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The Offer
- Purchase a $500 Visa gift card for $480.95
The discount shows automatically in cart.
Our Verdict
This deal has been up and down; now it’s back. If you aren’t Giftcardmall-Banned this is obviously an excellent deal.
Go through Befrugal for 2.3% back (excludes Visa GC, but has been working) or the portal of your choice such as Topcashback with 1.25% for Visa GC).
Hat tip to reader nonimmigranth1b
View Comments (176)
For some reason it shows an error message, does anybody know why?
5 days later the order on their site shows as processed with an ship date of today, but the pending charge disappeared from my card and did not post. I guess they secretly canceled the order which seems like a nice thing to do to customers right before Christmas. More important for me, I need to reach my minimum spend by 12/25 and they aren't leaving me much time to replace the charge. I suppose I'll just have to buy Amazon credit at this point.
And yet I see now that the Befrugal click posted today...maybe there's a chance after all? The available credit has not reached back to my card yet.
Just got order cancelled email. First time order of 4 cards. Maybe should have ordered one or two.
I ordered 4 cards too and they got cancelled, but strangely enuff, my wifes order went through just fine. Im betting they do monitor IP address locations, cuz I was using a work computer to order, and our servers are located in UT, where I am In OR...and my billing address is OR of course.
Gcm's promo page said this past Saturday was the final day of the promotion, so certainly dead or expired.
Both orders canceled today. This was my first time ordering from GCM and used a guest account. All address info matched. What a waste of time.
Is there distinction between [Dead] and [Expired]?
Not really, I normally use them interchangably. I guess technically dead would be out of stock/sold out and expired would be the official time period has ended but in that case we should have used expired on this post.
That makes sense. Just making sure I wasn't missing something - I don't think I've seen [Dead] before - I'm fairly new though. Thanks!
Anytime, we are here to help :)
Expired would usually mean it was a deal with a given timeframe. But we probably use both either way sometimes.
BeFrugal cash back has come through at 2.3% for me.
Received second cancellation from GCM so-called risk management team. Of the five attempted and approved orders of these 5Back cards only one actually shipped. The rest were all cancelled for one lame reason or another.
Did your cancellation email actually say something about "risk management"? Mine just says "order has been cancelled" with no explanation.
Just found out this info
This deal only available for residents of these states
California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, and Georgia
So if you couldn't order yesterday maybe this is the reason
I'm from Michigan and got a few orders without issue, so I think this is not true.
I live in Michigan. Every order I've done on GCM has gone through. This is false.
I'm in Minnesota. Order went through fine.
Do you work for GCM?
Doc, I wouldn't be surprised if GCM follows your blog..
Where did it say those states only?
Datapoint for Mr. Binny above, who was so sure that we couldn't unload these cards at WMT for M/O purchases. Well..... my wife received her 5 off vgc today, changed the pin on-line -- and same day used the full 500 to buy a wmt m/o..... no problems. Anybody experiencing anything different?