So it finally happened, went to one of the CVS's I frequent and was told, that one 1K/day. The manager told the store clerks last week, Interesting though, since the one 2 miles down the road is still 5K/d Oh well, at least I have CVS that stock VRs... Back to our normal moaning and complaining.

cvs near my home and work continue to be dry :td:

finally found a CVS with VRs in the metro bay, but 1k limit. better than nothing!

Just bought my first two VR cards at CVS today. The casher took the chase united explorer card with no problem. Will try to use discover tomorrow. The citi dividend card is offering 2% cash back on drug stores but read several posts that citi treats VR purchase as cash advance. Could anybody confirm whether citi credit cards will read the transaction as cash advance? Thank you.

You are confusing VR's and AMEX GC's. Citi treats AMEX GC's as a cash advance, but CVS is not a cash advance purchase. You're just going along buying your $$$ meds....

I think you meant 5%.

AS others have posted, DO NOT get VR and Visa debit GC confused with AMEX GCs.. I have done at least 60K on my Citi AA cards buying VR and or Visa GC's without a problem and they are treated like regular purchases.

How could Citi identify an AMEX GC purchased from CVS? It shows up just like a GC or VR purchase. The only way for them to identify clearly is if the purchase originated at AMEX website or Giftmall type sites. I could be mistaken.

I think you need to go back and reread my post, and then read your reply to me, you are reading WAY too much into...

His post is clear. Yours is confusing. You explicitly stated Amex GCs will count as CA on Citi, but that's incorrect.

If I go buy an Amex GC in CVS or a grocery store it will count as a purchase with Citi.

If I go buy an Amex GC on Amex website, it will count as CA with Citi. Same if I buy a chase GC from Chase.

That's the difference. I would sticky this, but Citi's CA does not have to do much with CVS...


Edit: Shoot sorry Nurse, yours was not confusing, it was healthnut's post that was incorrect, my bad.

I just counted my used GCs and I was amazed to find that I had over 200 Vanilla cards alone. Since all of them were loaded with $500, that means I did just over $100,000 MS using VGCs since July last year.

Adding up my Chase GCs as best I could and adding the occasional $100 and $200 card from OM, it appears I did close to $140K in GCs since April. Add 94 VRs and it gets to well over $180K MS total since I started doing this last Spring.

I might still be in the low range of MSers, but this is way more than I thought I was doing. I better slow down.

They meant buying amex gift cards online through a portal, citi treats as cash advance. Not in stores.

Slow down?...come on now...I'd say ramp it up and push that through in 1 month:D

I'm with Ski...I am close to 200 Vr's since Dec

Thanks.... I never stated to buy AMEX cards at CVS would create the CA, but if you bought them through AMEX it will.