There has always been an unadvertised limit of eight gift cards or coupons that could be used during an eBay checkout; when attempting to enter nine codes, the system would drop all of them and you’d have to start over, see eBay Gift Cards and their Limits).
The astute eBay shopper certainly noticed that eBay’s checkout system changed recently. In the works is a complete review of the new eBay checkout system, but I wanted to share one aspect for now.
Just yesterday, I attempted a purchase with eleven $5 eBay gift cards to see if the new system has the same limit of 8-codes per checkout. The purchase went through flawlessly. It seems that under the new checkout there is no such limit anymore.
On a related note, for a while, the new eBay checkout system was not allowing more than one gift card to be entered – when entering two cards, it would pull one out. Milesperday noted that this is just an illusional problem as, in practice, the system applies both cards and it reflects clearly that way in the total. In my experience from yesterday, this issue is completely fixed and it processed my 11 gift cards properly without a hitch.
Let us know if you bump into either problem of the 8-code-limit or the disappearing gift cards at checkout.
