15% off TCN Teen, Kids, Baby, Home, Active, Shop, Choice, Cinema, Pamper + More Gift Cards (Excludes Variable Load) @ Coles

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15% off TCN Teen, Kids, Baby, Home, Active, Shop, Choice, Cinema, Pamper + More Gift Cards (Excludes Variable Load) @ Coles

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Taegukgi on 15/11/2023 - 13:07 coles.com.au (45470 clicks)
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15% off TCN Teen, Kids, Baby, Home, Active, Shop, Choice, Cinema, Pamper & Good Food Gift Cards (Excludes Variable Load. In-store only)

From the upcoming Coles catalogue sale starting 22/11.

Time to start organizing Ozbargain meet ups at Coles.

Full credit to Vooks.

Limit 5 Gift Cards per customer. Offer valid only in store at Coles Supermarkets (excludes Coles Online, Coles Express and purchases via giftcards.com.au or coles scanshoppay.com.au), subject to store availability Excludes Variable Load Gift Cards Excludes all other TCN Gift Cards not listed above. While stocks last, no rainchecks. Offer valid from 22/11/23 to 28/11/23. Gift Cards can't be used to purchase other Gift Cards at Coles, Refer to individual gift card for terms and conditions.

Gift Card	Participating Retailers
TCN Teen	adidas, ASOS, Beginning Boutique, Billabong, Bonds, Calvin Klein, Champion, City Beach, Cotton On, Culture Kings, Dr. Martens, Dymocks, Factorie, Foot Locker, Ghanda, Glassons, Glue Store, H&M, Hype DC, INTERSPORT, Jay Jays, JB Hi-Fi, JD Sports, Kingpin, Nike, NRLShop.com, Perfect Stranger, Platypus, PlayStation Store, Princess Polly, Quiksilver, rebel, Roblox, SHEIN, Showpo., Sportsgirl, Strike, Supré, Surf Dive 'n Ski, SurfStitch, The AFL Store, The Athlete's Foot, The Oodie, Timezone, Tommy Hilfiger, Typo, UGG Express, Universal Store, White Fox Boutique, Xbox, Zone Bowling.
TCN Kids	adidas, AG LEGO® Certified Stores, ASOS, Bonds, Booktopia, BOUNCE, City Beach, Cotton On, Cotton On KIDS, Culture Kings, DECJUBA KIDS, Dymocks, Foot Locker, Ghanda, H&M, Holey Moley, Hype DC, INTERSPORT, JB Hi-Fi, JD Sports, Just Jeans, Kidstuff, Kingpin, New Balance, Nike, NRLShop.com, Platypus, PlayStation Store, Quiksilver, rebel, Roblox, Skechers, Smiggle, Strike, Surf Dive 'n Ski, SurfStitch, The AFL Store, The Athlete's Foot, The Trybe, Timezone, Toyworld, Typo, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, Xbox, Zone Bowling.
TCN Home	Adairs, Adairs Kids, BCF, Dymocks, eva, H&M, House, JB Hi-Fi, Kogan.com, Matchbox, MyHouse, PETstock, Provincial Home Living, Robins Kitchen, SHEIN, Sheridan, Sheridan Outlet, SUNNYLiFE, Supercheap Auto, The Good Guys, TK Maxx, Urban Home Republic, V.I.P. Home Services, Weber, Wheel & Barrow.
TCN Active	adidas, BCF, Big Swing Golf, Billabong, Bonds, Camping World, Champion, City Beach, Compleat Angler, Cotton On BODY, Decathlon, Drummond Golf, Foot Locker, Giant, Glue Store, H&M, Hype DC, INTERSPORT, JD Sports, Macpac, Merrell, New Balance, Nike, NRLShop.com, Platypus, Puma, Quiksilver, rebel, Skechers, Sportsco, SportsPower, Stylerunner, Surf Dive 'n Ski, SurfStitch, The AFL Store, The Athlete's Foot, Zone Bowling.
