Woolworths gift card thread

[SOPOOR]

Store I visited this morning only had the cards with birthday branding in stock. I tried one and it scanned at $105.95.

Self checkout operator said "it's only the ones with the champagne glasses". I showed him the catalogue and he confirmed only the ones pictured.

I guess it's possible it was a store specific IT issue, but I doubt it.

Damn it. I've been scoping my local stores for the past few days, now that I think about it I recall seeing a lot of yellow (ie birthday) ones

 

[yoyo]

I tried to buy some only 1 visas at Chadstone woolworths today, the system would not accept egift cards. The manager said it was to stop money laundering.

 

[SOPOOR]

Store I visited this morning only had the cards with birthday branding in stock. I tried one and it scanned at $105.95.

Self checkout operator said "it's only the ones with the champagne glasses". I showed him the catalogue and he confirmed only the ones pictured.

I guess it's possible it was a store specific IT issue, but I doubt it.

So unlike previous deals where they give you 2000 ww points.
These simply scan at $100? At the register without a woolworths members card?

 

[yoyo]

yes, they scan at $100, no member card needed

 

[daft009]

my local had around 50-55x green ones.
my edge limit only allowed for 30x, so purchased that many at least.
will return tomorrow for a second round

 

[New Chump]

Note that the Visa Only 1 cards with the Happy Birthday branding are not included in the offer. These:

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The offer only applies to the cards with the branding pictured in the catalogue:
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This is not correct, at least not at all stores. I purchased some Only1s with the orange happy birthday cover this morning. Scanned at $100 each.



I bought 10, and it took about 15 minutes to squirt out the activation receipts. Always had a fair delay in the past, but never this long before. It was a long enough wait to put me off repeating this process.

NC

 

[SOPOOR]

This is not correct, at least not at all stores. I purchased some Only1s with the orange happy birthday cover this morning. Scanned at $100 each.



I bought 10, and it took about 15 minutes to squirt out the activation receipts. Always had a fair delay in the past, but never this long before. It was a long enough wait to put me off repeating this process.

NC

15 mins! No way !!!!

 

[daft009]

mine only took about a minute to activate per lot of 10x.
spread over 2 registers

 

[lilkid28]

The lady at first told me 2 mins per card, I smiled and said I've done this many times. Man, I was wrong and stood there for 20 minutes for 9 cards.

 

[coriander]

Even at 1:1 on Explorer/Edge, it's an improvement on dragon's 0.75:1 (thinks, is the extra 0.25:1 worth the time taken to key in dozens of visa card numbers?).

 

[daft009]

its 3ppd via the edge.
i've written a few macros to make data entry heaps faster.
just enter the card number & CVV, rest is hard coded. different macros for different merchants & account numbers

 

[Dr Ralph]

mine only took about a minute to activate per lot of 10x.
spread over 2 registers

Some of mine activated whilst others failed. Spent 5 mins at service desk sorting out the problem.

 

[andye]

Since the Canberra store stopped taking them, only1s are much harder to spend than they used to be

 

[foggy]

sounds like this promo is going to cost a lot of time and frustration.

 

[jbman]

As mentioned, birthday ones did not give me the discount. Service desk advised me of this when I tried to buy a few. All others were out of stock

 

[coriander]

All others were out of stock

Same at WW SMelb - nothing but birthday cards.

 

[awkwardpaws]

took me 8 minutes to activate 3 cards.
thanks to the reports here, i was patient and didnt escalate, but man, it took a while!

 

[awkwardpaws]

also interestingly, the activation slip still says $105.95, even though my receipt says $100...

 

[easypoints]

After reading these comments I went and bought a few cards:

1 single card - activated as normal ~10-15 seconds
2 cards together - activation took about 2 minutes

 

[netgrom]

After reading these comments I went and bought a few cards:

1 single card - activated as normal ~10-15 seconds
2 cards together - activation took about 2 minutes

I put 10 through on a self service checkout at lunch. Stood there for about 10 minutes, escalated they said it should be max 5, but I checked a couple of cards and they were activated was happy enough but they took my name and number in case and I just walked away!