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New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Gift Card is blocked, and Macy's doesnt want to deal with it because it was bought through the third party - Giftcards.com. And Giftcards.com tell me call Macy's (which I already did and TOLD them about it), and then stop to respond to emails.

Date of experience: May 7, 2019
Nevada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Big scam never cant use my card no work
August 20, 2023

I buy from Gift cards.com August 13 a gift gas card for a birthday gift Gas card from chevron texaco my son-in-law cant no redem or use the card very embarrassed, he said no work a don know how this company cant get away we this scam is a email like 5 times dit no do anything 1 email sent me a nomber to call Chevron *******357 nomber went a call ask me with my full Social Security or my credit card number really more scam really think twice to buy for this company Gift Cards.com i have more do to my credit card show you no have opportunity to talk to anybody. Everything have to be done email

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Date of experience: August 20, 2023
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Horrible Company
December 15, 2016

Never purchase from this company, I ordered $2200 in gift cards, and paid for express shipping. I never recieved my cards, UPS lost them in the mail. UPS took ownership and refunded the full amount back to giftcards.com They are now claiming that they do not have a department that can check on the refund from UPS and therefore they can not issue me a refund. They have now recieved $4400 from UPS and I and will not refund any money. Horrible company, horrible customer service. Do not ever buy from this company.

Date of experience: December 15, 2016
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I should have read the reviews saying giftcard.ca is a scam before purchasing from the site. I thought since it sounds official and established, I'd have no issues. I ordered 4 all4one physical gift cards at $45 each. I received them in the mail and it required me to activate them all online. When I went on cardactivations.ca to activate them, it told me the card numbers do not exist. I also went on one4allcard.ca to check the balance and it said the card numbers do not exist. I went back to giftcard.ca and chatted with customer service to get a resolution and they told me they have to look into it and just left the chat without providing an explanation. If you want to lose your money and deal with hands off customer service who can't answer your questions, go ahead and purchase from this site!

Date of experience: December 9, 2021
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Never worked
July 20, 2018

I tried 5 times to order a Virtual Visa card. Each time the transaction was cancelled, even using different cards. The reason was something was different than the statement. I took the information RIGHT off the statement. Very frustrating. I even called customer service and they wouldn't give any information why they were cancelled. Very frustrating.

Date of experience: July 20, 2018
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No! NO! NOOOO!
December 10, 2017

Ordered $150 card as gift. Posted on giftcard.com as SENT. Never received by recipient EMBARRASSING, complicated situation all around. Site Blames Post Office., Post Office says "SCAM" probably in cahoots with thieves., not repeatable. Says all., when the DISTRIBUTER can't verify the seller then WHY is the business allowed to stand? We'll see :) I'm out $150... but I'm on this.

Date of experience: December 10, 2017
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Placed order on 1/16 for a lowes gift card. Realized I didn't need the card within 5-10 minutes of ordering so I called to cancel the order. They said it's still open, so cancellation is not a problem. I got an email stating my order was cancelled and that my card will not be charged. It states specifically: "No charges have been applied to your credit or debit card. You may see a pending charge on your account from GiftCards.com that your bank is waiting for us to authorize. This charge is usually lifted within 3 business days by your financial institution." Happened to check my card on the 18th and sure enough, a charge for 117.28 dollars posted to my card. I called and they said it wasn't supposed to and that they would issue a refund which I would see by 1/24. Checked on 1/24, no refund. I called again and they said I'd see it by 1/27. Checked on 1/27, no refund. I called my credit card to dispute the charge, I am done dealing with giftcards.com.

Date of experience: January 29, 2014
Tom C. GiftCards.com Rep
over a year old

Thanks for the feedback. We process refunds, typically the same day they are submitted. It can take several business days for the bank that issued the purchasing credit card to apply the funds back to the customers account. We have absolutely no control over that.

Washington
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Absolute liars
December 3, 2019

They do nothing but apologize and lie. They won't refund your money, they won't deliver the card everybody you speak to offers a different excuse and tells you oh I'm so sorry for that I completely understand but there's nothing I can do about it. They tell you they're reshipping the card they won't give you tracking information it's just one lie after another after another.

Date of experience: December 3, 2019
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My order was canceled for no apparent reason. I tried a Chat but the agent had no specifics. She gave me a whole list of things to check on my order. But they did not provide me with a copy of the order so that I could check it. I did not do a screen print at the time I placed it.

When I asked her where to find the Reviews section, she offered to escalate my complaint. I told her she had one hour to have someone call. She said someone would call today. I told her to forget it! About 20 minutes later, someone called. He said he could not see anything wrong with the order. But, since my order had already been canceled, his solution was to place another order so they could check it to see if there was anything wrong it. HE HAD TO BE KIDDING!

Date of experience: June 29, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have not received the card I ordered on 12/19. I received two messages saying the order is confirmed and that it's on the way. I have sent a message to Tom Cribbs just now. I will update this review or, hopefully he will respond here.

Date of experience: December 29, 2014
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I recently ordered $1k in gift cards from this site, and while waiting for them to arrive, I came across these reviews. Naturally, I freaked out thinking I had been scammed out of a large amount of money. Would I ever even receive my cards? If I did, would they even work? I talked to multiple representatives at the company, and everyone was very friendly to me, provided me a full refund and an explanation for the reviews (mostly people improperly attempting to use E-Cards at stores). They pointed me to TrustPilot where they have TONS of excellent reviews, and I now have every reason to believe my cards would have arrived within the projected timeframe and worked as advertised. Even though I never got to use my cards, I am leaving this review because of the top-notch customer service I received from this company.

