bsusanmb
Childhood sweethearts married on the Magic 6/2/13
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- Jul 11, 2004
But you did an enormous amount, right? Just trying to look for patterns.
I agree they should just prohibit gift card purchases.
Huge amount over a year.
But you did an enormous amount, right? Just trying to look for patterns.
I agree they should just prohibit gift card purchases.
Did they ask you to fax information in to verify your identity? Last Friday, the same thing happened to me. All my online orders were canceled. When I called in, they told me to fax my DL, SS card and a copy of a utility bill. For me, my Red Card is suspended or blocked - even in the store. So, mine might be a different thing going on. I faxed the info this morning and am waiting to hear back.
That's terrible and my worst fear.Huge amount over a year.
could have been a spending pattern issue or the big ebates check.
How would Target know about her ebates check? Do they get notified each time you receive a check?
They are paying ebates. They may be looking for outliers. She bought a huge amount of gift cards for a once in a lifetime vacation. Using the loophole she would have had a lot of gift card orders plus the throw away item. I'm obviously speculating.How would Target know about her ebates check? Do they get notified each time you receive a check?
Well Ebates gets paid by Target when you shop there and receive a rebate.
My understanding is that it is lifelong. I bought from Raise, Cardcash and ebay. I also used my free cards from Target. I have not had any problem with my cards in purchasing. In fact, I buy all kinds of cards on raise and cardcash and have not had any issues at other stores. I think it is a drastic step to take. Why not just say, hey lady, no more gc's for you from target.com? I even had a $250 credit on my target card because I overpaid, and couldn't use it on target.com. I was trying to purchase white strips and a streaming box for my tv.
Did they ask you to fax information in to verify your identity? Last Friday, the same thing happened to me. All my online orders were canceled. When I called in, they told me to fax my DL, SS card and a copy of a utility bill. For me, my Red Card is suspended or blocked - even in the store. So, mine might be a different thing going on. I faxed the info this morning and am waiting to hear back.
They are paying ebates. They may be looking for outliers. She bought a huge amount of gift cards for a once in a lifetime vacation. Using the loophole she would have had a lot of gift card orders plus the throw away item. I'm obviously speculating.
I did buy HUGE, I mean HUGE amount of gift cards.
Who knows except Target IT???Ebates or no, I think the volume of gift card purchases may have been what triggered it.
Who knows except Target IT???
So far it seems what you have in common is your name is each Susan. Maybe that has something to do with it. J/K.
Are you open to sharing what your "huge amount" is? I think what I do pales in comparison, but I don't know. If you are running $30,000 thru this I would expect some action as you are probably a top spender at Target. Is it more or less than that?
How did you get such a big ebates check if you just caught on to adding a small item?First of all, we inherited a large amount of money. So, we decided to do a once in a lifetime trip and take my husband's brother and SIL with us on a 12 night Disney cruise. We added ABD in London, and a vow renewal plus a stay in WDW and a photo shoot at MK and EPCOT in our wedding attire at 7am. In all it was over $25,000, maybe 30. Used all my gc's on trip and in my DVA. I started a year ago. Waited for deals like the one where you could buy ebay gift card on target for 10% off, then to ebay to get target cards and then to target to get Disney cards. All legal and above board. Also we bought the 10% off target cards through target and target.com. So many different ways. Only once did I add something small to my orders to get ebates as I didn't catch onto that one until I read it here somewhere, and if I were any of you, I wouldn't do that. Got a huge check for over $300 from ebates on 2.15. That's why I think ebates has something to do with it, but maybe not. I was able to shop at target.com up until Friday night 2/19. Haven't bought a gift card in months. What is funny too is that I added all of these 100 dollar and 50 dollar gift cards to my DVA account at one time and they weren't showing up (got tired of adding them into a thousand dollar card on gift card website). So I had to call the gift card center at Disney, and the first thing out of the mouth of the CM was, did you buy these at Target? We hate people who buy them at Target. Hummm. It's all ridiculous, as I have spent an additional 20 grand at Target this year. So, there you have it.
It seems very arbitrary. I think the eBay churning will be the straw that breaks the camel's back on buying a gift card with a gift card. If I were a target exec and understood what is going on, I would figure out how to stop this.I am the only one who feels that Target should at least provide an explanation and give you the option to explain your spending patterns?
It seems the banning and suspensions are becoming more frequent. I for one am afraid that they may stop allowing gift card purchase with a gift card. Right now I'm sitting on almost 2k of Target cards. I really feel like I may just cash them in for Disney cards. I don't want to be stuck with that much Target. Especially if they don't reinstate my Red Card - in that case, I don't want to give them any of my business!
So I had to call the gift card center at Disney, and the first thing out of the mouth of the CM was, did you buy these at Target? We hate people who buy them at Target. Hummm. It's all ridiculous, as I have spent an additional 20 grand at Target this year. So, there you have it.