Just don't combine it with the regular mall.

If it's that far away just go buy them at a grosser. Pay $2 more per card but save the time.

Try GCM thread.. this is physical

Did 3 malls yesterday and another 3 today.

CVS is supposedly ending 5back on 1/20, some SM reps even said immediately. Ohh well. Even saw another MSer at Jersey Shore who decided not to buy the cards because CVS was ending the 5back, I happily took the cards he did not.

I've been out of the game for a while but need to get back in. I went to my local Simon Mall and all of the PIN enabled VGC's are issued by Sunrise Bank with a $4.95 purchase fee. Do these cards work at WM billpay or the PO for Money orders? I've tried searching but can't find an answer. Thanks

Sounds like it's no longer Simon. They've shed a lot of properties. Simon issues Metabank cards with a $3.95 fee.

Thanks, I thought it didn't look right. I guess I'll try online or CVS for VGC's.

Did another 3 malls yesterday. Was too lazy to go to simon mall today, but I was cashing out the cards at walmart and cvs. Lots of work doing 200+ cards.

FYI, at the shops in riverside, Alexandra thought she was fbi or something, she took out the Fraud for Dummies book and was scanning over my id and credit cards as if I was from Nigeria or something, and I am white... Calling her manager multiple times, unsure if she should let me purchase until she finally let me have my cards. Took like 45 minutes. PITA!

At Woodbury Commons there was a fat lady who decided to pre authorize my card for $1, I didn't get the point of her doing that and wasting 10 minutes of my time, a pre authorization for $1 does nothing for letting 9575 through.... The next day a young guy was pretty quick about it and didn't even check my cards or ID...

All others were nice and smooth, except for I think Livingston Mall, the black lady, Yvonne or something like that, didn't want to give me 19 cards, she said she only had 10 in the plastic and she barely let me take 3 more on the rack, and so I also took 6 regular simon cards to make it the whole 19...

The Westchester is #1 especially when Katherine is there. ;)

I got a lot of Walmart stories if you really want to hear them...

Do you always travel from VA to NY in order to MS or was this a special trip?

Ok, scanning this thread tells me it's a risk to post, but here goes.

I haven't been to an SM in awhile but decided to go for the $10 Visa back on some retail GCs at $50 good thru 1/15. My disabled sister and another relative like IHOP, so makes sense to get out of the house and hit the nearby outlet. The deal is one $10 Visa card per transaction.

Will pick up a SM Visa GC, also. Any current snafus to be aware of?

I have a Citi Simplicity card promo with a $50 statement credit back if I spend $500. Thanks in advance.

My simon is having problems activating cards.


The ones in the cardboard won't activate, but the loose ones do work fine.

Oh yes! Alexandra at Riverside is a total human being!

Just let her be and talk to the guest services manager who will sort things out. Seems like they don't want people buying and at first, everyone is a scammer/fraud.

They know me as a regular now but still do the transaction looking "super official" - more power to her if she thinks this is a fulfilling job for her. I make more buying gift cards than she does sitting there hourly.

No offense to any of my mall folks, but some need to chill out and be more customer focused. I've been to many many malls and have had fairly pleasant, quick experiences at most of them.

What kind of snafus are you concerned about? One VGC and a few restaurant purchases won't raise any flags at all. They give you the $10 promo cards right on the spot.

As my favorite SM GS person once said to me: "The whole reason that these cards are here is so that you will buy them. They aren't here for decoration, or to take up space or anything else."

I wish that more people at SM and elsewhere would take this view.