Woolworths gift card thread

[Captain Halliday]

1.19c/qffp or a loss of $0.95 per card if converting to woolies pesos.
Adding ~105 qffp with a 1c/p credit card brings it to just under 1c/p.
Hardly lucrative but may help with questing for points club - over 7 days could clear 21k points, more if different varieties are treated differently

Plus, in very limited circumstances, can be used fee free at places that would other wise levy a CC surcharge.

Or to accumulate points on the PE for payments at the very large Canberra based merchant.

But worth the hassle… YMMV.

 

[fkcn]

1.19c/qffp or a loss of $0.95 per card if converting to woolies pesos.
Adding ~105 qffp with a 1c/p credit card brings it to just under 1c/p.
Hardly lucrative but may help with questing for points club - over 7 days could clear 21k points, more if different varieties are treated differently

When you put it like that, doesn’t seem quite as poor value. Even better with AMEX Plat Edge which earns 1.5 Avios or VA points per dollar. But still less attractive than Coles Gift MC with 20 bonus points per dollar.

 

[FlyingFiona]

But still less attractive than Coles Gift MC with 20 bonus points per dollar.

The other benefit with the Coles GCs is that Coles give you FB points for the per dollar spend as well as the bonus. Woolies don't.

 

[Ktan89]

Signs have gone up early at my local, so here’s advance notice of next week’s offer.

Only $50 and $100. No variable load.

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have these been 20x before?
or is this the best offer now days?

 

[DejaBrew]

Just went to my local Woolies looking for the variable load Apple GCs to replace the one that failed to activate for me the other day (but did give me 10000 "free" EDR points). Absolutely wasteland in terms of Apple cards.

Subsequently went for a detour to a nearby Woolies Metro and think I've now discovered where all of the Apple GCs disappear to when they go into hiding at all the other stores

 

[Captain Halliday]

have these been 20x before?

Yes

or is this the best offer now days?

Sadly it seems, also yes.

 

[Ktan89]

Yes

Sadly it seems, also yes.

Thanks for confirming. I thought maybe I was dreaming. Has it been year s
since 20x dropped?

 

[Captain Halliday]

Thanks for confirming. I thought maybe I was dreaming. Has it been year s
since 20x dropped?

My memory’s not that good.

But @VantageXL might have the data to answer this.

 

[lovestotravel]

have these been 20x before?
or is this the best offer now days?

vanilla visa - FreePoints.com.au

freepoints.com.au

Always 10 x and haven't seen these cards on offer in 9 months

Sadly without the $500 card it's not worth my time

 

[aaa99]

No woolworths GC promotions for next week?

 

[Captain Halliday]

No woolworths GC promotions for next week?

Post 5957

 

[VantageXL]

My memory’s not that good.

But @VantageXL might have the data to answer this.

Woolworths switched from Blackhawk Network to InComm Payments as their prepaid open loop gift card supplier early last year. Since then, they've only ever offered 10x points but beginning this year every single promotion has excluded the variable load cards (see list below).

They have offered 20x points on Westfield Eftpos $50 and $100 cards a handful of times over the years (most recently in Jun 2024) and up until 2021 they would sometimes offer 20x points on $50 and $100 Perfect Eftpos gift cards.

2025: $50 and $100 cards only:
10x points on $50 and $100 Vanilla Visa gift cards - 20/8/2025-26/8/2025
10x points on $50 and $100 TCN Eftpos gift cards - 30/7/2025-5/8/2025
10x points on $50 and $100 Vanilla Visa gift cards - 25/6/2025-1/7/2025
10x points on $50 and $100 Vanilla Mastercard gift cards - 4/6/2025-10/6/2025
10x points on $50 and $100 TCN Eftpos gift cards - 23/4/2025-29/4/2025
10x points on $50 and $100 TCN Eftpos gift cards - 26/2/2025-4/3/2025
10x points on $50 and $100 Vanilla Mastercard gift cards - 5/2/2025-11/2/2025
10x points on $50 and $100 Vanilla Visa gift cards - 22/1/2025-28/1/2025

2024: Variable load cards included:
10x points on Vanilla Visa and Vanilla Visa Birthday gift cards - 4/12/2024-10/12/2024
10x points on Vanilla Mastercard gift cards - 20/11/2024-26/11/2024
10x points on TCN Eftpos gift cards - 30/10/2024-5/11/2024
10x points on TCN Luxury Eftpos gift cards - 23/10/2024-29/10/2024
10x points on Vanilla Mastercard gift cards - 9/10/2024-15/10/2024
10x points on TCN Luxury Eftpos gift cards - 25/9/2024-1/10/2024
10x points on Vanilla Visa and Vanilla Visa Birthday gift cards - 4/9/2024-10/9/2024
10x points on TCN Eftpos gift cards - 31/7/2024-6/8/2024
10x points on Vanilla Visa and Vanilla Visa Birthday gift cards - 26/6/2024-2/7/2024
10x points on Vanilla Mastercard gift cards - 5/6/2024-11/6/2024
10x points on TCN Luxury Eftpos and $100 Vanilla Visa gift cards - 15/5/2024-21/5/2024
10x points on TCN Eftpos and Merindah-Gunya Eftpos gift cards - 24/4/2024-30/4/2024

 

[Ktan89]

Thank you @VantageXL really informative and good job keeping the history.
Will need to see if this 10x will make sense for me then.