TCN Shop	adidas, Adore Beauty, ASOS, Bonds, boohoo, Bras N Things, Calvin Klein, Champion, City Beach, Cotton On, DECJUBA, Dotti, Dymocks, Foot Locker, Forever New, Ghanda, Glassons, Glue Store, H&M, Hello Molly, Hype DC, Jacqui E, Jay Jays, JD Sports, Jeans West, Just Jeans, Kogan.com, Kookai, Macpac, Nike, Nine West, Peter Alexander, Platypus, Portmans, rebel, SHEIKE, SHEIN, Sheridan, Sheridan Outlet, Showpo., Smiggle, Sportsgirl, Stylerunner, Supré, Sussan, Suzanne Grae, TK Maxx, Tommy Hilfiger, Typo, Universal Store, White Fox Boutique, Wittner.
TCN Choice	Academy Brand, Adairs, Adore Beauty, AG LEGO® Certified Stores, Baby Bunting, Bae The Label, BCF, Beginning Boutique, Billabong, Booktopia, Bounce, Calvin Klein, Champion, Cotton On, Culture Kings, Decathlon, Decjuba, Decjuba Kids, Dotti, Dr. Martens, Drummond Golf, Dymocks, Edge Clothing, eva, Ghanda, Glassons, Glue Store, Hallenstein Brothers, Hello Molly, Hype DC, INTERSPORT, Jeanswest, Just Jeans, Kidstuff, Kookai, Macpac, Matchbox, Merrell, Neverland, NRLShop.com, Oz Hair & Beauty, Perfect Stranger, Petal & Pup, Peter Alexander, PETstock, Platypus, Princess Polly, Provincial Home Living, Quiksilver, rebel, Ripe Maternity, Scotch & Soda, Seafolly, SHEIKE, SHEIN, Sheridan, Sheridan Outlet, Showpo., Skechers, Smiggle, Sportsco., Sportsgirl, Stylerunner, SUNNYLiFE, Supercheap Auto, Surf Dive 'n Ski, SurfStitch, Sussan, Suzanne Grae, The AFL Store, The Athlete's Foot, The Oodie, The Trybe, Tiger Mist, Timberland, TK Maxx, Tommy Hilfiger, Tony Bianco, Typo, UGG Express, Universal Store, Van Heusen, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, VIP Home Services, VRG GRL, Weber, White Fox Boutique.
The Cinema Gift Card	Use this gift card at cinemas that accept eftpos (for physical gift cards) or Mastercard (for digital gift cards) around Australia. (Gift card subject to individual merchant acceptance.)
The Pamper Gift Card	Use this gift card at salons, day spas and beauty clinics that accept eftpos (for physical gift cards) or Mastercard (for digital gift cards) around Australia. (Gift card subject to individual merchant acceptance.)
The Good Food Gift Card	Use this gift card at participating restaurants around Australia.

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AussieDaddy on 22/11/2023 - 00:22

+2

I'm in front of a Coles store that opens at midnight (in Adelaide), and people are already lining up outside the door 15 minutes before the opening time (if I mention ethnicity I know I'll get into trouble). In other nights there's hardly anyone here. Unbelievable!
- Dienk on 22/11/2023 - 02:31
  
  😆
- batrarobin on 22/11/2023 - 02:53
  
  +11
  
  Ethnicity: OzBargainer 😂
- HitlersDad on 22/11/2023 - 07:33
  
  Crazy.
ce5himm on 22/11/2023 - 05:54

+1

If you can't find any right after open, check with staff, they may hide them behind the counter. It happened before.
YOLO on 22/11/2023 - 06:31

Has anyone used these to buy movie world passes? I see village roadshow them parks is included? Thanks.
Nedkellyinthebush on 22/11/2023 - 06:52

Is there any history of tampered/cloned cards like with the Apple gift cards?
Where someone steal the card, replace it with a fake one and steal your money after you buy it and activate it?
diffusal on 22/11/2023 - 07:03

