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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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closed Comments

  • +1

    They sold out in 1 min in my local Coles, brandon park, the glen, went 6:05am is all gone, no luck

  • Don’t bother
    The Coles staff took all the $100 gift cards
    I can assure you this as I was the first person to enter coles when it opened

    Don’t want to mention the suburb but this is actually happening

    • You mean pulling off the shelf or keeping it all for him or herself

    • Coles staff bought them? If they tool it down you can ask why? I checked last night in my local coles, these cards are full.

      • I actually hide some $100 card behind other giftcards last night, went to the store at 7.30AM, could not buy any more due to activation😂 at least they hold them for me to come back later

    • That was my experience too, i was waiting behind them while they were grabbing them all

      • -2

        how can they be allowed to do that, i would be complaining to the store manager and ask for a review of the video footage if this was conducted under paid working time and asking for a raincheck if the cards are out of stock due to the particular store members actions

  • Apparently all the systems are down and they won't sell them

    • +1

      Not true, got mine just a few min ago HER CARDS

      • Yes I know, people are getting them but I'm getting rejected in store

      • Okay, is it a coincidence that the system magically came back up when an off duty staff member came in to buy his gift cards?

  • Any reason to get the him or her over the kids or teen ones for jb?

    • Kids and Teen only available in $50 denomination, and each customer is only allowed to purchase up to 5 gift card.

      • They were happy to do 2 transactions so no problem, but I do see that issue if they hold to the rules

  • Only get $150 kids cards but saying not authorized when i tried to use at JB

  • I haven’t woke up so early over the last 6 months, but luckily I scored a few both HIM and HER. My local coles strictly follows the “Per Transaction” rule, not per person. Cheers!

  • Guys how do you know it's been activated? Just tried another coles, no HER left, tried HIM, it went through? So activated?

    • +1

      Wws had one sperate docket to show the activation, not sure about coles

    • +1

      If it goes through and is activated ok then it would say Approved on each card reference line. if not it would say declined

      • Did say approved

        • +1

          Then youre set

  • I just checked all 5 of mine, and they have full balance according to TCN's website (HER/HIM)

    • Did you got "approved" on activation process when you purchased the him card?

      • Must have. Everything went smoothly at 630am

  • +3

    Bought 20 x $100 gift cards this morning and was able to use them all in one transaction at JB with no problems at all (other than the time it took to swipe and enter the pin for 20 gift cards).

    • Were these him or her cards? :)

      • 5 Him, 15 Her for what it matters.

    • Subpar troll. Account opened 30mins ago…

      • +2

        I'm not trolling. I went to Coles at 7.00am and to JB at 8.00am. I signed up as a longtime lurker to let people know that it's not all doom and gloom. I will upload a receipt and you can apologise.

        Mod edit: User's receipt

        https://imgur.com/gallery/aVPZzc2

    • +1

      Show us the JB receipt.

    • well played, sir

  • +1

    My wife just bought a phone at JB and used the HIM cards no issue, she said they didn't care how many cards you used when she asked if there was a limit. She had 5

  • I bought 5x $100 cards and just checked one of them on the website and says balance is $0.

    Grrr

    • I just had that too. Does it take a few minutes to go thru if the receipt says it's been approved?

      • No idea? Not game to try activating the other ones

    • +1

      That happened to me. Funds came in about an hour later.

  • if the restaurant card works at any restaurant that accepts eftpos, what's preventing the card from being used at non restaurants like a supermarket eftpos?

    • The business needs to be registered as a restaurant in order for the Eftpos to work I believe.I just want to know if it would work at maccas

      • fast food excluded according to their website

      • Tried at one maccas and it worked

        • Thank you

        • sounds like it might work at any eftpos then

          • @ltwo: No tried at ALDI doesn’t work

            • @lilkid28: I wonder if they restrict it by category. Like maccas shows up as eating out and supermarkets show up as groceries.

      • Yes, I used it at Maccas yesterday.

  • +1

    5 him cards declined activation as well here. Refund refused - ring cc - looks like from other comments that'll be a stuff around as well. FFS

    • Same issue, what should we do for next? The local coles store kept refusing to refund to me.

      • I'm waiting for TCN on FB to reply

        • TCN finally stopped leaving my messages on read.

          Hi slimdealin, thanks for send across and appreciate your patience. Our customer service team have reviewed the receipts. They says invalid transaction. You will need to go back to Coles so they can resolve the issue unfortunately this is not something we can fix. Thanks

          The $425 Coles took says otherwise. What a crock. Now waiting on Coles to get back to me.

