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May want different denominations. Let's say I a have twin nieces and want to give each a $100 GC for their B-day and I have a $500 GC.

The real question is why would they care? a Visa/AMEX/MC GC is accepted anywhere a Visa/AMEX/MC credit card is. What could they be trying to prevent? That is what I wonder....

cdancer20

Apr 5, 2014 8:35 am

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Originally Posted by FTRox87 (Post 22652840)

Better Q would be why would anyone buy another GC with a perfectly good GC? Of course that would throw any cashier or manager for a loop.

However, I wasn't buying GCs with a GC lol. I was buying Vanilla Reloads and reloading Serve. Not the same thing :cool:

cdancer20

Apr 5, 2014 8:39 am

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Originally Posted by medichill (Post 22652849)

I think this is taking it a little too far though.

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/weird...haven/7249057/

Oh wow! Which one of you FTers put your mom up to this? LOL that's mean. I'm sorry. Glad no one was hurt though!

brewdog11

Apr 5, 2014 9:13 am

FROM THE FRONT LINES:

Baton Rouge, Louisiana went down 4/3. Somewhere between 1am and 9am. Sigh...

A little late, sure. But I felt I had to post out of lamentation...

FTR 787

Apr 5, 2014 2:49 pm

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Originally Posted by cdancer20 (Post 22653517)

However, I wasn't buying GCs with a GC lol. I was buying Vanilla Reloads and reloading Serve. Not the same thing :cool:

Not you missy ;) it was in ref to jayfi1976.

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Originally Posted by jayfi1976 (Post 22653472)

If they were drones they prolly wouldnt care esp if breaking up denoms was all you were doing and maybe if you tried to explain that to em. But c'mon tell us what was your MS angle really though :)

kingrat

Apr 5, 2014 3:15 pm

for cash only was the one vanilla debt visa card included?

skibum7732

Apr 5, 2014 3:18 pm

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Originally Posted by JudyJFLA (Post 22653370)

Because some banks give miles for debit purchases.

JudyJFLA

I know, I have them all. However, this is a very very expensive way to earn miles on those cards. You can earn miles on them for way way less cost/mile. To each there own though

FTR 787

Apr 5, 2014 3:19 pm

So I'm in Europe right now and missed out on the VR ending (panic-buying) frenzy (in-person at CVS anyways) but walking about today came across this which just stood out to me...

http://i58.tinypic.com/2ce101k.jpg

Ahh VR you gotta mock me here as well lol. Ready for the kicker? It was some sort of travel booking agency! :D Indeed, irony for the win, although my first thought was maybe its a gelato/ice cream store haha I wonder why.

skibum7732

Apr 5, 2014 3:23 pm

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Originally Posted by kingrat (Post 22653124)

You came to the wrong place if you want help..

google some others manufact spend at some other forums because most of the post here and useless made by useless people who just whine

you could ask good honest questions all day but you wont get much help..

I suggest paypal - get your mom, dad, son, wife, etc an authorized user card like I did for my citi - I have 3 amazon accounts me, wife and my aunt and they use the same card (authorized cards) to send money so 3 people in 3 months will be 9k.

There are other ways as well - AMEX gift card and others..

Good luck with this forum

I think people share way to much here personally, but then again I am not lazy and never ask to be spoonfed....I did my own research instead of constantly asking questions that the answers can be easily found with the slightest bit of initiative.

Paypal eh, great idea:D

svasandani

Apr 5, 2014 3:32 pm

I have not seen a single post since the cash only requirement at CVS that mentions that Paypal is still allowed. The official CVS memo pictures that were taken by a few people showed that Paypal was also going to be cash only.

Blueskyheaven

Apr 5, 2014 3:39 pm

CVS is still allowing CREDIT CARD for VR purchases.you can go to your bank and withdraw $500 and pay to load the VR. Then you can use your credit card to pay the $3.95 fee for each card.

cbn42

Apr 5, 2014 6:33 pm

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Originally Posted by jayfi1976 (Post 22653472)

They are ostensibly trying to prevent use of stolen gift cards to purchase clean gift cards. When thieves obtain a stolen gift card, they would want to quickly purchase something that can be easily sold/liquidated, such as gift cards. With credit cards, they can at least check your ID, but with gift cards, they can't.

silver6054

Apr 5, 2014 7:23 pm

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Originally Posted by Blueskyheaven (Post 22655167)

CVS is still allowing CREDIT CARD for VR purchases.you can go to your bank and withdraw $500 and pay to load the VR. Then you can use your credit card to pay the $3.95 fee for each card.

Not that it is of any practical importance, but is that in fact true? While there are two items on the transaction, it would surprise me if they had coded cleverly enough to allow you to pay the fee with CC. But I doubt if there are any here with practical experience of this!

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