Questions tagged [gift-card]

A gift card is a prepaid stored-value money card usually issued by a retailer or bank to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses.

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Extracting money from American Express card

I have a $150 USD American Express prepaid gift card. Which is the most cost effective way to extract the money to put in to my US bank account or Paypal account? First option is to create two paypal accounts and transfer it back and fourth although…
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I accidentally charged more than the amount on a prepaid card on amazon and it didn't get declined

So, I accidentally charged more than the amount on a prepaid visa debit gift card on an online retailer and it didn't get declined. What will happen? Should I take advantage of this?
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How to keep new gift cards safe?

I bought a new egift card from Amazon.com. I learned that it is better to load the money from Amazon gift card to my Amazon account, otherwise it will risk being stolen soon. Can a new egift card bought from Amazon be stolen? When I tried to load…
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Use mutiple gift cards towards same purchase online

Let us say I have 2 walmart gift cards , each for 10$. Now if I go to walmart and buy a 20 $ item (before tax), then I can give the 2 gift cards one after another and that will cover the cost. Now when buying online, is the same true? Usually on…
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What to do with multiple prepaid Visa cards

I have several prepaid visa cards with around $2 on each of them. I want to use them, but I can't find a good way to do that. I have found two answers here and here, but those only apply to physical cards. The ones I have are from Prepaid Digita…
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Tell gift card giver money was stolen?

I got a gift card for high school graduation from a family friend we only rarely have conversations with. It was for $50, but when I tried to use it, it had no money on it. I then noticed that the code on the back had been exposed. Should I tell the…