Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

[grammaterry]

This has happened several times, I have placed an order, had a whole bunch of quilter cash and it won't let me use it for shipping. Is there a reason for this?

[wlrquilts]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

I don't think you could ever use quilters cash for shipping. I would assume it is because you earn the cash by purchasing their items/services (machine quilting) and shipping is provided by post office or UPS.

[Mimi_Howard]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

Definitely been a pet peeve of mine. And it seems whenever there is a free shipping day the fabric is just not speaking to me. You can use a gift card to cover the entire purchase but NOT quilters cash. Be a nice feature if they would code the QC to work just like a gift card.

[Carlie Wolf]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

Mimi, on free shipping days if nothing turns me on, I look through my wishlist and can find a thing or two there (Of course that's assuming it's a time of month where I have a little bit of cash left over :-)

[Mimi_Howard]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

Last couple of free shipping deals and my really wishful things were sold out. I have been waiting on a college fabric to come back in stock for months and months. So hanging on so I can get at least get couple yards of it this time. My dad has put in an order for an over the arm chair holder for his goodies, remote, phone, pad and pencil, glasses. And he loves his university fabric. Couple years ago, as a joke, I made him a large bib (always dropping food and staining his shirts) and he fell in love with it. Now it needs to be replaced and YEP same fabric has been requested.

[TMP]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

I am confused. Do you mean you have more quilters cash than the total of the amount of goods and you want to apply the balance to the shipping? I wish I had that problem. Mine burns a whole in my pocket and I use it as fast as I get it. I have a grand total of 43 cents right now.

[Mimi_Howard]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

Exactly.. you can only apply quilters cash towards the items on the order, not the grand total of the order with shipping included. I don't want to hit my credit card for just $5. Seems to me with the fees M* pays for processing credit card orders, they would actually be losing money on $5 hits.

[K. McEuen]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

If you were able to use quilters cash for shipping, that would be "real" money out of M*'s pocket. A book keeping nightmare, I am sure. Gift cards were paid for in funds already, so they are different.

[Judy, USMC]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

I see the difference. You get quilter's cash from purchasing real goods so sensible to me you can only use it to pay for real goods. After all, this is an in-house benefit that can't be converted to real cash.

Cash paid for Gift Cards is real money which should/can be used for goods or shipping.

[grammaterry]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

I guess this sort of makes sense. However, I tend to agree with Mimi that the cost of credit card fees on the $5 shipping might be an issue. I sort of feel like the quilter cash offsets the fact that most of the time I could buy it for less on another site but figuring in the quilter cash it works out to not a lot more. I had bought a kit for 5140 and got bonus points which brought the cost down to $120 making the yardage $10 a yard and $12 for the pattern. I thought the mod block dd would be fun but didn't need anything else...so it cost me the shipping.

[Carlie Wolf]

Re: Why can't I use my quilter cash for shipping

As much as free shipping days are a wonderful sight when I can take advantage of that, I'm always thrilled when I only have to pay a flat $5 for shipping. I don't see many places that do that. I usually feel like I'm being spoiled when I shop here :-) Well maybe with the exception of Amazon prime since they ship for free and I don't know how they get away with that. After all I have to pay a fortune when I need to ship a box. And I have to give away my first born child if I want it delivered on a Sunday.