Where does it say not valid for gift card purchases?

[wovenwonder]

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.

This is EXACTLY what it means. I have used this coupon to purchase both Target Giftcards AND other merchant Gift Cards. When I look at my receipt it shows a total purchase of $60.00 [$50 Giftcard PLUS $10 Bonus Giftcard] then it takes of the coupon of $10 for $50 due.

 

[MaleficentRN]

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?

That is my problem. It does not say that.
Like you mentioned, it is dependent upon the post free $10 GiftCard total. It has nothing to do with what you spend the $50 on.

 

[Auggietina]

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."

You can argue your point here to death. Bottom line is what Target's policy is, and you would get that answer at Target, not here.

 

[Kies99]

All this for a $10 gift card??

Much more important things in life to be annoyed about.

 

[MaleficentRN]

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.

I believe you are right. Target probably leases the little gift card kiosk to whatever company that is. I bet they make $1 off each card sold. When stores have a promotion like this, it's not out of the kindness of their hearts.It's an incentive to the consumer. You spend $50 in their store thinking, " It's OK. I'll get a $10 gift card" Then you go back and spend another $50 thinking, "It's OK. I got this free $10 gift card I can use!"

 

[MaleficentRN]

You can argue your point here to death. Bottom line is what Target's policy is, and you would get that answer at Target, not here.

No need to. The terms are printed on the coupon.

 

[johnsontrio]

No problem here using it on the purchase of 2- $25 Target GiftCards. YMMV

 

[MaleficentRN]

All this for a $10 gift card??

Much more important things in life to be annoyed about.

I was just annoyed that in other post it was called out as being fraud and giving couponing a bad name. Just got my goat for a minute. Probably shouldn't.

 

[Auggietina]

No need to. The terms are printed on the coupon.

Then what exactly is the problem?

 

[DisMN]

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.

This IS EXACTLY what it means. You can indeed buy other company gift cards but NOT a Target Giftcard. You can buy Disney gift cards. You can buy iTunes gift cards, which by the way the $60.00 (4 $15 cards in a pack) card is on sale right now for $54.00 so if you buy two of those you have your sale price as well as the $8 off and $10 gift card bonus. That's a wildly good buy!

You can also legitimately use the $8.00 coupon that gets spit out with some receipts along with the $10.00 home printed coupon...you can use them both at the same time as long as you spend $80.00 (as the $8.00 coupon requires).

Don't know what all the back and forth is about here. The Target managers say it's fine, the cash registers accept both coupons for money off AND a gift card bonus...so what's the problem?

 

[MaleficentRN]

Then what exactly is the problem?

That people don't understand the terms and, not personally and in so many words, called it theft.

 

[DisMN]

No problem here using it on the purchase of 2- $25 Target GiftCards. YMMV

Cool! The registers at the store I shop at wouldn't accept it for the Targets ones, just ones from other companies. I'm beginning to think there are different rules for different areas of the country? Maybe?

 

[MaleficentRN]

Cool! The registers at the store I shop at wouldn't accept it for the Targets ones, just ones from other companies. I'm beginning to think there are different rules for different areas of the country? Maybe?

I've wondered this too. And do Targets in some areas sell wine and beer? Does anyone's coupons print up as excluding wine and beer?

 

[Auggietina]

That people don't understand the terms and, not personally and in so many words, called it theft.

People as in, strangers here on a message board? Or people as in the Target management?

Because if you are worried about people here... it's time to let it go...seriously...you have nothing to worry about if Target doesn't have a problem with it, than you shouldn't either!

 

[MaleficentRN]

People as in, strangers here on a message board? Or people as in the Target management?

Because if you are worried about people here... it's time to let it go...seriously...you have nothing to worry about if Target doesn't have a problem with it, than you shouldn't either!

I know, right? I had a hair up my rear. I've let it go. To each his own.

 

[averysmom]

I don't know if this has been mentioned (I didn't read all 3 pages), but there is like a 5 page thread on the cruise board about people buying hundreds of dollars of disney giftcards (50 dollars at at time) to earn the target gift cards, and then redeeming the target gift cards for more disney gift cards. So I'm pretty sure it is allowed!

 

[dzorn]

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.

I've never had them ring up a gift card purchase that way. They never add the amount of the free gift card to your order. When you scan an item or coupon that is for a free one it prompts them to give you one of the gift cards.

Denise in MI

 

[dzorn]

The cashier never adds or takes off the gift card it is an automatic thing after you are totaled.

Denise in MI

 

[wenrob]

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.

This.

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

And this.

Nowhere does it state you cannot purchase a gift card of any kind. It doesn't even state you cannot buy a GiftCard. It says that GiftCard cannot be counted as part of the $50 purchase. My recipts all add the $10 and then take it off at the end. This is how I read it and clearly how the REGISTER reads it. I've had more then one promotional coupon be denied over a misunderstanding in terms but not this one.

 

[luvmy3]

I've never had them ring up a gift card purchase that way. They never add the amount of the free gift card to your order. When you scan an item or coupon that is for a free one it prompts them to give you one of the gift cards.

Denise in MI

The computer prompts them, the cashier scans it and the computer deducts it. An employee can't just give you a GC, it has to be scanned to be activated so I think you are mistaken. Every receipt I have where I have gotten a promo GC (not just the ones from this coupon) shows the GC scanned for X amount of dollars and then it shows a deduction for X amount of dollars. It is how their system works.