Deal is now dead (I think)
Usually coupons that say 15% off everything, 20% off everything, etc. don’t work on the purchase of gift cards. They’re not supposed to work on the purchase of gift cards. However, a popular retailer has apparently goofed up when entering their Christmas gift cards into their system. When you add one of these gift cards to your cart and go to check out, you’ll see that the system thinks it needs to charge you sales tax. That’s how you know this is going to work… On the checkout screen, enter your coupon code and you’ll see the discount applied. And, even better, if you already have gift cards from this merchant, you can apply those as well! No e-gift cards are available at this time. Once you complete the payment screen, the sales tax will drop off the final review screen.
Don’t forget to go through an online portal to earn 10 points per dollar too!
Hat tip to several readers who alerted me to this via email.
What retailer is this?
Sorry, I’m not going to say. I’m hoping that by being a little bit cryptic the deal will stay around longer. Once you figure it out, please don’t broadcast this elsewhere!
Will this really work?
Probably not. My guess is that the store will cancel all orders for these gift cards in which coupon codes were applied, but we’ll see!
How can I maximize savings and rewards?
You could pay with a card that gets 5X this quarter at this store. You could run out to an office supply store and buy this retailer’s gift cards there and pay with a card that gets extra points at an office supply store. Or, you could go through a portal to Staples and buy e-gift cards there, but those won’t be delivered until tomorrow. Who knows if the deal will last that long? Best bet is if you have this merchant’s charge card. Enough said.
Can I make money by buying these gift cards and selling to a gift card reseller?
Maybe, but keep in mind that once lots of people try reselling these cards, the offer price for them is likely to drop substantially.
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Regarding #3: gift cards, like Visa/Mastercard? -wingtipper
No, just Kohls gift cards
Here’s what happened with my orders:
1. All of my orders were cancelled
2. I received the gift cards by mail anyway. They were all empty.
3. The gift cards I had used to pay for these orders were never automatically re-credited. I had to call Kohls customer service to get that money back.
4. All of the expected portal points posted despite the cancellations. Like everyone else here, I’m hoping the points don’t get clawed back (but I won’t complain if that happens).
When I first saw the package arrive I thought I had a major score. Unfortunately, it was exact same thing for me except that I used my Kohls card and it wasn’t ever charged.
@mona – did it actually posts to your UR account (i.e., can you redeem the points now)? It shows under my activity page, but it hasn’t posted yet.
Both my orders were cancelled but I got my UR points (8400pts). Hope it doesn’t get reversed.
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I spoke to soon. The order arrived but they all have a 0 balance.
I just received one of my 3 gift card orders. I found this odd as I received 3 different emails saying each order was cancelled.
Just saw this morning I had two $70 transactions post to the UR mall for 700 points. I tried to buy two $100 gift cards with the 30% off code.
I had another separate transaction for $59.50 using some store cash currency but that hasn’t posted yet.
FM – Thanks again for posting. I would have never known about this. Am not a big player at all, so had a few 100 “invested”. Orders got cancelled yesterday, but worth a try. You are doing a GREAT job, thanks again.
When should we know if we got UR points for these manually cancelled orders?
Points from Kohl’s usually show up in the UR Mall in 4 or 5 days, but sometimes take several weeks. So, I don’t know.
My recent experience with GC with this retailer through UR Mall has been points only posting for 1 card of each denomination. Ex – if purchase 5 GC each $100… only get the points for 1 $100 GC. If you purchase, (1) $100 + (1) $50 + (1) $25 = points for all GC purchases. Unless things have changed in last couple weeks…. don’t expect a massive UR with multiple GC of the same value.
I had 4 orders, all GC’s, at $100, $200, $300, and $240 (before 15% discount.) As of 3pm the first three showed “In Fulfillment” and the 4th was “Submitted.” Now, all have been cancelled.
Had two different orders in for GC plus merchandise. Used GC for part of each purchase along with Kohls CC.
All GC purchases were cancelled in each order. Any $’s in GC used in purchase were put back onto said GC and entire balance of remaining purchase charged to Kohls CC.
Oh well, hope others have better luck.
My orders were in fulfillment and then shipped after GC were removed from orders.
Have the $ been put back on the original GC? When I check the balances they still say $0. Anyone else have this issue?
Yes very common issue…. always have to call into customer service where it takes 15 mins for them to correct. ..
Just to satisfy people’s curiosity. I was the person who put this on slick deals. I originally did not hear about it from here. Once I knew about it however, I did a google search and then saw this thread (thus some detail similarities) and posted about it on slick deals. I don’t think it matters either way just wanted people to know that FM posting this up had little to nothing to do with my SD post.
And in the end, based on the results, what did you learn?
And my last $200 order was canceled. Grr. Had $4100 worth, oh well….
Cancelled too. Placed early yesterday.