Sorry this is so long. I just thought I'd share my experience this week with the 5x promo, GCM & PPDG. A little late here, but been too busy to post.I guess after reading posts here, and particularly
@Lain 's posts about buying physical GS gc's, and then the BB egc's, I'd give those a try. I figured right now I have $1900 ebay already. So, with the 5x promo I got I thought if I could do the physical GS cards and still buy Ebay cards, I'd still be where I am now if I did a churn thru there and I'd make some money. Just trying to keep it moving while wait for the Target GCM gc's to come back, which I'm expecting to happen at sometime. At this point, I'm still trusting the email of mine that they replies to that they will be restocking the target gc's.
So, Tuesday evening I first tried to buy BB thru PPDG. It refused the transaction when signing into pp, after I had put in the gc numbers.Then tried GCM for the physical GS. Didn't work and I had to call PP. He said he fixed the hold or w.e. on my account and just waitlike 30 min, and I should be able to buy. Well that didn't work, of course. So I figured I'd call Wed morning, but couldn't try till afternoon. But, first I decided to try buy some from GCM, just to verify it wouldn't work. I was surprised I was able to buy $900 in GS physical gc's that should arrive early next week! I also had first called GS to confirm I could use them. Then he said, wait, a few things changed but let me check with my manager. Yikes! But he came back and said yes, no problem at all. They had new visa prepaid cards you couldn't buy with the GS gc's but that was it, anything else was fine, and he named off some GC's they sell, including loadable Ebay cards.
Then I figured I might as well try some BB gc's thru PPDG just to try my luck again. And, wahoo, I was able to put thru $400! I did have to verify my computer a couple times. I got a notice that they thought there was fraud. I reset everything as directed and tried again. And, after doing that one time, it said I couldn't use my two gc's they listed and was going to charge to my back up cc on paypal. So, I backed out of that, and tried again. This time I used two other Ebay gc's that I had and they went thru just fine no problem(other than the verify computer a couple times, lol, which they did by having me text '1' if I was trying to make a purchase, '2' if I was not. ). I was pretty happy with that! So, later I tried to put another order thru of $400 in ebay gc's It did lock me out, which I expected by then, and got another fraud warning, and fixed password. Anyway, I called in to pp. told them it was locking me out from making purchases. He was great and it seemed pretty simple, didn't have to verify with all the questions, etc. He fixed it and thought it would work and so I tried again and decided to do all $600 in ebay gc's that I had, and had him wait while I did it. I told him I had $600 in ebay gc's to use and he said no problem, take your time, and he'd wait. And, no issue at all using all ebay gc's to pay. It went super smoothly there and I was again pretty happy with that!
So I made $190 ebucks, having made a good few churns! Even with having to verify and call, luckily it didnt take super long at all and I made some decent ebucks that I am very excited about! Good payment for a bit of a hassle but all in all a successful outcome at this point!
So, almost done here, lol. Again, sorry so long.
I got my BB egc's very quickly. I got the $400 before they closed so went to see how that would go. I had spoken to a woman the night before who had just set up a big display of gc's, including Ebay loadable cards and Disney gc's. She apologized for the person who told me they don't sell them, and told me I could buy any third party gc's with the BB gc's, but not visa ones. She told me to ask for her when I went in if I needed help. So, when I went in last night she saw me getting the ebay card and asked if I had called. She remembered me and actually seemed excited to talk to me and show me the set up she had recently set up with all the gc's. I wasn't buying Disney cards but she saw my disney shirt and dooney and bourke wristlet I had, and she started talking Disney as she's a big fan as well. Anyway, we had a good conversation. She scanned my cards from my phone and typed in the pin number. And I got rewards! It really couldn't have gone any better! I asked if there were any limits on how often you could load an Ebay card like that and she said no, absolutely not, as they have no right to tell you what you can spend your money on!
Oops, I forgot I was then locked out of purchasing anymore - when I tried another card just to test it, it said unable to load cart. Seems to be available now, just checked without checking out.