Ozb showed out this morning and cleaned out Coles… got there like 30min after open walked past registers grandparents and the grandkids, that's some true ozb spirit right there family event!
- cerealsmok3r on 22/11/2023 - 07:05
  
  Which one was this?
  - diffusal on 22/11/2023 - 07:11
    
    +1
    
    Clemton Park
pennypincher98 on 22/11/2023 - 07:14

+8

To the guy at Norwest Coles at 7am sorry I found your stash and moved it 🤣
- Nedkellyinthebush on 22/11/2023 - 07:30
  
  It’s literally a rat race lol
omg111 on 22/11/2023 - 07:17

visited 2 coles nearby around 6-6:30am, none has $100 gift cards available (checked with staff), I had seen them yesterday in the same stores during lunch time, bunch of them but all disappeared this morning….
bluespider on 22/11/2023 - 07:17

Couldn’t find any stock $100 cards at local Coles (2153).
mooreshady on 22/11/2023 - 07:19

My Coles has many people this morning , not for the Home (phew). Though only $50, couldn’t see $100. And the Home is located at the Ultimate section lol. Got myself 2x Home $50. Just needed for now.
campez on 22/11/2023 - 07:24

I lined up at my local Cole’s this morning amongst families with all there 9 children and cousins who sprinted into the store. Most people there took waaaaay more than 10 each, some people pulled the full stacks off the wall and ‘walked down random aisles’.
Thankfully the $100 home cards where full replenished and I got 5 and gave my 6th to the guy behind me at the gift card stall.
lloydXC on 22/11/2023 - 07:24

+4

Local Coles, as soon as it opens, swamps of Asian came into the store and went straight to the Giftcard section. No offence I’m Asian too but the staff was looking disgusted and amazed at the same time lol. They literally grabbed everything including the non-discounted like Him and Her cards lol. One dude grabbed 10 Kids card $30. I couldn’t even get passed them so just grab a coconut water at half price and went home. That must be a scene for the security guy watching cameras.
I should have bought more ultimate cards when it was 15% off online some months ago.
How’s yours?
- Neoika on 22/11/2023 - 07:53
  
  Last year, Ultimates 15% off later with plenty of stock. I think Ultimates are of better options than TCN now.
  
  I didn't upvote here. Nor did I go to the store.
- Levathian on 22/11/2023 - 08:03
  
  When I worked at Coles years ago this happened the first time we had a gift card sale. Store opened 7am and a flock of people sprinted to the gift card stand and started arguing over the cards. None of them were our regular Wednesday morning folk and the only thing they bought were the cards
  - neonlight on 22/11/2023 - 23:28
    
    Yeah they are the regulars doing so they either try to resell them for a profit. Or they are doing this for big purchases at the big retailers. They ain't the usual customers at Coles for anything else.
    
    Unfortunately i believe a lot of them are grandparents being sent by their families to do this chore to earn some money or doing the needy for their kids or grandkids
    
    Its only possible to do if you ain't working.
Moventura on 22/11/2023 - 07:24

Went to four different Coles this morning. Only one had $100 gift cards. At least I have enough for my Rog Ally. Sorry JB, you are about to get a lot of $50 gift cards 🤣

Saw one family at two of the Coles I went to. All four members getting 5 cards each.
- lloydXC on 22/11/2023 - 07:39
  
  bro went to 4 different coles within 20 mins of open! Boss!
  - Moventura on 22/11/2023 - 07:49
    
    They all opened at 6. Took me about 40 minutes 🤣
snvl on 22/11/2023 - 07:25

+2

All gone at castle hill within 15 minutes
- t0087669 on 22/11/2023 - 07:29
  
  All gone like all categories gone? Even baby?
  - snvl on 22/11/2023 - 07:31
    
    +1
    
    I couldn’t see it. It was so many people. I gave up
Dawei Lego on 22/11/2023 - 07:29

+9

I needed some for an IPhone purchase so I rocked up at 6am to see what it was like, as my coles mates had told me it is usually a huge amount of Daigous hitting the cards.

