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10x Everyday Rewards Points on Vanilla Visa and Visa Birthday Gift Cards ($5.95/$7.95 Purchase Fees) @ Woolworths

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10x Everyday Rewards Points on Vanilla Visa and Visa Birthday Gift Cards ($5.95/$7.95 Purchase Fees) @ Woolworths
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VantageXL on 02/12/2024 - 17:11 woolworths.com.au (2052 clicks)
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Note that Visa "Thank You" gift cards appear to be excluded from this offer. Update: the Visa "Thank You" gift cards do earn the 10x points despite not being specifically included.

For each variable Vanilla Visa gift card or Vanilla Visa Birthday gift card you buy loaded with $500, you’re essentially paying $7.95 (the purchase fee) to earn $25 worth of Everyday Rewards Dollars (or 2,500 Qantas points):

Gift Card Purchase Fee EDR Dollars Earned Profit/Loss
$50 $5.95 $2.50 -$3.45 ❌
$100 $5.95 $5.00 -$0.95 ❌
$25-500 (loaded with $500) $7.95 $25.00 $17.05 ✅

See the Gift Card FAQ for more info about these gift cards.

^Offer available from 4/12/24 to 10/12/24 on all denominations of gift cards listed. Available in store only at Woolworths Supermarkets and select Woolworths Metro. Scan your Everyday Rewards Card to collect 10x points. Excludes Woolworths Online and MILKRUN. Standard points will not be earned on amount spent on gift cards, but the relevant number of bonus points that 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. All Vanilla Visa Cards are subject to purchase fees $50 = $5.95, $100 = $5.95, variable $25-$500 = $7.95. For cards with a fixed value, limit of 5 cards per day per Rewards Member. For the variable card where you choose the amount to load, limit of 2 cards per day per Rewards Member. Rewards Points $50 = 500, $100 = 1000, Variable card $1 = 10x points. 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. For Vanilla Visa Gift Card Terms of Use and Conditions, go to www.vanillabalance.com. While stocks last. Card images shown may vary.

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  • BrownEyedGirl on 05/12/2024 - 16:20
    +1

    Plenty of stock at Carnes Hill Woolies at lunchtime today. Also plenty at Prestons yesterday. Thank you, 10000 QFF points. I wonder if someone from Woolies has read this thread and are concerned about a possible complaint to the ACCC so they ensured they have plenty of stock this time ‘round, given that they’re not in favour with the ACCC at the moment. 🤣😂

  • grace2050 on 05/12/2024 - 21:23

    Can I use 2 x $250 Coles mastercard gift card plus pay balance from my bank account to buy 1x $500 Vanilla Visa card? Is it possible? Thank you

    • Neoika on 05/12/2024 - 21:33
      +2

      Ask gzy2001.

      Find the user, find the answer.

      • grace2050 on 05/12/2024 - 21:51

        Thanks for the precise information, mate. Appreciated!

  • hongd on 05/12/2024 - 22:17

    I have a little doubt on this promotion at the moment. Wonder if I am falling into some sort of "trap".
    $17.05 over $500 is only 3.4% profit. We often see shopback or prezzee or wws gift card itself running 3% to 10% off promotions.
    Also the 3.4% profit is in rewards points and I have to spend them on WWS groceries. I guess this is the real potential initiative from Woolworths running this from time to time.
    Comparing to x% off promotion, we can spend less and those are "free" money.

    The only advantage I can think of is for credit sign up where we can quickly meet the criteria.

    • lilkid28 on 05/12/2024 - 22:31

      3.4% profit for a visa card to pay bills, ATO, etc.

      • hongd on 05/12/2024 - 22:59

        now I can think of this as a better and simpler case:
        I used $9.94 (when comparing to ATO payment) to get rewards dollar $25. It is like wws gift card is running a 60% off promotion. sounds crazy.

  • Mick1234 on 06/12/2024 - 13:23

    Try to pay council on council website, but always shows in error: exceed withdrawl frequency limit.
    Does any one have the same issue as I have?

    • Slo20 on 06/12/2024 - 15:34

      Yeah I was getting that the other day when I tried council, electricity provider and a few other sites. If your council allows online post bill pay through Australia post that could be an option as it worked for me.

      • Mick1234 on 06/12/2024 - 15:59

        Thanks @SIo20

        I tried Australian Post, had the same issue, saying exceed the daily limit. Post office guy also has no answer for it.

        • Slo20 on 06/12/2024 - 19:18
          +2

          Damn. I also had exceeded daily limit when trying to pay my gas bill. I tried paying a smaller amount but that didn’t resolve.

          It was actually my Origin bill I paid via aust post that worked, whereas it had the frequency limit when trying directly with Origin website.

          Failing those, shopback gift cards or discounted Woolies gift cards via RACQ worked for me. ATO tax bill is another option that always works for me.

    • mmd on 06/12/2024 - 15:58

      My local council only accepts one time payment online.
      I did the rest by visiting the council

      • Mick1234 on 06/12/2024 - 15:59

        What is one time payment?

