Originally Posted by
SportsTech
I agree with Mary2E, there's a fairly simple audit trail for almost anyone who paid for a card that was drained. I still have the PDF for the cards I bought from Cardcash, and a Paypal receipt to prove I paid for them. And I have (Hyatt) Visa card receipts for every Hyatt stay between the time I bought the electronic gift cards and the time I tried to use them. So I can prove that I bought the card, and I can prove that
I didn't use it. Someone else did, and Hyatt can easily find out who it was; what they do about it I don't need to know - but I hope they (Hyatt) follow through and bust
somebody, and they should make me whole regardless.
More to the point of this post's title - I bought my first set of these cards on eBay after Hyatt confirmed - in this forum - that the eBay seller was legitimate and that Hyatt sometimes sold these cards to resellers. I would never have purchased a card from a private individual on eBay, but a legitimate reseller? Sure, since hyatt told me it was ok:
Here's the thread this quote came from.
I'm almost certain that that thread was referring to ebay seller SVM. Many of us on this thead, including myself, bought from him. They were physical gift cards. I actually had no issues with these cards and I had them for a few months. (Before all the mass amount of craziness came to light.) I remember checking them though a few months later after my Cardcash GC was compromised and they were still fine. Based on the amount of inventory that he carried and his ability to continuously have huge sells last year, I would say that he was definitely an authorized seller direct from Hyatt. However, I can see Hyatt turning a blind eye to compromised GCs bought them him for the same reason a previous poster stated.