Thank you...^

Especially surprising when you think that the entire thread can be summed up as: "You can buy VRs here. You cannot buy VRs here. You can buy OVs here. You can still usually buy OVs here."

It just occurred to me that our humble hobby can generate a tremendous buzz for a business with no marketing expense. Just think of the google ranking for their brand alone!
Other businesses who want to increase their visibility for nothing should take note, and start providing MS-related services a.s.a.p. :D

Now. the question is what u do with OVs? They are every where.... ;)

Game OVer.

Someone should pitch this to CVS or some other retail establishment. Start selling VRs with a CC and you will go viral all over the internet and get tons of people in your store. Granted you will lose a little $$ to fraud and MS from CC fees, but you can just consider that the cost of the advertisement!

I'm sure a large % of people would buy something along with the VRs. I know I always would buy some junk food just cuz I was there and felt like it would look better to have varied transaction amounts.

If CVS wanted to continue being helpful, they wouldn't need to mess with any bancorp products. The latter is just a dispensable intermediary / leach in the process. CVS could collect a fee and load prepaid accounts themselves.

remind me not to go to your CVS that you go to in the OC. Bought like $3K of OVs earlier tonight without issue. In fact the guy was sort of a noob and almost wanted to process each GC separately. I had to educate him so that after the $1K override you are in the clear.

Very true. Didn't they use to allow you to reload your Serve with a CC counting toward the $5k limit. Going back to that would bring so many people into the store. Even if you charged a 2% fee, I would bet people would still jump all over it because of the convenience. I'm sure tons of people would add some milk and cereal to the purchase that wouldn't normally do so.

Mix it up, mix it up. I use $O for tuition and the odd unexpected bill, like an escrow shortage. Nobody says you can't get a $362 $O one day and a $1,638 $O later in the week. (2k total, same $O charge.) you do need to keep good records though.

You can make Christmas tree ornaments out of your spare OVs. No joke. I'm going to make ornaments out of spent OVs this year because they helped pay for a December trip to Italy. hahahhhaaha

congrats on having the 10000'th reply!!!

Zzzzzx fell on that number. :( What prize do they get that I don't. :(

Not a OV, I hope! :D

LOL i think he had the 10000th post in the thread, you had the 10000 reply, or 10001st post. but every post is a winner here at flyertalk, we win internet brands gratitude for driving ad revenue through through the roof because of this wacky hobby.