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Maryland
5 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Birthday surprise
February 6, 2017

My ecard recipient loves her ecards. They were for Krispy Kreme and Yankee candle. I was worried if she would get these since I never use this site before. Congrats!

Date of experience: February 6, 2017
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Like many others, I would give them NEGATIVE stars if that were an option. Their site is so unbelievably awful I can't even believe it. I tried 2x to purchase VISA gift cards today and both times THEIR company NOT my cc company flagged it as fraud. I called in and the customer service rep was beyond useless, they may as well have the homeless living in downtown Pgh answering the phone... there's a guy that roams Smithfield and talks to signs that makes more sense than their actual paid employees. A supervisor refused to get on the phone and then I asked for them to open a support ticket and they did but then closed it about 10 minutes later saying that it was "complete" and that they're "really sorry if their software gets it wrong sometimes but that they have complete confidence in it and that sometimes these things happen to nice people". WHAT? 1. After this review you can see that I'm actually not that nice in this situation and 2. How about admit that your program sucks and solve the problem. 3. Stop training your employees to deflect the problem and hope the person goes away... they won't. I'm going to try 1 more time as this crap company is actually now partnered with my awesome company so I'm really trying to make this work but if they don't get it together they're going to be out of business and honestly at this point I think that might be for the best.

Date of experience: February 23, 2016
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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DO NOT BUY FROM THIS SITE! BEWARE!

This site is a bunch of crap! It states WHILE you're buying your ecards that you'll receive it within hours! Yet, if you purchase it after 5pm on Friday it takes up to the next business day, MONDAY, for you to get your card! What BS! Stating two COMPLETELY different things to cover their@$$ but screws yours over! DO NOT BUY FROM HERE! Its not even worth the few dollars of saving!

Date of experience: January 19, 2013
Michigan
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The customer support is beyond incompetent. They tried to scam me for $500.00. My bank finally credited me the money and warned me to never do business with this incompetent company.

Date of experience: October 14, 2014
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It is unfortunate that you would choose to post, basically anonymously. My name is Tom Cribbs. I am the Customer Service Director for GiftCards.com. My email address is tom.cribbs@giftcards.com. I would really appreciate the opportunity to look into the circumstances you describe, because they certainly don't relate even remotely to how we operate. I was unable to locate any orders with the information you have provided. We offer a 100% guarantee on all of our products and services. We maintain an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and we are a Google Trusted Merchant. Our reputation, despite your assertion otherwise, is impeccable. It is also extraordinarily difficult to believe that any bank would ever make such an assertion about any company. I sincerely hope you will take the time to contact me directly.

Washington
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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They suck
December 31, 2016

I ordered a 45.00 virtual visa giftcard for my daughter and the number for the card was invalid and they will not replace it so i'm out 45.00 I would not ever ordered from them again

Date of experience: December 31, 2016
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I was getting ready to purchase a gift card on giftcards.com, but found this review site... glad I found, so needless to say, we won't be purchasing from this site...

Date of experience: October 27, 2015
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have been trying to activate a $200 gift card that expires in 2021. After excruciating painstaking efforts, I am informed that my card is invalid due to inactivity and that money has been given to the state. I am to file a claim with the government to get money out of my card.

Reaching customer service by phone is impossible because my card is "invalid" and the automated answering machine hangs up on me for that reason.
The live chat service defers me and says someone will call me.
I resort to emails and have exchanged 30 (yes, THIRTY!) emails with them.
O Many of their emails state that they have tried calling me: but got no answer, yet my phone shows no record of their calls.
O Their numerous robotic emails 1) state that more information is required, but they fail to say what information is needed. 2) state that they did not receive a response to their message, although I have promptly replied to all of them.
O Although my name, email, and other information remains the same, they have assigned me not one, not two, but THREE different case numbers.
O My requests for information in contacting a supervisor is completely ignored.

The staggering incompetence of this company is impressive and their blatant disregard for standard, honorable business practices is astounding. I am utterly amazed that this company is in business at all. And to those at Giftcards.com? Message received: You are in the business of plundering gift cards and the joke is on those of us who buy and receive them! Ha Ha.

Date of experience: May 7, 2020
Arizona
6 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Horrible, they rejected my perfect cc rating cc, would not say why. I tried another CC and same results. I called them and they refused to tell me anything. I suspect fraud.

Date of experience: January 23, 2019
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I ordered a traditional gift card through giftcards.com and it never got there. I got the runaround until I made it clear that I want a refund. Save your sanity don't go near giftcards.com

Date of experience: October 29, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Absolute Rip off
October 2, 2023

Able to put money onto the card, unable to take money off. Everytime I call has a different excuse. No way to get money back.

Date of experience: October 2, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I was able to get a $#*!'s sporting goods giftcard at a discount and I also had a gift card customized with a sonogram and greeting card with picture of nursery. Great site, great products.

