Expired Waitrose/John Lewis gift card

2babyboys

Hi, has anyone had any luck with an expired John Lewis or Waitrose gift card please?  It’s worth £40 so hopefully JL will allow me to use it as want to make a £500 purchase.  Any tips please?  Thanks

sarah1972

Ask them nicely, they are under no obligation to let you use it so fingers crossed you get someone feeling generous on the day.

Manxman_in_exile

I had a couple of M&S gift cards that had expired and I simply went into my local M&S and asked (nicely) if they could be "renewed" with new expiry dates.  Although one member of staff in-store told me that it couldn't be done, I persisted and succeeded in getting them "renewed" without any difficulty.  Other members of staff were perfectly happy to oblige, no questions asked.

One of the cards I ended up renewing twice over about 5 years, and the other I renewed once.  In total I got three renewals on three separate occasions.

So go and ask JL nicely in-store...

For some reason (I can't remember why) I had also tried to renew the cards online with M&S, but they were having none of it.  They told me it would be unfair on others who had used their cards before expiry.   I just thought it was more unfair on the well-meaning but naive relative who'd bought the cards in the first place...

(The reason I didn't use them before expiry is because M&S basically don't sell anything I want to buy.  I eventually used them in October last year, six years after the first was bought)