@mrvietnam
I agree I haven’t had problems with MC gift cards since they went to random numbers. The balance checker is almost identical to Visa’s. If I had a choice I would still buy visa since it can be used at Costco, but would take MC if no choices.

@ctgolfer said in eBay 4th of July Event: Extra 20% off A/C + FS:

PLUS20

This seems to be for specific 4th of July items Ebay is featuring and not all items items in the category listings. I had a lot of things loaded in my cart in the general categories, but no discounts applied. So it is seems like a set up for certain merchants to raise their prices so they can be discounted.

@mistercheap
Been doing gift cards for years. There was fraud when the gift cards had sequential numbers and the expiration dates were all the same, so they were easily guessed and cloned. CVV numbers were not required for a lot of merchants. I haven’t had fraud since the gift cards were assigned random numbers. Also there are challenges on the websites for guessing the card numbers.

Bluebird has good offers? I remember some of these offers were much worse than the credit card offers. Do you think bluebird family members cards are afforded the same offers too?

I copied and pasted what I could from a poor pdf copy of the bankruptcy notice below. Good luck getting any money back from them. If they are auctioning their soda machines for pennies on the dollar, I doubt there are that much assets left for unsecured gift card holders like me who are out $100s of dollars. I could have used them up in less than a year, but I didn’t plan on a pandemic ruining the whole thing.

What we don’t get back, could we claim as a (schedule C, D, or E?) loss on our taxes?

I really thought Souplantation jumped the gun without even trying to remain viable. The business could be salvaged with prewrapped servings of their food, or as a partial cafeteria style restaurant until COVID cures were found. Golden Corral, Las Vegas buffets, or even hometown buffet hasn’t completely thrown in the towel yet. I wouldn’t mind paying $1 to $3 more for a person to serve me. I just liked their food offerings.

United States Bankruptcy Court
Southern District of California
Jacob Weinberger U.S. Counhouse 325 West F Street San Diego, CA 92 IO 1-6991
Case No.: 20-02477-LA 7
Garden Fresh Restaurants LLC
dba Souplantation, dba Sweet Tomatoes, dba Souplantation Express, dba Souplantation Field Kitchen
Creditors who do not file a proof of claim on or before this date might not share in any di tribution from the debtor’s e. tate.
A proof of claim form 410 may be obtained at any bankruptcy clerk’s office or the Court’s Web site at
www v . It may be filed by regular mail at the address shown below. .casb.uscourts.i:oTo receive acknowledgment /sites/casb/files/documents/forms/4 of your ofiling, you IO pdfmay either enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope
and a copy of this proof of claim. There is no fee f r filing the proof of claim.

Creditor. who wish to share in any distribution of funds must file a proof of claim with the clerk of the bankruptcy court at the address below on or before: 9/8/20

United States Bankruptcy Court
Southern District of California
Southern District of Calif rnia
Jacob Weinberger U.S. Courthou e
325 West F Street Sin Diego, CA 92 IO 1-699 I

should read valid until June 23rd. Expired.

@mistercheap

@mistercheap said in Staples 100% back in rewards limit 4, on select ream paper w/Free Delivery and code from $5 and up ( CB at cb sites):

@mrvietnam said in Staples 100% back in rewards limit 4, on select ream paper w/Free Delivery and code from $5 and up ( CB at cb sites):

When will the rewards from this deal become available?

Will be issued in June as part of the regular monthly rewards outlay. Unlike OD, Staples doesn’t instantly award FArewards deals, you have to wait til the next month.

Will the rewards appear on June 1st and do Staples Rewards expire?

I actually used a MasterCard prepaid card to pay for merchandise at Costco! Somehow my MasterCard prepaid card could be used at Costco, which usually takes only Visa.

@mistercheap
The OD rewards can only used for OD merchandise? It doesn’t discount sales the price directly?

@c3 wow!