The Happy Guy card is part of the Happy gift card line. GCGalore first noticed Happy Guy missing from Happycards.com and from Giftcards.com, and Twitter user @bobby212325 heard from a Simon Mall that they were instructed to remove them by the end of this week.
Happy Guy is arguably the most valuable card due to Home Depot being an option there. There are lots of deals on the generic Happy brand, and the key is to find the best merchant options to maximize these deals. Other options on Happy Guy: AutoZone, Dell, Buffalo Wild Wings, Lord & Taylor, Burger King, McCormick and Schmick’s.
Existing cards should continue working indefinitely as all Happy gift cards do not expire.
Ours will not work at any Home Depot we’ve tried, nor will they work at Burger King! The cashier runs them as “credit” instead of gift card and still they don’t work.
Meijer is offering 10% off Happy cards this week. Today I saw that they just added the Happy Guy to their line up. I attempted to purchase the card at the self check out but the card would not register. They tried running it at two other registers and also tried switching cards but to no avail. I then switched it to a Happy Her and it went through with no problems.
There’s a Happy Local Eats West card that works at Baja Fresh, but no mention of it working at La Salsa, even though Baja Fresh and La Salsa are co-owned. How do they make the goofy decisions of where to make a given Happy card work and not work???
This is not true as they do have expiration dates on them just like credit cards.
“as all Happy gift cards do not expire.”
Right, but the funds do not expire, just the physical card. So if there are still funds remaining when the expiry date passes, you can get a replacement card with the remaining funds.
Why are there no “happy trans man” gift cards? Pretty transphobic if you ask me.
Because you don’t refer to transgender people as “trans.” You refer to them as either male or female. Duh.
What about Happy Non-binary then?
Either you are zero or one. But you can always show pics or it just never happened.
What about Happy Endings?
OK!
Go to a Home Depot bathroom. You’ll find your happy ending.
I’m not sure I understand the play here. Is it possible to use these to buy VGCs at Home Depot? Wouldn’t have thought that would work.
Exactly what I was coming here to ask.
I have seen offers where $50 purchase gets $10 in groceries. So essentially 20% deal.
The way to use Happy cards is to use all of the amount in one shot if at all possible. Otherwise, you have to keep track and tell the cashier the exact remaining amount.
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I’ve never seen VGCs at Home Depot stores. However, they do sell Home Depot gift cards and other select third party gift cards like eBay, although their gift card racks aren’t anywhere near as good as the ones you’ll find at Lowe’s.
If you bought Happy gift cards at a discount, you could in turn buy Home Depot or third party gift cards at a discount and resell them. For example, Office Depot sometimes offered a $20 discount when buying $150 Happy cards – a 13.33% discount. For many gift card resellers, that would be a profitable endeavor when using Happy Guy gift cards at Home Depot to resell Home Depot or eBay gift cards. That’s even before taking into account the 5x/5% you could earn on an Ink Plus/Ink Cash card.
Happy gift cards work like a Visa card that can only be used at certain retailers, rather than as a Home Depot gift card. That’s why it was possible to buy gift cards with Happy gift cards which isn’t something you can do with actual Home Depot gift cards as far as I’m aware.
Unlike a real Visa credit card, if the amount of your purchase is $60 and you have a $50 Happy card, the purchase won’t go through unless you tell the cashier to split the tender. The system will try to “charge” everything to the Happy card. That’s been my experience with the Happy cards.
Actually they do drain. I did this at a Panera once – drain a bunch of low dollar amount Happy cards. It successfully drained all of them.
Idk on VGCs but it used to work for 3rd party gift cards. However the article referenced above says they received multiple reports of stores zeroing out gift cards that were bought using Happy Guy cards so that is apparently quite dead. Personally I haven’t done that since like Sept and those gift cards are long since spent.
Yeah, but most HD only carries $100 vgc as their highest denomination. So unless you buy the HG cards at deep discount, the fees will make it unprofitable
I have made anywhere from $5-$20 per $100 VGC last year (fees included – not scalable – maybe $1.5K max in VGCs) with the combination of CC rewards, fuel rewards, and store digital coupon discounts on happy gift cards. I immediately stopped after the first whisper of issues with HGC. Haven’t touched or even looked at them since.
What I loved about them was the ability to purchase grocery store gift cards at the self-checkout, something I cannot do at Lowes. So, I would get the Happy Guy at a discount from Stop and Shop and then go over to Home Depot and buy Stop and Shop gift cards at a discount. It was a perfect union. Blah!
My Lowe’s self checkout always notifies the attendant and we have to go to their station, where they always verify the name on the CC matches your ID. I am only able to do Amex Offers at Lowe’s.
Is it true that Happy Holidays also disappeared from Happycards.com?
That one is seasonal. Hopefully it’ll come back next year.
I think Steven is right, I went 3 Kroger’s near me to buy happy holidays, found none. Plenty of happy guys or happy moments and other happy cards.
BTW – Happy Gift Cards are earning 4x for Kroger Gas rewards until Tuesday
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