Posted on 03/04/2019 9:02:09 AM PST by rickmichaels
any pics of her?
Yes. Right where you’d think.
Your comment came off a bit creepy.
I received a $50 Walmart gift card last year. When I tried to use it at a checkout, the clerk said the card was invalid and I would have to talk to customer service. There were about 20 people waiting in the customer service line so I decided not to wait. The next time I stopped by Walmart there were about 10 people waiting in line. I waited for about 10 minutes and gave up. I wonder how many people give up?
From description of her in the article, imagine she’s quite a card.
I remember an episode of Dilbert where he gives his mother a gift card. She said, “Thank you! It’s just like money except you can only spend it in one place and it has an expiration date.”
The only gift cards I’ve ever dealt with is when getting refunds, and then it’s for $20 to $50.
Saddest gift card story was back in 2011 when people gave their relatives medical gift cards. But before they could redeem them, Dr. Jack Kevorkian died.
She needs to start a website called “Don’t Buy Walmart Gift Cards”.
Stores love gift cards, many are lost and never are redeemed.
Consumer advocate/reporter/talk show guy Clark Howard recommends against giving gift cards for exactly that reason.
My wife always wants to get gift cards for presents and such. I say just send/give them cash. I find them to be a stupid idea.
Gift cards are a scam. I HATE receiving them.
If I cared to look, I could get back with you on how many millions of dollars consumers lose out on annually as they forget or lose gift cards. Then there are stories like this one. Where the balance is somehow zero.
This happens every day.
Crappy gift!
I have read several stories from the Paradise Fire survivors wherein kind people have sent them gift cards for food and gas directly from Amazon and they have arrived with little or no balance.
Stores love gift cards, many are lost and never are redeemed.
There was one confusing thing about the story. She says she went to use the cards, and found that they were already empty.
THEN, it says she scratched off the codes to enter them.
How did she attempt to use them without scratching off the code?
If the code can be read by the computer without scratching off the back, that is a clear security hole, as anybody with a scanner could pre-read the cards. So I don’t think it works that way.
If I were using a card, I would turn it over unscratched, and have a picture of it unscratched, and point out to the cashier that I have not scratched it, so that if when they scratch it they find it empty, I have an employee who will testify that I had not scratched it.
This seems to happen a lot, so if I were designing these cards, I would have a pin built into the process, that the card purchaser would enter when buying the card. That way, there would be a number associated with the card that nobody could possibly have guessed ahead of time.
I wanted to use Discover Cash Back money to buy cards from Chili’s restaurant. I had fifty dollars to use. Chili’s was having a special offer on the cards. A $25 card for $20 or a $50 card for $45. Heh. It didn’t take a math wizard to realize what a bargain the $50 card wasn’t. I got two $25s.
Walmart probably generates the PIN using the visible card number and someone has reverse engineered the code.
I hate walmart. I know some people have nothing but Wal-Mart at to shop. I have many shopping options. The Wal-Mart by me is dark, dirty and carries cheaply made items. I don’t care for the people who shop at the location. One Xmas I sent a 50 Wal-Mart card to my son in uspc priority mail.
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