Just to clarify some of the talk about 20% off Wish e-Gift cards:
- the majority of people are getting 5% off egift cards thru Entertainment Book,
Cash Rewards, Unions etc
- 20% off usually apples to Amex statement credit offers, eg spend $50 @ Dan Murphys get $10 back
- you can only get 1 credit per Amex card per offer
- some people (the minority) have 20 cards (several banks and supplementary cards), so they get 20x $50 egift totalling $1000 for $800.
- so your benefit is limited to the number of Amex's you have and the offers available.
- at times there are Big W 7.5 or 10% off in store or EB online etc, but haven't seen an offer for a while. These are limited to Big W only, so you take risk in not being able to buy other cards in-store.
- my experience at Coles in Tas is that they do not let let you buy gift cards with gift cards, the system rejects it, eg programmed in.
To add to the chatter, have just gone to Woolies, a manned checkout, and used 2x $50 egift cards to purchase $1x $88 card. No issues and they were happy doing it. Definitely a significant difference in attitude to Coles (particularly now the system rejects it, and it's just not a checkout operator or supervisor telling you NO.
The return from this is getting the 5% off (if you can) and 3 points per dollar, eg 264 Amex reward pts on Platinum Edge, for spending at businesses where only visa is accepted or your Amex only gives you 1/2 or 1 or 2ppd. My card was active in 30mins, as I used it at another store.
From my perspective and most others, this current $88 card deal would be of no benefit if you had to pay the $5.95 activation fee.
Hope this helps.