GiftCardMall.com is a website and service provided by Blackhawk Network, the largest provider of third party gift cards in the US and Canada.
At GiftCardMall.com, you can purchase gift cards that may be used at over 140 different places, including clothing and accessory stores, restaurants, and service providers, amongst others. They claim that anyone can find the perfect gift in 5 minutes.
Gift cards purchased at the Gift Card Mall can be searched either by the specific retailer or by category, and can be used either online or at locations. In addition, they offer e gift cards and GiftCardMall.com Choice Cards as well.
Gift Cards and E Gift Cards
When choosing a gift card from the Gift Card Mall, you can pick the retailer, the specific dollar amount, and a personal message that will be sent along to your recipient. Some cards may even be customized with a personal image for a $1.00 charge.
But Gift Card Mall offers electronic gift cards as well, which can be emailed to the recipient with instructions for downloading and printing the gift cards. An e greeting card of your choice will be delivered along with the card.
If you create an account with GiftCardMall.com, then you will be notified both when your payment has been confirmed, and when your e gift card has been viewed by the recipient.
GiftCardMall.com also offers the Choice Card, which allows the recipient to choose their own gift card from all 140 brands carried on the site. Recipients can even request a gift card in excess of the price already paid, and cover the difference with their own credit card.
What Else to Know
Gift cards take 5 to 8 days to be shipped, unless extradited shipping is chosen. After you receive your gift card in the mail, you must go online and activate it before it can be used.
Gift Card Mall is also partnered with major grocery store chains like Jewel Osco and Safeway, so that you can find gift cards quickly and easily in your own neighborhood. Gift cards purchased at the store will be activated at time of purchase; no need to go online.
If a gift card purchased at GiftCardMall.com is lost or stolen after it has been delivered, there is nothing Gift Card Mall can do to help – gift cards are essentially the same as cash, and cannot be replaced.
But if a gift card is not delivered, or if there is another problem with your card, you must call Gift Card Mall Customer Care at (877) 426-2551.
When I explained the wrong date issue to a cust service rep and requested that it be corrected I was informed that it wasn't a issue and companies didn't look at that when verifying card authenticity. I am highly trained in credit card transactions from working in the retail industry for many years. I insisted it be changed and the represenative refused. Did she inform me that there was a massive IT failure resulting in wrong expiration dates on customers cards. No, she didn't. I found that out a week later after many attempts to use the cards and the transactions being declined. Today I insisted that I get my money back. Their only solution is to issue a new card and I have to wait about 2 weeks to get it. I asked for a confirmation email that a new card was owed to me and they refused to even send me a short email. I am supposed to 'trust them'. So the Federal Trade Commission will be informed of their disreputable/illegal buisness practices. Along with the federal banking administration.
I called and was told their refund policy gives them an additional 15 days to process the refund. That there are no numbers to call anyone else about it, it's no longer their problem because the refund was processed and again told me it's up to my bank as to when I get my refund. There's more but I won't make you more angry.
I believe someone needs to shut these people down. We do after all have laws that are supposed to protect us through the Inspector General's Office.
If anyone else is on board, how about a class action lawsuit against these crooks? At minimum, call your inspector general's office as I am doing Monday.
I finally got an order through. They cancelled the order and told me I can never order from their site EVER.
I called support, first level support person says something is not matching or whatever, you can't order anymore. I asked to talk to his manager, same answer and no reasoning. As a business, they don't want me to be their customer?? and no reason???? at least help me find out why. so i asked to talk to her manager, someone's got to know, rite? and here comes the bang, she told me she will end the call now and that's it!
if anyone knows why, please let me know.