Simon mall gift card(2014-2015)
Sep 3, 2015, 8:51 am
#1801
Join Date: Oct 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist No More..., Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Diamond, SPG Platinum, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 4,375
By SO, you meant spouse or Son?? If your spouse has serve card, how can you load on their behalf? If you go to WM, not sure if they want to see your ID etc.
If you by the CC online, you can use your spouse's CC and no one will know anything otherwise, once you have the VGCs and you go to load or get a MO, not sure if at any point they ask for ID. I prefer to do this myself because I'm aware of how this is supposed to work. With family members it gets tricky.
Do they ask for IDs when you are making large purchases on CC? not so much when you are loading the debit card to your Serve or BB.
If you by the CC online, you can use your spouse's CC and no one will know anything otherwise, once you have the VGCs and you go to load or get a MO, not sure if at any point they ask for ID. I prefer to do this myself because I'm aware of how this is supposed to work. With family members it gets tricky.
Do they ask for IDs when you are making large purchases on CC? not so much when you are loading the debit card to your Serve or BB.
Not to mention that that's where you should be asking all these newbie questions.
Sep 3, 2015, 8:52 am
#1802
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 3,688
By SO, you meant spouse or Son?? If your spouse has serve card, how can you load on their behalf? If you go to WM, not sure if they want to see your ID etc.
If you by the CC online, you can use your spouse's CC and no one will know anything otherwise, once you have the VGCs and you go to load or get a MO, not sure if at any point they ask for ID. I prefer to do this myself because I'm aware of how this is supposed to work. With family members it gets tricky.
Do they ask for IDs when you are making large purchases on CC? not so much when you are loading the debit card to your Serve or BB.
If you by the CC online, you can use your spouse's CC and no one will know anything otherwise, once you have the VGCs and you go to load or get a MO, not sure if at any point they ask for ID. I prefer to do this myself because I'm aware of how this is supposed to work. With family members it gets tricky.
Do they ask for IDs when you are making large purchases on CC? not so much when you are loading the debit card to your Serve or BB.
*be wary of store personnel who will follow you to make sure you don't go to other registers. there are reports online that some staff do this and even go to the extent of taking your pics.
Sep 3, 2015, 9:40 am
#1803
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 60
Anybody use capital one cards and have trouble with fraud alerts buying these? I haven't used them directly in person in a while, but I had a lot of trouble at target loading Redbird before I started using AGC to do it. I'd even alert them in advance, fraud alert. Be on the phone during purchase , fraud alert. And talk to managers but still would get them.
Sep 3, 2015, 12:16 pm
#1805
Join Date: Oct 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist No More..., Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Diamond, SPG Platinum, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 4,375
Nevermind.
Last edited by cdancer20; Sep 3, 2015 at 12:46 pm
Sep 3, 2015, 2:11 pm
#1806
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 1,727
By trying to load SOs first you can use yours if the cashier is being restrictive. The only time I've been asked was buying genius with my wife's CC. I've started a new way to do authorized user names to make it easier to remember who has the primary card by adding a code at the end of our name so like "01" or "xx".
Sep 3, 2015, 5:44 pm
#1807
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 2
Does anyone have a pic of the gift card everyone is buying? I thought I knew what I was looking for but the csr said the one I chose didn't have a pin.
Sep 3, 2015, 8:39 pm
#1808
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 27
I get the grey one
I get the grey $500 cards, the last 4 digits are the pin. I don't display the card and tuck it under other ones in my hand, when swiping i go quick and the debit logo shows as I conceal the rest
The grey cards look real neutral. Good luck!
Sep 3, 2015, 8:49 pm
#1809
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: ATL
Programs: DL PM Reserve
Posts: 567
I used to get the black Fashion card, as that looks the most like a credit card to me, but haven't bothered asking for it lately, as the WMs and KRs I go to have no problems with me unloading at will. Last time I walked into KR for 2 x 999 MOs, the girl at the desk just asked me "do you want one or two tonight"? I said two, and she rang me up in record time. I was stunned.
Sep 3, 2015, 10:08 pm
#1810
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 4,431
Have there been any reports of fraud for mall GCs like with supermarket GCs? I purchased $2500 today and liquidated $2000 at the closest Target. I didn't want to hold up the line so I figured I would do the final $500 at a store on the way home. Instead, I got a clueless CSR who said no gift cards, etc. At that point, I was too tired to visit another store so I just went home. I can't remember the last time I held a $500 VGC overnight due to concerns for fraud.
Sep 3, 2015, 10:18 pm
#1811
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Madison, WI, USA
Posts: 14,162
Have there been any reports of fraud for mall GCs like with supermarket GCs? I purchased $2500 today and liquidated $2000 at the closest Target. I didn't want to hold up the line so I figured I would do the final $500 at a store on the way home. Instead, I got a clueless CSR who said no gift cards, etc. At that point, I was too tired to visit another store so I just went home. I can't remember the last time I held a $500 VGC overnight due to concerns for fraud.
Sep 4, 2015, 2:35 am
#1812
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 4,431
I've only purchased VGC at a Macerich mall, and it has gift cards on display on a rack in front of a customer service desk. There's usually someone at the desk, but it is oftentimes unmanned.
Sep 4, 2015, 7:31 am
#1813
Join Date: May 2013
Location: RMS
Programs: DL Plat, UA Gold, Bonvoy Titanium, Hilton Credit Card Diamond
Posts: 8,791
Simons usually have a display rack, but it's just store GCs and maybe some small denomination Visas or MCs. They keep the "good stuff" locked in the drawer.
Sep 4, 2015, 8:46 am
#1814
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 393
Simon has a more established way to screen for giftcard orders (UV, name and last 4 digits match) and most employees actually follow the procedures. These procedures seem to be enforced more consistently than various Macerich malls. At some groceries stores I frequent, it seems to be up the person who rings you up. When I self checkout VGC up to the store limit, some attendants are only interested in looking at my driver license but not match it to the card I use. Perhaps they recognize me, but I never understand the purpose of it but I'm glad it is this way so I can get by with non-personalized AGCs.
EtoA: I think I misread the original question. We're talking about tampered SMGC, not fraudulent CC. I would agree with Paul. It seems like these cards are secured in a zipper that each CSR has his/her own. Everytime when I place an order through email, the cards are ready, rubber-banded, and even arranged in such a way that the CSR will write down the last 4 digits of the first and the last cards in the arranged order.
EtoA: I think I misread the original question. We're talking about tampered SMGC, not fraudulent CC. I would agree with Paul. It seems like these cards are secured in a zipper that each CSR has his/her own. Everytime when I place an order through email, the cards are ready, rubber-banded, and even arranged in such a way that the CSR will write down the last 4 digits of the first and the last cards in the arranged order.
Last edited by donuteric; Sep 4, 2015 at 9:02 am
Sep 4, 2015, 10:10 am
#1815
Suspended
Join Date: Nov 1999
Posts: 24,153
Yep I have no worrys when it comes to SGCs, which I cant say for the other GCs I deal with.