 

[exceladdict]

Signs have gone up early at my local, so here’s advance notice of next week’s offer.

Only $50 and $100. No variable load.

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Gift $100s bought today are being declined tonight at my local council (bpoint), post billpay, and post billpay via paypal with "Decline Code 03 - Invalid Merchant".

Checking online, it does show there's an $100 balance, though it does say 'pending'. Will be a real pain if these can't be used for the intended online payments. Will try again in the morning.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Gift $100s bought today are being declined tonight at my local council (bpoint), post billpay, and post billpay via paypal with "Decline Code 03 - Invalid Merchant".

Checking online, it does show there's an $100 balance, though it does say 'pending'. Will be a real pain if these can't be used for the intended online payments. Will try again in the morning.

I managed to pay the CBR based merchant.

 

[FlyingFiona]

Gift $100s bought today are being declined tonight at my local council (bpoint), post billpay, and post billpay via paypal with "Decline Code 03 - Invalid Merchant".

Checking online, it does show there's an $100 balance, though it does say 'pending'. Will be a real pain if these can't be used for the intended online payments. Will try again in the morning.

They can ocassionally take a while to activate, no?

 

[Dr Ralph]

Gift $100s bought today are being declined tonight at my local council (bpoint), post billpay, and post billpay via paypal with "Decline Code 03 - Invalid Merchant".

Checking online, it does show there's an $100 balance, though it does say 'pending'. Will be a real pain if these can't be used for the intended online payments. Will try again in the morning.

I'm hearing similar reports. Particular problems with Aus Post.

The game may have changed. But may be a temporary glitch?

 

[VantageXL]

From today at Big W:

Ultimate Him gift cards can be used at 99 Bikes, Adidas, Adrenaline, Anaconda, ASOS, Autobarn, Barbeques Galore, Bonds, Camping World, Champion, Compleat Angler, Cotton On, Dymocks, EB Games, Factorie, Fine Day, Foot Locker, H&M, Home Hardware, Hoyts, Intersport, Jay Jays, Jaycar, JB Hi-Fi, JD Sports, Just Jeans, Kingpin, LSKD, Lush, Luxury Escapes, Mitre 10, My Muscle Chef, Natio, New Balance, Nike, Oakley, OPSM, Oxford, OzSale, Peter Alexander, PlayStation Store, Puma, QBD Books, RedBalloon, Rip Curl, Roblox, Seed, Speedo, SportsPower, Star Car Wash, Sunglass Hut, T2 Tea, Temple & Webster, The Bavarian, The Good Guys, The Iconic, Timezone, Total Tools, Toyworld, Uber, Uber Eats, Unison, Village Cinemas, Weber Store, Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, YD, Zing, Zone Bowling.

Ultimate Students gift cards can be used at Adidas, Adrenaline, ASOS, Ben & Jerry’s, Big Swing Golf, Boost Juice, Chatime, City Beach, Cotton On, Donut King, Dotti, Dymocks, EB Games, Foot Locker, Grill’d, H&M, Holey Moley, Hoyts, IKEA, Intersport, Jay Jays, JD Sports, Just Cuts, Just Jeans, Kathmandu, Kikki K, Kingpin, Lorna Jane, Lush, Officeworks, OPSM, PlayStation Store, Puma, QBD Books, Roblox, San Churro, Shein, Strike Bowling, Supre, T2 Tea, The Body Shop, The Iconic, Timezone, Typo, Village Cinemas, Webjet, Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, YD, Zing, Zone Bowling.

 

[VantageXL]

From today at Big W:

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Update from Big W for anyone wondering why the discount isn't coming up on the $50 Ultimate Students gift cards:

We have incorrectly pictured the Ultimate Student $50 instead of the Ultimate Student $30. The Ultimate Student $50 not available in this offer, we apologies for any confusion this might have caused

 

[burmans]

Update from Big W for anyone wondering why the discount isn't coming up on the $50 Ultimate Students gift cards:

If they advertised I think that’s BigW’s problem! Definitely complain and threaten to escalate.