Is there some secret giftcard doubling jutsu in not aware of?
At a guess:
- People with steam accounts and VPNs in countries that steam doesn’t operate in. Steam will block your “foreign” credit card as a fraud risk, but eBay dgaf cos it’s the sellers problem if they get ripped off
- This is probably a pretty convenient way to send small amounts of money to people in a way that looks pretty legit. Arrange to buy some drugs off someone over telegram, they get you to buy a “steam card” from them, they send an envelope with a blank bit of cardboard and the drugs
I’m leaning towards explanation 2
Yup. And nobody but their customers will buy (since it’s $150 for a $100 card) so they don’t have to worry about buying a card to send a real customer to look legit.
There are two kind of buyers, this smart guy:
and grandpa, who bought it for his grandson billy:
Money laundering
Likely this. Gift cards are popular purchases when using stolen credit card details. The online order makes it easier since there’s no physical card/chip needing to be replicated.
People trying to refund a tech support company after accidentally transferring too much money to themselves at the DOS prompt.
Quite possibly related to the Steam gift card scam https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/09A1-E754-1D86-DDC9
Often all the shops round here are sold out of steam gift cards for this reason. It’s sad, I spoke to a store worker about it, they explain to people they are getting scammed but they want the cards anyway.
Some people like to use a stored balance as a financial discipline tool. Don’t put a “real” funding source on the account and then you can only spend the $100 you committed to, and not go whale-mad and drop $500 on premium currencies.
This gift card costs $150 tho
Problem: They paid $150 for $100 in gift cards.
Why lose $50?
Man, I wish they still sold these, I would love to get one for a birthday.
Oh I’ve seen them in the stores so I think there’s still a chance.
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Oh I should have mentioned, I’m in Canada
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I just searched it on Amazon and didn’t find any, Amazon Canada is different than the US version
I did find a $50 one for $206 but I don’t count that
Online outlets don’t typically list gift cards unless it’s their own?
But you can probably walk into Walmart and it would be on the rack with the others.