It had been a while since I had bought VGCs from Safeway, but you used to be able to buy $3000 of VGC or MGC inclusive of fees without needing any kind of manager override. Then at the end of December, I tried to buy $2K plus fees so call it $2024 and at 3 […]
Safeway came out with 2 new Mastercard gift cards about a month ago. The “Celebrate” ones above and the white “World” ones. If you bought the “Celebrate” ones above and punched in your phone number, then you would have known that it was giving out Safeway rewards. If you didn’t see them, then your store […]
A reader sent me this story and told me I could share with you guys after seeing my recent Safeway Home Depot tampering story. Before I get to what he’s written, it does make you wonder why it’s ONLY Safeway stories of late. To be fair, I do remember hacked USB cards at Kroger a […]
Last month, I wrote about how scammers were tampering with Amazon gift cards at a Safeway in Seattle. Well, today a reader in the Bay Area told me she bought a tampered Home Depot gift card at Safeway. Here’s what she wrote: It’s a photo copy of a real GC. If you just glance […]
I’ve read horror stories of people buying gift cards that had been tampered with, and surprisingly, it has never happened to me before…well until today. I went to Safeway in a pretty well off suburb of Seattle. Went up to the gift card rack; tried to remember which Amazon gift cards had the easy peel […]