Variable load gift cards to be pulled by Office Depot 2.4.2013

lazyy · Feb 2, 13, 8:42 am

At od this moring getting some gc. Manager said they will be pulling gc with open amounts by feb 4. They will still be selling the preset amounts like 20 50 100 etc. Says its a corparate thing.

Anyone else know about this?

xp0 · Feb 2, 13, 8:49 am

Already happened at my local OD. I might be trying a non-local one later today.

djrez4 · Feb 2, 13, 9:01 am

Staples already runs this way. Highest cards are $200 with a $6.95 fee.

peteh211 · Feb 2, 13, 9:09 am

I posted this in the AMEX BB forum:

Was in OD today buying prepaid AMEX GC's I use to purchase VR's at CVS. Manager showed me a memo that instructed them to pull all variable load GC products. Something about high cost of these transactions. Memo had about 10 lines of different GC products listed on it. Asked when it was effective and they said when they get around to doing it (i.e. later today).

This was in Nashville, TN. YMMV but wanted to provide a data point.

easygoing77 · Feb 2, 13, 9:33 am

Same here in Detroit. They pulled all variable GC's both Visa and Amex today morning.

raghu455 · Feb 2, 13, 10:02 am

Any other options to get 5x?

cliff1371 · Feb 2, 13, 10:07 am

pulled them here in CT about 2 weeks Ago.... very disappointing

cruisr · Feb 2, 13, 10:10 am

This was my experience yesterday in NJ. Though, to make it worse, they had tons but said they could not sell them as they were having problems getting approvals to get the correct amounts loaded....staples has also taken the load your own value type cards away and oly has amounts up to 200. This sucks.