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15% off Nintendo eShop, TCN The Kids/Teen/Him/Her/Cinema/Pamper/Pub&Bar/Restaurant, Google Play Gift Cards @ Coles

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Saw this today at Coles.

15% off gift cards including Nintendo eShop, The Kids/Teen/Him/Her/Cinema/Pamper/Pub/Bar/Restaurant gift cards and Google Play gift cards ($50-100 only)
Starting 25/11 ending 1/12

UPDATE: cards not activate or not scanning/discount at checkout. Coles are pulling all cards out and refund. Some people reported some cards are fine. Wait until this is resolved. Such a shame.

UPDATE 2: some people reported that JB-Hifi has lifted the restriction on $500 max Gift card purchases, so you could try your luck. Please buy max 5 cards only and leave them for other people (including me, haha, got none so far) so everyone can have a smiling Black Friday purchases.

PARTY IS OVER. Well done to those who got the cards. Pity to the people who could not get the cards (me too, tried 5 times, gave up, friend gave me few cards). What a good deal with such a shameful operation that left many people frustrated.


Mod Update:

Participating Retailers
The Kids Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), H&M, Foot Locker, Xbox, Platypus, Surf Dive n Ski, Hype DC, Booktopia, The Athlete's Foot, Toyworld, adidas, ASOS, Bounce Inc, Culture Kings, Holey Moley Golf, IMAX, INTERSPORT, New Balance, Quiksilver, Scooter Hut, Skechers, Strike, SurfStitch
The Teen Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), adidas, Foot Locker, Xbox, Platypus, Hype DC, Tommy Hilfiger, ASOS, Glue Store, Universal Store, Calvin Klein, Culture Kings, Surf Dive n Ski
The Him Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), ASOS, Universal Store, Culture Kings, Tommy Hilfiger, Hype DC, Platypus, Foot Locker, Xbox, Aquila, adidas, Glue Store, Drummond Golf, Academy Brand, Calibre, Calvin Klein, Diesel, Edge Clothing, Neverland, Surf Dive n Ski, SurfStitch, Timberland, Van Heusen, H&M
The Her Card Nike, JB Hi-Fi (Max $500), ASOS, Kookai, MAC, Princess Polly, adidas, Showpo, H&M, Universal Store, Sportsgirl, Platypus, Calvin Klein, Forever New, Glue Store, Adore Beauty, Aveda, Hype DC, Seafolly & Sunburn, Tiger Mist, Culture King
The Cinema Card All major cinema chains or local cinemas that accept eftpos
The Pamper Card Use this gift card at salons, day spas and beauty clinics that accept eftpos around Australia.
The Pub & Bar Card Use this gift card at pubs or bars that accept eftpos around Australia.
The Restaurant Card Use this gift card at restaurants and cafes that accept eftpos around Australia.

T&Cs

Excludes $20 and $30 Google Play Gift Cards. Excludes The Home, The Online and The Baby Card Gift Cards. Limit 5 Gift Cards per customer. While stocks last, no rainchecks. Offer valid from 25/11/20 to 01/12/20. Refer to individual gift card for terms and conditions. Google Play and the Google Logo are trademarks of Google LLC.


#Mod 24/11: "A maximum of $500 of Cards may be redeemed at JB HiFi (including online) in any one transaction". See pinned comment below.

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      • They had the ultimate kids, him and her cards. Only $50 denominations. I tried the kids ones because they had the JB logo on them but when they scanned at $50ea that's when the staff member advised they're not doing the discount at those two stores.

        • I think you've got the wrong one, discount doesn't apply to 'Ultimate' range.

          • @lanriver: Ah, right you are. They only had those ones - the ones on special are from a totally different company. Clearly (as happychild mentions below) all the old/cheap ones are gone - regardless of whether the city stores do the discount!

        • Yeah wrong cards, there's like 3 different types all with HIM and HER on the front. The discounted ones are all gone though

  • Coles Beechboro (WA) has plenty left 20+ of $100 and $50 Him/Her, and Nintendo cards, no signage of the 15% off but will show at checkout. https://i.imgur.com/8aCBKSC.jpg

    • Did they have jb hifi on them?

