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Old Sep 29, 2015, 2:56 pm
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ElPresidente
 
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Originally Posted by vinhboy
Why would you do that? It doesn't earn any points, and the OV itself cost money. Are you just doing that for the purpose of obfuscation?
It's an easy way to dispose of these small GC if I don't have an immediate real-life spend need for them. Right now a lot of my daily spend is tied up in categories where I get say 5x on gas and I wouldn't want to use a GC. It's easy, and yes it perhaps obfuscates the MS picture which may or may not matter.

Feeding small cards to either Kate, or the staff at a TGT GS desk is undesirably tedious to me. And I can't think of many other uses for setting a PIN on these. If you want to buy groceries with them, run them as CC. When I go to dump into RB/BB, I'd rather do it with large-denomination VGC and limit my time spent and thus visibility.

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