Honestly what I saw made me embarrassed to be Asian and associated with them haha - it was like a crowd of mindless sheep with blank looks on faces scurrying in and out. To their credit I didn’t see any pick up hidden stashes, they just congregated at the gift card section with the blank look on their faces.

Anyway, was a waste of time to save $37, especially copping the looks from non Asian customers as
Well as listening to the condescending warnings from Coles staff in slow, idiot proof English, not to buy more than 5. Too early in the day to be talked down to like a child that doesn’t understand English haha
- HitlersDad on 22/11/2023 - 07:35
  
  +1
  
  Obey
- Nedkellyinthebush on 22/11/2023 - 07:50
  
  +3
  
  I agree, totally not worth it. I was paying for my 5 gift cards when a guy rock up behind me and was turned away by the cashier because he recognised him trying to buy another 5. The third lady in the queue, an elderly woman in her 70s ask the cashier “oh, they doin’ those gift cards again?” Not sure if she was annoyed or just disgusted, or both. For me the whole scene was surreal and embarrassing and I’ll definitely never do this again
pandy penyu on 22/11/2023 - 07:34

+11

Was at South Melbourne Coles this morning, they were just like packs of hungry animals, the staff had to drop the cards on the floor just like a zookeeper, and they were all gone within 5 seconds.
- kcy on 22/11/2023 - 07:52
  
  So none left? 😔
  - pandy penyu on 22/11/2023 - 08:09
    
    None of the discounted ones, sorry
wolfazrael123 on 22/11/2023 - 07:37

Thats why I decided to purchase more at 10% discount from wws yesterday. The frustrating fact was that I always use OW prepaid visa card to buy ultimate gift card and yesterday the new purchased prepaid cards were not valid to pay for the ultimate gift card (old card still worked on spot)
t0087669 on 22/11/2023 - 07:37

-1

Can someone confirm that can you get Woolies cards and pay at Coles?
Red Pandas on 22/11/2023 - 07:43

+1

Sounds rough out there atm, rising cost of living making a big appearance today?

When I went to buy some this time last year, I was the only one there at my local Coles with heaps of $50 and smaller denomination cards available, I was convinced the $100 cards were a myth and still do. But didn’t see too many ‘daigous’ last year.

Decided not to participate this year, just here for the comments. Sounds embarrassing by the looks of it
Ozie on 22/11/2023 - 07:44

-6

Which one can be used at officeworks and do they have limit on mumber of cards pls?
- snvl on 22/11/2023 - 07:46
  
  Search broken?
cerealsmok3r on 22/11/2023 - 07:45

+1

All homes went for a hot minute lmao. Heaps of teens kids and choice in lower denominations at park more vic. They’ve got home at 50 stocked at the back if anyone wants
toyapple9 on 22/11/2023 - 07:46

Can someone pls confirm is there any numner of tcn home card usage limit when you use them at goodguys physical store purchase? I am looking to buy fridge from goodguys and i have 10 tcn home cards from previous promotions to use? Thanks
- dreamykitten on 22/11/2023 - 07:52
  
  I used 16 $100 TCN gift cards at The Good Guys on one transaction last year. No issues. Staff was happy to split payment.
  - toyapple9 on 22/11/2023 - 07:53
    
    Thanks mate. Glad to hear
  - Dark Zeus on 22/11/2023 - 15:39
    
    Staff was happy - Of course but
    
    Queuing customers weren't happy!!
- cerealsmok3r on 22/11/2023 - 07:58
  
  Have seen comments go up to 27 without issues
Fishesass on 22/11/2023 - 07:53

Kellyville NSW sold out
nateid03 on 22/11/2023 - 07:55

+2

Pretty cruisey out east Melb - couple of people here and there. Spoke to one of the staff - one guy had already visited 6 stores: have to admire the determination. Sad to hear about what's happening in town - harks back to covid loo paper times (stares off into distance)
- cerealsmok3r on 22/11/2023 - 07:58
  
