Originally Posted by
friedablass
If you show the off 5th cashier the terms for a gc from the Saks site and tell them to try applying your gc to your purchase and see what happens, I wonder if they'd do it or just continue to refuse. If the card works at off 5th online I'm pretty sure it would work in store and you'd be able to call their bluff once they tried and saw it was successfully applied as payment towards the purchase.
Points Scrounger may remember I posted this exact situation in October (which is now in the archived thread):
$50 credit at Saks 5th Ave every 6 months with Plat card (2018 - 2021)
I was at Off 5th today and tried to pay with a couple of Saks GCs (bought at the full line store for the Amex credit) and the transaction wouldn't go thru. After swiping the pin pad said "transaction cancelled" and the sales rep wasn't able to override it. She said this change was made about a year ago
All the gift cards I've purchased in store in the past year look like ^ and don't say Off 5th anywhere on the back of the card. I haven't tried using a GC in person since I posted that in Oct though.