So, now have a sad BB story. (sorry this is long). Keeps happening to me, argh! So, last night I was at BB to buy $1225 in Disney gc's. That includes the $225 in promos that I got, too. I have had great luck at BB, and getting loadable gc's for higher amounts. Every time I checked if that was okay, allowed, etc, and she always said of course, why would we limit what you can spend your money on or how much, that's up to you and we don't turn down sales. So I had gotten comfortable. I had bought $1500 in loadable ebay gc's on Wednesday, and another associate said that was the limit now in a day for gc to gc purchase. Thursday night I was going in to get Disney. She could only get 2 $250's to activate, and that took a bit. She seemed confused why. We tried other cards, lower amounts. No more disney gc's would go thru. She tried other and they would activate, but no disney(didn't try ebay that night). She put in an email to corporate and had me come back Friday afternoon. I called ahead so to see, if it was a glitch like we figured. She said come in and we'd talk with her manager and he could help me, she hadn't gotten an email back yet. She said she had told him she'd been helping me with purchases for a long while now and I bought Ebay gc's and Disney gc's with egc's. Well this set off a bell for him. I had given her my rewards Wednesday night because I had recently received rewards and the only purchases I made there this year had been gc's so I thought maybe they were giving me points. I guess I also gave them my number one other time earlier this summer sometime, not sure the exact timing. (Should never have given them my number!) So they realized that I was the one that had made about a $1700 purchase of ebay gc's and they said my BB gc's I used had been fraudulent and they had to cover that cost and couldn't do that anymore. It had happened with another person or two as well. They were able to let me get the two $250 disney gc's the night before as a courtesy but couldn't allow anymore cause they couldn't cover the amounts. I asked why they never called, I was pretty upset, he didn't really answer that. I was upset they were thinking I was trying to commit fraud, but he was very nice and seemed to believe me, saying that's why they wanted to see me in person and I seemed to be telling the truth. He asked where I got the gc's and I told him I bought them either with my ebay gc's or my cc, thru paypal(he sorta made a face at that, seeming to note the bad rep). I said I was done with using my ebay gc's and such as I was finishing up getting my trip gc's. (The computer had denied the activating because she put my number in first, and it must have connected to that one other time I put in my number when the sale turned bad! ugh!) But, they couldn't do anymore. I still have $500 and then $225 in promo cards in BB gc's! At least, 225 is the free money so not actually down that amount.
He did say I could use them on items in the store, Xmas gifts, computer, whatever. Just not gc's. I asked if I could exchange that for the disney gc's but no. He said I could buy disney gc's online, that should work and they either mail or in store pick up. Or I could call the 1-888 number and they might help me. He made it seem no gc to gc purchases but not sure that's true. He did allow me to use my BB gc and the rewards pts to do a $35 gc. I asked if this was all stores or only there, he said you could try other stores but didn't know if they'd work. So, another fine mess I'm in. I had no idea and don't now why they never called me before but looks like my must have been drained but not sure why it went thru the sale and they took each card, doesn't make sense that they seemed to work at the time. He didn't know the exact date, but must have been in July.
DD26's fiance is going to go in tomorrow and try to buy like a $100 card here. I am going to go in to another store and try to buy a couple hundred, not giving them my rewards number! If that doesn't work, I guess I'll buy online if that will work. Will probably have DD26 do it so it doesn't connect to my rewards just in case they deny me for that. I mean if worst come to worst, I'll have to use on computer or something. I hate that I may be out the BB part of churning, hoping that I can still purchase, albeit in smaller amounts, at another store, or online. And I'm pretty shocked they had such a huge case of fraud with my cards! Very upsetting! And, it's strange as I've made other purchases since then there as well.
Btw, my swagbucks from purchasese this week are starting to show as pending! Now what can I do with the SB points I got?
My BB still had plenty of variable load today and gobs of $50 ebay cards. So weird how it varies so much.
walgreens aren't too close, so i called and was told that neither does gc2gc. you referenced shipping - is this something that they do online, but not in stores??? on a semi-plus side, i WAS told by a local gamestop that they WILL accept gc2gc and i noticed that they have ebay reloadable, however, i'm on the fence about trusting the employee - a gamer kid - as i'm not really sure he KNOWS, especially because he referenced being able to do it online. i was thinking like bb, which allows you to purchase other gcs online, but nope ... the only online gc that could be purchased was one for gamestop, so i'm thinking about maybe trying a $25 one, since i may have to purchase something there anyway, so that can be my backup. anyone know for sure?
