Originally Posted by urgetopurge (Post 34055061)

Some of the stores that I frequent are out of amazon gc's or a specific brand of vgc/mcgc's. Usually if I ask the manager if I could take a few unloaded amazon gc's to load at another time/store, they won't have a problem with it. But has anyone else tried this and run into problems during loading?

eg. Taking a vgc from walmart and loading it at another walmart or even safeway? (all the while making sure its a brand that both stores carry)

Originally Posted by mia (Post 34055106)

Discussion from 2013: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manu...e-another.html

Originally Posted by radonc1 (Post 34055115)

I suspect that if you are taking an Amazon card from 1 Home Depot with permission and bringing it to a another Home Depot that is lacking the Amazon card, then in all likelihood you will be able to load it without difficulty. However if you are taking a Visa gift card from Lowe's and trying to load it at Staples, then there might be a problem especially if the stock numbers for these cards are tracked by store location..
Furthermore, removing stock from a store without permission is shop lifting. Not worth it
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Originally Posted by urgetopurge (Post 34055061)

Some of the stores that I frequent are out of amazon gc's or a specific brand of vgc/mcgc's. Usually if I ask the manager if I could take a few unloaded amazon gc's to load at another time/store, they won't have a problem with it. But has anyone else tried this and run into problems during loading?

eg. Taking a vgc from walmart and loading it at another walmart or even safeway? (all the while making sure its a brand that both stores carry)

Originally Posted by Prometheus77 (Post 34055381)

I do this pretty frequently with the SS VGCs in my area and don't have any problems. One of the grocery stores in my area that I buy SS VGCs carries the $5.95 fee cards in abundance and I'll throw a couple extra in my pocket to use at the CVS stores in my area that are often out of SS VGCs or only have OneVanillas.

Once of the managers at a FD I load my Serve cards at also gave me 100 of the $4.95 fee SS VGCs there for $20 since she said "no one ever buys them here anyhow" when I propositioned her to sell me some of them at her store. I value these pretty highly since they can be purchased/loaded at a common gas station chain in my area and I have some good "gas" multiplier cards for cash back, airline miles, and hotel points. Unfortunately the chain tends to be out of the $4.95 load fee SS VGS most of the time so I have to get them and bring them in from somewhere else, but if they are in stock I just buy them there.

Originally Posted by urgetopurge (Post 34056163)

Thanks thats exactly what I was looking for. I wonder what would happen if you loaded a brand of vgc that wasn't sold at the gas station normally. In my experience, ssvgc have been the easiest to unload and one of the gas stations I'm thinking of only have the 20-200 denominations. So do you think bringing a 20-500 variety and loading it there would cause any issues?

Originally Posted by Prometheus77 (Post 34056660)

It's been my experience that it has to be a card type they sell and it has to have the same load fee. For example, the $5.95 SS VGCs I get at my grocery store and CVS don't work at my gas station location because the SS VGCs the gas station sells are the $4.95 SS VGCs. Same way in reverse. The gas station ones don't work at my grocery store or CVS. The SKUs on the SS cards must be different and the registers don't have that SKU in their system and it doesn't allow the cashiers to proceed.