Introduction
If this has been covered by another blog (I didn’t see it on the major ones,) then let me first say I apologize and THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I DON’T COVER THE “NEWS!” Anyway, as I was trying to buy my max quantity of 9 Ebay gift cards from Staples the other day, I got the following error message. I believe this started happening around the end of May, but no one has posted about it yet (or maybe I didn’t see it yet.)
Then I tried it with:
But yet this worked:
I didn’t try to make multiple orders of a quantity of 3. There’s no need to poke that bear!
I get the buying at a discount part, but what do you do with ebay cards? Wait for gift card sales on ebay? I guess you could just keep cycling ebay to staples…
That’ll be in a later ‘DEAD DEAL’ post once the current play dies.
It would be too late then… Even more intriguing is what do you with the Target cards… Never mind, you just convert them to more ebay cards…
Ebay is off of Targets website…you can buy them in store at $50 a pop but that is about it as far as I know.
Shhh!!
Give it a few weeks after too. Never know if it raises back up from the grave.
I ran into these limits when I bought eBay gc on 5/15 so I can confirm it’s been implemented since mid-May. I have the extra 1% on my amex simply cash card and was trying to diversify my eBay sourcing.
So yeah you can still buy gift cards in Qty 9 but you’ll end up with some dinky $25/$50s lol.
Oh man, I can’t deal with $25/$50 cards, esp with crappy eBay’s checkout system. I’ll stick with more orders weekly then since I’m still bandwidth constrained with SC too.
Yup since early May…I now buy $200 x 9 ebay gcs and pay the minor shipping fee just to save time.
I’m guessing you’ll be well fed via the BBVA card for the next week or so.
I do worry I’ll get eyes on my account if I make a lot of $300 purchases though.
It’s worse. You’re getting a lot of $100 charges on your account.