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10% off $250 Coles MasterCard Digital Gift Cards ($7 Purchase Fee Applies) @ Giftcards.com.au

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Here we go again…. Good luck

I’m taking a gamble on posting since the last deal flopped but here are a couple of notes:

  1. A lot of users have had their payments failed, purchase with caution. You may receive a pending charge on your card for some days, if this happens.

  2. Thanks to Skido, ensure that your pending charge does drop off after a few business days. Otherwise contact customer service to organise a refund.

  3. A number of users are reporting that the pending charge did not drop off, we advise that you call or email Coles Gift Cards now:
    Email: [email protected]
    Phone 1300 304 990 (Press 0 to speak with customer service. Have the numbers of the credit cards you used handy, in case asked for the last and first digits).


Receive within 4 hours or on a day of your choice. Funds are ready to use within 24 hours. Digital Account may be used online, over the phone or through mail order everywhere Mastercard® is accepted. Digital Account cannot be used to obtain cash from any ATM or Point of Sale transaction.

10% off Coles Mastercard​ offer

Terms and Conditions apply. 10% discount applied to value of card incl. applicable purchase fee. Cost for $250 gift card is $231.30 (made up of $225 for card + $6.30 purchase fee). Excludes $50 and $100 virtual Coles Mastercard’s. Offer available from 16/8/23 9am to 23/08/23, While stocks last. Offer only available on purchases from giftcards.com.au. Maximum order value $2,500. One order per customer. Card can only be used for online purchases. The virtual Coles Mastercard® Digital Account is issued by Heritage and People's Choice Limited trading as Heritage Bank ABN 11 087 651 125, AFSL/ACL No. 244310 pursuant to licence by Mastercard International Incorporated. Card usage is subject to the Terms and Conditions available at www.mybalancenow.com/#/cardholderAgreement. Card is not redeemable for cash. Card cannot be replaced if lost or stolen and funds remaining on card at expiry will not be refunded. No order refunds provided. Refer to the ordering gift card T&C’s. Refer to individual gift cards for T&C’s We reserve the right to cancel any or all promotions at any time if we suspect error, fraud or any other abuse of the promotion is occurring.

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            • @ilikedeals: yeah, still doesn't work. dunno why the end is getting cuf off 🤷🏾‍♂️ oh well, no biggie, just odd., lol

  • When using these for like council rates, how do you use multiple cards? I forgot.

    I feel like you end up with left over on the cards, and have to remember. Last time I used it for wine, told my broker $250 per fard so was okay.

    But I can't remember if and how I used for Council rates & rego and how I did it!

    If I go to buy wine from Qantas website $330, it only lets you put in 1 credit card? And max is $250 a gift card?

    • Go to the utility/council website most will allow you to enter the amount you wish to pay, and enter $250. If they have a surcharge lower the amount you pay to include it. If you cannot do that use Post BillPay and enter $250, the card directly, or add the card to Pay Pal and use that for payment. If this does not work you may be able to call and use the card on the phone.

      • +3

        So many basic questions. I doubt further on the flybuys bonus points worked like he said.

        • It worked for me, how do I find my old history from last year? I can screenshot.

        • +1

          Agree Neoika, if only people read the thread they would see the answers. It's not that hard just need to go to view all and do a word search on what you want to know.

  • Is it possible to combine the cards. Want to buy something for about $1k but the online merchant doesn't take multiple cards as payment method.

    Look at PayPal but you can only add funds from bank accounts not credit cards

    • +1

      You can use these cards to buy store gift card first.

      • +1

        Handy, can you buy Wish? I spose double dipping buying BWS with 5% off…suddenly it's a solid 10%+

        I just don't wanna keep the cards, unfortunately it's risky! It sucks that they get hacked!

        • Yes, add the card to Paypal and purchase gift card via NRMA/ RACV Benefits… Discounted eGift Cards.

          • @jimojr: Oh awesome.
            Definitely handy

            Last time I bought these, all the ladies in the line asked me but none went to grab any

            Most people don't have thousands of dollars to leave sitting on GCs even if it saves them money long term.

  • +6

    130 cards. Thanks!

    • Mad… that's $231.30 x 130 = $30,069…

      For a card value of $32,500, and profit wise: $32,500 - $30,069 = $2431.

      I'm surprised your bank didn't block you from these high value transactions!!

      • +1

        I have done 170 so far. All purchased by the same AMEX or its subs. No blocking this time but last time they did once even though I purchased less than this time.

        • Yeah Amex seems pretty intelligent with your card usage with respect to fraudulent transaction prevention. I always max out my limit during the 10% sales and they never declined a single transaction. Probably got to worry about Amex closing down our accounts though :)

          • @truetypezk: I dont go over the limit. I add funds to it as I go.

    • +2

      Man, you are the hero, but still long way to go.
      I'm very surprised you made about $7400 profit but didn't upvote the both post.

      • Few comments down and another user has claimed to buy 400+ card but was an in-store deal (which definitely requires more effort!)