      • Yeah they also had quite a few JB Hi Fi cards

  • Sydney CBD World Square still has a few Him/Her/Teen/Kids gift cards (not sure if they activate), as well as Nintendo $60 ones (about 20-30 cards left). They are all at the front counter. I bought 2 of the Nintendo ones, no problems with transaction, will try to activate them later.

  • I just wanted to get $105 worth of Nintendo eshop cards. Should I anticipate problems? It seems the vast majority of feedback here is about the pronoun cards.

    • +1

      I had no issues whatsoever getting the Nintendo cards.

      • Thanks.

  • +1

    Not sure who to blame here:
    - Coles run promotions on HIM/HER gift cards, but card not discount at checkout. (blame Coles?)
    - Card activate but show zero balance. (blame TCN?)
    - Card used in JB have limitation, 5 cards.

    Too much hassle.

  • Just back from Coles Slutters (locals will know that as Lutwyche Brisbane) bought 18 X $50 HIM/HER cards - they said 5 max per txn, but sold them all to me through 4 separate tills.

    STILL A BUNCH THERE at least 30/40.

    Hoping I can use all cards in one go at JB to buy iPad Air 64GB $899.

    Plus i got a bunch of Flybuy points for what they are hopelessly worth.

  • Anyone tried the The Restaurant Card on UberEats / Menulog?

    • +1

      Yep - have tried at Menulog, works fine!

  • Just put through 10 x $50 Kids cards and 2 x $100 Him cards on a Iphone 12 at JB Preston with the $800 off deal as well. Staff there were great given had to swipe and put pin in 12 times. Cards were bought at 6am and then about 10am, transaction done at JB at 12:45

  • Can anyone confirm if the him/her cards have 18 or 19 digit card numbers. I think it could be another indicator of whether the gift cards will work at jb hi fi as you cannot pay with 19 catd numbers, at least online.

    • +1

      19

  • Ok latest update
    JB hifi already printed tcn t&c amd put on POS
    I only can use 500 for iphone as we knew already

    • As expected, it’s a matter of time before someone at JB takes a look at TCN’s T&Cs and decides to enforce them.

      • Its not a matter of them looking at tcn. There was a direct msg from jb management to enforce the $500 limit.. whether it originated from tcn is another thing. End result is just hope you get a young person who doesnt care as its not system locked as i saw a guy nearly get away with a massive amount till lady serving me rained on his parade. Hope the young kid serving doesnt get in trouble for nearly letting happen

    • Could you elaborate on the $500 limit on the purchase of an iphone? I did a search on this and cant find anything

      • +1

        Theres a $500 limit of these cards in 1 transaction for jb

        • Ahhh right. I thought he mean a $500 gc of any kind on any Apple product.

          Ill try my luck again when this cools down

  • Managed to activate the Him and restaurant card at Northland coles

    • +1

      Crap! upon paying H&M, it says $0 balance

  • Hmm, going to have trouble buying 4k of him/her/kids/teens cards.

  • are you guys exchanging your tcn cards for 1 jb giftcard or you already know what you want and going in to buy your item.

    • I also want to know this. My partner and I bought $1000 worth (10x$100) for a samsung tablet, went there before JB enforced the T&C (but cards had no balance) but now worried when I go back once the balance on my card is ready they will say no. I guess I can pay $500 him/her cards and $500 JB card if I can exchange them?

      • +1

        No you can't exchange TCN cards for JB HIFI cards. "Cards cannot be used to purchase gift cards issued by JB HiFi"

    • Can't exchange these for JB gc. Even if you purchase anything and there's a balance, they put it back on the TCN card.
      ACCC rules for gc are they must have a validity of 3 years.
      So, the real risk is whether TCN will become insolvent within that time.

      • thought people were talking about buying something then refunding which jb will put it on one of their giftcards

  • FYI, Coles Chadstone sold out but Coles Oakleigh has about a dozen $50 Him cards left.