Date of experience: January 30, 2013
Rhode Island
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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This is THE ONE
August 18, 2015

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Date of experience: August 18, 2015
Ohio
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Someone purchased hundreds of dollars of online gift cards using stolen information from my credit card from this company. Because the gift cards are issued online, the thieves don't need to worry about the shipping address and billing address matching, so this is an easy place to use stolen credit card data. I had to cancel my credit card immediately and contacted this company's customer service to let them know about the fraudulent charges as soon as they opened the next morning. They did nothing to help me. They stated that according to their "Return Policy," they could not issue me a refund. The problem is, I never had been on their site and had never agreed to their "Return Policy." I had never even heard of this company until the fraudulent purchases were made through them. Now I have to wait for my bank to deal with this poor excuse for a company. I have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission for bad business practices, because this company offers a standing invitation for fraudsters to do this to other people. I recommend that anyone else who has had this same thing happen to them report this company to the FTC as well. The FTC phone number and website can be easily found on Google and it will take ten minutes to file the compaint at most.

Date of experience: January 21, 2023
Connecticut
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I haven't received my payment to my PayPal card I sold my gift card.kgiftcard.com. My gift card was from. Guitar center for the amount of 68.89 I sold it. I never received payment.

Date of experience: August 29, 2023
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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SCAM ARTISTS!
August 14, 2016

Attempted to purchase giftcard for a national chain restaurant. Order said "Cancelled" but no explanation was given. Tried again thinking it was my error in some way. Again cancelled. I wrote an email to giftcards.com telling them how irritated I was with their system. 15 minutes after my email, I get an email saying their compliance department couldn't approve my card "due to security." Okay, fine. Weird but fine. Went and verified I had entered the info correctly again... it was. So we went ahead and purchased actual gift cards at a physical location without issue. Same card btw. So, THEN I get 2 notice of preauthorized holds from giftcards.com from my bank. I was surprised to say the least. I called customer service at *******822 and spoke to GEORGE. Well, GEORGE was so disgustingly rude to me that my husband took the phone to finish the call. Anytime I tried to speak, GEORGE would say, "Can I talk now?" Over and over and over. So I'm making a police report about the charges and I'm calling my bank. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH GIFTCARDS.COM. I tried, and won't make that mistake ever again.

Date of experience: August 14, 2016
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible service
June 18, 2018

Agree with all other negative comments! How can a company like this stay in business! Terrible wen site architecture! Difficulty getting the order accepted and long delay on delivery!

Date of experience: June 18, 2018
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This company has by far some of the WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE PRACTICES I'VE EVER ENCOUNTERED. I tried not once, not twice, but 3 times to submitt 2 seperate orders. Once everything finally went through I then receive an email stated for an unknown reaso my order can't be placed. I tried contacting customer service, the chat even went so far as to reach out to the corporate office and still I didn't receive any assistance. So I continued calling finally I reached a rep named Raphael who was a human but spoke like a robot and was NO help at all. This company pretty mucg sales you a pipe dream when it comes to what they deliver. I checked and rechecked ALL of my information and EVERYTHING was CORRECT and the funds were available. It's FRUSTRATING AND DISAPPOINTING AND A HUGE WASTE OF TIME.

Date of experience: March 28, 2022
Kentucky
1 review
2 helpful votes
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They sent my gift card, we thought they hadn't. The card was found in the spam folder of my nephew. So I say go ahead and use them and check your spam/junk folder.

Date of experience: May 12, 2020
Virginia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE. Today is my mother's birthday. I ordered an Amazon Gift Card for her in the amount of $100. I received an email stating my order was in. Then received another email stating that my order was cancelled. When I called and spoke to a CSR, they told me that my order was cancelled due to my information NOT passing their fraudulent account check. WTH? I used my debit card and there is roughly $1400 in the account. All mailing address etc is up to date. ALSO... I checked my bank account and this company charged my account TWICE for $1.00 each. The CSR was rude and could not give me an explanation as to why they won't process my order. So I re-iterated that they are informing me that I cannot do business with them and must take my business elsewhere due to not passing whatever requirements they have for their 'fraud' test. HA. What a joke! Meanwhile, I am not late in sending my mother her gift. Should they not refund both $1.00 transactions, I will take this to the BBB. BE CAUTIOUS USING THIS COMPANY. There are TONS of other companies we can use!

Date of experience: March 30, 2017
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ridiculous company
December 25, 2017

So much for convenience, it says 2 - 24 hours and I'm thinking, yeah that's just in case something crashes. Kinda thing... no, they mean it...

I could have gone to ANYplace else and gotten a card immediate, Amazon, or any vendor...

GiftCard.com... Lame 3rd party of some sort who cannot process things painlessly.
Ps I thought it would be fun to personalize the card with the morning Christmas photos, (it was going to be a "Wait! There's more!" with uploading this days photo, I did, and talk about no fun at all... (course my kids got the budget and my credit card number) since I looked, and looked, and then checked the account only to read "We have to contact the Purchaser before processing" (I wanted the VISA so the kids could have fun entering "their VISA" number for their computer game purchases)

I mean this GiftCards.com system is a mess... why not process it, and leave it up to American Express system which does the auto=call IF system finds it worth verifying.

Sticking with Amazon no matter what from now on. Just that I had trouble finding the VISA virtual card on Amazon...

VISA, AMEX, why aren't they doing this themselves?

Date of experience: December 25, 2017

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
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value
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shipping
74
returns
68
quality
79