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Oct 18, 2015, 8:53 pm
#31
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: CCR
Posts: 326
OM system wide failure today on variables. Now some people have gotten their cc charged, but cards not activated. This is what happens when something new and very limited gets promoted by unwise bloggers who assume things are ready everywhere. There are some bloggers chastising some of their counterparts on this one because it was too limited, not nationwide, and not ready to be put out on public forums. They should have waited for more data points before rushing to public. Some of us check stores weekly and don't need bloggers, so there would have been enough data points in time but slow and steady. There's been an atmosphere lately of which blogger can be first to publish or tweet something. Look at that one thread here on ft where a few seem so obsessed with who was first to announce the Red death. So childish; those few seem like junior high boys. Grow up and realize it makes no difference and you're not getting any more money from being first to announce something that is extinct. There's only a few like that.
Oct 19, 2015, 12:03 am
#32
Join Date: Sep 2005
Programs: Northwest, United
Posts: 3,256
Bloggers don't give a shite if something gets closed down quickly, or if people enjoy its benefits for years. Bloggers care about one thing and one thing only: making money. They need two things for that: credit card referrals and clicks. Without those, they would have to go out and find a job. Anyone who buys their line of "I'm just happy to help people!" is a fool.
Oct 19, 2015, 12:50 am
#33
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Madison, WI, USA
Posts: 14,162
Of course not.
Bloggers don't give a shite if something gets closed down quickly, or if people enjoy its benefits for years. Bloggers care about one thing and one thing only: making money. They need two things for that: credit card referrals and clicks. Without those, they would have to go out and find a job. Anyone who buys their line of "I'm just happy to help people!" is a fool.
Bloggers don't give a shite if something gets closed down quickly, or if people enjoy its benefits for years. Bloggers care about one thing and one thing only: making money. They need two things for that: credit card referrals and clicks. Without those, they would have to go out and find a job. Anyone who buys their line of "I'm just happy to help people!" is a fool.
One could say, "Those who attack bloggers care about one thing and one thing only: making money." and probably be right for at least some of the posters here -- clearly many attack because they don't want their profitable methods to gain wider usage. Some also actively discourage disclosure here, and post negatively about methods that are exposed here in attempts to discourage their use. I find all of that extremely selfish.
Oct 19, 2015, 5:25 am
#34
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: ATL
Programs: DL PM, SPG Plat
Posts: 885
Available at OM and purchasable by CC in the deep and dirty south. Agree that this is temporary and thus see no harm in bloggers (or anyone else) discussing it. As OD and OM complete system integration, this will quickly become cash only like OD ongoing policy.
Oct 19, 2015, 6:03 am
#35
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: IND
Posts: 2,005
Visa variable, however, loaded very well. It's just hard to find. I appreciate to those bloggers for letting us know all these.
Oct 19, 2015, 6:10 am
#36
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Midwest U.S.A
Programs: Too many to list. Since the early 90's.
Posts: 1,407
My MasterCard variable load has failed. Many OMs actually denied selling it but one OM did by overriding amount, but it wasn't loaded (activated, not loaded). Called GC, told me to fax receipt and card information and they say they will correct it.
Visa variable, however, loaded very well. It's just hard to find. I appreciate to those bloggers for letting us know all these.
Visa variable, however, loaded very well. It's just hard to find. I appreciate to those bloggers for letting us know all these.
Oct 19, 2015, 7:33 am
#37
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 286
My MasterCard variable load has failed. Many OMs actually denied selling it but one OM did by overriding amount, but it wasn't loaded (activated, not loaded). Called GC, told me to fax receipt and card information and they say they will correct it.
Visa variable, however, loaded very well. It's just hard to find. I appreciate to those bloggers for letting us know all these.
Visa variable, however, loaded very well. It's just hard to find. I appreciate to those bloggers for letting us know all these.
Oct 19, 2015, 8:05 am
#38
Join Date: Jul 2015
Programs: SPG
Posts: 27
my OM has the MCs but the register would not prompt for the amount to load. They called another store and were told the gift card person pulled them from the shelves because they aren't going to be selling them any more. Didn't see any VGC.
Oct 19, 2015, 8:22 am
#39
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: IND
Posts: 2,005
This morning I went to the same store (Novi, MI) for another visa variable despite a Monday morning traffic, but all sold out
Oct 19, 2015, 7:31 pm
#43
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: MSP
Posts: 330
Interesting that your experience involved 'not going to be selling them anymore' because the manager at my local OM referred to them as the 'new GCs they were starting to sell' when calling another store.
Oct 19, 2015, 8:51 pm
#44
Join Date: Jul 2015
Programs: SPG
Posts: 27
I thought the same thing since I had read that before I went in. I didn't hear that from the manager at the other store first hand, just repeated to me by the store manager where I was. She may have gotten the story mixed up or the person at the other end may have been confused. I may go back tomorrow. The stacks of MCGCs were just begging for me to pick them up and take them with me. But I didn't really want to buy them with only $0.02 loaded on them.