Because example steam kids want steam funds but their parents are scared to use their credit cards so they buy a giftcard wich you can reedem...without using a credit card get it? For online stuff but if youre buying a food restreraunts giftcards thats just idiotic
Loke said in the news report the use programs that continuously enter the code until its been activated then when they enter the code and it works it will stop
@@iconicmoments1428 sometimes the scammers don't even wait for you to open it. It happened to me i was like wtf 😒 they stole $100 I will never buy no gift cards they are not safe I called customer service they said to investigate we need your name number address your day of birth I was like no way I don't give my personal information to some unknown representative who knows what they will do with my personal information I don't trust no vanilla Gift cards I don't trust no Visa gift cards they are not safe I hope all this scammers get caught and put in jail where they belong.
Best way is to buy the ones in the back n get cards that are sealed. Most retailers fo not offer fraud protection or refund. So u pretty much buy on ur own risk.
That's why I prefer gift cards that hide the barcodes and have a magstripe instead even though Mag stripes are still skimable thieves are less likely to swipe a gift card and you have to scratch to reveal the code to enter online
It's best to use a credit card? lol don't listen to this lady unless y'all wanna be in debt. NEVER purchase a credit card. If you're not using cash or your debit card then you're already at risk. Go ahead and purchase a credit card because having one already says you already can't afford that item and that's why you're borrowing the money in the first place.
Uhm NO. A credit card is safer than a debit card since it is not connected to your bank account. You don't need to carry around a thousand dollars in cash....get mugged......use your credit card, the purchase is insured with many card companies in the event something happens with the purchase or the transaction. When the card bill shows up....pay it with the thousand dollars which has been sitting safely in your bank account.
+Tyler Campbell Pretty much every wealthy person in the world has multiple credit cards. Having a credit card does not mean you cannot afford something. Your post is sheer ignorance. Many people use it for convenience, pay it off at the end of the month so there is no interest and get 1-2% cash back, along with other perks that you will not get with cash. Sounds like you have never owned a credit card.
a credit card is better then handing a 100 dollar bill to a McDonald employee just to get an ice cream so u can get change, but then getting rejected because they don't have change for a 100 dollar bill because cash registers only have a minimum of about 100 dollars in cash because of robbery's. ._.
In the UK, you have to scrape off a metallic strip on top of a number, which makes it incredulously obvious if it is stolen, as it cannot be replaced or repaired easily.
Lol, My dad bought a gift card 10 years ago and it said it was expired, so he told me to bin it so I tried to redeem it cause I thought it wouldn't work anyway so i got £15 LOL I told my dad he said keep it
This is why in Indonesia, we have guards protecting stores, set up dummies so people won't just steal stuff and security scanners on every single opening
We just gifted a Home Depot gift card that was purchased at a Fred Meyer store for $100. When they used it, there was only 17 cents in the card. We went back to Fred Meyer where we purchased it. They said they are aware of that problem. They did not refund our money, but gave us a phone number to call. I will report this to our local law enforcement and our local news stations. And, no more gift card purchases from us from here and on until a better system can be put in place to avoid this problem.
In the UK when you get gift cards there's just a piece of card in tell you go to the cash point were they print a recitet of the gift card which has the code in
Well... you can always go to the store again and get a new card. This happened to me and I just went back to the store and the nice lady gave me and my younger bro new gift cards.
From the buyer's perspective, giving money as a gift isn't even HALF as fun as buying gift cards for the person. Also by giving a gift card, you're helping the store of said gift card to stay in business.
If you use the gift card to buy something online instead of putting ur real credit card info it’s safer to use a gift card you just put the numbers of the card and ur address and that’s all.
The gift cards in the UK are suppose to be scratched off to get the number. It will be impossible for the thieves to actually take the number unless they scratch it.
Editing Queen.17 What is your point? Its exactly the same in the U.S. they even explained how it works in this video, just because you live in Canada doesn't mean your gift cards are different from the U.S. your gift cards are still made by the same companies as us.
it's pretty simple to see if the gift card has been tampered with the piece of paper is taken off or the numbers have been scratched off it doesn't take no common sense
Here in Sweden, the gift card does not work until you pay the money and then they activate the code so it works, here is a simple fact. Non-paying gift cards will still be inactivated until you pay the money. after you pay they will activate it and the money that you paid goes to the gift card itself. Paid gift cards is an activated one and mostly secured ones, and the code will work, because you have exchanged your cash to an digital money. If you don't use your gift card for 48 hours then there is a change that is has been expired and mostly are no longer valid for use.
I have a tip for you people, my advice is always taking the gift card in the back, crooks have no time to go through the whole stack before being caught, so please pick the back ones
In Game they now don’t have gift cards on the shelf they just have the card saying how much it is so when you buy it they give you a receipt with the code on instead
I was scammed as well. I bought a 30$ Xbox gift card and only one of the 3 cards were activated and the other two were deactivated. So sketchy I was pissed and they didn’t get my money back but I got it back another way so I ain’t tripping.
well... im still a kid and I dont have any credit cards to buy apps from itunes so i think for kids is better of to buy giftcards cause WE know that if our mom saw us holding their credit cards BOOM! were dead
I don’t normally do this but the vendor proved himself and i was happy. He’s a legit and reliable vendor. He sold for me sometimes ago and it worked well... HMU for details
One day I went yo Wal-Mart to buy a Google play gift card, when i was there i saw a 7 year-old Girl grabbing and putting a gift card of Roblox in her backpack, then i follow the girl quietly and then i said to her mom that her daughter steal a gift card, the mom grab her backpack and the girl was crying and then the mom punish her, and the mom gave me money to buy the gift card by warning her lol.
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most places that have gift cards you can check the balance online or transfer the balance onto another card so you don't have to carry around a few cards with a few dollars on each.
Sameul Ahmed They take a pic of the code and gift card codes only work when it is payed for so the thieves wait for someone to buy the card to be activated and they spend it
