To ask you not to buy One4all gift cards

[Jobs4kids]

The reviews speak for themselves - absolute nightmare.......

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/one4all.com

Awful things. We’ve been given 5 of them over the years and I have never managed to spend any of them.

This is specifically what she asked for so this is what she got. She’s already bought whatever it was she wanted it for. 🤷‍♀️

I personally do like a voucher as a present over money. My MIL kindly transfers money to me for Xmas and birthday when I can’t think what to ask for. Problem is it gets absorbed in to my general spending (on Xmas presents, kids clothes, school trips etc) and wasted, I find it hard to ringfence it to spend on something for me.

No shop in our local towns accepted the one DC got as a birthday treat, and the code never worked online either. So disappointing.

I have never had a problem using them. I will be spending mine in M&S in the next few weeks.

...but you did give her money. How can you say you don't give money to anyone but your sons when you literally gave her money.

It’s not that deep. Chill.

I hate them too and good luck to anyone contacting them via their live chat. I’m still bitter about being unable to spend £15 that my DS got for his birthday 5 years ago lol. I gave up in the end so imagine how much money they make from people.
Fair play to those who have had a better time with them than me.

Oooh i need to do this. No idea how.

Can she pay her gas bill with it? Maybe, I don’t know🤷‍♀️. The advantage of vouchers over money (you know, the cash you can hold in your hand and get coin change from) is that you can treat yourself to something without feeling guilty you didn’t put it towards a bill. I hope that clarifies the confusion a bit better for you.

Oh god. Don’t say this. We got teachers this for Xmas

I put them away somewhere safe then can't find them again. I hate them. Just put money in person's bank account for them to spend how they please.

Vile things.

We live rural. Popping to M&S or wherever is not a 5 min activity. It’s a 2 hour plus round trip. They are a pain in the arse to use online, as you cannot exceed the value. You eventually find something, then postage gets added, which pushes you over and you have to start all over again. Kids got one each for £10 this Christmas. Impossibly low value for online use with postage, and not worth the 2 hr round trip.

So I gave the kids the cash and suspect I’ll never get to redeem the cards. Thanks Aunt Mo - your gift to the kids cost me £20. Fabulous!

Give the kids Amazon or or cash. Never bloody all4one.

Or maybe £15…. Whatever - I’ve lost money!

We used one in person at Argos the other day. We swiped it at the self serve checkout and it was fine. I’ve tried online before though and it was a complete pain. I agree - better not to get vouchers at all.

I had a problem spending the balance on the first one I had. The next time I received one I used it to buy an Amazon voucher. So much easier.

I had a similar one years ago. Did the Post Office do one that you could use in lots of shops? The balance reduced by £2.50pm from the date it was activated.

Why not? I used mine in Waterstones no problem.

They really aren't difficult to use, sure more faff than cash but all you need to to is check which stores accept them and whether it's online/in-store or both.
After that you need to make sure you know how much is on there before you spend. This is done online or simply remember what you've spent.
Just like a debit card if there's not enough to cover the total it'll decline, you wouldn't hand over a debit card and say I've no idea what's on it but keep trying til it works!

I've found them good - shops have been happy to accept them. They only start taking a small inactivity fee after 18 months. I usually spend within a few weeks 😃

Like I’ve said previously I worked in a retail shop that took them and people who are saying well they worked fine for me , yes they worked fine for a lot of people but then they also didn’t work for a lot of others .

I feel like everyone atm on here never seems to believe anything coz it doesn’t happen to them . I don’t know what is wrong with people atm . I have had them and they worked fine for me yet I’ve had 10s of customers who have had problems . Even to the point where they’ve got numerous and some work and some don’t . You can check the balance online and they’ve had the balance in front of me at my till and it still hasn’t let me swipe them . It’s so frustrating yet the next customers gift card can work perfectly fine .

So for anyone saying “well I’ve never had a problem “ doesn’t mean other people haven’t. Coz I can say that many have.

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I had a baby during lockdown and got given these awful vouchers. I couldn’t use them online at all and the physical shops were mostly shut where we were, until the balance had depreciated, but as I didn’t know exactly when it was bought, it was impossible to calculate the depreciation or final value of the GC. So it couldn’t be used. My heart sinks whenever we get a voucher from these scammers. It just reminds me of my relatives thinking they did a nice thing but the Ts and Cs made it unusable.

Mine definitely didn’t have the expected balance on it after 6 months because it didn’t work in the shop, but that was during Covid so maybe they have changed the Ts and Cs since?

We get them from work for Christmas, 2 x £50. Ive spent mine already in new look and M&S. No issues at all in fact in M&S I was spending the balance of one and she commented they can now see the balance on there which I know from previous years they couldn't.