YAY! Bless the counter clerk at Macys!
My ever-loving husband took a little trip to Best Buy the other day and hefted a little sample camera to confirm my choices and make his decision. He approved! I was allowed! He called me at work and let me know that I could buy the camera if I wanted to, so I jumped right on the site, clicked strait through to checkout and started entering gift card numbers as fast as my little ten-key could go. It was quite the process since every card has that 16 digit number, plus a secret code on the back that has to be scratched off with a coin. I had made it through four cards before the screen wouldn’t allow me to add any more, and I got confused. I hit refresh several times and searched and searched, but couldn’t find a way to add cards number five through twelve. There was a button to instant message a tech to the store, so I had a nice little chat with someone out of Bangalor, I’m sure. Turns out that they don’t have the capacity on the website to accept more than four cards…that was just the limit…nothing they could do. I was told that I could call in and order over the phone and they could accept up to SIX cards there. Okay…what about cards 7-12? No…I don’t want to redeem a FEW cards…I want to redeem ALL my cards! Thanks anyway, Apoo. That’s not going to work for me.
I decided to take a chance…they don’t sell cameras in the store, but the store can read the cards, right? I thought that they could, but WOULD they since I wasn’t going to buy something right then? It was worth a shot, and once I finally stood at the counter, the sassy little cashier knew exactly what to do. Eek! She put in a purchase of a brand new gift card worth $120. She then scanned in all 12 of my $10 cards as payment for the $120 card! BLESS HER! It worked. I grabbed my card, ran home, and bought the camera on the spot. YAY! It should be here in about a week.
Ahhh…Thank you! Bless those poor cashiers who hate their jobs, aren’t trained for anything else and so are stuck there in perpetuity, but so know the system that they can do what needs to be done for those of us on the other side of the counter! You deserve a raise!
YEAH! You have a camera. I want a cheapie little one to put in my purse to capture things sporadically for times when I don’t have the Cannon with me. It is a bit bulky so it isn’t like I carry it everywhere.
You know gift cards should be treated as cash so they should let you enter to your heart’s desire. But Kudos to the cashier.
I have my target cards saved up from the firm…..I am just waiting for the perfect thing that I wouldn’t normally buy to come up. Don’t you love gift certificates? Todd’s work has given us several $50 to Chevron lately…those have been awesome with gas prices!