{"id":917,"date":"2010-06-22T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=917"},"modified":"2010-06-22T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:25:08","slug":"new-scam-to-worry-about-if-you-are-selling-your-gift-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"New scam to worry about if you are selling your gift card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an interesting comment to a post<\/a> on Plastic Jungle:<\/p>\n

I was selling Visa Gift cards on Ebay for $125 for a $100 card. I couldn\u2019t figure out why they would pay more but was happy they were. After ebay and paypal fees and shipping, I only made around $10. Well, around a week later, a guy who had purchased $1500 in cards did a chargeback on all 14 transactions. If I had not sent them with a tracking number so I could prove that they were received, I would have lost all the money. Once I gave the tracking number to Paypal, they released my money to me. If you ever sell a gift card, don\u2019t just stick a stamp on it, you can\u2019t prove that you sent it or that it was delivered. You need to go to your post office and pay extra to get a delivery confirmation. Boy am I glad I did it that way. 4 other people that I sold cards to tried to scam me the same way but I won because I had a tracking number. Who knows, they all could have been the same guy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is similar to the Craigslist scam<\/a> that we reported on a few days ago, but from the perspective of the buyer scamming the seller.<\/p>\n

While there are few options for selling open-loop (Visa type) gift cards among the plentiful sites where you can buy or trade gift cards (see our resources page<\/a>), we have yet to hear that any of those sites are scams; in fact they all appear quite legitimate.\u00a0 You are much better off buying of selling used gift cards through one of those services than you are through Ebay or Craigslist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an interesting comment to a post on Plastic Jungle: I was selling Visa Gift cards on Ebay for $125 for a $100 card. I couldn\u2019t figure out why they would pay more but was happy they were. After ebay and paypal fees and shipping, I only made around $10. Well, around a week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}