TCN Pamper gift cards are merchant category restricted gift cards produced by The Card Network (TCN).
Summary
You can:
- Use TCN Pamper gift cards at hotels, barbers, beauty shops, health spas and beauty spas
- Potentially use TCN Pamper gift cards at additional types of merchants such as cosmetic stores, chiropractors and more
- Convert your physical gift card into a digital gift card that can be added to your mobile wallet
You cannot:
- Spend TCN Pamper gift cards at any business that doesn’t use one of the merchant category codes listed below
Supported merchant categories
Officially, only three merchant category codes are supported by TCN Pamper gift cards:
- 7011: Lodging: Hotels, Motels, Resorts: not elsewhere classified
- 7230: Barber and Beauty Shops
- 7298: Health and Beauty Spas
However, TCN told us in an email earlier this year that the Pamper gift card also supports quite a few other merchant category codes:
- 3747: Club Corp/Club Resorts
- 5977: Cosmetic Stores
- 7997: Clubs: Country Clubs, Membership (Athletic, Recreation, Sports), Private Golf Courses
- 7999: Recreation Services: not elsewhere classified
- 8041: Chiropractors
- 8049: Chiropodists, Podiatrists
- 8099: Health Practitioners, Medical Services: not elsewhere classified
This more extensive list was first discovered by an OzBargain user in 2022 and we have subsequently seen multiple anecdotal reports of the TCN Pamper gift cards working at these types of merchants (e.g. chiropractors, cosmetic stores etc).
That being said, these additional merchant category codes are not mentioned anywhere in the terms and conditions so you shouldn’t buy TCN Pamper gift cards with the expectation that they will definitely support them.
Promotions
TCN Pamper gift cards are included in promotions every month or so on average. A typical offer would be 20x rewards points or 10% off, though discounts of 15% off aren’t unheard of either.