        • mmd on 06/12/2024 - 16:05
          +2

          I could only pay via my local councils website once per year.
          Submitting payments after that errors out (not all councils have the same issue as I can pay my parents rates who live in a different area). I had multiple GCs to use so had to visit the council reception which was all good but just wasted the receptionists time (I had multiples of $250/$100 GCs)

          • Mick1234 on 06/12/2024 - 16:09

            @mmd: Probably it depends on councils

        • Yola on 07/12/2024 - 08:12

          I pay rates at 3 Councils in Vic and can use multiple cards. Sometimes they do not allow payment if it's the same amount as the previous payment but all good the next day.

  • rfc4eva on 06/12/2024 - 21:10
    +1

    I will use these cards next week to buy the coles promo gift cards

  • Foreveryone on 07/12/2024 - 12:58

    I managed to get the Birthday Gift Card and it didn't work on my ATO. The website didn't want to accept the card.

    • WookieMonster on 07/12/2024 - 13:20

      Time to run through the standard troubleshooting questions:

      • Did you enter the card number, expiry date and CVV2 correctly?

      • Was the payment + associated payment fee less than or equal to the available balance? The ATO currently charges a 0.4% payment fee for prepaid Visa gift cards, which means that if you were attempting to redeem $500 from your gift card, the maximum payment you can send is $498.01 (+ $1.99 payment fee).

      • Did you wait at least 30 minutes after purchasing the gift card before attempting to make the ATO payment?

      • Foreveryone on 07/12/2024 - 13:26
        • Yes
        • Yes
        • No

        Maybe I'll try again when I get another card. Got to hunt for it. Thank you.

        • eecchhoo on 07/12/2024 - 14:22

          Let us know how it goes. I think on the pack it mentions it may take up to 24 hours after activation.

          • WookieMonster on 07/12/2024 - 19:45
            +4

            @eecchhoo: It does say that, but the collective OzBargain experience is that you only need to wait around 30 minutes from the time of purchase for the full balance to be available for redemption.

            I purchased a Vanilla Visa Birthday gift card last night and was able to use the full $500 balance on a purchase two hours later.

  • BargainBanker on 08/12/2024 - 00:27
    +6

    Just went into woolies. no cards at stand and manager said yeah they keep in cupboard due to the fraud that's been happening.
    She had a bunch of some prepaid visa's (not the gift/happy bday ones - can't remember which one) that had been tampered with. She showed me how they place a sticker with another barcode over the legit barcode however the printing is crap as - crooked like an inkjet printer that needed to have that alignment done big time.

    So one thing to check when you are buying any of these cards, is if the barcode that's supposed to be printed on the card can be peeled off.

    She said they found out who it was and caught him and reported to police - supposedly working for some company that maybe is somehow related to ( not sure what she really meant - maybe sounded like related in the sense like they are the delivery company or something).

  • BrownEyedGirl on 08/12/2024 - 19:07

    Guys, if you’re in south west Sydney, there are at least 20 of the variable vanilla visa and 10 of the variable birthday ones at Woolies Carnes Hill. I’ve already grabbed four in this round, so thought I’d let you know of the substantial quantities left at this store.

  • browser on 09/12/2024 - 09:37

    Can Vanilla (InComm) claw back charges made on scammed prepaid cards? Any risks to merchants accepting payments?

    The card was rejected at a restaurant by the cashier, she was on about they cannot risk accepting gift cards because of all the scams going on.

    Don't know if her concern is legitimate, or just her personal opinion that gift cards are bad and should be avoided in general.

    She then offered 5% discount by paying cash, so we paid cash and moved on.

    • WookieMonster on 09/12/2024 - 11:36
      +1

      Considering there is no registered, verified cardholder for any prepaid gift cards, it means that the restaurant has no idea whether your gift card was legitimately purchased by you, or whether you were using someone else’s gift card, or whether you purchased the gift card using a stolen credit card, etc. Fraudulent transactions can be disputed on (most) prepaid gift cards (including Vanilla Visa gift cards), so the staff member serving you is not wrong. Maybe they were a little paranoid though? Who knows, maybe the restaurant recently had to deal with a chargeback due to a stolen prepaid gift card or something, so the restaurant is taking a more hardline stance on payment methods?

      I actually had one situation where I used a prepaid eftpos gift card at one restaurant, but when I visited again a couple of months later, the CommBank EFTPOS terminal automatically rejected the prepaid eftpos gift card as soon as I swiped it. The staff member told me they worked with CommBank to block them, because management wanted to reduce the likelihood of dealing with chargebacks and fraudulent transactions.

  • lito on 09/12/2024 - 21:30

    Is there any left in Sydney? I keep looking but can’t find any since the first morning

  • natlif on 09/12/2024 - 22:40
    +1

    Has anybody encountered issues with HSBC split payments being declined when paying for these cards?

    The other day I did 1st and 2nd taps via phone and then 3rd tap was declined. Using physical card (same account), I then did 3rd and 4th taps but then 5th tap was declined.

