Gift Cards

I always assumed you couldn't buy lottery tickets on credit cards because people would try to charge back after their ticket lost.
 
No, I think it's the merchant's fault for accepting fraudulent payment. That's why they have those little pens for $20 bills.
You very well could be right. I assumed the CC was the one to chase down the suspect.
 
It's common for thieves to call a store and purchase large amounts of gift cards with stolen credit card info and get the gift card number off the back of the card to purchase goods before anyone notices what happens. That's why stores are moving towards allowing only cash purchases on gift cards.
 
It's common for thieves to call a store and purchase large amounts of gift cards with stolen credit card info and get the gift card number off the back of the card to purchase goods before anyone notices what happens. That's why stores are moving towards allowing only cash purchases on gift cards.
Piling on this, ask anyone who works at a grocery store about how many times someone answering the phone got duped into giving away thousands of dollars in gift cards. It's pretty much happened at every store in America.
 
Casey’s clerk cursed me out for trying to buy one with a credit card. She pointed at a sign near cards on other end of counter where there was no cashier. Told her I picked it up off a rack by the door. She insisted there was a sign there too. I insisted there wasn’t. She then marched me back to the rack to point out the nonexistent sign, cursed at me some more, and said someone must have stolen the sign. I am sure people flock to Casey’s to steal dumbass signs about not buying gift cards with credit cards.

That sounds just like my wife's experience today
 
Piling on this, ask anyone who works at a grocery store about how many times someone answering the phone got duped into giving away thousands of dollars in gift cards. It's pretty much happened at every store in America.

Why are they selling gift cards via a phone call at a grocery store? Doesn't the gift card purchaser physically need to have the gift card in possession to use?

If you are a grocery store and selling gifts cards over the phone then you deserve the ripping off you received.
 
Why are they selling gift cards via a phone call at a grocery store? Doesn't the gift card purchaser physically need to have the gift card in possession to use?

If you are a grocery store and selling gifts cards over the phone then you deserve the ripping off you received.
In college towns, its pretty common for parents to call in and buy a gift card for their kid going to school there so they can buy groceries. But scammers picked up on this pretty quickly and started scamming stores. I know of one employee that got hit up for 5k even after being warned the scam was going on.
 
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It makes alot of sense if you think about it. Paying for something that isn’t really money with something you haven’t paid off yet, with an account you had to open by not putting any money into.

Smartest way to buy gift cards is with crypto.
 
Casey’s had a deal where they zapped your gift card a buck a month after 30 days if not used. So if you got a $5 card and forgot for a couple months, it was zeroed out.

They also purged their cards a few years back. We have several for some odd reason, took them up there last year and all of them couldn’t be read by the current system so they were all invalid. I know a few were for $25

I think there have been some laws passed changing how onerous those wind-downs can be. That may have something to do with it too, idk.
 
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Casey's is upset about falling down the totem pole in the metro.

K&G > Kwik Star, QT > Casey's > Git n GO

I still don't get the fascination with Kwik Star. It has expensive convenience store food and their chicken will sit for hours in your gut like a brick.