SDM gift cards and point events

[HillClimbingirl]

I had bought an SDM gift card a couple of weeks ago but didn't end up using it. I have read on here that other SC'ers shop the points event, buying a $50 gift card when they arrive and then pay with it.

So I went Saturday for the spend $75 and get xxx amount of points. I was a few dollars over the $75 (so all good) went to pay and the young man tells me that, as a form of payment gift cards cannot be used during the point events. I was stunned. He said it will bring my total below the $75 and then I wouldn't receive the points so I could only pay debit/cash/CC if I didn't want to lose the bonus points. I told him that GC were basically cash but he said "trust me you will lose the extra points". My man was there so I didn't want to make a scene and just said fine and paid by debit.

I am sure others have used Gift Cards to pay at these events. Am I wrong? I don't know what the heck the difference is!

[scrapbookingoasis]

I always pay with a gc and get my points. It's the 'promo' gift cards that you get (for the spend $50 and get a $10 gc) that are treated different and will bring your total down.

[Zonny]

Clerk doesn't know what he's talking about IMO. GCs are just another form of money, except as mentioned, those promo cards.

[annedougherty]

Wow, that's a new one! lol

[FallenPixels]

He was wrong, there are promo GCs that are treated like discount cards that SDM gives out occasionally that do not count towards points (usually $10 ones) that have a scannable barcode

[Poirot]

A few weeks ago I was paying with a regular gc only spending a few dollars.The cashier was saying you have to spend over $10.I said this is a regular gc not a promotional gc.So after that no problem.Some of them cashiers don't know anything.

[HillClimbingirl]

Thanks so much. Good to know I wasn't wrong. Of course now i'm a little !!