    • tunzafun001 on 10/12/2024 - 01:25

      Scam protection

    • Poor Ass on 10/12/2024 - 01:53
      +1

      I once did 9x$99 taps and the tenth one failed for fraud purposes

      • natlif on 10/12/2024 - 08:10

        Yeah interesting that it only failed on 10th tap not before like mine.
        Must be random how many taps before it declines

        • Poor Ass on 10/12/2024 - 08:52

          Kind of usually if the same amount for X times in short amount of times it'll block

          • natlif on 10/12/2024 - 16:52

            @Poor Ass: I’ve never done the same amount, it’s always been different amounts…

      • rokufan on 10/12/2024 - 20:46

        Do you normally pay for these deals with your HSBC card this way? I always presumed it would fail after a few taps or get too much unwanted attention from staff.

        • Poor Ass on 10/12/2024 - 20:53

          Hahaha almost never I was really just testing out how many times I can tap under $100 before they block the card

        • natlif on 10/12/2024 - 21:00

          I've never had trouble before this time so I guess they must be improving security on this

  • browser on 10/12/2024 - 09:19
    +2

    Finally a sale that is actually obtainable, and used both Amex and CBA Special cashbacks.

    Purchased 15 cards over 7 days, bought an extra just to test if a third card of different variant also qualifies for 10x points, and it did. Obviously no guarantee this will be the case in future events, they can easily stop it if they wanted.

    Since Thank You card also qualifies, this time around maximum potential is 210,000 Everyday Rewards points, or 105,000 QFF points. But $21k is a bit of outlay. Not sure is anyone tried 2+2+2 on the same day.

    • Uncle Roger on 10/12/2024 - 09:35

      And that's only if you have one account lol

      • browser on 10/12/2024 - 09:52

        I have multiple rewards accounts, but don't have immediate use of that much GC value and don't want to sit on them for too long.

        It's a great deal if can be spent quickly, surprised people commenting the "% discount" is not worth the trouble, or may be they say so to deter others from buying. :D

        • Uncle Roger on 10/12/2024 - 10:01

          Ye exactly… I struggle to spend more than $2K per deal… Lucky they come around fairly often

    • Poor Ass on 10/12/2024 - 20:55

      2+2+2

      2 white packaging
      2 birthday packaging
      What's the other 2

      • WookieMonster on 10/12/2024 - 21:56
        +2

        Thank You.

        It was never pictured nor explicitly mentioned in the Woolworths catalogue as being included in this deal, but I received 5000 bonus points when I purchased a $500 one during this deal.

        • Poor Ass on 11/12/2024 - 02:01

          Haha nice

          Hidden card unlocked

          I bet once you open it just looks like the other 2

          • WookieMonster on 11/12/2024 - 07:38
            +1

            @Poor Ass: Actually, there are subtle differences.

            • There is no Vanilla branding on the front.
            • The sticker on the back of the gift card has a message saying “Do not remove” for some weird reason.
    • rokufan on 10/12/2024 - 22:52

      Thanks for the tip that the Thank You card is also included, was all that was left on the shelf when I went tonight.

  • nightelves on 10/12/2024 - 23:56

    Anyone know if these work for Deft payments.

    • browser on 11/12/2024 - 08:35
      +1

      No, the Visa variant doesn't, Mastercard yes.

  • browser on 11/12/2024 - 08:44
    +1

    If you go through assisted checkout, the bonus points shows on screen before payment, a good way to confirm before paying. Not sure if this is the case at self checkout, I have stopped using self checkout for gift cards due to repeated prompts.

    But once it did not show bonus point on screen, I didn't think much of it, until I refresh the app also no points there. Then I started paying attention to the screen.

  • browser on 22/12/2024 - 19:01

    Anyone encountered issues using this card at Costco? I have used it successfully on purchases and membership renews, including making split payments last weeks. But no longer, they are saying if I don't know the PIN, then the signature must match, as well as the member's name. Since this card has no PIN, no signature, and no name, they cannot accept it.

    I'm sure the payment system would accept it, but they have put in human process to stop it, could also depends on how anal the checkout person is.

    Strangely though, I remember one time the transaction went through straightaway, without asking for PIN or signature. The cards look the same, don't know what triggered the different approval path.

    • mmd on 23/12/2024 - 00:26

      It depends on the business machine setup.
      I used it at a newsagency expecting to sign but it was automatically approved.
      I tried to use it at a servo and it asks for the PIN and there was no option to override (there was no problems in a different servo)

      • browser on 23/12/2024 - 10:36

        In earlier successful checkout, I did a split payment using 2 cards, both 4748 3818 Vanilla Visa cards expiring in the same month/year.

        The first card asked for a PIN, I pressed "enter" for signature, the checkout person ignored it anyway.

        The second card went through straightaway, I don't know if the checkout person pressed something to bypass.

        Anyhow, he was fully aware I was paying with prepaid cards and said nothing about it. Few days later at a different Costco, I did a split payment using 2 Vanilla Visa cards to renew membership at the courtesy desk, both transactions required signature, they accepted it no dramas. I then went in for a quick shop, 20 minutes later, different checkout person refused to accept the prepaid card without a PIN, and called the supervisor who sided with the checkout person.

        It's possible it is a long standing policy that is loosely enforced or discretionary.

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