Matt B.

When selling gift cards to them, be very wary of the offer they present you. No matter how they make it sound, it apparently is in no way an actual offer to buy your card.

I intended to sell them three gift cards. As they requested in the very first step, I entered the brand of the cards and the card values. Their automated system spit out the amount they'd pay me, which was acceptable to me. In order to proceed with the sale, I entered all three gift card numbers and access codes. They implied they would pay me within 3 days, as soon as they confirmed the card balances and verified my identity. Considering I knew the cards were legitimate and my identity verification would be clean, I also proceeded to give them my bank account and routing number so they could pay me (as they stated) as soon as those confirmations were complete.

However, two days later, after collecting all sorts of personal info (including bank account number), getting me to create an account on their site and bombarding my email with marketing offers, they informed me they would not be buying the cards from me after all. Obviously, the legitimacy of the cards was not a concern, nor was my identity or background check. They clearly just decided, after further review, that they didn't want the cards (likely because the unusually high value would make it difficult for them to sell them for a profit). However, the first step in the process was asking me the brand and value of the card. If they don't want that brand of card for that dollar value, they should just set their offer-generation model to not make an offer. Pretty simple, right? But then I guess they wouldn't have been able to harvest all my data, so I guess this does make sense for them.