Good morning everyone, I recently ordered a Visa Gift Card on Gift Card Mall and received the following email with the gift card activation code. I’m not sure if this is a new process, but if it is, it is long overdue. Hopefully this is the future of Gift Card Mall activation codes, no more snail mail! Actually snail mail is probably faster than whatever method of delivery Gift Card Mall currently uses to send out activation codes.
In fact, my mom called me yesterday and told me that I received 5 gift card activation letters from Gift Card Mall. The only problem… I received those 5 $200 Visa Gift Cards from Staples almost 2 weeks ago and called in to activate the gift cards. As you can see, mailing out gift card activation codes is very inefficient and results in more work for the consumer, with no added safety benefit to the consumer/purchaser.
With that said, the Visa Gift Card activation process is the same as usual. Go to the Gift Card Mall activation page and enter the gift card number, activation code, and security CAPTCHA.
Here are 2 other articles about Gift Card Mall that might be interesting (some of the images/ideas might be out of date):
- Activate $200 Visa Gift Cards from Staples.com (Gift Card Mall)
- How to Activate $200 Visa Gift Cards from Staples.com *without* the Activation Codes
If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Have a great day everyone!
Grant,
This is not new. Based on what I read on your blog back in December, I ordered a couple of Visa gift cards from GCM and got the activation codes via email (also got cashback through Discover!).
Interesting, thank you for the data point. I guess I’m a little behind on my news.
I really hope this is the new normal. I have had a situation before where I never received the codes… and I had to call and deal with the whole, “It will take up to 2 hours to get the cards activated…” I hope this means that the price for the $500 cards will go down now because they don’t have to pay the postage to mail the codes to Kyrgyzstan and then back to me!
Also my wife just got an email form GCM yesterday, 6 days after the online purchase saying that the items have shipped…We are not dealing with a product that needs to be assembled, harvested of killed and processed here, they are gift cards people, just put them in the mail, lol..
I think GCM is way behind on orders. They need to increase the size of their shipping department.
Received activation code in the mail yesterday – nearly a month after my purchase…
GCM is FUBAR
Haha. Better late than never, right?
yes, amen to this statement: “Actually snail mail is probably faster than whatever method of delivery Gift Card Mall currently uses to send out activation codes.”
received my activation codes SIX weeks after my order! might as well just add them to speed dial….
At the beginning, the activation codes arrived the same day as the gift cards. Somehow that synchronization got destroyed.