  Oooh which area is this haha
  - Moventura on 22/11/2023 - 09:04
    
    I had no issues around Cranbourne area. Visited Cranbourne West, Clyde North, Cranbourne North and Lynbrook Coles. Only Clyde had $100 cards, but all shops had heaps of $50 cards
BoundedRationality on 22/11/2023 - 08:00

Managed to hit 2 Coles on the way to work this morning and got 5 each of $50 and $30 (was hoping to get $100s but mysteriously all gone at open). Definitely ain't worth the hassle and goodness me do I hope I don't look as desperately ravenous as a lot of the other people buying them :O
Levathian on 22/11/2023 - 08:00

+1

May the odds ever be in your favour
Tight-AS5 on 22/11/2023 - 08:00

Can i buy officeworks gift cards using these at coles?
- rsmallri on 22/11/2023 - 08:05
  
  +1
  
  No
Porker on 22/11/2023 - 08:02

+2

Feeding frenzy for outer east Melbournce Coles (near me) this morning.

Sadly though, perhaps in the mayhem, a few others bought the wrong gift cards, either non-discounted TCN or other's (eg ultimategiftcard) version of KIDS and TEEN.

Annoyingly though, I had already told those few that those cards weren't discounted but they still proceeded to buy… and then seek refunds.
- snvl on 22/11/2023 - 08:10
  
  and then seek refunds
  
  good luck with that
  - polishka on 22/11/2023 - 13:25
    
    -2
    
    I must have got lucky, not only did I get a refund for my ultimate but also $75 (15% of $500) deposited back onto my card.
- WookieMonster on 22/11/2023 - 09:24
  
  It reminds me last year when I went to a Coles a couple of minutes after opening at the start of the 15% off Ultimate gift cards deal.
  
  There were about ten people gathered around the gift card shelf, trying to figure out which gift cards to purchase. One person grabbed a TCN Him gift card and went to the checkout, then proceeded to get cranky with the young checkout person for that gift card not being discounted. Rightio…
  
  No one was going near the Ultimate Home gift cards, probably because it was not pictured in the catalogue, so I grabbed five from the shelf. Someone noticed I did that and asked if it was discounted, and I said in a slightly elevated voice holding up a gift card “yeah these are discounted too”. I had never seen people move so fast at a gift card shelf!
Sam33sam on 22/11/2023 - 08:04

+3

Quite amazed with the way it was rushed and grabbed. In all fairness, I was also one among the gang, but this is 1st time I was going after this Coles TCN 15%. To my surprise, I was almost 1st person to enter the store, no 100$ denominations were available, one sneaky customer straight walked into the checkout counter with 5x100$ GC. Surely it was shop lifted yesterday.

One of the customers tried to check out 10x50$ cards, the staff at bill counter gave a grumpy face and went to the extent of asking for his driving license. Oh no, this is looking like a lot of policing too.

Possibly, we are better off with Woolies 10%off ultimate card whenever they put the sale, I have seen that is being available throughout the week without any mad rush. It's ok to give up 5% to deal with these ugly scenes.
- Sam33sam on 22/11/2023 - 08:06
  
  After all these efforts, ended buying 50x 5 Teen card. That suffices the requirement to buy Google pixel watch half price at JB. Fair deal.
- Levathian on 22/11/2023 - 08:09
  
  -1
  
  Ugh I don’t bother with anything under $100. It’s too embarrassing trying to buy a high cost item in $50 lots. Even the time I bought an iPhone with 25x cards (of different values) was embarrassing enough.
  - Sam33sam on 22/11/2023 - 08:10
    
    -1
    
    Staff at the counter was forcefully asking me to scan flybuys card as if it has become national identity proof. Although I did have FB card, I told I am not scanning it, what you want to do, do you want to block the purchase? Then, they had no choice to allow me to finish the purchase. Quite awkward.
    - Gabbatron44 on 22/11/2023 - 09:06
      
      So it's the fly buys cards that prevents people from doing more than five cards per day?
- neonlight on 22/11/2023 - 16:49
  
  Shoplifting to save 15% is not worth it. I hope Coles put more measures in place to catch these crooks
  
  Also there's some racism here suggesting all Asian looking buyers. Well if so they are some professionals doing routines one store to another.
  