  • +4

    This is how backwards Coles is. I bought 5 and my partner bought 5. Two different checkouts, and they had the audacity to say to her, we walked in together so she is not allowed….

    They used the baby formula precedent on her…..she got her cards dont you worry. Some hot shot thinking he owns the store.

    • +1

      lousy!

    • +1

      That’s ridiculous. It clearly says per person. Just curious how did it get resolved?

      • +1

        She's a barrister by trade.

        Went on the lines of…."I don't think so". Im getting these cards. 🤣

    • +1

      That's the normal attitude with Coles. They dont have the balls to say it to someone who can threaten them

    • +1

      I was treated the same but it was between another lady and me and I don’t even know that lady , they show me the attitude . I m asking the lady about the restaurant card . I m just furious and not happy . Coles is being ridiculous, It’s just a giftcard and I m only buying 5 with my husband when technically I can buy 10.

      • +1

        yes they know they can abuse ozbers..make sure you write a lengthy complaint online so the store manager will be busy writing reports…haha

        • I called him. He wasn't impressed thats for sure.

    • Same thing happened to me as well..

      • i was getting the same… there was another couple in front and they assumed we were a family and wanted to hold up the payment checkout.

    • Lol. Why did they bring up baby formula? Are you Asian. Shoulda played the race card

      • Im not Asian! I felt bad for the good Asians who legit needed the baby formula, but they are full of shit (Coles employee)….he's probably just butthurt that I got the last of the cards and he missed out because he's been packing load all day.

    • exactly what happened to me at Coles Manuka in ACT. Appalling customer service. Why don't you report them to Fair Trading for misleading representations and deceptive conduct? They know they can get away because most people will do nothing about it.

  • +1

    Just got off the phone with Coles head office.

    They advised me to send a photo of each of the cards to them

    Concerning they advised me that they are aware stores were told that the issue had been resolved but as far a head office was concerned the issue is NOT resolved.

    She said it was concerning that stores had received this information

    • Hey mate, can you advise which email address from Coles to send to? I'm in the same boat unfortunately.

  • Cant do at Jb kedron, they rejected it, talk with manager, still cant accept it, they’re pain

    • +2

      What exactly did JB Kedron reject? The HIM cards or the number of cards?

    • Can’t do what? Did you try to buy stuff there (with $500 or more TCN gift cards)? Or convert to JB gift cards?

      • I tried to buy more than $500 with gift card. The cashier looks me like shit and like i’m trying to steal something. Dont even bother to help me and call manager with the disgraced voice towards me. Manager is not good either, play some dumb reason and even i called earlier they still reject it

        • -1

          No reason why you couldn’t pay for a $750 item with $500 TCN gift cards and pay the $250 however you want. Unless you meant you wanted to use all $750 worth of TCN gift cards on it then yes there’s a limit of $500 gift cards per transaction.

          • @dreamykitten: I called before and they said i can use whatever i want. U’re clearly stating the fact that everyone know, doesnt help it at all mate. If staff is more sympathetic and said i’m sorry bla bla it could have been a better experience, but no they talked with me like i’m stealing something

  • +8

    Was able to buy 26 $50 gift cards at 6 30 this morning from Coles. Then went to JB and was able to use all of them in a single transaction

    https://imgur.com/XxhVxDs

    • Did you have them swipe 26 cards? Must have been fun! Good work though!

      • +1

        Yeah I had to scratch the pin off the back and swipe it 26 times and each time put the pin in. Only took about 5-10 mins.

        • Did you need to register through the TCN website for each card? or no need?

    • Yes
      Should do early before the news spread

    • How can we upload a receipt?

  • I got an email from TCN saying to go back into the store and they will reload the money. Spoke to the manager at the Coles I got them from (St Marys) and he confirmed to come back to get the money loaded. I asked if they have pulled them from the shelves and he said yes.

