(Hat Tip to Miles to Memories)
Good afternoon everyone, this is old news at this point, but there is currently a Staples Visa Gift Card promo going on through Saturday (the gift card stock will probably run out by today/tomorrow, so act fast). Purchase $250 or more in Visa Gift Cards and you will receive a $20 Visa Gift Card as a rebate. There is a limit of 1 rebate per household, so get creative.
Good evening everyone, I have a collection of random news to share. To start off, here are a bunch of new AMEX Offers that showed up in my account: Umami Burger, Hay Needle, Swanson Health Products, Maria’s Italian Kitchen, and Stuart Weitzman. I have only heard of Umami Burger, but never tried it out. Hopefully some of these offers are useful.
Good afternoon everyone, here is a collection of random news and promotions I wanted to share. To start things off, here is a targeted offer from Barclays. If you have a Barclays US Airways Credit Card or a Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Credit Card, you may see a 50% bonus offer in your Barclays online account. You will receive a 50% bonus on all miles earned with the aforementioned credit cards for all purchases made from March 1 through June 30, with a 10,000 bonus miles cap.
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.
Good afternoon everyone, a friend of mine from Irvine (Southern California) sent me the following email about gift card fraud and how the scammers were able to access the gift card information by tampering with the gift card packaging. Here is his story:
A few days ago, I went to Woodbury Ralphs to get a few VGC’s. I should have been tipped off that something was wrong b/c there were barely any left …. there usually are tons.
But anyway, I grabbed a few and checked out. They all still had the pull tab intact. They all loaded with $500 just fine, without a problem.
Upon calling the 1-800 # to activate two of them, however, the prompts said that the cards could not be activated and to speak to a customer service rep. It turned out that both of the cards were frozen b/c someone had tried to access funds on them (back in October 2014). And thus they were frozen.
I looked carefully at the cards and they were pretty scratched up (one of them had a hair glued on!). A closer inspection of the packaging on the bottom showed that there was a very subtle yellow hue at the bottom of the packages where the scammer had sliced them open and glued them back together again. I have attached photos of this (I slightly adjusted the levels of the picture in Photoshop to enhance the yellow at the bottom, so it’s easier to see (it was barely noticeable in real life).
