Yep. I saw them on Saturday.
Another interesting trip to my GameStop... I bought some Skylander figures B2G3 that I can hopefully resell and was getting a $200 ebay GC with them. Found out that now (along with the approval for a $250 GC purchase with GC) if your GC purchase is more than $100 and you are using more than 2 GC to purchase, they need to call for approval as well. So, it's definitely low and slow for me at GS. Thankfully, I do have 2 others in a half hour radius, so I can spread it out a bit, but it's interesting, that's for sure. And if I'm going to the third GS there's a BB nearby and I can do a bit there as well.
It's so strange how each GameStop can have different policies. I converted my last $300 in GameStop to eBay yesterday, paid with 3 $100 gift cards and the cashier didn't even blink. I think I'm done with GameStop though unless there's a sale like the $60 for $50. The stores are too small with only one or two employees, making it difficult to fly under the radar without really spreading out the purchases.
Well....I got bored and decided to see what PPDG had in store for me today...
This time, I put a $50 BB gift card in my cart and went to check out. I selected PayPal as my payment method and proceeded to enter my e-mail address and password to log in. Previously, I got the message that said that this payment method was not accepted. This time I got all excited because it seemed to go through...sort of...
It listed my e-mail address (my PayPal account) under the "PayPal" payment option...but it told me to "Please log in to PayPal"...huh? So I entered my password again, and again it tells me to "Please log in to PayPal".
I give up....I just can't win
I'm not going to bother calling (yet) because it isn't that big of a deal at this point. Once I get my $200 in eBucks, I will want to use them towards a BB gift card purchase and THEN I will be on the phone trying to figure this out. It's so stupid that PayPal says it's eBay, eBay says is PayPal, PPDG says it's PayPal...but each of them individually say that there is no problem. If there is NO PROBLEM....WHY CAN'T I BUY ANYTHING!?
UPDATE: ...and now my PayPal account has been locked and my PayPal debit card has been deactivated. I went through the security verification and all has been restored, but still...WTH?? All I did was (gasp!) try to make a purchase...
Well this is interesting....
On a whim, I tried to order a $50 eBay gift card for in-store pickup at Best Buy. As I suspected, it was cancelled within about 5 minutes...but I still received $0.50 in eBates. I don't feel right about this, even though it is not my fault. I always click through a shopping portal whenever I plan to make a purchase. If it credits, great...but I certainly do not want credit for an order that was cancelled. From previous experience, I know that when eBates issues you a credit, they typically won't rescind it. I had this happen in the past for an $8 credit (10% back on a pair of work boots from ShoeBuy that didn't fit so I returned them) and they told me that it was mine to keep. I am not going to contact them regarding a $0.50 credit that I am not entitled to because I don't want to draw attention to it. I thought I would let you folks here know that you CAN earn eBates from eBay gift card purchases made at Best Buy. For those of you who have had luck with your orders going through, this may be beneficial information for you.
Well this is interesting....
On a whim, I tried to order a $50 eBay gift card for in-store pickup at Best Buy. As I suspected, it was cancelled within about 5 minutes...but I still received $0.50 in eBates. I don't feel right about this, even though it is not my fault. I always click through a shopping portal whenever I plan to make a purchase. If it credits, great...but I certainly do not want credit for an order that was cancelled. From previous experience, I know that when eBates issues you a credit, they typically won't rescind it. I had this happen in the past for an $8 credit (10% back on a pair of work boots from ShoeBuy that didn't fit so I returned them) and they told me that it was mine to keep. I am not going to contact them regarding a $0.50 credit that I am not entitled to because I don't want to draw attention to it. I thought I would let you folks here know that you CAN earn eBates from eBay gift card purchases made at Best Buy. For those of you who have had luck with your orders going through, this may be beneficial information for you.
I, too, got credit for buying gift cards that were cancelled. They took back the money a couple of days later.
They usually do rescind credit for cancelled orders. Not always though. I think many people don't notice because they have so many orders and credits in their account, $0.50 here or there is hard to account for.
since Target is a 5% discount, that means you got the gc on raise for over 10% off? I've never seen that kind of discount...what am I doing wrong? you're an awesome budgeteer! and you got the ebates for gc??? lucky..... so far I'm only running 9-10% off gc using Amex/Bj's or 5x cash back+5% off using grocery store/target....I'm cashing out some for my trip next week. The discount % on the usual Raise->Target->Disney was 15.70%. The discount on eBates->eBay->BB/GS/K-Mart->BB->Disney was 20.68%. I saved about $100 off $550 of Disney gift cards in less than a month.
Oh, and I ordered my gift cards online and was able to get $2.50 in eBates from it.
That included a $10 free gift card I received for buying something I was going to buy anyway. Without that my discount was 12.19%.since Target is a 5% discount, that means you got the gc on raise for over 10% off? I've never seen that kind of discount...what am I doing wrong? you're an awesome budgeteer! and you got the ebates for gc??? lucky..... so far I'm only running 9-10% off gc using Amex/Bj's or 5x cash back+5% off using grocery store/target....