The $100 eftpos GC 'promotion' has to be one of the worst run 'promotions' I have seen for a while. No wonder WW is struggling against Coles.
Firstly, the GC activation issue for WA WW meant none of the $100 GC could be sold in WA at all until Friday morning. Secondly, the 'promoted' GC are only sold at about half of the WW in Perth. Thirdly, $100 GC stock must have been woefully inadequate prior to the 'promotion' starting (proven by the fact that the $50 eftpos GC were also difficult to find at WW and they were not part of the 'promotion').
At the end of the day, without a massive effort, I was able to scrounge up a 'few' here and there to keep me going until the hopeful 'Fathers Day' Coles MC GC promotion.
On the bright side (and I trust people will keep this under their hat), I have been able to sucessfully 'convert' a few of these GC into 'a more familiar (and useful) form'. I would suggest others wanting to 'convert' their GC do it at a self checkout, one a time and only once per visit to not raise any alarm bells. It is obviously better value overall not to 'convert' them but the option is available if required.