Simon mall gift card(2014-2015)
Nov 20, 2014, 12:09 pm
#646
Join Date: Feb 2013
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Any one also hear that fee will go up to $3.95?
Nov 20, 2014, 1:05 pm
#648
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Cali
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Went in yesterday and the CSR was very happy to tell me if I buy 3 or more she could give me these cool little black boxes to put the VGC' in. Told her that was a great promotional idea, give me 6. She was so excited her sales pitch worked. Now trying to figure out what to do with the boxes.
Nov 20, 2014, 6:19 pm
#649
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Nov 20, 2014, 7:58 pm
#650
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Nov 20, 2014, 9:20 pm
#651
Join Date: Feb 2005
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yep. I was blasted ( by people now on ignore) when I broke the news that Blackhawk was now involved and opined the painfully obvious: this was bad news, and negative changes were forthcoming.
before: business account with no limits, where I hit break points as low as $2/ card. regular cards $2.95 roughly forever.
after: all business accounts closed*. daily limits- 3k at my mall, and now a 33% price increase (100% for big business buyers)
* N/A if your daughter works for the mall. the downside: your adult daughter works at a mall.
if anyone thinks there's no correlation to these developments and the death cross of Blackhawk/ the proliferation of this thread, they're, well... probably on ignore already!
still worth it for a couple of cards if you live close to a mall that has modified the corporate limit to exceed $3000/ day. I wouldn't be surprised if that limit becomes universal at some point, but I have no info. the people with the 10k daily limits have had a points machine for a few cards. still good for pikers just looking to meet minimum spend requirements who want too diversify.
before: business account with no limits, where I hit break points as low as $2/ card. regular cards $2.95 roughly forever.
after: all business accounts closed*. daily limits- 3k at my mall, and now a 33% price increase (100% for big business buyers)
* N/A if your daughter works for the mall. the downside: your adult daughter works at a mall.
if anyone thinks there's no correlation to these developments and the death cross of Blackhawk/ the proliferation of this thread, they're, well... probably on ignore already!
still worth it for a couple of cards if you live close to a mall that has modified the corporate limit to exceed $3000/ day. I wouldn't be surprised if that limit becomes universal at some point, but I have no info. the people with the 10k daily limits have had a points machine for a few cards. still good for pikers just looking to meet minimum spend requirements who want too diversify.
Nov 20, 2014, 9:45 pm
#652
Join Date: Sep 2013
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i'll head to SM tomorrow, and will let you know. Admit that make WM GC look little bit more attractive, since it's very easy to do a feed session to serve, then buy GCs then wait little bit then go back to drain on other cards/MO (ofc, ymmv and works if WM accept CC)
Nov 21, 2014, 9:49 am
#653
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: BOS
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do SM cards work up do online debit load to BB ($200/day $1000/month)
Nov 21, 2014, 10:04 am
#654
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Nov 21, 2014, 4:34 pm
#656
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Nov 21, 2014, 6:34 pm
#657
Join Date: Nov 2014
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i went to my simon mall in Long Island NY today and the cashier volunteered the information that rates are in fact going to increase.
Nov 21, 2014, 7:01 pm
#658
Join Date: Nov 2014
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Increase to $3.95 confirmed at one of my Simon Malls here in Southern California, and a new limit to $2k purchase per credit card. My usual mall worker said that they hadn't been told of any changes to $10k per day limit, but that the $2k per credit card limit was going to be annoying for her "usuals".
Nov 21, 2014, 7:43 pm
#659
Join Date: Jan 2014
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Increase to $3.95 confirmed at one of my Simon Malls here in Southern California, and a new limit to $2k purchase per credit card. My usual mall worker said that they hadn't been told of any changes to $10k per day limit, but that the $2k per credit card limit was going to be annoying for her "usuals".
Nov 21, 2014, 8:25 pm
#660
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