Date of experience: July 2, 2017
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I received a virtual gift card from my work as a performance reward. It will not work for online purchases. I would not buy or use this service.

Date of experience: August 28, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I used to buy gift cards through this site all of the time. This time I bought a $300 for one of our employees. 2 months later, the card never arrived. The only reason why we discovered that the gift card had not arrived to our employee (as it was a surprise) was a chance spotting by our accounting team. After I called the site asking where the giftcard was, the absolutely WONDERFUL customer support person said it will come anytime between now and august 10th.

Me: "But I ordered this two months ago."
Him: "Yeah, well there was a problem with USPS. And this was one of them."
Me: "so if I hadn't called you folks just never would have sent the gift card?"
Him: "it will be there before 8/10".
Me: "right. But if I hadn't called, you wouldn't have sent them to me?"
Him: "it's going to get to you."
Me: "whatever. *click*"

I'll never be buying gift cards from this site ever again. Thanks GiftCards.com! Have fun going under.

Date of experience: July 26, 2016
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I never received my gift card. When I followed up each time they apologized for the inconvenience and said they would give me a refund. Since it still hadn't processed followed up a 3rd time and they are now saying the card was redeemed and thus have closed my case?! How is that possible when I never received it?! Scam... this company are crooks! Do not trust.

Date of experience: January 8, 2020
Massachusetts
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I didn't complete checkout with them because they kept saying my card was invalid. Well, I still found a charge on it! Of course the customer service is incompetent. I don't know if I will see that money again. Waiting on my 50 word limit complain I sent to them. TERRIBLE COMPANY STAY AWAY.

Date of experience: December 24, 2014
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Placed an order for a virtual gift card to be sent to my daughter. Paid with my credit card. Got an e-mail that said my order was placed - another one to say it was canceled. Called right away as I needed to get this to my daughter and got some idiot on the phone who said I failed the screening process but couldn't tell me what that process was so I could correct it. He was very vague and very shady - I will be checking my CC statement to see if I get charged. If anyone at GiftCards is actually looking at this - my order number was *******

Date of experience: April 28, 2015
Nevada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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SCAM!
June 10, 2014

SCAM! Beware. Don't use them. And this "Tom C." character that's replying to some of the posts is a joke. Saying they are incredibly ethical? LOL, if they were so ethical they wouldn't have so many complaints against them. They would do the right thing for customers.
Today we filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and with the Atty. Generals office. This is definitely a scam. We sent in a $100 Subway gift card to be cashed in for $80 in return. We entered the card number on the site it was verified and accepted. Unbelievably, we also included the receipt showing the gift card was purchased at a legitimate Subway restaurant for $100. We keep getting cryptic messages stating the card is invalid or it's a high-risk and a multitude of other reasons. Unbelievably they won't tell me why it's invalid or what the "risk" is, however they did send me an email stating I had to send them a 42 cent stamped envelope to have the card returned to me. Are you kidding me?!?!?
SCAM!

Date of experience: June 10, 2014
Tom C. GiftCards.com Rep
over a year old

Veronica, Thanks for taking the time to offer us your feedback. We look forward to responding to any and all postings, whether on social media or as you state, the BBB. We maintain and A+ rating with the BBB. We have the right to purchase a card or not. If your complaint to the BBB is that we chose not to purchase your card, I sincerely look forward to responding to that review. While we are sorry to hear you aren't completely satisfied with your experience, we always love hearing from our customers. Thanks again for taking the time to offer us your feedback. Sincerely, Tom C.

Florida
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I have been scammed
July 14, 2015

I sold gifts.com a 100 dollar whitehouse black market gift card for 73.50. On friday it was verified and was told i would have the check sent in 2 business days. On monday i got another email saying my card was flagged and they would not buy it. So i called them and they said maybe the card was hacked. So i called whitehouse blackmarket and was told the card was used friday in las vegas the card now has a 4.88 balance on it. So if this is not fraud then i dont know what is, so my next step is to go to the better business bureau and or attorney general and proceed to go after this company for fraud, i bet i would not be alone in my attempt to call this company out for what they are SCAMMERS AND THIEFS

Date of experience: July 14, 2015
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Had one of their cards given to me at Christmas. Been 3 day and constant delays for an e-card. I would never recommend this as a convenient gift for anyone.

Date of experience: December 28, 2021
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Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This gift card was given to me in the amount of $100. Over the course of several weeks, I made several purchases from a craft store of flowers for my niece's wedding. My niece changed her design idea a couple of different times so I had to return items/ repurchase/ return all. During the original purchase, I had to use my own credit card. The store allowed refund on only one card. Believing the bulk of the expense to be on this gift card, I had the returns refunded to it. The giftcards.com company blocked the use of the card because of the amount refunded discrepancy with original purchase amount. I found this out by being publicly embarrassed - twice. Twice because, I submitted all receipts to the *******@bhnetwork, waited a couple of weeks, then tried to use it again only to be publicly embarrassed AGAIN. It has now been nearly 3 MONTHS and I still do not have access to MY money.

Date of experience: October 15, 2018

Overview

GiftCards.com has a rating of 1.4 stars from 358 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with GiftCards.com most frequently mention customer service, business days and expiration date. GiftCards.com ranks 106th among Gift Cards sites.

service
97
value
92
shipping
74
returns
68
quality
79