USA Starbucks Card in Malaysia

Written by Nicholas Chan on September 5, 2008 – 12:28 am -

I remembered when I was ordering food at Starbucks Coffee, Suria KLCC, I saw a lady paid the cashier in cash and later she gave her a card. I then quickly surf the net to look for any Starbucks Coffee privillage card or sort of. What I found is Starbucks Card which is a prepaid card which stores credit for buying coffee.

Unfortunately, it’s only available in a few country only, etc. United States, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, UK and a few more. Malaysia is not in the list. However, that lady did give the cashier a card. Is it a foreign Starbucks Card and she was using it for point collection? I don’t know.

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I saw the Starbucks Card quite interesting on the net and decided to get one for myself. For collection and also for use if I could use it in Malaysia. Checked Ebay and I found one that’s only $3. Bought it and it has arrived today in my letterbox. It took about 1 and a half week for the delivery from United States to Malaysia. It seems fast.

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Nothing much in the envelope, there’s a greeting card and the Starbucks Card itself.

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It has $0 credit in the card and I don’t what should I do with it. For the sake of funness and attractiveness of the card, I bought it off the net. I love Starbucks, but it’s expensive. Any Starbucks collector here?

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8 Responses to “USA Starbucks Card in Malaysia”

  1. By fye on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Nick,
    The starbucks card can only be purchased and utilized in participating countries such as USA, Australia and Japan.
    Cheers, fye

  2. By yiphing.net on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    omg~!
    u really bought it!
    i saw coffee bean and tea leaf have this kind of prepaid card
    but i don lk coffee bean and tea leaf
    i love starbucks =]

  3. By Jennyhow on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply

    wow, interesting! can you use it here to redeem at starbucks? or are you just collecting it?

  4. By Nicholas Chan on Sep 7, 2008 | Reply

    fye:
    Oh I see. So it’s not usable here. When will Starbucks Malaysia launch a card service?

    yiphing.net:
    Coffee bean’s ice blended is nice. =)

    Jennyhow:
    I was actually wanted to use it but I just know that it can’t be use here, so I am just collecting it. It’s nice.

  5. By wtf on Sep 8, 2008 | Reply

    u can get it for free as much as u want here if its $0. u spent $3, which is omg wtf bbq

  6. By May on Sep 8, 2008 | Reply

    I think you are totally clueless on the card. Over here in US, there are cards like this call gift card. They are available everywhere in many nationwide stores. Usually, people prepaid them and give them out as a gift. You paid the card for $3 and for that price you can get a small coffee in Starbucks over here. But in your case, you got a piece of plastic which you can get free.

  7. By Nicholas Chan on Sep 10, 2008 | Reply

    wtf:
    holy shit.

    May:
    I wish that there’s such service in here.

  8. By Rachel on Oct 27, 2008 | Reply

    Yup, pretty much every single store in the US offers such a service, except for really small stores. But if there are more than, like, 5 store in the chain, they will have this. They help the retailer, because often people spend a little bit less or more than the card value, which help them either way. Especially less: free money for them!

    Plus, I’ve read that many millions of dollars are unspent in gift cards every year, so that’s certainly beneficial to retailers.

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