JH (Jackson Hewitt) Preferred Card
#31
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 28
Shoot....at one point I had two from friends, who have since jumped head first into MS so I had to surrender those cards.
#32
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: RDU
Programs: A few
Posts: 5,499
All my BBs have unique SSNs. One for me, one for wife. Both my parents...who can barely send texts. Both her her parents who think MS is money laundering. My 19 year old nephew and my 22 year old niece round out the 6.
Shoot....at one point I had two from friends, who have since jumped head first into MS so I had to surrender those cards.
Shoot....at one point I had two from friends, who have since jumped head first into MS so I had to surrender those cards.
#33
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Down South, The Desert
Programs: Marriot Rewards, Southwest Rapid rewards, Emerald Club, Avis Preferred
Posts: 1,871
At the WM close to where I live, I can do whatever I need to without much of a hitch.
I think WMs probably will ask to see cards if folks are showing them that we are using GCs. Folks on the registers wouldn't care otherwise.
#35
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: MSP
Posts: 330
It's intermittent. One WM I go to, the lady asked to see my bluebird. She always tries to see my debit card also, but I never show her. She seems scared to ask, I'm not sure why.
At the WM close to where I live, I can do whatever I need to without much of a hitch.
I think WMs probably will ask to see cards if folks are showing them that we are using GCs. Folks on the registers wouldn't care otherwise.
At the WM close to where I live, I can do whatever I need to without much of a hitch.
I think WMs probably will ask to see cards if folks are showing them that we are using GCs. Folks on the registers wouldn't care otherwise.
I got my first push back from Wally World today. I loaded $2K on the self-help machine a couple days ago. Today, the machine was down. I went to the counter. I loaded a MC gift card using the cancel trick, which works like a charm. I asked the customer service rep behind the money center counter to let me do another load. The rep said let me see your debit card and your license, then looked at my card and said you can't load gift cards. She said she got a memo saying they're not supposed to allow it.
So it appears there is a push coming from somewhere in Wally World management to discontinue BB loads by gift cards. What I fail to understand is why. There is no more money laundering or fraud risk in allowing a gift card load versus allowing a cash load. Arguably, there is less risk because surely Wally World has figured out by now that most of us loading up on gift cards are purchasing them through traceable credit card transactions.
So it appears there is a push coming from somewhere in Wally World management to discontinue BB loads by gift cards. What I fail to understand is why. There is no more money laundering or fraud risk in allowing a gift card load versus allowing a cash load. Arguably, there is less risk because surely Wally World has figured out by now that most of us loading up on gift cards are purchasing them through traceable credit card transactions.
#36
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: SFO/SJC
Programs: MR,UR, UA, BA, AA, Hotels
Posts: 581
#38
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: San Antonio
Programs: AS MVP
Posts: 2,276
Somehow I didn't post that in ADK's MS playlist. I'll have to go correct that.
My BBs are full by the 5th of the month or so. I welcome another place to plant VRs, even if it costs .69 per thousand to harvest them.
#40
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: The Empire State
Programs: CO (RIP), US (RIP), Amtrak. Lots of CC programs.
Posts: 442
I don't know the term "GC" when I'm at Wally's. It's debit, as I say only when asked, and when asked to show my card I present it. "Let me see your card... ahh, prepay, yeah, we don't allow it."
(If I wanted $500 of junk they'd happily take it.)
This is a new thing.
This means I have to use a debit card with my name it to do the deed there now.
Last edited by cuebert; Jan 28, 2014 at 2:02 pm
#41
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: RDU
Programs: A few
Posts: 5,499
His shut down experience or "shut down" experience? I've seen scarecrows before. I prefer to see the results for myself.
#45
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: NYC
Posts: 415
Up until last week, folks on the registers didn't care.
I don't know the term "GC" when I'm at Wally's. It's debit, as I say only when asked, and when asked to show my card I present it. "Let me see your card... ahh, prepay, yeah, we don't allow it."
(If I wanted $500 of junk they'd happily take it.)
This is a new thing.
This means I have to use a debit card with my name it to do the deed there now.
I don't know the term "GC" when I'm at Wally's. It's debit, as I say only when asked, and when asked to show my card I present it. "Let me see your card... ahh, prepay, yeah, we don't allow it."
(If I wanted $500 of junk they'd happily take it.)
This is a new thing.
This means I have to use a debit card with my name it to do the deed there now.
At a point now where I am considering practicing my sleight of hand, seriously. Then I realize it might be possible that I would have to do it four times in a row, and I just laugh at myself