Alcibiades

The Matrix is learning and has implemented a 60 minute delay against same location usage.

Hisma

I assume you're being cheeky here, but I did think about the fact that there could be a required delay on same location usage. Similar to how I had to wait 2-3 hours before I could activate several ebay GCs I purchased a while back.
The OVGC I converted to MO previously was nearly identical to the one I used today so I was shocked when it was rejected.

So if I tried again tomorrow is it safe to say it'd work? Or did I trigger some sort of fraud protection when I unsuccessfully tried to use it?

nistah

Disappointed to confirm my local Winn Dixie and Publix stores in South Florida are both dead for buying WU MO using VGC. CS reps are all asking to see cards and refusing to sell if the debit card is not "bank issued"(???) & does not have your name on it.

Really quite a shame, B/C these same Winn Dixie and Publix stores were selling me all the MO I could afford using VGC as a payment method earlier this year.

I've had similar issues with HT in the mid atlantic region

Too bad esp. considering that the WU MO terminal and the POS cash registers don't even talk to each other....some band aid enforcement policy they've pieced together here...let's see how long it takes for CSR's to unlearn this latest training from WU.....more liquidation avenues are always helpful to MS activity

Hisma

forget it, I think I'm just gonna try to buy an MO at the post office tomorrow. I have one literally right across the street from my office

CWAL

I'm surprised that there aren't any cashiers who remember you and will still sell to you. The store must have been defrauded pretty bad (and weren't able to specifically pinpoint on camera which individual did the transactions?). That's a pretty standard problem in bigger cities, unfortunately.. :/

I've never had much luck in Publix in South FL, but have been reasonably okay with WD..

tuphat

I don't understand how PIN-enabled GC debit cards present any greater risk to the MO-selling merchant than "regular" debit cards.

Carl

There's apparently much more chance that they could be stolen. As crazy as that sounds given that they have to activated at the register, it clearly does happen since people report buying cards that end up somehow having the balance depleted between time of purchase and redemption.

jediwho

There is no logic when it comes to management -- whether at floor level grocery store, senior level at Target, or executive level at AA. Most decisions are a knee jerk reaction to something or short term in nature.

shitrus

Data point for Kroger. Cincinnati Region allows Gebit MO purchase, Dayton Region does not.

littleconsumer

I'm curious as to how you got an OV using a credit card at HEB as they are hardcoded to deny CC purchases of VGCs.

Hisma

is that so? I can say with 100% certainty it went without a hitch. I mixed it with my other grocery purchases so perhaps that helped? I bought it w/ a hilton amex surpass. Was a variable load 20-500$ in a grey package. Bunker Hill store.

Hisma

successfully converted the $500 OVGC I bought from HEB to MO at the local postoffice. Painless process, though the fee there is relatively high. I do my weekly grocery shopping at HEB so this will be an easy light addition to my current MS strategies.

RJP3

"'tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all."

I went about two years with a local grocery store chain selling me $1000 MO's using a credit card. With a 5% cash back card it was like printing $50 bills for 95 cents! With more than a dozen stores in close proximity to my home, office, and client facilities there was effectively no limit to how many I could get. Then one day... no more.

Also have a local pharmacy where my Barclay Arrival Mastercard (but no other CCs) works for MO's with the righ cashiers... but I tread very lightly there as they are squirrely.

fish3d

For some reason I thought it wasn't possible to use any type of GC to purchase a MO at the post office.

Hisma

funny, I managed to bust 2 myths with my recent GC purchase
- HEB is not hard-coded against buying GCs with CC. It must be on a store-by-store basis.
- It's possible to buy MOs from the Post Office (though I got that info from earlier in this thread so most should know this). $1.25 for $500 or less, $1.65 for $500.01 to $1,000.00. Guy behind the counter did not bat an eyelash when I asked him to make a MO for $498.75. I just swiped and was off ~15 seconds later.