As a fellow NYC VR addict, I hear your pain. Why not head the other way out LI. Make a weekend out of it and stop by Wally world on the way to a beachhouse in the Hamptons ;)

Anyone have an issue purchasing OV or GC's today at cvs? The manager was showing they weren't on file when he would scan them with his gun. When he scanned them at the register is was popping up with a message about certain items not being able to be purchased with a cc. He wouldn't try going past that screen so I left and thanked him for his time.

i gotta say, while the demise of VR at CVS was a major disappointment for me, buying dozens of $1 items for free with serve is a nice little something to keep the love going

At my favorite DFW-area CVS this morning, the clerks were looking at a new memo that declared no more split payments for gift/prepaid cards, effective immediately.

Please forgive if this post isn't useful. I have only sporadically followed this change at CVS and admit I have not digested this entire thread.

This morning I purchased a VR (only 1 for $500) at my neighborhood CVS using a cc. I have not tried this in over a month and I was never purchasing more than 1 or 2 a month in the past year or so. Not sure if this matters, but I was picking up a medical prescription and it was the pharmacy tech who checked me out. No issues or questions at all. Loaded onto BB just fine, as usual.

When time allows I will revisit the store and try again via the normal cashiers.

Just a data point for those this could help. I am in Cleveland.

:D

Not another CVS Memo scandel......

Thank god I can get mt 25k a month spending done without CVS at half the cost

Is there a MO limit at Wally?

$2,500, but WM is notorious for having clerks that do not care (at least in the PHL area).

Isn't the max $1000 per MO though?

$1k is the max per MO. $2.5k is the max if you want to avoid paperwork. You can purchase multiple MOs in one transaction.

With the limit of 4 card swipes per transaction, which effectively limits each transaction to 2 $1000 MOs.

Good deal. I thought it was hard codedagainst CC.

I'm getting way, way OT here, but this is assuming you have debit cards with a max of $500 on each, which is related to CVS purchases, but not necessarily the case for every MO purchaser at WM.

Just to be clear, if I have $500 x 4, then my MO will be lower than 2 x $1000, right? because $1000 MO x 2 + MO fee will be > $2000?