Where does it say not valid for gift card purchases?

[MaleficentRN]

Perhaps I am taking this personally, but I am getting annoyed by reading post that using this coupon to buy gift cards is fraud. I have read this coupon backwards and forwards, with and without Target team members and I do not see that anywhere. Can someone tell me where it is written that anything at all is excluded from purchase?

 

[Auggietina]

It clearly states that GiftCards and Tax are not included in determining purchase total.
(starting with the 4th line down in the fine print)

So you have to spend $50 before tax and not including GiftCards

 

[kimkoz]

I'm with the person above - It's clearly there for me.

 

[MaleficentRN]

It clearly states that GiftCards and Tax are not included in determining purchase total.
(starting with the 4th line down in the fine print)

So you have to spend $50 before tax and not including GiftCards

No. Read it again.
When you get a free Target Gift Card the cost of it is added into the total cost of your purchase. So the sub total will be $60, then $10 is subtracted for the free gift card.
What that line means is that you cannot spend $40 and adding the gift card makes it $50. Or that you spend $45 and $5 tax would make it total $50.
Also, GiftCards is the Target brand for their owngift cards.

 

[marciagms]

Could you please send the link for the free $10 gift card with $50 purchase? I would like to use it today. Thanks

 

[momxx5]

It clearly states that you cannot buy Giftcards to count as any part of the $50 pre tax purchase in order to get the Free Giftcard.

Its not fraud.....it is just plain & simply against their rules, terms & conditions.

 

[cornflake]

No. Read it again.
When you get a free Target Gift Card the cost of it is added into the total cost of your purchase. So the sub total will be $60, then $10 is subtracted for the free gift card.
What that line means is that you cannot spend $40 and adding the gift card makes it $50. Or that you spend $45 and $5 tax would make it total $50.
Also, GiftCards is the Target brand for their owngift cards.

No, it's clearly distinguishing.

The free gift card wouldn't be entered into the total - nor subtracted from it. It's given to you, with the amount loaded onto it, after purchase, and the computer prompts the cashier to load the card, it's programmed in, not added the same way as if you're buying it. Same as when they do free gift card with X purchase (I've gotten a $5 gift card when buying Bounty multipacks). You buy the stuff, pay, they hand you the gift card with the $5 on it to be used for your next purchase.

The line people are referring to specifies between Giftcards - which, along with tax, cannot contribute to the $50 needed to get the FREE giftcard bonus with purchase, and the FREE Giftcard it mentions in the following sentence.

As the posters above note, it says tax and gift cards are not to count toward the $50 needed to get the $10 bonus card. Hence, you can buy a $50 gift card, and $50 worth of other stuff, and you can get the card because of the $50 worth of other stuff. The gift card won't count, either alone or with other purchases, toward the $50 - that's why it's worded that way, because you can buy one alone or in with other stuff, so they say it won't count toward the $50.

 

[Marionnette]

No. Read it again.
When you get a free Target Gift Card the cost of it is added into the total cost of your purchase. So the sub total will be $60, then $10 is subtracted for the free gift card.
What that line means is that you cannot spend $40 and adding the gift card makes it $50. Or that you spend $45 and $5 tax would make it total $50.
Also, GiftCards is the Target brand for their owngift cards.

It says GiftCards and tax will not be used in determining purchase total. The coupon is for a single Target gift card valued at $10. If you want to parse words then you need to explain why they would need to make the word plural in their terms of use.

 

[mom2rose&john]

I agree it starts on fourth line and ende on fifth line: Giftcards and tax will not be included in deterinining purchase total.

What is coupon fraud in everyones opinion? I consider it fraud if you go against the terms and conditions of the statement. But I do not know the specific law on Coupon fraud.

 

[susianew]

On the left side of the coupon, it uses the term GiftCard with the trademark symbol after it. That means that Target owns that specific term. There is no such thing as a Disney GiftCard, or a Cracker Barrel GiftCard, or an iTunes GiftCard. Other companies sell gift cards. The term "gift card" is not mentioned, AT ALL, in the fine print- everything refers to GiftCards.

 

[Thumper_Man]

I agree with others that it pertains to all gift cards. Since the coupon states "Giftcards and tax will not be included in determining purchase total"; that means all gift cards. Had the coupon been specific to the $10 gift card, it would've said something like "$10 Target Giftcard and tax not included in determining purchase total." Since it does not state it this way, then this applies to all gift cards regardless if you're buying one from Target, Disney or any other gift cards they may sell.

