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 $5.95Â 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.
Is there a way to buy gift card of higher denominations?
None that I know.
Maybe I am doing this wrong, but when I ordered from GCM, I got an email from GCLab specifically stating that the VGC was not pin enabled, needless to say I did not respond to the email and let the order be canceled. YMMV. Just thought I’d share the datapoint
I wish these two sites would just make up their minds about offering these denominations and at what fees, and instead of banning people and/or canceling orders they should just enforce a limit to how much you can buy in a 30-day period and ban only those with multiple accounts that may try to circumvent that
Agreed
Quick question: Are purchases made through considered as online order or mail order? I am trying to hit the $1000 mark for BBVA online purchase bonus.
Also, how about Amex Gift Cards? Are they considered online or mail/catalog?
TIA
First time order of $500. Required a call in to verify info. After verification, order approved email. Next day, order canceled.
Same thing second round.
I speculate it’s because I used my name as the recipient.
Agreed. Giftcardmall.com is the worst. Was ordering 2 or 3 every other month or so with no problem when all of the sudden I received a message saying I was shut down. Called in and CS verified my account closure but no one knew why it had been closed. Tried to reopen or open a new account but unable. Long story short: banned for life and nobody there could tell me why, or seemed to really care. Good riddance.
Lol, GCM is horrible. But their Staples line is pretty good though.
this website sucks, i ordered a few choice card, they kept cancelling my orders without particular reasons.
I just ordered a $500 card from Giftcardmall to try it out and noticed AFTER I placed the order they slip in a $6.95 large domination fee. This fee does not show up until AFTER you process the order, thus it was too late to back out of the order. What a rip off. Buyer beware here.
Is that $6.95 per card or per order?
New to the game, I had just ordered $3,000 a couple days ago in $500 increments from giftcardmall.com. It’s true; they slip in $6.95 per card AFTER you check out. I was pretty upset about this so I called their customer service. Apparently (according to the rep) it’s a temporary fee. Once the cards ship and the charge actually posts to your credit card, the $6.95/card vanishes. The reason she gave for this is because apparently a lot of people cancel the cards after they’re printed and they’re trying to cover their losses… My payment is still pending so I can’t say if that $6.95 goes away yet for sure.
Also, for what it’s worth the rep said that if you keep your cards below $250 each they won’t tack on that large denomination fee.
Thanks for the info