Are you serious?

[Imogene]

This one happened today, and set that little red light in my head blazing!

Lady came up to me, and the first words out of her mouth are, "Can I buy twenty $10 gift cards?"
Uh... uh... er... uh... "I suppose...?" uh... er... uh... I guesh I chooshe Shcarlet Johansshen!
I double check with FES H, who just kind of shrugs, and says, "Why not?"
Okay, so I spend fifteen minutes ringing up twenty $10 gift cards (I counted out twenty gift cards first, so I wouldn't have to keep track.) Finished with that, I say, "$200.00, and your zip code?"
She pays credit, and gives me her zip, at which point the register finally starts activating the cards. Huzzah.
Cards finish, lady goes on her way, after grabbing a bag.
At which point I tell H, "It seemed suspicious to me that she wanted twenty $10 gift cards. That just screams fraud to me..."
H says, "Nah, if it had been return cards, yeah, that'd be suspicious, but gift cards? No big."

[SubwayGirl]

We get people that buy multiple gift cards all the time. She was probably sending out late Christmas cards or something.

[Pagan]

Yeah, we used to get this all the time at Hasting's. It's not that unusual. Mostly, bosses getting $10 for all of their staff, that type of thing. There's nothing sneaky about it. Was she acting in some way that was off?

[Imogene]

Not that I can remember, but it just seemed strange to me. It's also the first time I've ever sold 20 gift cards in one transaction.

[wagegoth]

They might have been employee gifts or grab bag items or prizes in drawings. I don't think it's that odd. I bought four $25 gift cards for my kids teachers and other school workers at the same book store.

[Peppergirl]

Kinda odd that it's after Christmas rush, but my boss did the same thing for us when our company cheaped out on Christmas bonuses and gifts this year.

She gave each of us a 10.00 giftcard to Target and paid for them out of her own pocket, and her direct department is 43 people, so that's how many she bought at one time.

Pretty nice of her, considering.

[BookstoreEscapee]

We get that all the time at the bookstore. Christmas gifts, teacher gifts, schools buying for contest prizes, bosses buying for their employees, etc... I've rung up 200 gift cards in one transaction (well, actually we split it into 4 transactions in case the register went floopy). I've also had to write out 150 paper gift certificates, which involved writing out the amount (like on a check), then franking the certificate in the check printer after the payment went through. I would just open the extra register in music so I could do it without getting interrupted.

[rerant]

My ex's old job would give employees $5 Wal Mart gift cards as little bonuses when they did something well. It culd have been something like that.

[Trayol]

My job sells tons of gift cards during the holidays. I sold one person thirty $5 gift cards and I've seen a couple of women get 100 $5 gift cards. Luckily they payed by credit card.

[powerboy]

Nothing wrong with that. I had to buy multiple amounts of gift cards before. And I paid cash. As I can see nothing wrong with that.

[queenbb]

that would have sucked for me because i have to do each one individually.

the system in my store is different from the rest of the store (ie the auto shop and the regular store are different systems)

i had one customer right before christmas come in and ask for a quote on tires and then asked to do gift cards so her son can come in and get the tires. they were over 500$ which is the limit we can put on the cards so i tried to put them on the same ticket, no dice. lucky i could get it in 2 transactions cause they were under 1000$

what sucked really big is that i had a guy come in and order tires, which requires me to take a 100% deposit on the tires (the installation they dont have to pay for at the time of the reservation) so he is willing to give me deposit, but apparently my modem was down and would not take the cards even with the help of the card customer service who confirmed there was money on the cards. i told him we were just going to have to skip the deposit and he would have to come in when the tires arrived. what really sucks about this order is that he lives in mexico so i cant call him when the tires come in.

[ebonyknight]

This one happened today, and set that little red light in my head blazing!

I thought (at least people have said so before) that you can't buy gift cards with credit cards???

[Spiffy McMoron]

I thought (at least people have said so before) that you can't buy gift cards with credit cards???

I've never heard that rule at any place I've ever been to. (not that I use my credit card much) Plus, I don't see where the OP mentions how she paid, just that she did pay.

[ebonyknight]

I've never heard that rule at any place I've ever been to. (not that I use my credit card much) Plus, I don't see where the OP mentions how she paid, just that she did pay.

Finished with that, I say, "$200.00, and your zip code?"
She pays credit, and gives me her zip, at which point the register finally starts activating the cards. Huzzah.

Well, from the stories I remember reading, credit cards weren't to be used to cut down on fraud.

[HawaiianShirts]

I heard a story from a cashier in my store about a guy who came in with $100 worth of gift cards, all in $1 increments. Somebody had given them to him as a gift that was partly a joke. He was excited to have $100 to spend, but he apologized profusely to the cashier who rang him out because he could see what a pain it was.

I almost wish I'd been there. That would have been amusing. Wouldn't want to have been a cashier then, though, either the one who created the gift cards or the one who processed the purchase made with them.