my experience in testing the above is that there are glitches that can cause serious tsunamis in both your CC and the gift card itself. I would avoid it and you may be in CSR hell if you try it and then have to chase down your $5k of money...

Still trying to see but if 60,000 of us do this then surely there will be big waves of hell.

just a thought. Suggest you stear clear of some gift cards out there...


Earlier this year, I had found this reloadable diddy on the internet I tested for a short while but then, many times, when I tried to reload, it would take my money from my CC and then ITS own system would fail and I would have a temp auth for say, $500 or $1000 on my CC, but it was not yet in the gift card! With the AA citi MC credit card, one has to wait up to 30 days for temp authorizations to drop off, and unless you call CS of the merchant bank, you are bumming with no credit to use for other stuff! It's one thing when it happens at a gas station or something, but $500 or $1000 or $3000 is a ton of money to wait on!

I would have to call them and wait like 20-30 minutes on the phone with arcain CS people EACH time, and this sucked badly. In the end, it was not worth it, and then they stopped liking to hear from me and stopped wanting to help so eagerly even if it was the law. My CC was all used up with temporary authorizations and the miles were not worth it at all. And lastly, partly due to this type of thing that was not my fault, but rather, a fault in their own system that my loads accidentally discovered online, they raised their load fees to $10 per $500 and away went that deal! And I was only one person!

Hence, avoid some GCs! Trust me. I have been testing many and some worketh not!

MM