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Originally Posted by adawn
As long as the gift card is from somewhere I regularly shop (Target or Amazon or a gift card to my hair salon for example), I'm okay with gift cards.
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same here.
another type of card that is problematic are those pre-paid VISA cards. I received one of them recently, and you have to keep track of the balance (you can look online to find out the balance).
the vendor has no idea how much is left on the card and if your purchase exceeds the balance, the transaction will error out. however, if you know the balance, the clerk can key in that exact amount, and then you can pay the difference with another form of payment.
at one point, these prepaid VISAs used to deduct a certain amount from the face value of the card for processing fees! therefore, if you bought a $10 card, the user would only be able to spend like $7! totally misleading. I think they might have changed that over the years - the buyer now pays for the processing fee upfront which was $5.95.
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