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Pamala K.

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2 Reviews by Pamala

  • CardCash

4/11/18

Like the other reviewers, (a) I've been using resellers almost from the day the concept started online, and (b) I must have bought a dozen cards from cashcard.com (aka abccard.com). They ALL had a zero balance. One time I caught it before the 45 day guarantee and did get my money back, but tough toenails if you don't discover the zero balance in that brief period! The worst part was, three of their illegitimate cards were Christmas gifts to family and friends! I was so embarrassed. Stick with cardpool and raise (1-year guarantee), giftcardbin (100 days and lovely people) and giftcardkangaroo (forget the guarantee time, 100 days or something). Always had a great experience with these four, and even when there was a problem with the card (caca happens to the most conscientious of resellers), great customer service and fast refund. In sum, as the other reviewers have stated, this company, cardcash.com, is a total fraud. I threw away hundreds of dollars here. Don't be deceived or tempted by the discount rates that "surpass" the legit companies. There's a reason these criminals are publishing those rates... along with the outrageously unrealistic 45-day guarantee period. "A fool and their money are soon parted."

  • CardPool

1/25/14

I'm here to counter all the negative reviews, and NO, I don't work for cardpool or am associated with them in any way.

I use many card resellers and cardpool, along with one other, is my favorite for a variety of reasons. Good discounts, GOOD, FRIENDLY, POLITE, PROMPT CUSTOMER SERVICE. Yep, via email, but absolutely great.

Look at the negative reviews. In every case, I see a customer who is being outrageously unrealistic and demanding. I'm half-way through the review and I think, "Jeez. What a douche." Let's go over the parameters and limitations of using a gift card reseller.

1. About 20% of the gift cards you buy are fraudulent. Someone uses a stolen credit card number (i. E., hacked from Target, sold openly online at sites that sell criminals stolen numbers; grafted onto a credit card) and buys a gift card. They then sell it to a reseller. The reseller sells it to you. It takes a while, but eventually the company whose gift card you bought gets stiffed by Visa or Mastercard and, identifying the gift card as having been a fraudulent purchase, zeroes out the card.

In the two years I've been buying gift cards, I've had 3 that were fraudulent. Both companies, cardpool and the other one I like, IMMEDIATELY refunded my money. I merely emailed cardpool with the information, they responded the next day, and my money was back in the bank within 3 days. IT'S THE COST OF DOING THIS KIND OF BUSINESS, so get real. You are saving quite a bit of money, and people stuck with gift cards they don't want have a wonderful place to offload them without the hassle of ebay or Craigslist.

It is YOUR responsibility to use up the card during the guarantee period. It is YOUR responsibility to write the "expiration date," if you will, on a calendar, so you know when the guarantee ends. Almost all the resellers are 60 days…but Cardpool is the only one I know of that is 100 days (for plastic cards. E-cards, which I've also bought, are less).

2. You are not going to get your e-card or plastic card in a hurry. Cardpool takes a little longer than others to get theirs to you by mail…but they tend to have better discounts on the cards I like. If you are buying an e-card or plastic gift card to purchase something that's on sale RIGHT NOW, good luck. You need to be realistic and give yourself a MONTH'S leeway (you read that right: a MONTH)—from the moment you purchase the card to the moment you receive it. 99.999% of the time, the card arrives within a week (or the emailed e-card # in a FEW DAYS), but stuff happens, mail gets waylaid. And remember, 20% of the time, the cards are fraudulent.

So, you buy the card, you keep it in reserve for "the great sale." But you must use it within the guarantee period.

Bearing these minor hardships in mind, as far as I'm concerned, it's completely worth it for the money I've saved. I almost never make a purchase anymore—drugstore, department store—unless I've got a discounted gift card.

Framed as above, Cardpool is one of the very best.

Now, to those who have sold your card to Cardpool (or any other place). I've never sold a gift card to any reseller. But if I ever do, you can be sure I'll spring 80 cents (or more, if the price goes up) for a TRACKING NUMBER. Duh! Unless you can PROVE your card was received, you are out of luck. In fact, I'd pay a few more pennies to get a signature, too! And if they paid you with an Amazon gift card, and you had trouble with that gift card…did you contact them (via email)? WHAT DID THEY SAY about your Amazon gift card? Unless you complete the story of your complaint, you have no valid complaint.

Again, I have no relationship with the company other than as customer. They've always done right by me and don't deserve the mean-spirited reviews.

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