How to get a refund on those Home Improvement Gift Cards

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Introduction

All you old school MS’ers, you know what this is.  Once upon a time, you could buy these variable cards up to $500 at Office Depot with your Ink and for a small 2-3 day window, be able to load them to your Bluebird at Walmart.  Even when that ended, all you HHs knew what to do with the card.  I won’t spell it out any further but that ship has mostly sailed.

 

My story

Anyway about a year ago, yes, literally a year ago, I had bought $3K of these at OD using my Ink (I believe you can still today.)  I was going to convert these to ____ gift cards, but they wouldn’t accept the cards due to an address verification issue.  I then thought about converting them in store to VGC but got lazy…like REALLY LAZY.

Eventually I got so lazy that I decided to call the number on the back of the card to ask for a refund.  Well, the steps required you to cut the cards in half and mail them in.  I was a bit uncomfortable with doing that because what if it got lost in the mail?  So, I put it off for an ENTIRE YEAR.  So when 2016 rolled around and my New Year’s resolution was to get more organized, I decided to go in store and to convert them to VGC.  However, the cards got declined.

I called up HIGC and apparently they suspended the cards when I opened the case.  I then reopened the case, finally cut up my cards, made a lot of copies of the cards, mailed it in, and whatdoyouknow, within a month, they mailed me a $3,000 check.

 

How to get a refund

Call 877.770.6416.  Ask them for a refund on the cards.  They will ask you to mail in:

  • a copy of the receipt
  • the cards cut in half
  • a signed letter

Mailed to:

INCOMM INC

PO BOX 826

FORTSON, GA 31808

The signed letter should have:

  • Full Name
  • Address
  • Reason why refund
  • Ref ticket #
  • Card numbers

The reason I put down was that the store wouldn’t accept multiple cards for a large purchase.

 

Conclusion

This is NOT a scalable MS scheme, but if you need a quick 1 shot to meet min spend, especially in a 5X category, here you go.  Just make sure you keep very good records and mail it in with delivery confirmation (maybe even signature confirmation if you are that nervous.)

 

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