I tried to use a visa gift card to reload ...
I tried to use a visa gift card to reload my Amazon.com gift balance. The visa gift card had a balance of exactly $100. If you ordered a $100 amazon gift card you got an extra 5-10 dollars. Plan was to use the visa card to buy an amazon card and get the extra money.<br /><br />1st try the card was rejected. No reason. I thought it was because it was a visa gift card so I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out if there was something wrong with my card. Tried again.<br /><br />2nd try was also rejected. These aren't instant rejections.... they are card denied rejections that happen 5-10 minutes after the order happens. Again no reason as to why this happened.<br /><br />Called customer service. The advice there wasn't helpful and they didn't really know what was going on. What I eventually figured out was that each time I put an order in, it was charging a $1 authorisation fee to the card. Then the card has a $99 balance instead of $100 and the transaction is rejected. Probably not news to most people but its not common knowledge, after all Amazon Customer Service didn't know what was up...
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