I think the debit using multiple cards in 1 transactions is ymmv.

at my location, I can only use debit if it's the last card.

I use credit auto drain, no issues.

thanks. but do you have to show your card everytime after u use credit auto drain ? (for the last 4 digits)

I'm a regular the CVS I frequent, so I just read off the last 4.

YMMV.

Anyway to legally and ethically bypass the 2k per rolling 24 hour limit?

PM is fine

My passport just expired but toyed with using that. I wonder what else I could do. I could benefit from somewhere around 3 or 4k in total a day

They had plenty of the $4.95 fee cards at the other location. No problems there as well.

Do not use multiple cards if you want to keep the gravy train running

A store that I frequently bought VGC just started strictly enforcing "No GC buying GC" policy. Last night when I was trying to buy VGC, cashier demanded seeing my card first, and canceled the sale citing "No GC buying GC" policy. She also said that it's the store manager's decision because suddenly lots of people are buying VGC using multiple (gift) cards.

So if you don't want to attract more attention to this "gravy train", refrain from using multiple cards. It only takes a single overly-suspicious cashier to alert the higher management to stop it, one store at a time.

This!

And folks are talking about auto drain upthread - autodrain is a dead tell tale of using GC and that was how one local CVS store got suspicious and no longer allows "GC to buy GC".

Let's see how much longer those friendly stores in those locales people are doing auto drain on multiple cards eventually go hostile...

Locally, the least resist path has been ONE card at a time with debit, single card full payment. Others can go push their stores but as you said, all it takes is one employee raises a question, and things would go downhill rapidly before you even know it.

just like me I don't even say much they already know what to do.

I think worst places to do MS is Cali, FL and NY. The stores there are flooded with churners.

Actually the problem with FL is not MSer/Churner. You can buy as many as FBs as you want even on Sun the last day of no fee. Same for the OD promo a few weeks ago. There are plenty of inventory meaning there are not very many seekers for those merchandises.
The problem of FL esp South FL is that it is the National Capital of Frauds. Therefore all stores here are all very cautious. Personally I witnessed some crooks tried to buy $2K grocery store GCs with stolen CC - the CC did not go thru and the guy said he needed to go to bathroom first before contacting his bank... - the bathroom is conveniently located next to the store's exit - so much so that the store now remodeled the customer service area to front facing both exits versus in the past it was set on one side and the cashiers could only see one exit on the side, the other exit was behind their back.
A year or 2 ago when H&R Block introduced its prepaid cards and had quickly pulled it from Florida because the frauds were so out of control.
Several biggest fraudulent tax return crimes are in South Florida....
With such environment infested by fraufsters, it is hard to blame the retailers to be overly cautious.

i definitely see both of your points. i suspect one of the stores near me had the "no using GC to buy GC" policy for this exact reason. since i m not as brazen as most, i will still do my one-card-at-a-time approach just to be on safe side.

there is at least one guy in my locale who always go overboard (not sure if up to Tahsir level, but definitely extreme enough). he is likely known to some here, as he often blogs about his exploits. and that he has been banned from many places. i actually saw him once in person unloading tens of thousands of VGC at USPS (back when Simon still work) ...... while the plebians wait behind him.

it irks me to have someone like that in the same geographic area. but i dont think these kind of people will listen to reason or be considerate to others either as they are too caught up with the whole goal of gaming and maximizing profit for themselves

I do just fine in NY. While it's not the Midwest, there's nothing like the problems I read about in Cal here.

+1! Don't ruin it too quickly!
 

I don't understand the mindset. Personally I just use the $25 "gift" from the original FB purchase to pay bills. I don't keep going back to milk it for another $1.25. Doesn't anyone remember what happened to the Vanilla reloads at this store once MMS blogged about it constantly?

Good point. If you must milk the 1.25, why not use some of the several stores that sell GC's and use 4 FB's for a $100 Amazon card

And delays the inevitable
 

That works too; I just pay my cable bill, put gas in my car, buy lunch, etc. Things that I'd normally have to pay out of my paycheck. This helps me while not hurting the hobby and causing an earlier than expected demise to this new trick.

You mean this guy? He seems to be banned by many places... and even so it does not change any of his behaviors as you said - completely consumed by the obsession of maximization.

http://milesperday.com/2016/12/got-banned-giftcardmall/