For a short while, both Giftcardmall and giftcards.com removed $500 Visa gift cards from their site, leaving $250 as the highest denomination available. We’ve already reported that giftcards.com has brought them back (they even have a promo going on right now to waive the shipping fees) and reader Jay shares that now Giftcardmall has brought back the $500 cards as well.
In the recent past, the $500 cards from Giftcardmall were PINless and not working to load prepaid cards and the like; this issue was specific to the Sunrise Visa cards. Reader Jay says that Giftcardmall has said all cards will be Metabank-issued going forward. If that’s true, they should work fine as PIN-based debit cards.
An advantage of Giftcardmall is that it’s possible to get .75% back on Visa gift card purchases from the Simplybestcoupons portal which can help cover the fees. Each card costs $5.95 and comes with free shipping when ordering three cards or less. After getting the portal cashback, the fees will come to around $2.25 per card shipped. Not bad.
Big Caveat
It’s important to note, however, that there’s an entirely separate issue with Giftcardmall that they were cancelling everyone’s orders. The cancellation issue may well still be in effect, making Giftcardmall off limits for most of us. Possibly smaller orders will go through, but who knows.
Also, we haven’t yet confirmed that the cards will be PIN-able, at this point it’s just rumor.
For now, it would probably make more sense to order from giftcards.com and pay the higher fees per card. While the cost is usually $8.94 per card (shipped), there is currently a promo to pay just $6.95 per card and it could make sense for someone who has no better way to meet a minimum spend.
