Today was the first time one store ever said "we only sell 1k". It happened a few weeks back where the guy said 2.5k being the limit but i explained to him about the memo and we were all set. As it was the first time that i had faced this current issue, i thought id check with everyone on what/if anything has usually worked to get the guy/girl to budge from his/her stance. Has nothing to do with what CVS can and can not do. Just wanted to hear what route most people take.

As for the DL, I normally try and get less then 1k just because they scan my DL if i go over it. I do understand why they do it and working in the financial services sector gives me a great understanding of AML etc. I just dont know why i feel uncomfortable getting my DL scanned. Not only from a scanning stand point but also from a credit card manufacturing stand point do i take this approach. Everyone has their own way, i try and stay below the radar (my version of it).

So the question was just to see how other people felt about it. That is all. You guys can all relax now and stop getting over excited.

We were dry in Boston for a few weeks before normal service resumed. You should be getting cards soon. In the meantime you can use GCs to fill the void.

great to see many of local CVS allows to buy $3000 GC per day (with CC) including white Vanilla, paypal and the others, wellsfargo visa has 5% rebate during the first 6 months

When asked I tell them that my Mom lives in CA and I send her money by loading her Bluebird card
By doing so she gets the funds right away. ( I do send money to Mom , that is true )

You can say to your son or daughter in college etc etc

The instant he asked, all I could think of was FT! I really wanted to say something witty and illegal so I could have a good story to report back here. Instead, I simply told him that I use them to load BB.

welcome back!

i am doing $5k at a time and surviving without my tin foil hat

Lol

Well mine set off alarms at wmt and i dropped 16 mos on the ground as the alarm sounded lol
So ive been without one for ages

This happened to me this weekend as well. I had bought all the OneVanillas at my closest CVS and decided to try buying two of the Vanilla GCs. Walmart's POS wouldn't allow them to be used for Debit. It must be a restriction on the Walmart POS. I took them to CVS and bought VRs with them. Probably could have just used them for normal purchasing, but paying the $8 for two $500 VRs was easier. Cost of doing business is how I put it.

2 of my regular stores have not only been out the past couple of weeks, but the previous vr space on the rack is gone- filled with serve cards and the tag behind them is for serve.

a supervisor who knows me said he thinks the vr's are being discontinued because they will be doing reloads on the register. he showed me a prompt to load a card. he said it wasn't live yet but was supposed to be soon.

both stores were always very well stocked before. IAH area

I have been away from this thread for a while due to my move.

Anyone has had any trouble with new DL scan policy? I mean getting any inquires from big brother? I have cutdown my VR spending big time since they started scanning the id. Just don't feel comfortable with it. Relying on other options for now.

Actually register is programmed to require a DL scan for anything over $500. I have verified this in two different stores in two different states.

Unless both cashiers were misinformed... which wouldn't be out of the question either.

Well, just when I thought all was well and the VR's are back with a 5k limit, one of my cvs cause me problems....Last week I purchased in one transaction 5k worth the reloads at one store. The only oddity was the cashier said 'I don't know if is will work, I've had people get turned down buying this much. '. I said that as long as my DL is scanned it should work,right? Used my ink card, went thru fine left the store.

Today, went to different store, tried to buy 4k in one transaction, cards were scanned as well as DL and nothing. Register sat there at least 1 1/2 mins and then she showed me the display and the register was rejecting each vr! Ah, ok let's try it with 3 vr's. After delay, it's rejected. Ah, let's try two now, well that gets processed and tthen my card is declined. It was a ua card. Not wanting to leave empty handed I politely asked if I could try again for 2 vr's with my ink card. Scanned cards, DL, and then done. Ink card worked no problem.

I am going back to my old way of buying one in the pharmacy and two up front with one of them being 499. More stops, yes. Zero hassle,yes!

I had the same experience today using my DL Reserve to buy $1k worth. She read the error message mentioning a "System error" to me. I said, oh well and went on to another store to stock up on OVs since I've bought all the OVs at this store.

My experience has been that anything under 1K would NOT prompt a DL scan. So two $495 VRs purchase is ok. The cashier may still ask to see your DL, but that is just to verify the name matches what is on the credit card, not an actual scanning of the barcode on the back of your DL.

This is based on my purchases made in IL and NY.

Okay, I had been misinformed then. If I do 2x$499 amounts, it would noe trigger a DL scan?

$495/card makes cpm too high.