 

[DawnM]

Seems pretty clear to me. I went yesterday and knew I needed to purchase $50 in goods, not gift cards, and I needed a $5 gift card and knew I needed to purchase $50 in goods in addition to the $5 card. I even knew the free Sprite I got would not count towards my $50 total.

Dawn

 

[vicki_c]

No. Read it again.
When you get a free Target Gift Card the cost of it is added into the total cost of your purchase. So the sub total will be $60, then $10 is subtracted for the free gift card.
What that line means is that you cannot spend $40 and adding the gift card makes it $50. Or that you spend $45 and $5 tax would make it total $50.
Also, GiftCards is the Target brand for their owngift cards.

Agree - this is how I read it as well. It does not state it is not valid to purchase gift card with the coupon.

Edited: maybe I'm misunderstanding what the question actually was - based on other posts further in the thread. What IS the question here - whether you can use the coupon to purchase a gift card and get the free gift card?

In rereading - I guess I see the distinction between "GiftCards and tax ..." meaning that the purchase of any gift card doesn't count towards reaching the $50 and "Free Giftguard cannot be used on this purchase" meaning the new gift card you receive cannot be applied to this order.

As to saying it's fraud - that just seems silly - can we not just ask questions anymore without being accused of having criminal motives? (although it sounds like there was some previous thread on this that I didn't see).

In any case, the wording on the coupon could be clearer. If I was the writer of the text, I would have written "Purchase of any gift card and tax shall not be counted towards determining the total" or something similar. If there are varying interpretations here, I'm sure the same problem will occur at Target stores all over.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

I don't have the 'coupon'/ gift card but from what I"m reading it makes sense.

If you're buying $50 to get a $10 gift card thing from Target obviously Target wants to make $$ on what you're buying. I doubt they make much from selling other gift cards...so they want you to buy actual "stuff" from the store.

 

[marciagms]

Where is the link to print the coupon??

Thanks

 

[starry_solo]

1. As far as I can tell, Target is the only entity that uses two word - gift card - as one word with a capital G and a capital C. GiftCard (that is Target's name for its own gift card).

2. By making the word GiftCard plural (GiftCards), it still (to me) means their Target GiftCard. Which means you cannot purchase $50 worth of Target Giftcards (plural, on multiple cards, like 5 $10 GiftCards, or 10 $5 GiftCards) to net the free $10 GiftCard.

 

[kimkoz]

Where is the link to print the coupon??

Thanks

http://tgt.bz/6032RlS8

If for some reason that doesn't work its right on Target's Facebook page.

 

[MaleficentRN]

No, it's clearly distinguishing.

The free gift card wouldn't be entered into the total - nor subtracted from it. It's given to you, with the amount loaded onto it, after purchase, and the computer prompts the cashier to load the card, it's programmed in, not added the same way as if you're buying it. Same as when they do free gift card with X purchase (I've gotten a $5 gift card when buying Bounty multipacks). You buy the stuff, pay, they hand you the gift card with the $5 on it to be used for your next purchase.

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Target first "sells" me a gift card. For instance, I buy a $100 item and there is a free Target GiftCard promotion with that purchase. My receipt would read:

1234567 Purchased Item $100.00

7654321 Gift Cards $20.00

Package Subtotal $120.00

GiftCard Free $20.00-

Package Total $100.00

 

[SandrA9810]

It's pretty simple. They're telling you the total before any payment tendered has to be about $50, excluding tax. But that also requires any coupons to be entered first. Almost every where I've been it's like this. After coupons/sales/discounts, but before tax. Even when I worked at Disney, any of the gifts with purchases, the total had to be met after my discount was entered into the system.

Then says you can not purchase GiftCards towards that total.

So what exactly is the problem?

 

[MaleficentRN]

I agree with others that it pertains to all gift cards. Since the coupon states "Giftcards and tax will not be included in determining purchase total"; that means all gift cards. Had the coupon been specific to the $10 gift card, it would've said something like "$10 Target Giftcard and tax not included in determining purchase total." Since it does not state it this way, then this applies to all gift cards regardless if you're buying one from Target, Disney or any other gift cards they may sell.

But it doesn't say gift cards, it says GiftCards. There is a difference. and why does it also mention tax? If it was not valid for purchase of gift cards it would read, "Not valid on purchase of gift cards."