One of the things you learn in this game is – NEVER PUT EYES ON YOUR ACCOUNT. This is synonymous with Slickdeal’s “DON’T CALL ABOUT PRICE MISTAKES.” Anyway, this poor reader had to call in and that led to his account being axed. In his own words: Hi Vinh, I don’t know if this is […]
Introduction A reader told me on 2/15/18 that a memo went out to Gamestop stores that they are no longer allowed to accept their own gift cards for Amazon gift cards. A day later, the registers were hardcoded to block this conversion. Apparently Amazon cash has also been blocked as well. You can figure out what […]
Introduction I had written 2016 was the year of reselling and 2017 was the year of GC churning. I know DOC said 2016 was the year of GC churning, but I think that’s when it was still ‘underground’ and every deal was at least break even (most profitable.) In 2017, more people were doing it […]
Introduction I was out of the country at the time, but it seems a reader found out that Toys R Us had a price mistake on VGC and in fact, all GC’s. It was pricing out a buy 1 get 1 40% off. You can see the screenshot above. Seemed to have went live on […]
Introduction I went to my local USPS yesterday, and the clerks showed me this memo. I have a good feeling on WHY this memo went out; let’s just say that the pigs got slaughtered along with the hogs. The memo seems to have only been sent out regionally for now, but it sounds like it’s […]