  Thing is they remind me of daigous buying out milk powder to earn a margin
Mazozb on 22/11/2023 - 08:08

Can you use multiple of these to buy a single job hifi card of higher value?
- noddypiper on 22/11/2023 - 08:13
  
  You can't buy cards with cards
- Moventura on 22/11/2023 - 09:06
  
  If you buy it online at JB, you can convert the cards to JBHifi gift cards via the Card Network website.
Repstar on 22/11/2023 - 08:11

+1

Sounds like another mad embarrassing rush. Hold out a few days and they will have more stock. Jesus.
- BoundedRationality on 22/11/2023 - 08:15
  
  Good point, might have a restock at some point.
- JayCeeJay on 22/11/2023 - 09:02
  
  Do they restock everyday?
  - snvl on 22/11/2023 - 10:38
    
    No
unity1 on 22/11/2023 - 08:13

Staff probably got first pick. I suppose that’s the benefit of being staff.
spast1ka on 22/11/2023 - 08:19

-8

Rocked up exactly at 7am when store opened at Roselands NSW and already a bunch of international Asians sprinted past me and grabbed stacks of the Home $100’s.
All the gift cards were sold out within 5 minutes of store open. Even saw one Asian guy grab around 30 and he didn’t come back even though I told him there was a cap of 5 so I guess he managed to purchase them.
I felt embarrassed to be Asian despite being ABC. The staff looked pretty disgusted.
- BoundedRationality on 22/11/2023 - 08:27
  
  "international Asians" hahaha
  - spast1ka on 22/11/2023 - 09:13
    
    probably getting downvoted by all the internationals too LMAO
  - ilubbargains on 22/11/2023 - 09:21
    
    +1
    
    how do you even distinguish? are they the ones that sound like Uncle Roger?
    - spast1ka on 22/11/2023 - 09:25
      
      They only speak Chinese. I tried to tell some of the ones flocking around the gift card stalls not to buy more than 5 and to put some back but they just pretended not to hear and went back to conversing in Mandarin amongst themselves, which I don’t speak.
      Uncle Roger has a Malaysian/Singlish accent. The ones at my Coles are straight outta mainland China, probably on a hustle for some daigous.
      - neonlight on 22/11/2023 - 23:34
        
        @spast1ka: The technical term is fresh off the boat.
        
        The ones who refuse to learn English or being Australian by learning local culture and manners are the ones who are despicable ignoring other people and no courtesy snatching milk powder, gift cards what not at supermarkets.
        
        These are different to ABCs or the ones born locally or ones which have learnt manners
        
        These are like daigous I agree. And their actions are totally unacceptable
bluespider on 22/11/2023 - 08:20

-1

Coles staff picked all $100
raykim on 22/11/2023 - 08:20

+1

Nothing left in Hornsby. Only few Active left
Mazozb on 22/11/2023 - 08:24

+17

8am and all raided. I think I'll save 100% by not spending
- Ozb101 on 22/11/2023 - 08:25
  
  You are the real winner. I hope your comment gets more +ve votes
Lockdude on 22/11/2023 - 08:24

+3

Maybe a rookie error from me, but the T&Cs state it can take up to 24hrs to load funds. So when I went to JB to pay straight after the cards were empty.
- Porker on 22/11/2023 - 08:32
  
  +1
  
  Yes - live and learn.
  
  I did the same mistake last time round. Funnily though, the customer before me also encountered the issue such that I suspected it would happen to me so apologised to the staff in advance.
  - Lockdude on 22/11/2023 - 08:34
    
    Yep. Whoopsie. Was trying to work out some complex way I got scammed before I just decided to read the T&Cs. Out of curiosity, how long did it take for funds to come through?
    - Porker on 22/11/2023 - 08:38
      
      +1
      
      Hard not to think 'scam'! I think last time Ichecked
      a few times and then gave up. I think I recall the funds appearing that night after the morning purchase, but JB was closed at that point.
      
