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Wtf? That just happened to me.. but Best Buy just told me they'd give me a call back later that day with a reason why my order was cancelled!!

The exact same thing just happened to me..

Strong trend towards showing ID

At Best Buy you must show ID and must be on the account as a person who is authorized to pick up the item.

Exactly. But you can order in John Smiths name, pay for it with John Smith's PayPal, then have SandyD pick it up using her ID that says she really is SandyD. :yar:

Walmart cancel every order for egifts. First i thought it's a glitch,tried with other accounts,the same result:)

They became very strict with egifts :ninja::ninja::ninja:

Sure, I will pick it up for one low flat fee of only 99.9% one time charge.

:hail:

I have ordered from best buy many times and picked up many items.

Bought a 60" Samsung TV on sale for 799.00 online. Pick up.

Listed as new on CL for 1200.00 someone offered me 1000.00- SOLD.

Has to go to pick up others things, not to far from me and a quick 200 profit.

Oh and no tax paid either. Tax exempt!!!! :shocked:

EXTREMELY difficult lol.....wanted to make sure it wasn't just me.

I know this is not a solution but check out giftcardmall on ebay they have a lot of gift cards! And some you can even buy $100 ebay gift cards!

They sell physical gift cards that requires address

Yeah I know that, but most people would have return addresses on stealths at friends or some place good within reach!

Or start a site that offers some kind of a service as in buying and selling or whatever the service is. And to cash out the site offers paypal, visa, check, wire transfer. Still too much work and BS!

The problem with this topic thread is that: who the hell wants to keep a box full of gift cards or Visa gift cards that you cannot deposit as actual cash into your bank account? You also cannot transfer the funds on the gift card to your debit/greendot/actual useable cash debit card.

No one, obviously. But it is a safe way to transfer money out of paypal with low risk and actually no fee - you ,may even earn a few dollars along the way.

There are also ways of getting the money out of the card to your account - I've heard of people who pay for their neighbors and friends groceries with the gift cards and get cash. I've actually managed to deposit money from the gift card to my forex account (which is where I save money - so it's good for me).

hapajenn1 - yeah it's why I offered that person on ebay who sales gift cards. It's not a solution for me. I mean it is if you only earn $1000 a month and that's what makes you happy.

TowelKing - Great idea for the noobs I believe. But what if you earn $20k a month? Say screw the fees and just deal with it? Think of a really high tech way or doing it? Do you want to spend all your money at subway? OR Best Buy? Or Target? Too bad Benz doesn't offer a gift card for $60,000 eh?

GhostWhoWalks - you missed the point. You can buy visa, mastercard and amex gift cards on ebay for less than their value! You can also get walmart gift cards and use those to buy amex gift cards on walmart - I think you can also get visa gift cards on target and CVS, but you can't purchase them online like on walmart.

The whole point is to buy $500 walmart gift card on ebay for $480 and lower - use the gift card to purchase a $200 amex gift card for $206.24 online and get the money out of paypal. Some sites will also let your trade gift cards for cash.

So many gift cards, you know what dude? I don't really see a Walmart around me at all! I could ask my friends to ship it too me, but still using it in EUROs while it's in USD! Will cost me fees, exchange rate. ETC. Might be for USA or UK but not an option for most.

And knowing ebay I hope the person doesn't have the numbers of the card and will use it up and try to scam you on top of it. Walmart cards are only $200 the ones I seen last night. So walking around with $5000, 25 gift cards. I mean blah.

Yeah you buy it for $480 on a stealth account, chance are it's made up if you are in NY and registered in FLORIDA or California! See what I mean here? Unless the seller is willing to ship to another address that is not confirmed with an item worth $480! I don't see this happening! Unless you know of a seller and he can hook us all up.


Alright that $500 option, ehhh.

And someone got a gift card for $150 and paid $190 for it! Will they open up a case after that? :pound: chances chances chances!

I am going to ask some of these guys, only 3 sellers if they even ship to lets say "the girlfriends house" for example. AKA not to a stealth address.

I would take up advice from other sellers who have been selling on stealths for many countless years! And see what they say. No offence, I got my own idea like I said.

Set up a website selling things from $100 to $1,500 and buying it/transfer the funds pay some little fees, ship something random put a tracking end of story! Start off small with $50 then work my way up. I mean in the end it comes up with all the bs you have to do with these gift cards. That's just what I think I could be wrong and not seeing the picture. But even if you have some Amex like you said okay? I looked into a few of these last year and some for $75k limit prepaid out of UK! Some $50k.

After you got these gift cards, what's atm fees? Comes up to the same almost as paying pp fees in the end!

And just for the record out there people, prepaid cards are very popular now days. They are a $3 billion dollar a year business!

Enjoy the information! :)

It will be a cold day in hell before I risk $480 to get $500 from an Ebay seller. :smash:

That $3 billion info was for you man! lol.

Big demand for it as you can SEE!

You mean I cannot buy a Cadillac Escalade with gift cards?

I have been saving up for no reason. :doh:

Crap.

I am with you on this one.

Gift cards are risky, and as a huge ebay buyer I was looking at a couple items from a seller and looked up and noticed some negs.

Went to look at them and fb stated SOLD ME GIFT CARDS WITH LESS MONEY THEN ADVERTISED

Card did not have 79.00 on it as purchased, had 38.00.

No way would I attempt with these types of scammers.