BeyondtheWrap

You know the difference between a gift card and a prepaid card.

ElPresidente

you strategize with spouse, which relative you can cajole to sign up for Serve, so you can get just ONE more card to cycle money through.

thehawk75

No... I consider you 'competition'...

And I'm not 'revealing secrets here' since the info is very much dated: When you walk into a CVS and there is not a single VR available, in fact, you see 5 empty racks with a bar code to inform the employees to order more, and when they 'finally' restock there's a 'limit' on how many you can buy... yeah... you're all competition. And... unless you're buying me a drink... you must be 'destroyed'... sorry...

And you all must seriously be destroyed, regardless of said drink, when Office Max has a promotion...

'oops! did I say that?'

rstlsgirl

When you're trying to decide whether to tell your husband that you just used his SSN to register a RedCard.

skitch23

Hahaha.... I got my stepdad a BB card a while ago (with my mom's permission) and last year for SBS I gave it to him so he could use it to buy food/gc's. He asked why it had his name on it so I told him he was an AU on my acct. The less he knows, the better

ThereYaGo

.... when you read, and then post on, threads like this.

I disagree also, this is ONLY a hobby. If it's your job..... yikes. Talk about job insecurity, and what about applying somewhere if things really go south?

"Please list your previous employer and one work related reference". LOL.

pstravels

A guy in my town got mugged with 5k in gift cards and money orders. Made me think instantly of MSing. But then realized he was a legit criminal lol.

Honestly have to be really careful.

trubador

.... when you travel for work and you map out locations for your ms activities.

macrophage

YES! and after work all your colleagues ask where you disappear to between EOD and the bar...

AlohaDaveKennedy

MS is not a hobby, it is a religion. While false prophets ask their congregation for money to fly on a new G6, the true believers know that the birds of the air need not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns for free flight is given to them.

But should any bird need to sow, perhaps to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, a resume could list work in gaming systems. Caesar's in Las Vegas is always looking for birds familiar with gaming.

MileageGoblin

1) Always write out name on MO and tear off receipt stub immediately upon receipt and put in different location than MO on body.
2) Keep GCs in different pocket than wallet. I'd gladly give up my wallet over my GCs!

AlohaDaveKennedy

3) Save all receipts, used gift cards and MO receipt stubs.
4) Manage your credit cards and your credit score.

MG49

While I do agree with the obvious advice of being careful, I've come to realize that unless someone was watching me buy a bunch of GC's or sees me get a bunch of cash at an ATM and follows me, people have no idea what I have on me. We could walk down the street and pick out any random people and you wouldn't know which one has $5 total on him and which one has $5k in cash and/or GCs.

I used to be a poker room regular and would sometimes walk out with several thousand in cash on me. Other times I would walk out broke after a bad session. I realized that I look exactly the same both times and nobody knows what I am carrying. I pretty much have the same risk of getting robbed as any random person on the street. The only difference is I would be paranoid because I knew how much I had on me. Nobody else knows if the plastic in my wallet is loaded GC's or regular CC's.

Anomalychick

You know you're an MSer when you open your purse in the cafeteria at work to find a card to pay for lunch with and dozens of credit cards/debit cards/prepaid cards/gift cards fall on the floor and scatter everywhere.

The group of people who saw were so busy staring nobody even tried to help me pick them up.

Anomalychick

You REALLY know you're an MSer when you get pulled over speeding because you're trying to squeeze in a quick trip to target before you bring your friend to the airport and when you open your purse to find your driver's license 20 money orders fall out while the cop stares at them.

This happened to me yesterday...