      • I gave up, initially responsive but then left messages on read. Escalated to Coles customer service - so no quicker going directly

        • I got someone from TCN anwering my phone, they said we should wait until the balance showed up till 24 hours, and then we need to seek help from local coles store if it still being $0.

          I think it could be no longer happened that original balance will show online cuz our cards being declined on activation process. I noticed the other guy having same issue posted we have to contact local coles store to get the card 'reloaded', I just called them but they do not know how to do the 'reload', waiting them callback for this issue.

          • @ZYDMZ: The balance won't show up if it's declined though - the card is active $0 still

  • Cards pulled from the shelf at my local Coles due to issues. Grrrrrr

  • Has anyone used more than $500 at jb this morning if they were lucky enough to get them

    • I used $2000 in one transaction no issues.

    • +1

      Hello, confirmed, you can do the full amount in gift cards in store, online its $500, but you may need to provide the photo-ID for verification if card value is more than $500

  • ok
    Bought again 5HER at 9am AEST and all ok (first 5HER bought 7am OK and 5Him 7.10 am failed)
    Seems issue only with HIM
    And dont worry, coles restock
    They bring out boxes with new cards now

  • My Coles receipt has a separate line for each card saying approved so hope that means they activated ok

  • TCN facebook messager replied saying "cards are now activating so all good to go". But now I have found out about the T's and C's of max 5 per transaction in JBHIFI think i'll stick with the 4 I have.

    • +1

      I used 20 in one transaction this morning no issues.

    • JB don't really care how many card you use. Do not too worry.

      • What about buying jb giftcards with these giftcards?

        • Not sure about that

      • ok sweet, just need the cards to work and see if coles put them back in the shelves…

        • Just keep in mind it only takes one storewide email to go out and they'll start enforcing the 5 card limit.

    • I've got 2 cards that have declined on my receipt, just checking the balance they are still showing as $0 but card status = active.
      (purchased 7:10am). What a PITA this has turned out to be. Coles brushed us off and said you need to activate via customer service.

    • Mine is still showed $0 balance with 'active' card status on the balance checking website. No one replied me on Facebook :(

  • If i could get $1500 i would, couldn't be bothered for $500 lol.

  • Hello, confirmed, you can do the full amount in gift cards in store, online its $500, but you may need to provide the photo-ID for verification if card value is more than $500.

  • Had an issue with HIM cards activating at first store this morning QLD, but by the time i went to another one sround 7.20am, all worked. I got 5 x HIM at 3 locations and wife got 5x HER. All activated ok

    • +1

      Yes seems they already fixed this. had 5 HIM 20mins ago. Late for work now.

  • Just for 3x $100 For Her and 1x $50 For Kids

    Went through smoothly through self checkout.

    However, they show $0 balance online - do funds take some time to come through?

    • maybe didn't get activated, did you check the comment on the top

      • I think it just take some time for the tcn end to activate all these. Maybe wait a bit.

    • Have the same problem.
      Could it be because it was through self service ?

      • Just checked again - have $100 balance. Takes about 1hr

        I think as long as goes through fine at Coles, the funds should come some time later (not immediate)

        • Yes 👍 just checked as well ..all good now

  • I managed get some. Checking balance online says $0.00 but status is active….

  • Was someone able to buy them in Sydney ? There were no cards on shelves at 2 of the stores I visited and staff said there is some technical glitch and the cards have been pulled off.

    • which suburb? because we don't want to waste our time looking for one when there's actually nothing left.

      Thanks

      • woodcroft and blacktown, a friend tried at Mt Druitt

    • Yes, I was able to get 10x100 HIM and wife was able to get 10x100 HIM and HER cards mix. Also made a purchase at JB HiFi already and no issues paying for everything through GCs

  • FML - have bought couple of GC from another store, just checked the receipt saw only 2 of the 3 as approved and one declined…
    The cashier didn’t look at this and I just checked…
    Now all GC’s are mixed don’t know which one is from which store…

    • Wow, I double checked all my HIM/HER cards, all approved.

    • +1

      If you look at each of the separate verification lines ono the receipt , on the 2nd line under the transaction timestamp you can see a bunch of numbers, the 3 numbers at end are the last 3 numbers of the barcode on the card. hope this helps

      • thanks, that really helps!

        • No worries. Im in the same boat as you haha

  • -5

    I Can confirm that both Him and Her cards cannot be used in store at JBHIFI (even less than $500). Staff said it’s national wide and suggest refund.

    • +1

      Which JB?, wife just used hers this morning?

      • Woden at Canberra.

    • which JB?

    • +1

      Walk out and try another JB.

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