Introduction Up until last week, Staples POS systems would allow you to buy third party gift cards using Staples gift cards. It was very highly cashier YMMV, but if you’re friendly with your store’s cashiers, this could have been a play for you. However, according to a HH last week, it seems they have now […]
Introduction Some readers got this over snail mail over the weekend. I may have gotten it too; just haven’t checked my mail yet. I know a handful of people that got this letter. The common denominator was too many money order deposits. On the bright side, at least their accounts weren’t fully shut down; only […]
Introduction A few months ago, I wrote about how I was banned from Giftcardmall. I hadn’t tried to place an order since then. Last week, I figured I’d give it a shot and tried to place an order for $500 x 3 cards. Some notes: I have changed my IP address since 6 months ago […]
Introduction A reader shared this with me on Friday afternoon. This East coast grocery chain had a programming error whereby they should have taken $10 off $50 or more, but ended up programming the promo to be $10 off every $50, thus a $500 MGC was ringing up with a $100 discount. I wanted so […]
Introduction The issue started around May 1 around 6PM PST from the data points that I’ve gathered. At that time, if you tried to re-order some Mastercard gift cards, you got this error: New Design Usually this happens when your design is discontinued. So I tried to create a new design and add to cart […]