Aug 21, 2019, 12:38 pm
Last edit by: Klemhuzzah
Signing up to buy $1000 visa/mc gift cards
You can buy the $1000 cards on Simon's volume site. Their regular site only sells $500 cards.
If you're new, or haven't bought anything in a year, you need to register at https://www.simon.com/volume/register-consumer
As part of the registration process, you will have to go to a brick and mortar mall and buy at least $3000 in cards in person, as well as filling out some paperwork while there. After that, you can do everything online.
As of Nov 2020, Simon Mall Gift cards will only work for $99/swipe for money services at Walmart and many grocery chains.
$1000 gift cards are available indefinitely.
2020 Promotions
Ongoing: FREEGROUND - Free Ground Shipping on any order size. Limited to 5 orders per customer. Expires December 31, 2020 (subject to change).
5/15-6/17: MDHOL20 - 20% off Visa Giftcard Purchase Fees + Free Ground Shipping on orders of 9 more cards
5/15/5/31: MAYGROUND - Free UPS Ground shipping on orders of 7 or more cards
5/15-6/31: MAY20VG10 - 10% off purchase fees on Visa Giftcards
6/29-7/20: JUL4HOL20 - 20% off Visa Giftcard Purchase Fees + Free Ground Shipping on orders of 5 or more cards. If you select a shipping other than Ground - the code will still take 20% off the purchase fees. Limited to 10 orders per customer.
8/11-8/31: AUG20PR - 15% off ALL fees (excl. shipping fees) on orders of 5 or more cards. Limited to 10 orders per customer (Originally expired on 8/23; on 8/24 promo was extended through 8/31)
10/12-10/14: FSOCT20 - 30% off all purchase fees on Visas and Mastercards.
10/26-10/31 - FS20SCARY - 35% off all purchase fees
11/1-11/30 - HOL20MC25 - 25% off all purchase fees on MasterCard / HOL20VG25 - 25% off all purchase fees on Visa / HOL20AG50 50% off all purchase fees on American Express
11/6-11/8 - FS20THANKS - 35% off all purchase fees
11/16-11/18 - FS20SAVINGS - 35% off all purchase fees
You can buy the $1000 cards on Simon's volume site. Their regular site only sells $500 cards.
If you're new, or haven't bought anything in a year, you need to register at https://www.simon.com/volume/register-consumer
As part of the registration process, you will have to go to a brick and mortar mall and buy at least $3000 in cards in person, as well as filling out some paperwork while there. After that, you can do everything online.
As of Nov 2020, Simon Mall Gift cards will only work for $99/swipe for money services at Walmart and many grocery chains.
$1000 gift cards are available indefinitely.
2020 Promotions
Ongoing: FREEGROUND - Free Ground Shipping on any order size. Limited to 5 orders per customer. Expires December 31, 2020 (subject to change).
5/15-6/17: MDHOL20 - 20% off Visa Giftcard Purchase Fees + Free Ground Shipping on orders of 9 more cards
5/15/5/31: MAYGROUND - Free UPS Ground shipping on orders of 7 or more cards
5/15-6/31: MAY20VG10 - 10% off purchase fees on Visa Giftcards
6/29-7/20: JUL4HOL20 - 20% off Visa Giftcard Purchase Fees + Free Ground Shipping on orders of 5 or more cards. If you select a shipping other than Ground - the code will still take 20% off the purchase fees. Limited to 10 orders per customer.
8/11-8/31: AUG20PR - 15% off ALL fees (excl. shipping fees) on orders of 5 or more cards. Limited to 10 orders per customer (Originally expired on 8/23; on 8/24 promo was extended through 8/31)
10/12-10/14: FSOCT20 - 30% off all purchase fees on Visas and Mastercards.
10/26-10/31 - FS20SCARY - 35% off all purchase fees
11/1-11/30 - HOL20MC25 - 25% off all purchase fees on MasterCard / HOL20VG25 - 25% off all purchase fees on Visa / HOL20AG50 50% off all purchase fees on American Express
11/6-11/8 - FS20THANKS - 35% off all purchase fees
11/16-11/18 - FS20SAVINGS - 35% off all purchase fees
Simon Mall Gift Cards (2019-2023)
Nov 5, 2020, 11:54 pm
#1561
Join Date: Apr 2020
Posts: 235
i don’t think it’s bad luck. I had three $500 metabank cards from Tom Thumb (Safeway) that all errored out 7-8 times at three different WM’s with no successes. I have never gad a $500 card from Safeway error out before. Asked around and some others had the same thing happen today with both Safeway $500’s and Simon $1k’s. All errored out, no successful swipes. Hope it is a temporary glitch.
