Sometimes when I buy giftcards directly from shopdisney I order multiple $25 physical cards. That way I have "fresh" cards to which I can transfer the money from other cards purchased from 3rd party sites such as Target, etc. I used to reuse my physical cards over & over again but I don't feel comfortable doing that anymore.
Every time I go to Disney, I pick up a new GC or two at the end of my trip to transfer my leftover Disney GC money on and that's the one I use to build up funds again. I always try to grab a GC in the middle of the stack to decrease chances that its one that has been tampered with too. I've read that thieves tend to put their tampered cards in the front.
After several trips with lots of transferring onto my cards, I decided to dump my stash and start fresh. I was planning on waiting for a good click through to reload some ShopDisney designs, but it didn't even occur to me to buy a few 25s versus a single 100. Thanks!!
I wonder if stores should start putting GCs "behind the counter" to combat this practice.
I just bought some physical cards from Target so I could get the 5% with my RedCard. They are arriving UPS, so I can track delivery. I figured they would likely not be pulled from a store, so less likely to be tampered with.
ok what did I miss? why is reusing my physical gc after refilling it risky?
I am curious too….
Saw that article in the Post, that is the Target store where I bought my 5 $100 discounted cards the first week of Dec. they actually had a security guard standing around the gift cards then, and that was a few weeks before this bust. So I pulled out my cards and checked the balances, all had $100 on them. They were enclosed in paper sleeves and the covering on the pin #s was intact so I feel ok with them.
Me too! I'm still using one from 2010. A CM commented last time she had never seen that one...I told her it was very old.
My card that got hacked was 'sealed' in the cardboard, and had an intact scratch off sticker. It's best to check, and transfer to your Target account.
Yes, you should use newish DGC as the older ones seem to have issues. I too buy my physical cards directly from ShopDisney.
If your card is locked for fraud Disney could demand the receipts from not only the current loaded balance but the previous loads...
I have two Giant stores near me. One of them has recently put the Visa/MC's behind the counter. The other store still has them out with the other gc's.