    • +1

      Were your cards declined in the first instance? I had raised my issue with Coles CC as well as TCN via fb messenger directly and am yet to receive any written correspondence from either of them besides the initial receivership of details

      • yes my cards where declined, checked 2 only and say active but zero balance (purchased at 7:46am)

        • Same Coles refunded the entire lot I purchased. What a joke

          • @BilboBargains: refunded or loaded the cards for you??

            • @BMX221: I purchased $1500 of him cards @ 8:59am Qld time .. all activated.
              Went to in JB hi-fi and they didn't work we manually checked two cards and they showed 0 balance.
              Went back to Coles they called the hierarchy and was informed to refund me until the situation was corrected and then they would resell me the cards.

              • @BilboBargains: You just needed to be patient. They would have been loaded eventually. Mine were, as were others.

                • @iNeed2Pee: I was patient lol . I waited at JB hi-fi for 2 hours, they were trying to work out why mine wouldn't work. JB hi-fi told me the cards should work as others had used them earlier that morning. They then told me to go back to Coles as something wasn't right as the balance showed 0, so I did. And spent another 1.5 hours at Coles service desk with the manager.

                  • @BilboBargains: Hmm, weird. The people at JB did tell me that between a certain time in the morning everything wasnt working. Maybe it was that time, when the systems were failing. Did you buy them again?

                    • @iNeed2Pee: No, the manager was informed from higher up to remove there current stock and for me to wait for verification from the manager as to when it is working again and I can come back and purchase them again.

        • So did it all go thought again ok? Going to be heading out soon and if it yours worked out ok after the re-load then ill give it a shot too

    • Did you speak with Leanne?

      If not, who was your contact? I am going to speak with them as has same issue.

      • No it was a male manager didn't get his name sorry, but he was across it.

    • That's a great news!
      Do you mean you got declined on activations when purchasing card and you have got confirmation that you will need to reload balance on your local coles store, is that correct?

      • yep that is what the email from TCN said, and called my store and they said they ill reload. Cannot do it until tonight but will update once done.

    • I just did this. Back to the store they "refund" the Declined ones and then "resell" them so that they can re-try the activation. For both of my cards the new receipt shows as approved (was declined on the original). [edit] still $0 balance but it has only been 30mins.

      My store they did it all in the background rather than refund to my card then repurchase on my card, only took a couple of mins once they found the instructions.

      YMMV as it seems it was just instructions written in a book under the counter.

  • +4

    Hi all

    My 11am purchase has just had all the cards update their balance

    YAY!

    • +1

      Yay! Thanks for putting the time in, gives everyone a rough idea of how long we should wait :)

      • some TCN human must be doing all this manually at the back end - so i am guessing the time wait will be variable.

  • Do we select savings or credit at the counter?

    • savings

    • Savings

    • Savings then put pin in

    • -6

      is this a troll question? to answer seriously, that is your bank card asking do you want it out of your savings or do you want it piled up on top of the rest of your credit.

      edit: maybe i shot my mouth off

      I thought the question was how to you pay for the gift card, when the question was about using the gift card to buy something, which is where you put in Savings and the PIN on the TCN Card

  • Has anyone tried buying a value of $500 with the TCN cards and then refund for the JB card?

    • +1

      I am thinking the same thing

  • Wonder if these participating stores like JB are subsidising or paying fee to TCN to be part of this discount offer. If not why would JB limit the number of cards used since they are getting full face value. If anything they should be encouraging it cause they’re getting a sales bonanza

    • Good strategy by them. I saw a guy go ok.. then preceded to browse more products to eat up the massive pile he had.. so yes that made them a lot more that just face value of cards

  • +1

    Mine are activated. All systems are a go.

    • +2

      what time did you buy

      • Apologies, don't know how i missed that.
        Purchased at around 11:10 activated by like 2pm

    • Yes interested in purchase time too

  • +4

    Just used 15 cards at JB watergardens

    No issues

    • +2

      good to hear! If JB start putting on a 5 card limit they will end up with more admin (i.e.people returning $500 items for JB cards)

      • Yep they can't stop you returning an item for change of mind right?

  • so round 2 anyone?

    • you reckon they'll restock for tmr?

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