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All About 1800flowers Gift Card

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Basic

1800flowers gift card is redeemable at 1800baskets.com, 1800flowers.com, cheryls.com, fanniemay.com, harrylondon.com, fruitbouquets.com, and thepopcornfactory.com. You may also use it to order by phone and purchases at participating retail stores. A physical card has no magnetic strip. It only has numbers printed on the back of the card. (19-digit of Serial Number and 4-digit of PIN without a silver scratch) Gift cards are redeemable for regular merchandises, not for another gift card or membership of free-shipping program.

Where to Buy

You can find discounted gift cards at gift card exchange sites, such as ABC-Giftcards and Raise. A discount rate is relatively high. It’s around 15% or more. However, the best place to buy is their own website. That’s because shopping portals pay cash back for purchases of gift cards. And it’s usually higher than GC exchange sites. Discover Deals offer 15% to 20% cash back.

How to Redeem

After you choose an item, shipping address, and a gift message, you will see a page as a picture below. Enter a serial number and PIN. And then click “Apply”.

GC redemption and Cash Back Eligibility

According to terms of DD for 1800flowers, gift card redemption is not eligible for cash back. When you make a purchase with a gift card through DD’s 1800flowers link, DD sends a confirmation email and even posts cash back, but cash back will usually be canceled in the next statement. But there may be a way to get around this. Click here to see more details of the online portal.

How many gift cards can be used per transaction

1800flower gift cards limit 2In checkout page, it says,

Limit one Gift Card, Voucher, Fresh Rewards Pass and/or Saving Pass per order. If you have any questions or you do not have your PIN, please call 1-800-993-1192 Monday to Friday from 8am-8pm EST for assistance.

But it’s not true. You can enter 2 GCs per order without any problem. When you enter numbers of 3rd GC, you will see an error message.

You can apply up to 2 gift cards per order. Call 1-888-216-0235 to apply more gift cards to your order.

It sounds you can apply more than 2 GCs if you call the number, but I haven’t done it yet.

Don’t throw the gift card until order was processed and shipped

Say you used two gift cards, the gift cards had enough balance to cover the entire purchase. When you apply a gift card, the website shows an amount they charge on the gift card and the remaining balance of it. Card#1 was redeemed the whole amount and now zero balance. They charged the rest on Card#2. However, gift cards are not charged when checkout. They will be charged when items are shipped. And most importantly, amounts they charge on gift cards are sometimes different from amounts you see at checkout. You believe that Card#1 was fully redeemed, but it may not be charged at all, and the whole amount was charged on Card#2, or they charge different amounts on the both gift cards. These things happened to me so many times. So, it is very important that you keep gift cards until your order was processed and shipped and then check the remaining balance of the gift cards.

Other deals

1800flowers has its own reward program called Celebration Rewards. You can earn 1 point on every dollar you spent. Every month, they issue Saving Pass if you earn enough points. A minimum is 200 pts and worth of $20. Simply put, it’s 10% back in point. Saving Pass is just like e-gift card. It has 19-digit of Serial Number and 4-digit of PIN, and you can use them in the same way as gift cards. But remember that there is an expiration date. Saving Pass is valid for 90 days after it’s issued, and points are valid for two years. You can earn reward points by purchasing gift cards, but not on redemption. Celebrations Rewards is common program among all participating brands including 1800baskets, Cheryl’s, Fannie may, harrylondon, fruit bouquets, and The popcorn factory.

Summary

  • You can use gift cards at all participating brands including 1800baskets.com, 1800flowers.com, cheryls.com, fanniemay.com, harrylondon.com, fruitbouquets.com and thepopcornfactory.com.
  • You can use up to 2 gift cards per transaction.
  • You can earn cash back from DD for the purchase of gift cards, but not on redemption (according to terms of DD.)
  • You can earn Celebrations Rewards points for the purchase of gift cards, but not on redemption (for sure.)

1800flowers and Shopping Portals and Partners

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Many portals offer a good rate for the purchase at 1800flowers.com. I personally and exclusively use Discover Deals for 1800flowers. The following information is only from my experience with DD. So, results may not be the same when you use other online shopping portals.

GC purchase

Purchases of 1800flowers gift cards are eligible for cash back. The gift card is redeemable at 1800baskets, Cheryls, The popcorn factory, Fanny May, and fruit bouquets, too.

GC redemption

According to terms of DD, GC redemption is not eligible for cash back.

Purchase with coupon

There are always some coupons available. When you click through 1800flowers link and use coupon, you may receive a confirmation email of cash back from DD, but it will be clawed back.

Others

Shipping, Tax, or other service fees are excluded. A confirmation email of cash back won’t be sent until an item is shipped or delivered.

6 Brands, 1 Account, 1 Checkout

In 1800flowers website, you can visit stores of other 5 brands, 1800baskets, Cheryls, The popcorn factory, Fanny May, fruit bouquets with 1-click on the tabs. When you enter 1800flowers first, then click the tab of 1800baskets, a web address is www.1800flowers.com/1800baskets-home. If you click other tabs, it’s the same, www.1800flowers.com/other stores name-home. Even if you buy a bucket of popcorn, a web address always starts with 1800flowers. If you enter the Cheryls website and then buy a fruit bouquets’ item, a web address always starts with www.cheryls.com.

You can take advantage of this fact when cash back rates of 6 brands are different. For example, when 1800flowers’ cash back rate is 15%, and 1800baskets’ is 20%. Even if you want to send flowers, you’d better enter the website via 1800baskets’ link. After you enter the website, go to 1800flowers by clicking a tab and check out normally. You will get 20% cash back although it is 1800flowers’ item. And a difference of cash back rate is NOT only thing you can take advantage……

Card Link Partner – Shop Your Way

There are two types of partner. One is the Card-link partner. When you purchase something at 1800flowers.com with linked credit cards, you will receive a reward of that partners program. SYW (Shop Your Way) reward program is a good example, and I believe it has the best offer of all. You can link up to 5 Visa and 5 MasterCard credit cards. When you use linked credit card at participating merchants, you will receive SYW points. SYW has many merchants as card-link partners. Rates vary by merchants. 1800flowers offer 20% back in SYW points. Other 5 brands also are all participating and usually offer the same rate. So, you don’t have to worry about which website to enter to check out. Around the end of 2014, the rate jumped up to 40%. If you bought $100 GC at that time, you’d earned $40 in SYW points (+$20 from DD, $10 in Celebration Rewards, and your credit card reward.) I like card-link partners very much because you can earn cash back from a portal at the same time.

Promo Code Partner – Rapid Rewards

The other types of partners issue promo codes. When you check out with a promo code, you will receive their rewards. Rapid Rewards is very popular, and it offers a relatively high reward for minimum spending requirements. Promo code (RR22) is always available. A minimum purchase is $29.99, and it gives 1000 Rapid Rewards points. And the points count towards Companion Pass (but not A-List, A-List Preferred.) Rapid Rewards sometimes offers temporary promo codes that offer more points. However, the points earned through these codes may not count towards Companion Pass.

Other Partners and Programs

There may be other partners from time to time. Around May 2015, Fuel Rewards Network was the card-link partner. At that time, you were able to get all rewards from DD, SYW, Rapid Rewards, and Fuel Rewards Network with a single transaction. (see details here)

1800flowers has its reward program called Celebration Rewards. You can get 10% back towards future purchases. You can earn the points even when you purchase GCs but can’t earn it when you redeem GCs.