You can save 10% at all US Target stores on Sunday as a goodwill gesture for the recent chainwide credit/debit card theft issues. The discount isn’t valid online.
The thefts are a good reminder of how badly debit cards stink. Besides for the fact that credit cards earn better rewards, when there is a problem with a credit card charge you don’t have to pay it. With a debit card the money is already taken out of your checking account and you have to fight to get it back.
Either way if you shopped at Target between 11/27-12/15 you should definitely be monitoring the cards that you used closely.
Perhaps a massive breach like this one will be the impetus to introduce more secure chip and pin cards that are becoming standard in many other countries.
Excludes all gift cards, entertainment cards, airtime cards, prepaid cards, iTunes cards, Apple, Bose, all video games, Playstation 4 consoles, Xbox One consoles, Target Mobile(SM), prescriptions, optical, clinic, and alcohol purchases. Offer cannot be combined with other storewide or category/department coupons.
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I’m only paying cash. Not taking any chances.
Does this work on GC’s?
@Nafnad2:
Suit yourself, there’s literally nothing to lose by using a credit card.
@jj:
No.
How does the smart chip help? I’ve seen this on my cards and have no clue how it works.
The one time I shop in target in 10 years, they had to go ahead and have a security breach. Lol. Anyways thanks for the 10 points off…
It’s for both Saturday and Sunday, for those on the west coast still shopping before midnight.
If you have target card is it 15%?
@Azhoopsfan:
The smart chip helps tremendously because it is far harder to steal data off of them than it is from mere magnetic stripes, which is decades-old technology. And even if the fraudsters are able to steal the data off the terminals, which it seems is what happened here with Target, it is still far more difficult and expensive to create new fake Chip-based cards and program the chip. Never mind that most of the chip-based cards have PINs. This article explains some of these issues quite well: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/12/19/255558139/outdated-magnetic-strips-how-u-s-credit-card-security-lags
It’s amazing that in this day and age, credit cards in the US do not use PINs. Even here, we’ve had PINs on debit card networks for years, even with the magnetic stripes. Why should credit be any different??
But, I had the same thought as Dan- maybe a breach of this magnitude will finally be a major push that gets the US caught up with the rest of the world with Chip-and-PIN.
@Dan: why would you say that it doesn’t apply to GC’s? 10% off sounds like it’s across the boards 10%!
@the new guy
The t&c specifically say so
TheNewGuy http://www.target.com/HelpContent?help=/sites/html/TargetOnline/help/promotions_sweepstakes_and_discounts/promotions/promotions.html&ref=tgt_adv_xasd0003&afid=45651&clkid=796187000&lnm=8-9651
Before everyone goes running to get their 10% off there are quite A few things excluded
Read the t&c:
10% off storewide purchase only. Saturday 12/21 through Sunday 12/22.
Excludes all gift cards, entertainment cards, airtime cards, prepaid cards, iTunes cards, Apple, Bose, all video games, Playstation 4 consoles, Xbox One consoles, Target Mobile(SM), prescriptions, optical, clinic, and alcohol purchases. Offer cannot be combined with other storewide or category/department coupons.
@Yaks: @chaim: oh you guys weren’t clear of course you can’t BUY a GC with this 10% off , I was asking if I can USE a Target GC of my own towards my purchase and still get the discount
When they gave the 20% Coupon out for after Black Friday you did get the extra 5% for using Target Card so I don’t think today will be any different.
So you can by tobacco at 10% off?
Targets have a extra 15% off of tabacco products I went and bought myself some stuff
@Huh, yes if you you use a target card, you will get a total of 15% off.
@huh, yes the card will give you a total of 15% off.
How much (consumer) protection exists for business credit cards? Same as for regular cards?
@the new guy
Yes (tried and proven) it will work if u are PAYING with a gc….
Was just at Target, and it was packed to the gills. At least we got out 10% off 🙂
@Dan are you saying that to dispute a charge on a debit card is more difficult then a CC? In what way?
A while back I had a problem with my debit card &by all I had to do was sign tbe affidavit & my money was put back in my acct right away:)