So I was stalking this thread and my email, checking first for a regular ebucks promo, then hoping for a flash sale. Then suddenly, there it was! Yay! Of course, I'm at work but can break a bit. Planned to buy BB and GS physical. Both DD25 and I got it, awesome! First, I bought some GS on DD's acct just to get some thru. Easy, no problem. Then used my acct to try for the BB. Of course, I got the "Sorry, this payment option isn’t available. .....Contact PayPal Customer Service to resolve this issue". Expected, but still disappointing. So I called. It took a while and had to answer a few verify questions. Finally she got it to go thru and got $800! Had started at 600, but decided to try more. She said I would be able to do other transactions. I figured not, but tried another decent amount. Did not work, of course. Tried thru DD's account then with her ebay and paypal, but when I had to call paypal, well that girl had no clue and thought I was trying to use already used gc's. Finally she took my gc's and tried herself, first verifying they had balances. I'm sorry but she, well, wasn't too bright. Finally just had to get off. I called back and got someone to help verify my account, we thought it'd work, but not today. Finally just bought some more GS physical that went thru fine, to get the ebucks, and that works at my store pretty well so far. But, at least I got a good amount in BB, so got to spread out to BB and GS, got some good ebucks and the 3% ebates, so ended up pretty much as if we got the 5x promo and regular ebates. Happy with the return for all my efforts, at least, lol, but PPDG is still a HUGE pain in the @$&#%!
One thing that was kinda weird. I had two ebay gc's and then had to pay for shipping. Tried to then use a $25 gc towards the shipping. Instead, it took off $25 on the bigger gc, and then used the $25 card so the total was then same between three cards, but postage still wasn't covered. That was stupid, but I took off the $25 card and just paid the shipping out of my bank account. Never had that happen before, with taking off some money from one gc when I added another small gc.
Fortunately, I had the option to give it another phone number, but really, how is that secure!?? It took two texts to reassure them that I really wanted to do this, and then the order went through. I did change things after putting them in my cart, and I am not sure if that, or my ebay and Paypal accounts not being linked, caused the problem, but since it went through, I breathed a sigh of relief, and then tried to think of other things to buy. By the way, I added a $10 Jack in the Box card to my order, so some part of my order would be on paypal, since PPDG doesn't like orders that are totally on a gc.
missed it
