Aug 1, 2013, 4:54 pm
Last edit by: WhateverDude
Please report any successful debit transactions after 8/1/2013 on the wiki. Currently majority of reports indicate failure after 4PM EST on 8/1/13.
Cannot unload at Walmart as of 4PM EST on 8/1/13.
Retailers listed
Home Depot Sears Ace True Value Lowes Orchard Supply Menards Northern Tool & Equipment Restoration Hardware Tractor Supply Stores Lumber Liquidators Do It Best 84 Lumber United Hardware Aubuchon Hardware Handy Hardware Harbor Freight Sherwin Williams Kelly Moore Dunn Edwards Benjamin Moore ToolUp.Com
List of retailers that accept HIGC to buy other Gift cards
Home Depot, Lowes, Sears
Cannot unload at Walmart as of 4PM EST on 8/1/13.
Retailers listed
Home Depot Sears Ace True Value Lowes Orchard Supply Menards Northern Tool & Equipment Restoration Hardware Tractor Supply Stores Lumber Liquidators Do It Best 84 Lumber United Hardware Aubuchon Hardware Handy Hardware Harbor Freight Sherwin Williams Kelly Moore Dunn Edwards Benjamin Moore ToolUp.Com
List of retailers that accept HIGC to buy other Gift cards
Home Depot, Lowes, Sears
Greatest way ever to manufacture spend with HIGC
Jul 30, 2013, 8:58 am
#46
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Let me see if I understand you, Now that you know all about it you dont want anyone else to read about it, so till you read about anything the thread should stand tall and not be deleted, but once you are made aware of something then it should be deleted. yep I hear ya loud and clear
Mike
Jul 30, 2013, 8:59 am
#47
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Jul 30, 2013, 9:00 am
#48
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At least tone it down
For the love of GCs, can the heading of this thread at least be toned down a bit? I guugled the requisite terms, and the resultS (note plural) from this thread came back glaring, as opposed from the # of results from tweets and the original person's w. site.
Jul 30, 2013, 9:19 am
#50
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I wonder if this is like the MC's where you have to hit Change Payment to make it work? Or the OP got lucky where his Walmart was coded as a HI store (which is unlikely)?
Jul 30, 2013, 9:21 am
#51
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For folks who want this thread to die, imagine if there was no thread about mint, VRs, MOs, visa GCs etc. where would one be without all those great threads. Get these while they last. Every single deal has an expiration date and there will be new and innovative ways coming out to replace the ones we lost. Sure there may be a lag period between 2 deals but use that time to take some rest or go for a vacation!!
Jul 30, 2013, 9:29 am
#52
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For folks who want this thread to die, imagine if there was no thread about mint, VRs, MOs, visa GCs etc. where would one be without all those great threads. Get these while they last. Every single deal has an expiration date and there will be new and innovative ways coming out to replace the ones we lost. Sure there may be a lag period between 2 deals but use that time to take some rest or go for a vacation!!
Jul 30, 2013, 9:31 am
#53
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Jul 30, 2013, 9:32 am
#54
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Jul 30, 2013, 9:35 am
#55
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He did confirm it worked with any 4 digits as PIN. However, so far we've only heard from him and the original blogger (Points2Paradise) who reported it. I'm worried that only newer cards will have this full functionality, potentially troublesome in areas with little turnover of cards. My local CVS has a monster stack, for example, and they don't look like they've been touched in a while.
Jul 30, 2013, 9:46 am
#56
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This works like Mastercard GCs...but kind of worse. The default charging method is "Credit" as soon as you swipe.
1st attempt $250: nearest WM. Old mono-chrome swiper. The cashier told me it's reading as credit. Hit "Cancel", changed payment type to "Debit." Typed in last 4 digits of the card (so that I can remember easily if something goes bad). Worked fine to get the MO. Just in case this is significant, I did split to get the MO. First one was OneVanilla GC followed by HI.
2nd attempt $500: second nearest WM. Color swiper. Since I already experienced at the 1st WM, I hit "Change Payment Type" (the red button). It will not go. I tried 3 times, then the cashier wanted the card....great....I handed her the HI card...thankfully, she didn't know about 'this'. She swiped the card on her side, hit something, and wala, I was (not the cashier specifying the payment type) able to change to "Debit". The payment type screen looked different from the normal red button pushed screen. I used the split again. But, this time, HI first followed by Chase GC on this second try.
Yeah, there may not be 'fee', but do you want to get stuck or be on float until you somehow cash out?
1st attempt $250: nearest WM. Old mono-chrome swiper. The cashier told me it's reading as credit. Hit "Cancel", changed payment type to "Debit." Typed in last 4 digits of the card (so that I can remember easily if something goes bad). Worked fine to get the MO. Just in case this is significant, I did split to get the MO. First one was OneVanilla GC followed by HI.
2nd attempt $500: second nearest WM. Color swiper. Since I already experienced at the 1st WM, I hit "Change Payment Type" (the red button). It will not go. I tried 3 times, then the cashier wanted the card....great....I handed her the HI card...thankfully, she didn't know about 'this'. She swiped the card on her side, hit something, and wala, I was (not the cashier specifying the payment type) able to change to "Debit". The payment type screen looked different from the normal red button pushed screen. I used the split again. But, this time, HI first followed by Chase GC on this second try.
Yeah, there may not be 'fee', but do you want to get stuck or be on float until you somehow cash out?
Last edited by vagrants; Jul 30, 2013 at 10:10 am
Jul 30, 2013, 9:56 am
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I saw P2P and FM talk about on twitter yesterday. After seeing those tweets I did two things. Prayed hard that it doesn't get to blogs (forgot to mention FT) and went to sleep an hour early to try it out first thing in the morning.
There is no going back anways. So is this working or what!?
There is no going back anways. So is this working or what!?