But those are more expensive from what I've read :D

That makes your situation more understandable. If the employees know you, it's a lot easier to get a little leeway. And again, if you're buying a lot of gift cards from them, they know you'll eventually buy the blanks, and they're happy because you're making them a little bit of profit. It's like the guy who stops in every afternoon to buy a Coke and a candy bar--eventually everybody knows your name--sort of like Norm on Cheers.

I have never been asked a single question about my VR purchases--which makes sense because I've never been asked a single question about my toilet paper, razor blade, greeting card, and nonprescription drug purchases either.

As I mentioned above, CVS really wants to sell us VRs. And, if we don't act self-consciously during our purchases (my analogy, reflective of my age, is to the teenager buying condoms in the movie, Summer of '42, who nervously blurts out to the clerk who clearly doesn't care why he's buying them, "water balloons, me and my friends use them for water balloons"), CVS employees (generally--just like every one else, I've run into the officious types) don't care why we're buying them.

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Mike I cant believe you'd actually do something like this! The nerve of you. Why, you are clearly part of the reason why it's so hard for all of us to buy GCs and probably why the fees are so high! The stores and the companies that make the GCs are just doing their part combating terrorism and when they THINK there is fraud, they are thinking of YOU! But then you come along sauntering into stores and actively take these things off the rack--probably somehow convincing the poor unsuspecting and underpaid CVS clerk who will now lose her job because of you! How can you sit here and post that you think it's ok to step out of line from buying like normal people and become above everybody else like this?

You and your scammer friend marathon man and those cronies he hangs out with should all be banned from stores like CVS and not allowed by Incomm to buy any more VRs or GCs. People post here thinking what they do is ok. They are sheep and they think inside the box and they are fearful of any deviation whatsoever to what they think is normal. But you and your friends come along to ruin all that and that makes you a bad bad man!


I am going to call the Kinsale bar and tell them to cancel the DO you planned next week and then contact whatever CC you have and tell them to not give you miles for anything. Yes, I am going to call all the CCs and tell them about one guy with your name and location and that he should not be awarded any points for ever buying VRs and GCs again.

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Nobody said they asked for permission!!!! That's a bit different, no?

We're only missing a few of the lame saying that float around out there:
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
You did too much
You're Greedy
Its people like you who ruin it
and my personal favorite
"Theres been a lot of fraud"

As others have mentioned, I doubt the vast majority of people who are taking blanks have asked permission to do so as you have. I'm don't see the upside for them in letting you do that (they're going to sell either way), but as you said, to each his own.

Makes sense. I didn't mean to insinuate that you in fact stole them, just wondering how you got the blanks. And now we know. :)

:D First beer's on me.

Nobody asked before jumping all over me.

I can't speak for others, but for me, they're keeping a customer happy with a small gesture. I make enough purchases to keep them happy, also.

Mike

They prob let him take them because they are not worth anything. There is no value in them. I can imagine what the charge would be for taking 0 balance cards. Theft? Of what ?

it's all about jealousy.

People hear of someone doing something they either cant do or wont try due to fear or inability--or in some more valid cases, maybe lack of product--and they get all bent about it.

Most things in life that cause rifts have to do with jealousy. Of course in war it's also about oil and religion but it still comes down to one person thinking they are better than the other, or one person being upset that the other appears to be better--so jealousy there too.

I doubt any meaningful charges would be pressed if someone got caught taking them without permission, but as someone mentioned, there is a cost in manufacturing/distributing the cards (admittedly de minimis).

However, the bigger issue is the store thinking they have them in stock when they don't. The store suffers because they're not selling as many cards as they could @ 3.95 a pop (and, selfishly, the rest of us don't get any replenished because the store doesn't know they're out).

The question is "Does the employee have the AUTHORITY to allow someone to take product out of the store without paying?" Probably not. CVS is a franchise so the "person responsible for ordering" is just an employee of the franchise - not the owner. If the franchise OWNER asked the employee if he / she approved taking the cards out without paying, I suspect that the employee would deny all knowledge in order to save his / her job.

There is value in the cards. It costs money to make the card, transport the card to the store, stock the card, have the card in inventory etc. None of that is free. CVS has put a "value" of $3.95 on each card......that is what you pay when you buy the card. So removing the cards without paying is stealing $3.95 for each card.

I think a cop would laugh at you if u tried to press charges for 3.95 in valueless reload cards.