Comments on: Utter Frustration at ACE Hardware https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/utter-frustration-at-ace-hardware/ Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 By: One Frugal Girl https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/utter-frustration-at-ace-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:46:00 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=180#comment-269 Enough Wealth —

Thanks for the 5% discount comment. As for the comment about credit card transactions I’m not so certain. Just last week I used two gift cards to purchase home goods in Marshalls. But perhaps ACE Hardware works in the matter you described, because this is the second time I’ve experienced problems using gift cards there.

]]> By: enoughwealth@yahoo.com https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/utter-frustration-at-ace-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=180#comment-268 A gift card is usually processed as a credit or debit card. You’ll find that many EFTPOS systems don’t allow you to combine two credit card payments for the one transaction either (eg. if $30 maxes out your low interest rate card and you wanted to charge the remainder of the total onto a second card it wouldn’t work). Annoying as this is, I don’t think it’s actually related to the allocation of gift cards as a customer reward.

The other thing to remember is that because the store will benefit from the repeat business generated by a “rewards” program that offers discounts off future purchases they will offer a higher level of benefit via a reward program than they would as a straight discount off the current purchase. Typically a reward “worth” 5% is comparable in cost to the merchant to a straight 2% discount.

Regards

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