        • It's funny, the people who claim they've dropped $30,000 to hold in prepaid credit cards are the ones looking for $12 SIM cards as well

          Don't believe everything you read on this forum.

          • +3
              • +2

                @[Deactivated]: Lot of projection and assumptions there haha

                I am not rich by any means but at my tax bracket it 100% made sense to invest the time, effort, into doing it. I didn't hide any gift cards and never would do something like that.

              • @[Deactivated]: Which products still have a 30 - 40% markup these days (with the rubbish AUD/USD)?

          • +3

            @[Deactivated]: Is it posdible some people have to pay a high tax bill plus councils rates for multiple properyies? Everyone's circumtances are different.

      • +4

        The best part is, the profit tax free.

    • Where are you going to use it?

  • Oh dear, I held off this long, attempted to purchase 5. Transaction failed :(

    I've got a google temporary hold but no transaction.
    Should I try again?

    • Attempted again.
      Chrome and CBA credit card. Transaction failed but no charge yet…..

      Another browser? Another day?

      • +1

        its been happening from ystd, combank, westpac, boq, and st.george all failled, maybe the promotion is over? out of stock?

        • +1

          Giftcards.com.au have something wrong with their payments system. It declined all attempts for both me and my wife to pay with our CBA Mastercards. I rang CBA who deny that they are declining the transactions. I rang Giftcards, who say that their computer is getting a reply that their payment portal does not understand, and therefore they decline at their end. Luckily, no such problem with Amex.

  • +1

    Worked a treat with Amex, bought 10. Free rewards points and ~8% discount on where mastercard is accepted! Thanks OP.

  • Hmmm anyone used these to top up Revolut? Zero surcharge as treated like debit maybe, seeing as someone said paying ATO was a very low 0.2% surcharge…?

  • +1

    This is a wonderful way to save money when paying large bills for things like Council Rates, Health Fund Contributions, etc. You need to invest time however to pay in a series of $250 dollups. You also need to be prepared, if the sites you are paying on flag your transactions as "suspicious" and stop taking additional payments, to then go via a 3rd party intermediary such as PostbillPay or PayPal.

    One note however is that to buy this card, the seller, Giftcards.com.au, has something wrong in their system that declines payments using Commonwealth Bank Mastercards. I rang them and CBA. CBA claim that they are not declining the transaction. Giftcards says that they are getting a response that their payment system does not understand. Very frustrating. Luckily, I could then pay by Amex instead.

    • Why would you want to pay by cba when you have Amex though? If you got the platinum edge card, this is now considered as a supermarket transaction and you get 3x pts.

      • Same thing for CommBank awards card. You get 1.2 Qantas points on awards black or 3 CommBank points per $

      • My AMEX declines but my CBA works… :(

    • +1

      I can confirm this isn't true. Purchased 10 on CommBank credit card just now with no issues at all

    • +1

      The site just frankly likes to block random cards and there's nothing you can do about it, it's the reason for most of the negative votes. It blocks my own Amex but works with my Citibank.

  • +3

    I prepaid my private health insurance yesterday - had to phone up and get them to process each one over the phone.
    The customer service rep on the phone was very patient and polite, and I explained/shared the ozbargain website and details when my payments were all processed.

  • +1

    This is great thanks. Purchased 20 and paid health insurance upfront with Medibank for a year with no issues. Now using for ATO tax bill again no issues

    Can also confirm it worked with shopback so getting another 1-5% back on-top. Bloody good!!

    • what bank did you use?

      • CommBank awards credit card. Bought in 2 lots of 10. Just changed name and phone number to my missus number. Same email and all. I think it uses the phone to determine a customer

    • Sorry what do you mean by shopback 1-5% back?

      • +1

        Shopback is an app that offers cashback on purchases including gift cards. For Amazon as an example they're doing 1.75% cash back. So use this deal + bought some Amazon cards for extra money back

    • How did you prepay Medibank please? was it via the phone?

      • Easily done via the app even if you are on direct debit. You can prepay up to 12 months. Only thing you need to evaluate is cashflow vs 7% saving vs earning capacity on the cash. In general it's a no brainer to prepay at least 6 months

        • found the option now , thank you

  • Any other way how i can buy Woolworth group egift card using this card as it doesn’t accept directly, and paypal said that card is linked with other account which is not true as i just bought it.

    • +1

      This means the card has been double issued. Check the balance. If it is unused, use it as fast as you can, as if the other person uses first then you'll need to be calling support.

      • Thnx, balance is still there.

  • Tried a few credit card different browser/Incognito/mobile/etc. Everytime got the same message "Transaction failed, please contact customer service."
    Customer service says - bank is blocking
    Bank says - no transaction received contact vendor

    Did too much work for an effective 7.5% discount now. I would have loved to avail it…but I think I am officially done with giftcard.com.au website.

    • Yeah probably not worth it if not working easily, but I could rarely find the physical ones when those deals were on. So this ended up being much better for me, luckily.

