eBay carnival gift cards

[PH29]

Has anyone else noticed that there are $100 gift cards on eBay for $80. But unlike the last time they were sold at a good price through PayPal, these appear to be sold through private sellers. I hesitate to purchase one of these, one because they have an expiration date of July 8, even though they are digital, but secondly there are 5 sellers at once with these. What are others thoughts on these? Has anyone else purchased these?

 

 

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[jordanaire]

I would be a little leery about buying from private sellers. You don't know if there's anything on those cards. I have 2 on my desk at home. There's nothing on them. My son used them to pay off his cruise a while back. Saving them to use to open/close the safe on our next cruise.

 

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[blarko]

There are now six sellers at once with the cards for $80. None of the sellers have more than one or two feedback and appear to be new accounts. I would not purchase from those sellers. Also what in the heck does an expiration date of 7/8 mean? Gift cards don’t expire. Stay away!

[Organized Chaos]

DO NOT BUY! Very bad idea to buy gift cards from private sellers. Good chance you'll end up with an empty gift card. Carnival gift cards don't have expiration dates.

[christyran1228]

Legit gift cards have no expiration date ... stay away!

 

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[kona_wahine]

I was just looking at those yesterday. I’d say its 99.9% probability they are a scam.

[PH29]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. You’ve validated what I was thinking, but yet still hoping they were legit, lol.

 

 

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[blarko]

I see that all of those gift cards have been sold. Wonder if anyone on this forum purchased any, and if they did, were they legit gift cards?

[bnorris10]

Something else to think about not only do you have the possibility of nothing being on it but a while back people were getting giftcards and then months later carnival was turning around and revoking the giftcards for some reason or another and then putting blocks on people's accounts to prevent them from using giftcards and i believe if I recall correctly this caused some people to lose their reservations because it was past payment due date and all of a suddent they owed all the money for the giftcards

 

SO I would stay away unless its coming directly from ebay/paypal - AARP, ALLSTATE, or your buying them directly at the stores - It's nice to save but not nice to lose money or run into headaches

 

If you have American Express card find the thread that talks about the deal they have $75 off $350 purchase

[PH29]

So this morning I noticed the same sellers now have 3 cards bundled and selling for $240. Again a July 8 expiration date. Definitely very shady.

 

 

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[mz-s]

It's either a complete scam, or a trick to rope you into a timeshare/travel agent deal. I've had timeshares offer me these limited-use gift cards in exchange for a grueling 3 hour "presentation" before. I would assume it's a complete scam though. Odd since eBay is really good about giving refunds for people. What do they gain from it?

[blarko]

And again, all sellers with zero feedback. Extremely shady.

 

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[benebire]

Why not get them through AARP rewards? Still 10 percent off and definitely legimate.

[mgf316]

How do you get the gift cards - searched the AARP website and nothing comes up?

 

 

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[Schoifmom]

How do you get the gift cards - searched the AARP website and nothing comes up?

 

 

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Google AARP Rewards for Good

[mgf316]

Thank you! - do you know how long the e-gift card takes to get delivered to your inbox? Is it instant?

 

 

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[Keys2Heaven]

Report these scams to ebay.

 

Brand new sellers with zero feedback and made up names. You tell me if any of these sellers look reputable:

 

hdsghsd464gsgs (0)

seakingrunning (0)

americanchoral55 (0)

tomnicholascpa (0)

hopeinc55588 (0)

diabetesislet (0)

slowrollchicago (0)

firstteamautomotivecorp (0)

tomdavisfund (0)

Edited July 6, 2018 by Keys2Heaven

[LibratPDX]

Pretty shady! I reported one of them but there's no space to make a comment and I don't have time to go through all of them. Even with eBay's guarantee I wouldn't chance it.

[mgf316]

Anyone know how long the AARP gift card take to get if you do email delivery? Is it instant?

 

 

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[bnorris10]

Thank you! - do you know how long the e-gift card takes to get delivered to your inbox? Is it instant?

 

 

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If your talking about EBAY DON'T DO IT

 

 

if your talking about AARP then when its emailed mine usually shows up within 10 minutes or so

[Saint Greg]

Anyone know how long the AARP gift card take to get if you do email delivery? Is it instant?

 

 

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Pretty much.

[mgf316]

Ok great thank you- I was talking about AARP - sorry for changing the subject

 

 

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[Saint Greg]

Ok great thank you- I was talking about AARP - sorry for changing the subject

 

 

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Yeah the AARP ones I bought a couple weeks ago were in my inbox pretty much instantly.

[Organized Chaos]

Ok great thank you- I was talking about AARP - sorry for changing the subject

There's a few AARP gift card threads floating around. This one is kind of the main one, so it stays pretty active. https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2208976

[mgf316]

Hmm so I went to go buy the gift cards from AARP and I don’t see them now? Did they sell out? Do they come back?

 

 

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