Don’t buy “gift cards” throught zillionsgift offers on gift card racks in Walgreens.
They are counting on you to become frustrated trying to transform them into a useable gift card for so site you like.
My experience:
- The fine print says the card can only be redeemed at their website
- Took several tries to get to the website “zillionsgift.com”; the fine print isn’t easy to read; mistakes take you to cyber squatters waiting for you to fall into their trap
- Getting the card info in and verifying your humanity took three tries
- After getting thru that hurdle, you need to select values for your favorite destination site that work (i.e., 40$ gift card must be taken as two 20$ Amazon gift cards)
- Then it says “tilt” and an obscure error message
- Try that twice, then give up at call their 1-833 (?) number
- After a brief hold, you get a call center fellow (Philippines?) who makes your repeat all your info and then tells you to try a mobile or another browser (Hey, I’m an IT pro. Already did that! Argh!)
- Then he graciously agrees to send you a paper check to your home address in 3 or 4 weeks
- Argh! I’m saving all the papers and card in an envelope with 8/15/25 on it
Feel free to check back for my update. Argh!
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