nk15

Has anyone gone over the 2k cumulative monthly limit at giftcards.com, and does this work? Any problems in getting the miles or clawbacks?

VegasGambler

If the CC gets level 3 data, sure. But unless you are using an Amex, I understand that that is not usually the case for personal cards.

anabolism

I'm inside the U.S. and not using a VPN, yet every giftcards.com order is cancelled.

anabolism

Every single order at giftcards.com gets immediately cancelled. I tried ordering one for $100 to see if that helps. My guess is that it's because the billing address of my credit card is a commercial address (a UPS store) and maybe fraudsters rent boxes there. But I'm legit and have rented the same box for over twenty years and use it for all my mail.

redtop43

I went about 8-for-12 last weekend on ordering $250 gift cards, 1 per order. One order was canceled, 2 or 3 gave me an error before trying to create the order, and the rest went through. One of these cards was two weeks "early" (I bought one on April 14 and again on April 30) and the other 7 were roughly but not perfecty a month later (originally bought March 29-April 4, "next month" bought April 29-30). I've been getting messages that say "Your order has been tracked through AAdvantage Shopping" including for the cancelled order. I also got an email saying I had earned 2,750 miles, 750 for each of 3 cards and 500 from a promotion, but none of those have posted yet either as RDM's or loyalty points.

It's not uncommon for vendor security systems to flag VPN-based purchases.

For those who would like a constructive and actionable answer from giftcards.com on why your orders aren't working, I suggest you write to: Santa Claus, North Pole. You will have as much luck as contacting GC.com. They can often give answers to certain questions, albeit sometimes you have to try a few times, but I think you will have zero success digging behind their security system. As I've noted elsewhere, probably no one at BHN knows how the security screens work. They just buy it from a business analytics vendor.

no1cub17

Wait does the one month get set based on the date of purchase? Not calendar month? I bought several in the past 1-2 weeks. But now that's it's May 1st, my $2000 limit doesn't reset now? So I need to wait a few weeks and hope it's still at 3 miles/dollar to buy more? That is so obnoxious if true!

redtop43

I have been told that the "month" is a rolling month, so if you buy on April 29, you cannot buy that portion of your limit again until May 29. However, there are reports of people getting miles even though the limit has been exceeded, and I've been told that "we will not investigate purchcases over $2000 per month."

I would tread a little lightly, but I wouldn't be slitting your wrists just yet. If you want to move it toward the 1st of the month, I might try buying again at 20-day intervals until you get to where you want to be. But make sure you are getting automatically credited and won't have to ask for help from BHN or Cartera.

rrgg

The wikipost has a link to a GCC thread that might have data points.

golfingboy

I am having issues with a recent purchase with gift cards.com. I have made multiple purchases with many different vendors with no issues. Everything tracked and posted within a few days. Gift cards.com on the other hand nothing tracked and of course no miles posted. I already got the Visa card in the mail.

Will I be able to work with Cartera to get the 750 miles or am I SOL because Cartera will tell me the order wasn’t tracked or reported? FWIW they did track that I went to giftcards.com but the purchase was not tracked/reported. Tomorrow will be the 15 days mark since the purchase.

VegasGambler

Email them. You should get your miles. You will have to send them a copy of your reciept.

I've made dozens of orders though giftcards.com and they have all tracked. Did you read the terms? Are you using Safari?

golfingboy

Thanks!

Yes - I have read the terms. I am using Safari and I have disabled the cross site tracking security feature according to the instructions before proceeding with entering the site and making the purchase.

I can use chrome at work if that is better.

VegasGambler

It's hard to say. I always suggest that people use a dedicated browser for portal shopping. Ever since I've switched to doing that I've never had anything fail to track.

redtop43

I have some GC purchases still lurking from February. Today when I looked at my account on AA shopping, there were a bunch of new entries for GC purchases, many of which are far in excess of what I actually bought. The total is about $7750, when I only actually bought $6000.

Many of these just showed up today and are not yet in my AA account. I guess we'll see.

I don't particularly want more than I deserve, but I surely do want what I paid for.

vasantn

Based on just 2 data points published here, if you get the extra miles which are subsequently clawed back, you will keep the extra LPs.

TJ99

Similar to Redtop43, I had approx. $2,500 in GC purchases from the early March timeframe that finally appeared on the site over the weekend with the mile status of "pending" (amounts with the bonus was correct). Will see how long it takes to flow over to AA.