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Jun 18, 2017 | 9:19 am

#222

kristianhansen

Join Date: Jun 2017

Posts: 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by FrankMS

It's not about quantity, it's about how MS friendly they are. Buy two $500 metabank GCs from your supermarket and take them to one of your WM's. Try to buy a $1K MO and ask the CSR to take $500 from each card. If the CSR doesn't allow it, try the next WM. You will find out very quickly if your city is MS friendly. Worse case scenario is you're stuck with $1K in gift cards which won't be hard to liquidate via regular spending.

Thanks, Frank. You're right; if WM (or PO) don't accept VGCs for a MO, the worst case scenario is spending with the VGC 3 months down the road. But I'll have at least met some spend requirement in the meantime.