I worked on a retail store for a time, it was sad that a lot of old people spent a lot on money on gift cards, specially Steam and Apple gift cards because they didn’t even knew what they were purchasing, and 7/10 times when you warned them about a scam they tell you to eat shit, but it was funny because it was like: An famous singer is contacting me, just to tell me that if I give them a $100 gift card they will send me $100.000.000

And there were some more extreme cases of old people who lived alone and didn’t know much about technology, that it was like a rolplay but on real life and the currency to keep rolplaying was the gift cards.

And another thing is that the old (due to the scammers) were the most unbearable people in the world, because the scammers didn’t ask, they demanded gift cards, and they were always asking for $100 gc. If the elderly people couldn’t get them, they threatened to stop talking to them, so we had to deal with unbearable old people constantly.

This sucks. I was reading how about fraudsters buy counterstrike items to launder money and it’s crazy. They must have found steam cards are a huge part of the operation too.

I just want an alternative to the whole VISA/Mastercard BS and this one was the easiest.

Well that sucks, no more paying in cash for physical cards.

Back when I used to work retail all gift cards were inside the registers only allowed to be activated once the registers opened.

This meant it was less likely for someone to either swap gift cards for counterfeit ones, or take pictures of all the cards waiting for someone to activate them and drain the balance.