  • Virgin Money Visa card working consistently. No such luck with NAB Rewards which only did the trick once. CS tells me it is because transactions are limited to one per customer but that is of course not true.

  • What's the advantage of loading the digital gift card funds to PayPal account?
    Also apologies if been asked before - can we use these gift cards at Prezzee?

    • +2

      Some providers (e.g. Woolworths Gift Card site) don't accept the cards directly, but will accept Paypal as payment.

      Yes, Prezee accept them

      • Thanks, although comments above seem to suggest that Prezzee blocks the coles prepaid mastercards..

        • +1

          I've never been able to add one to Prezzee. I add to PayPal first, then use that to buy from Prezzee.

  • Pro tip if you have the Amex Plat edge get triple points, 2313 x 3 = 6,939 points per batch of 10! Even if you redeem GC that is close to $35 worth of GC.

    • you are so lucky, my amex plat edge keeps showing transactions failed. Can only use citi mastercard.. :(

      • Try a different phone number or email. Different browser, different name address etc.

    • how do you get triple points?

      • Amex Plat Edge gives triple points for spending at supermarkets, the charge comes up as Coles.

  • Anyone know if these work on Paypal? If so, can we use multiple in one transaction?

    • They do but you can only use one at a time.

      • Sorry to be a dolt but -

        On Amazon, I just bought myself a gc and immediately redeemed it.

        Is it same process with PayPal?

        • +2

          It's okay we all had to learn. As long as you don't ask things that have already been answered many times. You add the card just like you would a CC (into your wallet). You then use it the same as you would a CC but only for something that costs $250 max.

          • +1

            @Yola: Got it. Will do that now. Thx very much for explanation.

  • Will this offer still be available tomorrow?

    • +3

      Nobody knows but last time it was pulled early.

    • Expires on 23/08 if not sold out.

  • Just done mine for 1 as I'm testing my companies GC portal first. Tax Invoice/Confirmation came within 1 minute. Let's see if I get the card.
    EDIT - Got the card in 5 mins

  • Tried online with my AMEX multiple times and it always gives error on payment screen.

    • +1

      That is so odd I have purchased 200 now with my Ultimate AMEX.

      • +1

        why do u stop at 200?

        • I am still going.

      • how do you plan to get rid of them all?

        • They are scheduled to arrive 10 per day. 80% will go to PAYE tax and the rest council rates x 3, water bills x 3, gas, electricity, and whatever else I can use them for, especially if they do not take AMEX. Usually I do 100% to tax but this time have managed to get enough so can do other bills.

          • @Yola: omg, I'll assume you run your own business and hence need to pay PAYE tax. Lucky in that case, for individuals churning that many cards will be 1-2 years worth which offsets its benefit given 5.5%+ bank interest rates.

            • @nsingh21: Yes now that interest rates have gone up the benefits have changed slightly. But for me, the amount I have purchased is less than one PAYE installment.

      • Yeah I don't think I've had AMEX decline a purchase, ever. My AMEX always approves so fast I swear it's not actually checking against my account. I always say AMEX just auto approve and they'll get their money later by hook or by crook.

        • I keep the account in balance by adding funds as I keep purchasing. They did reject a purchase in the last deal because they thought it was a scam.

  • +1

    Managed to use leftovers at HCF Thank You to buy Giftcards at exact or near exact values. Amazon gift card normally 4% off and with this is around 11%

  • -4

    I made payment to ATO, anyone knows how to withdraw without a letter from accountant?
    I googled it but there is no clear answer.

  • Hmm - trying to get a few more cards this morning, but their payment gateway seems borked and not handling payments despite 2fa on cards for me.
    Anyone else got probs right now?

    • been getting 10 - 15 each day with amex with no issues at all. Seems it's stopped working for me since the weekend and tried several times. But unlike the Amazon GC saga, they haven't been taking the money out of my CC.

      Just tried now and still no luck. Hoping someone fixes it this morning so i can buy some more before the deal runs out.

      • yeah, was just looking at getting a last lot in before the offer finishes, but maybe its not happening this AM.
        At least I have spent all my cards already.
        And there is always next time (in a few months time)

      • I had one fail this morning, but not charged but one worked just now. Both AMEX subs of the same card.

    • +1

      FYI, I successfully purchased one at 7:42am AEST

      • +1

        damn had me excited.. i just tried @9am with Amex for 10 and still "Transaction failed, please contact customer service."

    • +1

      Working for me @8am AEST

      Using CBA Ultimate Award

  • Can you use these MCs to buy Coles Myer cards online?

    • where do you get discounted coles myer gc?

      • +1

        I usually get them from AMEX, Westpac and Commonwealth bank offers.

  • +2

    Still working 9:40am today.

  • Hmm - post 9am and the website still showing the offer…
    edit - wrong day!
    we have until Wednesday 9am!

    • Offer available from 16/8/23 9am to 23/08/23

      it doesnt say what time it finishes on the 23rd, only that it starts at 9am on the 16th.

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