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Netflix gift card, 6K in points back from $60

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Netflix gift card, 6K in points back from $60

Savings:
10%
Expiry:
October 30, 2019
Retailer:
RCSS
Spend $60 on Netflix gift card and get 6000 points back.
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Last edited by wolandca on Oct 23rd, 2019 1:34 pm, edited 2 times in total.

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Please fix your title. This isn't 10% off, this is 6K in points back at SS.
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Be careful they charge tax in BC on Netflix gift cards, which means you are worse off than paying directly online
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Bah bring back the 10k on $50 at SDM!
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Run through Turkey is way cheaper
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Herrie wrote: Be careful they charge tax in BC on Netflix gift cards, which means you are worse off than paying directly online
No they don’t. Here’s my receipt.

Thanks OP. I switched to credit card this month after my Stack Netflix promo expired and it really hurt to start getting dinged for taxes. This saves me the 12% + I get 10% back in PC points.

Hoping the 20% SDM promo (10K PCO for every $50 spent) comes back before my GC credit runs out.


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Can you redeem points to buy gift cards?
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az27 wrote: Run through Turkey is way cheaper
Can you elaborate on this?
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vancityguy0 wrote: No they don’t. Here’s my receipt.

Thanks OP. I switched to credit card this month after my Stack Netflix promo expired and it really hurt to start getting dinged for taxes. This saves me the 12% + I get 10% back in PC points.

Hoping the 20% SDM promo (10K PCO for every $50 spent) comes back before my GC credit runs out.



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Maybe they didn't at RCSS, but Shoppers and 7-11 definitely do charge tax on top -- for 20% SDM, it's still a deal, but the RCSS deal would have been better if they don't charge tax.
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vancityguy0 wrote: No they don’t.
Actually they do. Movies and TV are classified as telecommunications services which means they're taxable even as a gift card.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/taxes ... rvices.pdf

RCSS is just incorrectly not applying taxes. Don't tell anyone though.
Also someone tell Netflix to add a book.
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eyeball123 wrote: Maybe they didn't at RCSS, but Shoppers and 7-11 definitely do charge tax on top -- for 20% SDM, it's still a deal, but the RCSS deal would have been better if they don't charge tax.


Then you should make a complaint about SDM/7-11 to Consumer Protection BC.

Taxes are meant to be charged when you buy a service (such as a subscription. A Netflix gift card has an absolute cash value and is not sold as a subscription for x months.


This is the same as picking up *any* gift card from Costco - spas, barber shops, restaurants - they all sell services, but the Gift Cards have a fixed value. This is why you are charged the absolute sale price for these at Costco and not taxes.
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vancityguy0 wrote: This is the same as picking up *any* gift card from Costco - spas, barber shops, restaurants - they all sell services, but the Gift Cards have a fixed value. This is why you are charged the absolute sale price for these at Costco and not taxes.
It really depends on the type of gift card.
See above for anything related to telecommunications. But other categories do have PST occasionally too. Generally speaking though you are correct. Most value based instead of service based cards don't have PST. But it's not a 100% rule.
Welcome to BC: Bring Cash.
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death_hawk wrote: Actually they do. Movies and TV are classified as telecommunications services which means they're taxable even as a gift card.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/taxes ... rvices.pdf

RCSS is just incorrectly not applying taxes. Don't tell anyone though.
Also someone tell Netflix to add a book.
Other way around mate- it’s Netflix that should be charging taxes, so they should be deducted from the customers account credit at the time of Subscription renewal.

Apple charges it when something is purchased from their App store and so does Microsoft & Google.

Netflix currently doesn’t and they’ll probably have to change this at some point.
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vancityguy0 wrote: Other way around mate- it’s Netflix that should be charging taxes, so they should be deducted from the customers account credit at the time of Subscription renewal.
Now I actually wonder if Netflix is charging PST too.
Their gift cards in BC however DO have taxes. Or rather should. See the PDF I linked earlier.
Apple charges it when something is purchased from their App store and so does Microsoft & Google.

Technically speaking Google at least has books for sale which would exempt their cards from having PST despite also having movies and TV.
I would imagine Apple has a book too. I have no idea about Microsoft though.
Netflix currently doesn’t and they’ll probably have to change this at some point.
Yeah this could get complicated.
BC Government demands PST on gift cards. Netflix has to charge when a device is "usually located" in BC.
They could probably go by billing address, but I'm not sure they'd know if PST has been paid on the gift card or not if for example it was bought out of jurisdiction because it was you know... a gift.
They could easily be charging PST twice. Or not at all.
It would have been FAR simpler if BC wasn't a jerk about it and wanted taxes on the gift card at the point of sale.
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If you spent $60, and you get $6 in points, you have a total of $66.

That means that it's actually a savings of 9.1%, not 10%, because you don't get the money back. You have to spend the $6.

Saving 10% would be taking off $6 from the cost and you only paying $54.
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Also at Loblaws and Valu-Mart.
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UltraSSJD wrote: If you spent $60, and you get $6 in points, you have a total of $66.

That means that it's actually a savings of 9.1%, not 10%, because you don't get the money back. You have to spend the $6.

Saving 10% would be taking off $6 from the cost and you only paying $54.
Assuming you'd be redeeming the points/shopping at Superstore again (or Shoppers, Loblaws, etc.), which would be case for essentially everyone, then the points can be viewed as straight cashback. You'd spend $60, get $6 back in points, and so this is equivalent to spending $54 (aka 10% savings). It's as if you got handed $6 cash in your pocket right after spending the $60, assuming you'd be going back to Superstore (or any other Loblaw-operated store) at some point later to redeem the points for whatever you want to buy (whatever you buy afterwords with the points is really irrelevant to the initial transaction that got you those points).
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Err, no. You still spent 66 to save 6

True ten percent back is spend 54 to get 6k points or spend 60 and get an immediate ten percent rebate
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Not advertised at Superstore West Edmonton but my receipt shows 6000 points received

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