Originally Posted by
lowkeyflyer
Ran into a really weird issue today and figured I'd give a DP.
I was consolidating BHN MCGCs 5113 32. I went to a manned register and did one $500 SS. Swiped first MCGC, autodrain $200. Swiped second, autodrain $200. Went to do remaining on my ABG. ABG went through and pending charge showed up, but I got a debit load not authorized code 34 (fraud), and the register canceled the entire transaction, voided the SS, refunded all the credits. Now I'm gonna have to sit and wait 2 weeks on my ... for the $400. Sucks.
I'm fairly new to buying VGCs at WM, used to exclusively buy USB VGCs at Kroger until the poo started hitting the fan with those VGCs recently. However I have run into this same issue at WM when buying VGCs. If I buy say 4 x $500 VGCs, about 2 of them will fail and be refunded, so only 2 of the 4 get activated. It's very annoying honestly, this never happened at Kroger. That said, the cards were all refunded IMMEDIATELY and the funds were back on my CCs within 1-2 days, I definitely didn't hafta wait 2 weeks. I think I read reports here on FT of others encountering this same issue.