      Went back the next day and purchased.
      - Lockdude on 22/11/2023 - 08:54
        
        +1
        
        @Porker: Awesome thanks for the advice :) Maybe next time this pops up I'll prompt the OP to add those details to the post. We can't have been the only people caught out by it.
        
        Spec on 22/11/2023 - 08:59
        
        +2
        
        @Lockdude: i remember the first time i bought mine, i went home and checked online for a balance of $0. thought it was a scam and i'd lost all my money. so same experience but luckily less embarassing.
        
        Lockdude on 22/11/2023 - 09:48
        
        +2
        
        @Spec: Honestly, the staff at JB were really good and didn't make me feel awkward at all. They're holding the items for me to come back either tonight or tomorrow morning depending on when the gift cards load. They understood the situation and were really good about it.
        
        I must say, in general I've always had really positive experiences with JB HiFi in store customer service. They seem to have the right level of common sense and empowerment from their managers to make obvious simple decisions. It's really good to see and they're probably some of my favourite customer service reps. Maybe mileage might vary between stores, but the ones I go to - their service is consistently great.
      - Vorsprungdurchtech on 22/11/2023 - 15:22
        
        @Porker: yep, happened to me this morning at good guys, doh! live and learn..
- Dathanio on 22/11/2023 - 11:26
  
  +3
  
  Definitely second that this warning should've been mentioned somewhere before now (who had time to read the back of the card in the morning rush?). If not in the main ozB post then by some comments. I've kept up with all the comments here, so having the GCs turn up empty in store was not a pleasant surprise.
- Lockdude on 22/11/2023 - 16:44
  
  UPDATE: The cards I bought pre-8am this morning finally started showing balance around 4:15pm today.
locomofo on 22/11/2023 - 08:33

The staff at my local Coles have them stored under the service area with a sign at the GC area indicating as such. I only went in around 8am, an hour after opening, so I'm guessing that first hour was traumatizing enough for them to start doing that.
- Chickenleg on 22/11/2023 - 08:36
  
  That's the way it should be done in the first place imo.
Dawei Lego on 22/11/2023 - 08:34

+10

Haha so I thought I’d just try my luck with the Coles on the way to work, figured worst case I’d get myself some lunch.

Went in, totally picked clean. Then as I walk out noticed some shifty dude in the aisles looking sus. Took a hunch and found like a huge stash of $100’s and $50’s. I took 5 and walked towards the giftcard section to put the rest back, but I noticed shifty dude loitering in the GC area after having just transacted his first lot, so I walked around the store for a while, came across a bloke who I had seen earlier missing out and asked him if he wanted some of the ones I had found. He laughed and with a twinkle in his eyes showed me ANOTHER stash he had also found haha. Fellow ozbargainer.

Anyway that’s 10 more cards at that store for others now 😂
samuraix29 on 22/11/2023 - 08:34

Why are these cards so popular, isit because they can be stacked use at JB or Goodguys? Or isit because of the 15%?
- rickdwp on 22/11/2023 - 08:37
  
  +1
  
  Both, if you're buying something from JB/GG anyway it's essentially an extra 15% off
Angelscrap on 22/11/2023 - 08:38

+2

Went to Coles they said $100 ones not on discount. After going to few shops now I have 30x $50 of them FML
- lakes_8 on 22/11/2023 - 08:42
  
  +1
  
  Stitched up
- mizirtrox on 22/11/2023 - 09:33
  
  I was told the exact same thing this morning and I had to end up buying $50 ones instead of the $100 :(
- parcus on 22/11/2023 - 09:37
  
  +1
  
  May as well take and scan it, if it doesn't discount leave them behind
t0087669 on 22/11/2023 - 08:42

Plenty left northland vic
Aceofspades on 22/11/2023 - 08:49

Heaps at coles birtinya and no signage to say they are 15% off but scanned 15% off at checkout