Special gift cards Father’s Day offer. 10% cashback up to $20. Additional cards are not eligible for this offer.
Happy Father’s Day to all the frugal fathers on ozbargain
AmEx Statement Credit: 10% Cashback, up to $20 Cap @ Special Gift Cards
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Last edited 24/08/2023 - 12:10 by 1 other user
Last edited 24/08/2023 - 12:10 by 1 other user
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Gift card businesses get free money from breakage… people forgetting they have gift cards or have unspent balances. American versions of this business make millions due to sheer population and shopping culture.
Just bought a super shopper card with Amex card directly without issues (also got the amex offer notification via email immediately). However, had issues adding the card to my Google Wallet.. so have just got an Amazon GC instead.
Bought explorer card to get cheaper petrol.
Which card can be used for petrol?
Bought explorer card to get cheaper petrol.
Explorer.
Thank you
Does anyone know if Pub Crawler card still works at Liquor Land? Last time it worked fine.
good to know it accepted at Gift Card Exchange.
I bought 10% off HIM in Target:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/796136Thanks for posting your experience - can I just confirm that you ordered a target gift card from gift card exchange, and that gift card allowed you to buy a HIM gift card at Target?
Didn't work for me.
Anyone got the $20 cashback from amex yet ?
Yes, it shows "KARTA CO". Paid by GPay.
Mine showing transaction: specialgiftcardoffers elsternwick
Ehmmmm - not sure this eligible or not
Yes, the same. I am saying credits description.
Your offer may have shown redeemed status.
Not yet, but offer T&Cs say it can take 15 business days to 90 days to credit
I haven't received mine either. Usually it only takes few days :/
Bought a DIY card yesterday to use immediately at Bunnings today, found out the transaction was cancelled this morning with no explanation.
Amex and Bunnings just lost some consumer spending from me today, Special!
It should be fine to use instore. Online retaliers may decline prepaid cards at their discretion.
You misunderstood me or should I say I misrepresented receiving the DIY card, Special did not send the giftcard email at all, and the purchase refunded back to my Amex account already. I was expecting to get the e-giftcard link to use today.
I bought a $200 home and garden gift card from this mob with my Amex card and I got the $20 back under the Amex promo. I went to Bunnings to use the gift card and it was declined twice. When I try to use the contact us page on the special website to report the issues, I fill out all the field and the submit button doesn’t work. I will try again on a Windows laptop but this is fkn disgraceful. I will contact Amex to try and block the transaction but it might be too late. If I still can’t contact them I’ll report it to the ACCC.
It may work to buy a Bunnings eGC online. It is just a suggestion as I haven't done it.
Sometimes the other EFTPOS machine in the store may approve it.
That’s a good idea, however it seems the only way is to add it as an Apple Pay form of payment. I’ll see if that can be done and report back.
@Uncl3R0g3r: In the app, you can select to spend online and it reveals the details like a credit card.
I went to Bunnings online store purchased a $200 gift card with those details and it worked.
Strange how it didn’t work in store, but at least it worked and the funds are away from the Special.
Thanks for the suggestion Neoika!
What is the most useful or popular Special gift cards to buy? Don't have anything particularly in mind to buy. Thinking of getting one card which can be swapped to some other type of gift cards, but not sure which one to get. Not really want the one that can be used at WWS.
Got it on Amex Discovery, saved the offer.
Bought WW gift $200 card with a Visa card.
why do I always do that!!! :(PEBKAC
Is anyone still waiting on their statement credit?
I saved the offer to my card and made the purchase which posted on 28 August. It's showing as SPECIALGIFTCARDSOFFERS ELSTERNWICK $200.00 or KARTA CO if I view the transaction details but the Amex Offer never moved from the Saved to Card tab to the Savings tab on the Amex portal.
Obviously with the offer expired now the statement credit isn't showing in Saved to Card anymore.
I know the T&Cs say that it can take up to 90 days to process but I've never seen it take more than a few days at most.Not yet, I haven't got mine either, but will be contacting Amex early next week if I haven't seen the credit
I have SPECIALGIFTCARDSOFFERS ELSTERNWICK as well
I jumped on the online chat just after posting this comment and the rep said the below. 15 business days from 28 August (my posting date) is the end of next week so I'm still in their settlement period I guess.
Thank you for being with me, I have reviewed the account and I can see that you have made an eligible charge for the cash back offer - receive 10% back one time, up to $20 back.
You have to just wait for the timeframe as per the offer, rest assure the charge is an eligible charge for the cash back offer.
Credit should appear on your billing statement within 15 business days from qualifying spend but may take up to 90 days from the offer end date.
Same experience here, paid with the special app using Apple Pay/AMEX.
still waiting as well … chatted to support they said confirmed go through, but i asked them why there is no confirmation email anymore. AMEX now so slow in cashback. i even have to chased them for EG Ampol cashback, and they end up giving another $10 credit for goodwill … getting annoyed with amex. prob going to close it once all is settled
It's 15 business days now for me now without the credit so I contacted Amex and they said it'll be escalated to apply the credit manually in the next few days.
Thanks for the update.
Today is my 14/15th business day depending on if you count the date it was posted so I'll see what happens over the weekend and message them on Tuesday.
Has your manual credit come as yet?
Not yet. They did say give it 5-7 business days, so I will follow up next week if it's still missing.
@wangasm: Same here, I made the third call to customer service. The last call was made on 14 Sep claimed to have escalated to marketing team still waiting.
@foxes28: Nope, this is the response I got
"I see the escalation is still under review. It is taking some time for the credits to be issued and triggered. We request you to wait 7 more business days."
Not yet for me too.
same, nothing yet
I'm still waiting for my credit too :(
Offer is showing as redeemed now but still no credit.
Fail so hard… still no credit
Must be playing the old game of don't give out the credit unless they ask for it.
Coz most don't ask for it. flybuys plays this game for non-Coles purchases with 4 week waiting for bonus perfectly.
I have not received my credit as well.
Tried a follow up via chat just now, told to wait til 90 days after offer end date which is 3 Dec
I got my credit yesterday, did asked for the case to be escalated 2 weeks ago. This was one of my bad cases with Amex.
I was told by Amex via Chat that this merchant was not eligible for this offer so I asked for it to be escalated.
How could there be an offer for this particular merchant if it was ineligible to have offers in the first place?
I received my credit on 16/10.
I just checked today and my credit was received 13th Oct. No email notification or otherwise.
still nothing here.
Card 1: Spent 3 Sep, credit received 3 Sep
Card 2: Spent 3 Sep, credit received 2 Nov
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Tried like 20 times on different days. Kept getting "Your card has been declined"
Chatted with Amex. Confirmed No block, no card declined transaction captured from their end.