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Buy and Gift Beads N Crystals Gift Cards

Beads N Crystals offers Gift Cards in almost any value. They make a perfect gift for anyone interested in beading and many other crafts. Give the gift of choice and let them select from over 15,000 beads, crystals, tools and lots more. They are supplied as a paper-based biodegradable physical card which can be spent in-store or online.

• Valid for 3 Years
• Choose Your Value
• Select from values of $20, $30, $50 or $100 to buy online
• Physical Gift Card Posted to you or the recipient for free
• Choose any value from $10 up to $500 (contact or visit us)

Gift Vouchers are valid for three years from the date of purchase and can be spent as you wish on any goods in our store or on this website. The voucher can be spent in part or in full, and multiple vouchers can be used on the same purchase. Any unspent portion will remain on the voucher and will be valid until for original 3-year expiry period.

We collect the name and contact details of the purchaser and/or recipient. This will allow us to cancel and re-issue a lost or stolen gift card. Please note that any lost or stolen gift card redeemed by a third party before we are advised and able to cancel the card is then not able to be credited or replaced.

Gift vouchers can’t be used to purchase gift vouchers, and any purchases made on a gift card that are returned will be refunded onto a new gift voucher. Our gift vouchers can’t be refunded or converted to cash after purchase. The voucher itself is GST exempt and a full itemised tax invoice will apply and be issued at the time the voucher is spent on goods.

Bead Lover Loyalty Points & Gift Vouchers

Bead Lover and VIP members earn Loyalty Points on many purchases. The points will automatically convert to a $10 gift voucher for every 250 points earned. These vouchers are valid for use instantly and for a period of 12 months from date of issue. You’re welcome to collect up several vouchers and spend them all at once. These vouchers can only be redeemed by the customer to whom it was issued. Lost your voucher? No problem, we can look them up for you!

Who can earn Points and receive $10 Vouchers?

• Any customers making an online retail purchase from this website (you’ll be enrolled automatically into the free program)
• Retail Customers in-store who opt to join our Free Bead Lover membership program
• Retail Customers in-store who opt to join our paid VIP member program

Please note that wholesale members are not eligible to earn points. Customers who refuse to opt into our membership programs, refuse to provide the necessary information to become a member, or decide to opt out at any point will not receive or retain points. You may contact us at any time to make a change to your membership or to have yourself removed from the program if you wish.

How are Points Accumulated?

1 Point is earned per $1 of an item’s price on most products.

• A $1 item earns 1 point (Buying 50 receives 50 points total)
• An item at $10.50 earns 10 points (Buying 2 earns 20 points total)
• An item at $0.50 earns no points regardless of the number purchased.
• No points are earned on Swarovski, Preciosa, Sculpey, Jacquard, Clearance, Sale and Special lines.
• VIP members receive full points on monthly discount sales (A $50 strand of pearls earns 50 points even when it is 50% Off and sold for $25)
• Points expire 12 months from accumulation if not converted to vouchers

How are vouchers issued?

As soon as 250 points are accumulated, a $10 voucher will automatically be issued. If a purchase earns enough points for multiple vouchers, all will print. For example, if you have a previous total of 245 points and make a purchase earning another 265 points, your balance will be 510 points. At that time, 500 points will be deducted, and two $10 vouchers issued. The remaining 10 points will carry forward to your future purchases.

How to Spend Bead Lover $10 Vouchers Online:

• Check out your order and select the Direct Bank Deposit payment option
• Make a note of the Gift Voucher number (barcode number). If you don’t have that, please just tell us you have a voucher in the order notes.
• We’ll apply your voucher(s) and contact you for any balance payment.

How to Spend Bead Lover $10 Vouchers In-Store:

• Remember to hand us the voucher (or tell us you have one in the system) before making payment for your purchase!

Once a payment is made, we’re not able to apply a voucher, so it’s important to ensure you do not make a payment for your order until after we have applied the voucher.

The bitumen is down and the guys have been frantically working to finish our HUGE new rear carpark! We won’t know until the line-markers finish work just how many spaces there will be, but we’re thinking 20 at least!

Please note this Friday and Saturday there will be no access to the new carpark and no drive-through access. Please consider entering via the Juliette St rear entry. Limited parking will be available in the old MEX carpark. We will also have 4 spaces available across the front on Ipswich Rd.

We will be able to park in the new carpark and drive through access will be reopened from Monday December 14th.

We have been notified by Swarovski that they are exiting the wholesale components market. Swarovski are closing down their Swarovski Professional division which was responsible for the supply of all Swarovski lines we had access to. This means they have discontinued the supply of all products and this is being rolled out globally. The entire Swarovski catalogue of beads, pearls, flat backs, pendants, rivoli’s, bicones, rondelles, drops, chandelier pieces and sew on stones have now been discontinued.

This decision is on the back of extreme impact caused by COVID-19 leading to a large number of job losses at Swarovski’s head office & manufacturing facility in Wattens, Austria, which have been well documented in global news. We had suspected a significant change for some time now, but the speed at which this has occurred has taken us (and many opposing members of the Swarovski family) by complete surprise.

Their plans are “to refocus and re-position Swarovski in the attainable luxury segment”. Unfortunately they believe having large volumes of loose Swarovski components in the marketplace is not in their strategic plans for future of their brand and is impacting their high-end finished goods market.

SWAROVSKI IS NOT CLOSING DOWN – They are restructuring and refocusing their business.
In doing so they will no longer provide loose components for resale as loose components.

According to news articles, Swarovski’s new CEO, Robert Buchbauer, believes less is more and that Swarovski have lost their focus by trying to be everything to everybody.

Effective immediately, we (along with all dealers in loose Swarovski components), have been cut off from ordering any more products.

They will effectively discontinue from the global retail and wholesale markets the entire catalogue of loose components including beads, pendants, flat backs, pointy-backs, rivoli’s, sew-on’s, fancy stones, pearls, chandelier components, rondelles, buttons, crystal mesh, cupchains and findings.

Over the years we have worked hard to curate a wide and concise collection of 2,500 the most popular and in-demand lines from Swarovski including a rolling range of newly released and special edition pieces.

We’re working on plans to replace the core lines with similar products from alternative brands which will begin rolling out from early 2021. Unfortunately no other company can offer the range of products, colours, effects and sizes, or speed of delivery that Swarovski have consistently provided for decades.

We’re giving you this update so you have the opportunity to stock up on any Swarovski products you may need for your business or unfinished projects before we sell out for good. 

Although we are very well stocked and will probably be selling Swarovski crystals for quite some time, there are many popular lines we sell through almost weekly. Some lines are already sold out.

In the last several weeks since we initially heard of the pending announcement, we have ordered a large volume of stock that we regularly sell through, and lots of new exciting products too. We hope this is enough to carry us into early to mid 2021.

If this news is going to impact your business or planned projects, please check our stock and order what you need with priority. Alternatively email us with the products you need most (with the quantities) and we’ll factor this into our lines to source from alternative brands.

We really wish this wasn’t happening and we’re as shocked as you are at the news. Although this will be the end of an era, it will also be the beginning of a new one we’re yet to discover!

I thank you for your continued support and assure you this will not impact our ability to provide you a complete and concise range of quality products.

Shop the remaining Swarovski crystal products while supplies last.

From our family to yours, we wish you all the best and we hope to see you soon. Stay safe!