Can I Use Ultimate Gift Cards to Buy Apple Gift Cards through JB Hi-Fi?

Lnkai on 12/09/2023 - 14:28

Hi all, new to OzBargain and first time purchasing these kind of gift cards.
I'm planning to take advantage of the 20x EDR points for Ultimate Gift Cards at Woolies tomorrow to buy the iPhone 15.

How should I go about this? Do I just buy from Woolies > Exchange for JB GCs online (if necessary) > Go to JB > Purchase Apple GCs using GCs?

Also a bit worried about how they'll react if I'm bringing 5 gift cards (not sure if you can merge into 1 online) to buy Apple Gift Cards.
Are they usually cool about this or am I just overthinking it?

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  • Agarwal on 12/09/2023 - 14:50
    +1

    Can't you just buy the phone from JB with the vouchers?

    • nkai on 12/09/2023 - 16:05

      Yeah I've considered this but read somewhere that JB normally takes a few weeks for the new iPhones to come in, so I would rather just pre-order it whenever it's available. So this would be my last option.

      • Agarwal on 12/09/2023 - 16:28

        Might depend on where you go and which model you're after but I am pretty sure I picked one up from JB on the day of release last year.

        • nkai on 12/09/2023 - 16:41

          No worries then, guess I'll just have to wait and see :)

  • pjetson on 12/09/2023 - 15:00

    So, your plan is to buy gift cards from Woolworths, then use those gift cards to buy JB Hifi gift cards online, then take those cards to JB and use the cards to buy Apple gift cards, then use those gift cards to buy a phone?

    Have you confirmed with all of those card companies and retailers that you can actually do what you're trying to do?

    • pjetson on 12/09/2023 - 15:09

      According to the FAQ:

      JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys officially do not permit customers to use Ultimate gift cards as a payment method for JB Hi-Fi gift cards

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/gift_card_deals_retailer_f…

      • nkai on 12/09/2023 - 16:09

        Yes, that's my plan except for the part where I buy gift cards online. I just assumed that I would have to register the Ultimate Gift Cards on their website and exchange it for an eGift Card, unless that part isn't necessary.

        As for the FAQ, I did some reading around and people say the checkout system allows it, but it depends on the staff.

  • nsingh21 on 12/09/2023 - 15:34

    Having some experience doing this, easiest, fastest way is to price match the iPhone at JB, then swipe all your cards at JB. If you go Apple route, their limit is 8 GC per transaction, and I haven't seen >$100 Apple GC in my local store so you'd only be able to buy an iPhone worth $800, not the IP15.

    • nkai on 12/09/2023 - 16:11
      +2

      Buying through JB would be the easiest route the only problem which I mentioned in another reply is that JB doesn't get the phones as soon as it releases. I guess I'll have to look in store to see if they do variable Apple GCs if I wanna go the Apple route.

      • nsingh21 on 12/09/2023 - 16:15

        Yeah good luck on finding variable Apple GC. All I'll say is time is money. Either you save some money or time, your choice :)

  • brendanm on 12/09/2023 - 16:57
    +1

    Yeah it'll all work out really well, go for it.

  • Nicholas Lim on 13/09/2023 - 10:10

    keep us updated as I am looking to do the same but for the new Airpods pro 2s

    • nkai on 13/09/2023 - 20:17

      Went in to JB today and they only have max $200 Apple GCs, also said there was a limit but they weren't sure how many.

      Told them my plan essentially and they said you can't buy gift cards with gift cards, but I'm assuming you can just say you're paying by card instead of saying you're paying with a gift card since it's a Visa card.

      If you're just buying AirPods, then you should be good with the $200 GCs, just say you're paying by card.

      You can use Apple Pay too (https://www.ultimategiftcards.com.au/apple-pay/) if you're using the Ultimate GCs.

  • cooni on 14/09/2023 - 12:45

    The key is to just not ask them.

    I bought a bunch of Apple gift cards just today with a JB HiFi gift card (egift card - with a barcode they have to scan) with no problems.

    Even easier if you're just swiping a physical card - it'll go through as EFTPOS.

    • j1nx on 15/09/2023 - 08:55

      Good to know mate, I came here wondering the same thing as I'm intending on buying some Ultimate cards to swap for Apple cards at my local JB today. I think I will go with adding the Ultimate GC to Apple Pay so that it appears much more like a 'regular' transaction.

      • Spidy2021 on 30/09/2023 - 19:46

        Can you add more than 1 gift card in Apple Pay? I have like 6-7 of them so wondering if anyone has done this before?

        • j1nx on 30/09/2023 - 19:46
          +1

          I couldn’t get it to work so I just used the physical ones. They didn’t care how I paid for the Apple GCs.

          • Spidy2021 on 30/09/2023 - 19:48

            @j1nx: Thanks for the quick response! Did you end up paying for apple gift cards using ultimate gift cards or did you first get the jb hi fi ones? can you detail out what you did step by step if its not too much trouble please?

            • j1nx on 30/09/2023 - 21:10

              @Spidy2021: I bought ultimate gift cards from Woolies, went into JB with the physical gift cards and purchased Apple gift cards with them.

  • zsh on 29/09/2023 - 14:43

    Where did you guys get Apple GC? I went to several JB stores and they are alll out of stock

  • mangostern on 17/12/2023 - 02:26

    Looks like JB changed their terms so you can't do this anymore as of Nov 2023 - has anyone tried to do so after the change?

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