Originally Posted by
joejoe2
I have been trying to buy "happy cards" to take advantage of gift card promos and have run into issues.
Here are my experiences, I was hoping people would have insight, or suggested workarounds. I have had these happy cards for a while and they have balances
At Noodles and Company when I swipe a happy card for food it works fine but when I try to buy a gift card I get asked for an account number and the happy card number does not work.
At Panera when I swipe a happy card in order to purchase a gift card I just get an error. I have asked the cashier to key in the number as credit but both times I tried the cashier told me they got gift cards not allowed errors.
On another thread folks suggested using them at the cheesecake factory for free slices with a gift card purchase but that doesn't interest me
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I am wondering if you bought a meal at Noodles and CO. and then asked at checkout to add a gift card to your bill, would that be a successful method to use your Happy card to get a GC out of it.
How would the cashier know to separate the two different items when submitting the charge? (Of course the cashier could just say no to your adding a GC onto your food bill, but I suspect that they wouldn't.)
Give it a try and let us know how or if that was successful.