One 4 All Vouchers - where to spend?

better call saul

Got a load of these god forsaken gift cards, where the hell decent can i spend them? Closer to the things id be using cash for say the likes of tesco the better.

Feck the aul ones why cant they just give money anymore!

PirateShampoo

Got 1 myself, just been to Smyths getting the kids presents with it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ach there's no shortage of places to spend them!
http://www.one4all.ie/retailer.html

Sauve

http://www.one4all.ie/retailer.html

rubadub

I think you can get cash for them for a fee. Think it was €8, or maybe a %.

It might be worthwhile doing it as you might be able to buy the same thing far cheaper elsewhere.

The one advantage these have is companies can give them out as untaxed bonuses to a certain value, before the "all vouchers are crap" brigade arrive.

Banjo String

Argos,


Most pubs accept them too.

Antar Bolaeisk

Just be careful as some places cheat a bit in that if the purchase you're making is less than the value of the gift voucher they give you a gift voucher of their own to cover the difference.

Venus In Furs

They're great vouchers - nearly like cash so many places accept them.

I don't understand when people give out about them.

Maybe you have to be living in or near a city or bigger town though to be able to take full advantage of them.

Pwindedd

Banjo String wrote: »

Argos,


Most pubs accept them too.

+1 on Argos. If you can't spend them in there I despair for you.

Electrical goods, homewares, games, jewellery, bedding.

I'd buy myself a banging pair of headphones.

better call saul

better call saul wrote: »

Got a load of these god forsaken gift cards,

You poor aul' craytur, my heart bleeds for you.

cloud493

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Got 1 myself, just been to Smyths getting the kids presents with it.

Didn't know symths took them.

JaseBelleVie

Most of the big retailers take them, as do most small places. There should be a little booklet with the cards telling you all the squillions of places to spend them. That or their website.

cloud493

The one4all website specifically doesn't mention symths :mad:

McChubbin

Got one myself off the aul'fella to the tune of €40.
HMV/Xtravision take them without any hassle. I got a boxset of the Aliens movies and Days of Future Past! Result!

Sunny Dayz

Usually get one from work every Christmas and normally have it spent in my head before I get it! Last years was spent getting a lot of things this year for the house. Think this years will be spent in the new h&m in Dublin.

cml387

I think people mistake them (I know I did initially) for those books of useless vouchers you used to get:
"10% off full facial massage at Madam Wanda's (must be used in conjunction with Brazillian wax treatment)"
"20% off Deano's car valeting,come on down to the second railway arch after the halting site".

anncoates

My wife gives me these excellent vouchers called Euros for Christmas. They seem to be valid in every retail outlet I've tried and also come in separate denominations. They're brilliant.

braddun

its quite hard to find a place that takes them,and don't wait for sales as the shops bring in crap

they used to expire,but now they do not

don't give gift cards for Christmas most people hate them

outside Dublin there are less places to use them



Balance carries subject to €1.45 monthly charge from month 13 onwards

on the web site it says there is a online expirers date

Venus In Furs

Never experienced any retailer who's on the One4All list refusing to take payment via a One4All gift-card.
I don't know that most people hate gift-cards. In my experience most people like them.

Summer wind

I love them. I usually spend mine at easons or hmv.

shruikan2553

Venus In Furs wrote: »

They're great vouchers - nearly like cash so many places accept them.

I don't understand when people give out about them.

Maybe you have to be living in or near a city or bigger town though to be able to take full advantage of them.

I do most of my shopping online. Giving me a voucher for anything other than steam or amazon means I end up spending extra to get something. Plus getting cash from lots of people can be added together and used to get 1 big thing rather than a bit here and there.

Stinicker

My sister has been getting these each year as a Christmas bonus from her work-place all I can say is they are a horrible company to deal with and I'd never gift them to anyone. If you don't spend them they deduct an amount each month and basically I think its sharp practice. Most women clothes shops seems to refuse them and whilst one4all claim alot of retailers accept them in reality it is different, with alot of places conveniently saying oh that our machines not working blah blah blah.

If I can't think of a gift then I give Cash and not this stupid monstrosity who will only cause stress for the receiver.

bjork

Can you use these anywhere online? I have one here about 11 months I really should use

groovie

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Got 1 myself, just been to Smyths getting the kids presents with it.

Which Smyths is that? Ours doesn't take them.

Stinicker

bjork wrote: »

Can you use these anywhere online? I have one here about 11 months I really should use

Better get it used up ASAP or they will start deducting from it, just spend it on ordinary day to day things like Petrol if you can find a retailer to accept it. A one4all is practically impossible to spend online.

groovie

groovie wrote: »

Which Smyths is that? Ours doesn't take them.

Carrickmines doesn't either. Got stung with that before.

BlondeBomb

Stinicker wrote: »

with alot of places conveniently saying oh that our machines not working blah blah blah.

Why would any retailer say that? They get paid as quick from a One4All as if they used a debit / credit card. It's the same machine so if it's broken for one4all it's broken for all cards.

Have used them plenty of times in the 100's of shops that take them and never encountered any problems!

Saying that though the shopping centre cards (issued in Blanch, Dundrum etc) are a lot better in that they can be used in any shop (not just the particular centre that issued them) and can be used online (pretty much a Visa card).

dobbs2210

Any petrol stations that accept one4all vouchers when buying fuel?

Benny_Cake

dobbs2210 wrote: »

Any petrol stations that accept one4all vouchers when buying fuel?

Topaz garages sell the One4All cards so I'd be surprised if they didn't accept them as payment.

MistyCheese

The answer is simple. Give them to me.

Tarzana2

Stinicker wrote: »

If you don't spend them they deduct an amount each month and basically I think its sharp practice.

That only kicks in after a year:

A charge of will be deducted on a monthly basis from funds remaining on cards from the 13th month following the purchase date. The monthly charge is €1.45 or remaining balance on card if lower.

http://www.one4all.ie/help