as a blanket message for all failed payments. Maybe it's time to turn on my VPN and give it another try

          • +1

            @wangasm: Confirmed that VPN made my payment went through! I can tell that the website is using Paypal's Braintree payment gateway

  • +3

    Saw 25 x $250 and 15 x $100 approx cards at Malvern, Glenferrie Rd, 30 min ago.

  • I was late to the deal and been trying the past 5 days to find just one gift card! Sadly tried 3 stores, checking if they would stock back up and asked if they have more but they could not be bothered checking the system or answering if they were getting more, "i dont know".

  • Dang, no deals for South Aussies :(

  • Got the last 5 in tonight, has a weird experience of being asked for my license and the lady writing down my license number claiming that coles had a policy of this for purchases over $1,000. Has anyone else had this happen to them?

    • +2

      No. They just make up the rules. These deals bring out the worst power trips, especially in older long-term female employees. Speaking as an older female. One I have encountered in 2 stores in the past week is you can only buy 5 cards even though my husband and I were purchasing separately. The assistant said because they were going to the some place. Duh.

      • +2

        Had two friends with me at another store and had 15 put aside for the three of us, had the lady screaming “wHo aUtHoRiSeD tHiS” in the mic and I pulled out the catalog saying “yeah I think it’s says 5 per person in the catalog, should I call coles customer support to confirm for you?”. The death glare we got while buying them💀

      • I was thinking about complaint about it but would probably be more trouble than it’s worth

        • +3

          That's actually a pretty serious privacy breach.

  • any one had trouble using this card with terminal without physical enter key? i had 2 encounter where the shop's eftpos machine terminal has no physical enter key, instead its on screen enter type, the enter wont active if no pin been enter, and if i enter any pin, it will decline as pin incorrect? normal one i just hit enter without any pin, then it will says signature required and pass but not the one without physical enter button, any one know how to do this??

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