Nov 6, 2020, 3:04 am
#1562
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 90
Not authorized staples 200 at all my local krogers
Nov 6, 2020, 4:58 am
#1563
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: DFW
Posts: 685
yeah i thought the issue was 100% random and bad cards would eventually work, so now i'm not sure anymore since this card didn't work after 5 swipes. I really hope this is a glitch and not the start of WM hardcoding against VGCs. Just find it strange: that 1 bad card was from a batch of 14 cards bought in person, and the rest of the 13 cards worked on the 1st swipe.
Also, I should note that I bought the $500's yesterday. A friend of mine was in line right after me with some $1k Simon's that I assume he purchases prior to yesterday, and they worked. So maybe, hopefully...it's just a bad batch of cards and the glitch will get fixed in the next batch.
Last edited by knopfler; Nov 6, 2020 at 6:23 am
Nov 6, 2020, 9:02 am
#1564
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 152
Not sure "Not authorized" is still random today. Tried 2 cards at least 4 times each card and never worked. Is the problem only happens on Simon card? Seems card from Safeway always worked (didn't try today)
Nov 6, 2020, 9:09 am
#1565
Join Date: Sep 2019
Posts: 317
Numerous reports of Simon cards not working at all today. Definitely a change from the random problems we've had for the past few weeks. Let's hope this is a temporary problem.
Nov 6, 2020, 10:02 am
#1566
Join Date: May 2007
Location: DFW
Programs: WN A+, AA, HYATT DIAMOND, SPG
Posts: 1,125
Safeway cards not working this morning
Nov 6, 2020, 12:43 pm
#1567
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: SPG Plat, SWA Companion Pass, United Silver
Posts: 186
can confirm. My variable vgc from Safeway failed at 3x friendly WMTs this morning. Tried change payment to debit just in case, but still got 01 and 05 error messages. I was tempted to try the EFT option but I didn’t want to keep swiping and risk burning my friendly store.
Nov 6, 2020, 12:49 pm
#1568
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 129
I’m not sure how long this will continue, but I remain lucky in so far as I liquidated 1ks at a friendly Walmart this morning. CSR reporter that someone else was in earlier and did 3k successfully as well.
Nov 6, 2020, 12:53 pm
#1569
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 14
4 SM VGC's unable to be liquidated via MO or BB reload across two different WM's in Pennsylvania today. Not authorized, multiple swipes on each to no avail.
Nov 6, 2020, 1:08 pm
#1570
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: DFW
Posts: 685
Someone I know who does a lot of billpays said most of the WM's in our area of DFW received a software update for financial services in the past few days, we are guessing that is causing the current issues. So it is definitely possible some WM's have not received the update. Just a theory though.
Nov 6, 2020, 1:12 pm
#1571
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 483
Tried SM VGC this morning with no luck in MInnesota. I was up to 6 swipes between 2 cards. Vanilla lowered the limit to under $50 so Metabank may have done the same thing.
Nov 6, 2020, 1:22 pm
#1573
Join Date: Apr 2016
Programs: AA Plat
Posts: 13
Tried 4 different friendly WMs today in NC with Simon VGC, multiple swipes at each, none worked.
Nov 6, 2020, 1:41 pm
#1574
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 766
I liquidated 2 $500 Hyvee Metabank Visas yesterday without issue.
Nov 6, 2020, 1:47 pm
#1575
Join Date: May 2008
Location: PHL (kinda, no airport is really close)
Programs: AA Exp, but not sure for how long. Enterprise Platinum woo-hoo!
Posts: 4,551
New DP on the Simon issue. At a WM I visit only occasionally, today I liquidated 4 cards in 5 swipes (i.e. one failure). At my primary store, was about 0 for 8, even when waiting as much as a minute to enter the PIN. First time I have been unable to use a card even when waiting.