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Anecdote: Recently I had a sears gift card number but not the actual gift card. Tried to buy vacuum in store with just the number not the card, and they said no
by kirykl 10y ago
Anecdote: Recently I had a sears gift card number but not the actual gift card. Tried to buy vacuum in store with just the number not the card, and they said no way, even said they should call corporate security to investigate my scam. I went online to sears.com in the store, paid for my vacuum with the gift card number and selected in store pickup. Left with the vacuum.
- kevinstubbs 10y agoFor fun, you could buy a few more cards like that and see what kind of mess happens. Like what Steve Wozniak's does with his $2 bills (http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html).
- nodesocket 10y agoIf you showed up to Cheesecake Factory and for the bill wrote your credit card number, expiration, and CVV on a napkin, do you think they would accept that? In all seriousness, how was that fun for you?
- kevinstubbs 10y agoStraw man argument? Doing that doesn't sound fun at all, and is totally different than what OP was talking about in Sears. Trying to use the giftcard number to see how high their staff will escalate to deal with this "scam" is hilarious, otoh.
- otterley 10y agoThe difference is that when you place the order on the Internet, Sears can delay delivery if they discover fraud, and since they know the item is going, they stand a higher change of recovering from the fraudster later. If the fraud occurs in-store, they'll be much less likely to recover if they discover it after the fact.