The better coffee exchange
January 10, 2014
2 Comments
I’m not sure quite how this works but I’m fascinated. Yesterday I got an email from Tonx coffee (a subscription based service for great coffee) offering a card exchange – with your Starbucks card! Yes, you can exchange the balance on your Starbucks card towards the coffee offered by Tonx. They say:
“Our mission is to make drinking better coffee as simple as possible. We hope this helps.”
This should be interesting. If you would like a free trial of Tonx then use my link here (I get a free t-shirt or something cool but I’m not paid to endorse them. I just thought this concept was clever).
If you have a Starbucks Card and would like to get some truly great coffee with it, simply visit Tonx.org/better, enter the card number and security code, and the full card value will be transferred to your Tonx account where you can apply it to a new or existing coffee subscription.
Julie Tiu
January 12, 2014 at 6:24 pmHi, Aileen! Long time fan. First time commenting, I think? I’ve been looking around Tonx to find out how the card exchange works (just curious). Once your card has been charged, or once you’ve bought a card, doesn’t Starbucks have your money?
aileen
January 12, 2014 at 6:33 pmJulie – Thanks for reading. From what I understand, and I could be completely wrong on this (I’ve been wrong before and often), you have to unregister your card and then tonx can transfer the balance to them. Yes, Starbucks have your money but I’m guessing Tonx can trade the totals if they want to (there are lots of ways to swap balances of cards online). They are willing to go to all of this trouble to get people to try better coffee. Even if it meant them purchasing all of the balances it’s still a genius idea and getting them lots of publicity. Good coffee is the winner (or so Tonx would tell us) 🙂