Gift Card Churning – Rejection – Part 2

I wrote about Cardpool not accepting a certain gift card and how reluctant they were to release more information on why they would not accept my card. I tried my luck with ABC Gift Cards.

They are the same thing. They rejected the cards, but their responses were more helpful and open.

Good Morning [Name Withheld],

Thank you for choosing ABC Gift Cards, we appreciate your business.
We apologize for the inconvenience however our internal system has flagged your cards as “high risk”.
We are unable to process your cards and will be returning them to you promptly.

Thank you for your understanding.

If there is anything else we can help you with, please don’t hesitate to reply to this email.

Regards,
[Name Withheld]

ABC Gift Cards Customer Service
800-364-0488

After asking them what is “high risk”:

Hi [Name Withheld],

It seems that recently [gift card type withheld until sold] have been flagged as high risk as they go bad very easily.
Once our system flags a card we are reluctant to take it because we do not want customers to be buying faulty cards.

So there you have it! I have a few ideas that I will share with you on what makes a card go bad.