misterno

oh my god

I read almost all messages here but you have to be honest not everything is explained clearly

Once again

1) Are we paying a fee when buying onevanilla in CVS?

2) Is it better to buy the Simon 5B from staples.com or OD assuming they are both $300 gc?

lumangoy

have you read the CVS thread? Why would CVS not charge you a fee?

only you can judge what is 'better'.

what is better for me might not be better for you and vice versa.

misterno

just came from OD

there were no fiveback cards

they only have style everywhere card $200 with $4.95 fee

Does it come with higher values also? My OD had only 200 version

so get this with your Chase ink get the miles

then go to CVS and get $200 onevanilla?

style everywhere did not say 5% on it BTW

lumangoy

yeah, go ahead if that's what you want to do!

Radster

FYI: I've had two lots (from a total of 2) of FB cards which didn't auto post after a week. Second lot I called in just last night. All CVS transactions were processed as debit.

On the first lot, I called in, generated a ticket and recd the CB 1-2 days later.

misterno

I will try another OD and buy the FB card

That is what I want to do

Happy

Read back the posts even just a few above yours. So you know what to do in situation like that.

CVS has nothing to do with the process of generating the rebate.

Can newbies spend a few minutes just to read the thread when all the common issues have been mentioned, addressed, resolved, zillion times?

Deltahater

That might be true at your Simon Mall. It is not true at my Simon Mall.

kingofkingsforu

So it might be true at one of the mall where "the person" bought and 10 of his card are breached.

kingofkingsforu

the five back cards people are using/talking about here are from Simon mall. Simon mall is selling 500 $ 5b cards for 3.95 fee. Now using these cards to buy OV from Cvs gets us 5% cb on 500 = 25$ .

CVS OV has fee 4.95 / 5.95 $ for 500 $ cards. So using Simon mall 5b cards u can either buy 495 + 4.95 = 499.95 or 500+4.95=504.95$.

Once the rebate is posted on 5b card , reload ur amazon balance with that.

So net profit is 25$ - 3.95-4.95/5.95 = 16/15 $ per 500$ card.

If u do it with smaller value 5b cards like 200 / 100 $ do the math and check whether it is profitable or not for u.

Check grocery stores for smaller value 200$

I think 500 $ 5b are only available in simon as of now.

Happy

Again, the breach has nothing to do with the meg strip - that issue has been looked over a month or more ago and examined. The test was posted back then either in the Simon thread or the 5B thread - the meg ONLY contains the UPC code - there is no info for the card number whatsoever.

If you are interested, go back to Nov or even earlier to find the brief discussion when the 5B was displayed on the outside.

It is the nature of how the card numbers are - look at the cards in your procession - you will find the first 3 groups of digits are identical - that leaves only very limited combination of the last 4 digits, therefore it is vulnerable for brute force attack.

I finally saw a new series of the 3rd group from my Simon - so they have depleted the inventory of the batch and now started another batch because the 3rd group of digits is now different from the previous purchases since late Oct! But then all 20 cards have the first 3 groups of digits the same...

That is where the breach could easily occur. Had nothing to do with Simon office or where the cards are displayed. It is a vulnerability in design.

Go look at your OV and see how the numbers are. The 3rd and 4th group of digits are unique to each card. Far more secured.

dealhunter32

I already read the whole thread prior to the post. Most were saying they called in to get a support ticket opened for their $25 to be credited manually. I thought this was a CVS-specific issue because my purchases at Staples from the same day on the same cards credited as INTELISPEND - EGIFT already, but the CVS purchases on these cards did not credit, nor did the CVS purchased on cards that were only used at CVS (rather than Staples + CVS) credit.

The dilemma is rather to call in about 26 different cards (I have a mix of $200 and $500 cards that are missing credits), which will take well over an hour, or to wait and see if the credits post in a few more days. Do you guys think waiting is dangerous? That is, do you think Blackhawk is in the process of changing policies and won't be honoring the 5% back later if I were to wait until after the new year to see if 5% shows up or call in if not?

cashcyclone

this is scary, exp date is same on all of them the only difference is last 4 digits and CVV code and they have a website to check balance.
all you have to do is set last 4 digits and change CVV that has 999 possibilities.

Deltahater

If you are not ready (mentally and financially) to lose the fees you are paying to buy the cards, then this not for you.

CWAL

The final digit on a CC is a check digit and can be computed, it's really only 3 digits to guess in the number and 3 for cvv2.

This gives a search space of 10pow6, which is fairly large. Without the cvv2 needed, the search space is 10pow3 (1000 options) but would likely require guessing the magstripe cvv (different than the cvv2 written in cards), so still likely 10pow6. This is probably fairly easy for a criminal with the ability to do tons of test transactions. These cards are not the best in terms of security.

I always ask to get them from behind the counter and will not take them off the pegs. There is still a major problem insofar as buying 19 cards leaves a leftover card from the fresh packs behind the counter. If they put that card out, it would be frighteninglysimple for someone to purchase it and then have a shortcut into your sequence of cards.

Liquidate these things ASAP. I don't like holding onto them for more than a couple days if feasible.

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