DEAL DEAD – Target $60 multipack with $180 loaded

A couple of days ago, it was discovered that a certain $60 VGC (3x$20) multipack at Target actually had each card loaded with $60 instead of $20, so you were getting $180 of VGC for just $68.50. There was another $60 multipack but that had the correct $20 cards. And this pack is also sold at other retailers but loaded correctly as well, so not sure why this specific multipack at Target was loading incorrectly.

The deal broke in the evening PST, so West coast folks had plenty of time; East coast folks only had an hour or so to jump on the deal. Some stores carried the multipacks; some stores didn’t. Some stores had the cards scattered in different gift card racks throughout the stores; some stores had the cards in the back inventory. It was a very YMMV. Some people were being limited to 5 packs; some could do 10 packs. The most I heard was someone seeing 20 of them at their store.

Liquidating them was a bit tough. There’s only so many internet bills, utility bills, cell phone bills and Amazon loads you could do online. Shockingly, the glitch lasted through the next morning. Then around mid morning PST, newly bought cards were only seeing $20. Then an hour after that, it seems a batch run was done to deduct $40 from all the sold cards from the day prior. Then about an hour after that, another batch fixed the newly bought cards that morning. If you didn’t liquidate in time, you only had $20 on the card.

Lesson learned – The lesson learned isn’t to go about buying random multicard VGC packs and checking balances. A glitch like this happens maybe once a year (miss you Toys R Us). The only way to have known about the deal was by word of mouth or through private chat/forums (don’t sign up for my Slack expecting this type of info although I did notify them about this.)