Coles gift card offers

So I thought this must have been where I was going wrong with the Beauty cards and why I was getting a surcharge. Used it again today and made sure to press Savings not Credit. Still had a surcharge 🤯

Actually, I have been using the EFTPOS gift cards from Coles from a few weeks ago, so I have been pressing SAV, yet, I had been to so many shops where their EFTPOS would add 30c. I know that the cost to a merchant, by most banks, for EFTPOS, is only 10c. These EFTPOS terminals from memory are not from banks, but from some independents.

So it's not the gift cards, but it's just the whole card surcharge is getting out of hand. RBA had released their new proposal on card surcharge today, but that's off topic ......
 
From Wed 23 Jul 2025:

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See below for a list of where these gift cards can be used:
TCN Restaurant gift cards can be used at:
  • 5812: Eating Places, Restaurants
  • 5813: Bars, coughtail Lounges, Discotheques, Nightclubs, and Taverns: Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)
Officially, TCN Restaurant gift cards cannot be used at ‘5814: Fast Food Restaurants’ but for some reason this limitation does not seem to apply to the digital version. You can convert your physical TCN Restaurant card into a digital one here so that you can add it your mobile wallet (e.g. Apple Pay).

TCN Her gift cards can be used at Adairs, Adidas, Adore Beauty, ASOS, Aveda, Beginning Boutique, Bonds, boohoo, Booktopia, Bras N Things, Calvin Klein, Champion, Commonry, Cotton On, Cotton On Body, Culture Kings, Decjuba, Dotti, Drummond Golf, Dymocks, Elite Eleven, Estee Lauder, Factorie, Fine-Day, Foot Locker, Forever New, Ghanda, Glassons, Glue Store, H&M, Hype DC, Intersport, Jacqui E, JB Hi-Fi, JD Sports, Just Jeans, Kookai, Lorna Jane, Macpac, MAC Cosmetics, Nike, Nine West, Oz Hair & Beauty, Perfect Stranger, Petal & Pup, Peter Alexander, Platypus, Portmans, Princess Polly, Rebel, Reebok, Rubi, Scotch & Soda, Seafolly, Seed Heritage, Sheike, Shein, Showpo, Skechers, PlayStation Store, Sportsgirl, Stylerunner, Supre, T2, Thats So Fetch, The Oodie, Tiger Mist, TK Maxx, Tommy Hilfiger, Tony Bianco, Unison, Universal Store, White Fox Boutique.

TCN Teen gift cards can be used at Adidas, Allkinds, Archie Brothers, ASOS, Beginning Boutique, Billabong, Bonds, Calvin Klein, Champion, City Beach, Cotton On, Culture Kings, Dr. Martens, Dymocks, Factorie, Foot Locker, Ghanda, Glassons, Glue Store, H&M, Holey Moley, Hype DC, Intersport, Jay Jays, JB Hi-Fi, JD Sports, Kikki.K, Kingpin, Nike, Perfect Stranger, Peter Alexander, Platypus, Princess Polly, Quiksilver, Rebel, Reebok, Roblox, Seed Heritage, Shein, Showpo, PlayStation Store, Sportsgirl, Strike, Supre, Surf Dive n Ski, The AFL Store, The Athletes Foot, The Oodie, Timezone, TK Maxx, Tommy Hilfiger, Topgolf, Typo, UGG Express, Universal Store, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, White Fox Boutique, Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, Zone Bowling.
 
From Wed 30 Jul 2025:

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Credit to HamBoi69 on OzBargain for the photo.

If the last three years are any indication then this could be the last Apple offer at Coles until late October as they always stop running them around the time the new iPhones are released. If you prefer to earn Flybuys/Velocity points then it might be a good idea to stock up now.

As always, make sure you check your gift cards for signs of tampering before you pay for them:

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About time this one was back! Could have used it 4 weeks ago when I paid this term’s school fees. I guess they’ll be happy with a prepayment for next term.
 
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