I believe you mean $20k across 4 BB in two days.....and I know there are some crazies out there that have more than 4 BBs...

I think these numbers are smaller now that Vanilla GCs are out of the pictures. It's hard for I believe a lot of ppl to buy a lot of GCs at one time outside of CVS.

thanks for correcting me. $20K in 2 days accross 4 BB :)

Yeah, good point about VGC being out of equation, but plenty of regional stores still sell plenty of cards you can use, so will be interesting to see how long they last.

Yes, plenty of places (at least for some!) to buy cards, but I haven't found a supermarket where it seems fine to buy $5K worth of cards. They ask for ID for a $500 card, and want manager approval in many cases.

My local supermarket. when they do sell me gc with cc have to process each card separately. The most I have ever gotten were 2 x 500 gc. Two transactions. I was worried that my CC was going to be denied on the 2nd swiped. Lucky it went through. I think a 3rd swipe will most likely get denied.

The register's already prompt to ask if the transaction is in multiple of $2k. I think those transactions are the limit or something.

Agreed. I was willing to do much more volume at CVS than I am at grocery stores. But, I'm nervous about having a hard time liquidating OVs.

Can I ask why you say that? Why are you more willing to spend more at CvS as opposed to grocery stores?

I don't think DapperDon meant philosophically or anything! Just that CVS is/was MS friendly, and most stores allow you buy $5K every 24 hours.

case in point: I was at the grocery store last night buying $1K in VGCs and the cashier LOUDLY exclaimed, "oh wow, never seen a bill that high. $1000 in gift cards, damn!" Obviously, this drew some attention from other customers... CVS doesn't seem to care what I do with VGC purchases.

Yup. Sometimes I get a CVS cashier say,"wow 5k, i've never seen anybody buy that many". Then he happily process my gc all in 1 transaction.

Had a similar experience at my grocery store buying $1k worth last night. The cashier commented they had never seen a bill total with a comma in it.

My preferred grocery store has a corporate set $5K a day limit just like CVS so it's not like I'm skirting any rules. I make all my purchases at the customer service desk since check out lanes can't do over $1500 so everyone in CS knows me.

That's awesome, wish I could swing that in my area. Tired of all these one-at-a-time VGC purchases at my supermarket.

Yea I had a cashier and the bagger both get excited over my $2k purchase of VGCs. Same reaction that you seem to have experienced. It's funny especially since these are usually young kids (high school/college) so the concept of spending that much money at one time to them is foreign. Heck 2 years, it would have been foreign to me too LOL.