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Old Oct 27, 2012, 6:17 pm
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ned
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Today I needed to buy 3 X $200 Visa gift cards for gifts. I went to CVS Pharmacy and selected 3 “generic” Visa gift cards that can be loaded $20 to $500. They were the ones that look like a gift box and can not be reloaded. The cashier asked if I would be paying cash or using a credit card. I, of course, said credit card. She said that she did not know if this was now possible as there were new restrictions on which gift cards and in what amounts could be bought with credit cards. She spoke to a another cashier who said he did not think the charge would go through. In the end the charge did go through. My point is with gift cards bought at retail locations things are changing. It seems to me unrealistic to think the OD Vanilla program will last very long.
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