I wanted to share my experience today with the Happy Guy gift cards that I bought at Kroger on the 4x fuel points promotion. I bought 4 $50 HG gift cards and took them to Home Depot today to buy Disney gift cards with them. I got one $50 Disney gift card and went through the self check out lane with it. Their system would not accept the Happy Guy gift card as payment. A Home Depot employee came over and explained that they had recently changed their policy and you could no longer buy a gift card with a gift card.
So, I tried another Home Depot in my area. This time I was also buying a small filler item. I went to the self checkout and got the same error message about not being able to use the HG gift card. A helpful employee came over and tried processing my transaction selecting "credit" as payment method instead of gift card. This worked. I was able to buy the $50 Disney gift card and the filler item with my HG gift card. I paid with a credit card for the remaining balance, which was the price of the filler item.
So, now I have 3 more $50 HG gift cards that I hope to be able to convert to Disney gift cards. I will go back and try to buy the Disney gift card by selecting credit as the payment method and swiping the HG gift card. If that doesn't work, then I'll have to buy a filler item and hope that will work. This is a lot of work, and I think I'm probably done with purchasing the HG gift cards.