Pearl of Wisdom: The Store Credit Hack

How many email accounts do you have?

It's more than one, right? You have access to more than one email account, right?

Cool.



I went to buy something off OnceIt last week, and worked out how I could use their "Invite a Friend, Earn $20 Credit" to my favour.

The deal is if you invite a friend and they buy something, bam, $20 towards any future OnceIt purchase, right there in your account.

Because I was already on the way to buy something and I already have a OnceIt account, I stopped and thinked for a minute: Could I invite myself via my work email address, buy the shorts I liked (which were $14 inc. shipping) on that account and receive a $20 voucher on my original account?

Would they notice if I put in the exact same name, address and phone number for my second account?

Turns out, no! A minute after my payment was confirmed, I checked account number 1, and there was my shiny $20 credit!

So, in the future, when I want to buy something on OnceIt without using my nice lil' free $20, I just need to invite another of my various email accounts, buy it there, and collect my next $20 voucher!

Remember that this is $20 of credit towards OnceIt, and is not reedemable for cash. Technically, you're getting free goods from the purchase of other goods, not free money. But hey, it's still very cool!


If there are any other online stores that use the "Invite a friend, get a discount/store credit/voucher code" system, please let us know in the comments below!

NB: All prices in this post are NZD