Walmart Cancelling Discounted Giftcard Orders, Giving $10 Gift Card As Apology

Yesterday we posted about Walmart offering discounted gift cards (including American Express. These were out of stock when we posted). If you purchased one of these you should have received a cancellation e-mail from Walmart. They apologize for the error and blame it on a pricing error.

As an apology they will be sending a separate e-mail with a $10 electronic gift card (1 per customer) in the next five business days. Not a bad outcome if you just purchased one of the third party gift cards, not so good if you were able to get an American Express gift card order in.

Also just a quick reminder to sign up for instant alerts on hot deals if you haven’t already. If we found this deal when the American Express gift cards were still live we would have definitely sent out an alert.

Hat tip to readers Chris & smbayguy

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Lynn
Lynn (@guest_399147)
May 2, 2017 00:15

My BWW say not activated.

Megan Rahe
Megan Rahe (@guest_398517)
May 1, 2017 01:40

I also had my order of 10 BBW gift cards canceled and then FedEx delivered Saturday. All of them have a zero balance/closed account status. WM spent a lot of money sending these bogus gift cards out, didn’t they?

Megan Rahe
Megan Rahe (@guest_398518)
May 1, 2017 01:41

BWW, not BBW!

jack
jack (@guest_397955)
April 29, 2017 11:21

I too got the fedex email and got delivered. There are 5 Amex GCs which are not activated it seems…weired???

Bob
Bob (@guest_397174)
April 27, 2017 18:05

My order was cancelled of course. But today I got an email from FedEx that there’s a package coming from Walmart.com. What’s going on?

wallyworld
wallyworld (@guest_397849)
April 28, 2017 23:21

Assuming it’s the GCs as originally purchased, I wonder if WMT can just de-activate the GCs and not worry about asking for the cards back or charging the original payment method.

Bob
Bob (@guest_399483)
May 2, 2017 13:07

Got them last night, non of the cards were activated. I can’t believe Walmart just wasted the money for the fedex 2-day shipping for all the cancelled orders.

Edward
Edward (@guest_395474)
April 24, 2017 23:37

STAPLES was even reluctant to send out an apology email…
just cancel your order, good job!

gary
gary (@guest_395388)
April 24, 2017 20:42

got the email for 2 3rd party gift cards i I purchased