@wastingtime101 wrote:
Can someone explain to me what the deal is with the rash of recent gift card posts that say they're missing the last 2 digits? Some say they peeled off by mistake.
I haven't paid that close attention, but I see a ton of them. This is a scammer thing, yes? No?
Well, this may or not have relevance but there was an article in our locally paper recently on this subject.
Many times gift cards are on carousel displays, frequently out in the open. For example, my post office has one right out in the open where postal customers mingle begging to be stolen. Thieves take the cards, peel back the security strip, copy the numbers and then replace the cards. They are betting that the average buyer doesn't notice. Then they monitor the card rack and once the card sells they activate the card meaning that by the time the rightful buyer tries to activate the card it is already useless.
"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand
