No more 5X points on OfficeDepot gc?
Apr 24, 2013, 9:16 pm
#1
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No more 5X points on OfficeDepot gc?
Today I went to my local OD to buy gc to load to amex target. The store manager told me she got an internal memo from the corporate that all gift card purchases "WILL NOT" receive points on the CC and it starts at April 20. Has anyone heard anything similar from their local OD? How does OD know what I purchase? My statement won't close for another 3 weeks so I won't know if my gc purchase will get additional points or not.
I also wonder if I purchase gc from Staple or OfficeMax will still get 5X points on gc purchase.
I also wonder if I purchase gc from Staple or OfficeMax will still get 5X points on gc purchase.
Apr 24, 2013, 9:24 pm
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It's possible that from now on they will code the transaction differently? Don't know if the MCC is static for a register or if it can change dynamically depending on the nature of the purchase
Apr 24, 2013, 9:56 pm
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Today I went to my local OD to buy gc to load to amex target. The store manager told me she got an internal memo from the corporate that all gift card purchases "WILL NOT" receive points on the CC and it starts at April 20. Has anyone heard anything similar from their local OD? How does OD know what I purchase? My statement won't close for another 3 weeks so I won't know if my gc purchase will get additional points or not.
I also wonder if I purchase gc from Staple or OfficeMax will still get 5X points on gc purchase.
I also wonder if I purchase gc from Staple or OfficeMax will still get 5X points on gc purchase.
Apr 24, 2013, 10:14 pm
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Apr 25, 2013, 12:25 am
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Apr 25, 2013, 6:16 am
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Apr 25, 2013, 6:42 am
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Yeah, next you will be telling us that AMEX and The Mint conspired together to kill the use of AMEX Gift Cards to buy dollar coins in 2011. Never happened, and if it did, we will deny everything.
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Cardinal Franklin Delano Fang, The Spanish Inquisition, 1933
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Cardinal Franklin Delano Fang, The Spanish Inquisition, 1933
Apr 25, 2013, 7:52 am
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"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Cardinal Franklin Delano Fang, The Spanish Inquisition, 1933
