So I am currently stuck with $900 in GS gift cards. I had called my local store and was told that I could buy eBay gift cards with GS gift cards before I made the purchase. But once I actually got to the store, the employee would not run the transaction. He said they didn't allow it for digital gift cards, just physical cards. Called another store and asked, they said yes. Went to another store and same thing. Wouldn't let me do it once I arrived. Went to third store that said I could buy any other gift cards, just not eBay or
Amazon.
So I am going to make another round of the stores this morning and hope that one of the employees will let me run this, but if not I figured out a backup plan. They did say I could buy Shell gas cards, which seem to be the highest value gift cards for resale that they have. I can sell the Shell cards to one of the reseller sites in exchange for eBay gift cards and retain 95% of the value of my cards. Which means that this GS churn would have been basically a wash after the 2% eBucks and the 4% eBates. But at least I won't be stuck with GS gift cards. Lesson learned and I will not be churning through GS again. My local stores are not friendly to the practice.