bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
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It was really odd when I got a $50 virtual eGift card through my credit card rewards program for Romano’s Macaroni Grill. When it got it, what I could print out or save to PDF only had a 16 digit number with a 3 digit CVV2 number and an expiration date in about 9 years. There’s fine print on the page saying that it has to be processed manually as a credit transaction. The first time I used it the server came back and said he hadn’t seen one of these before and it took a while to figure out what to do.
So last night I tried using what I thought was the remaining balance (which I wrote down), and they had a 25% discount with at least a $10 purchase. Everything went well, but by the time I had to pay, the server said was declined, twice. Wasn’t sure what to do. I called the number on the page to check and see if maybe I got the balance wrong. And it wouldn’t respond without entering a “two digit mark code”, which didn’t sound like anything on the page. I kind of gave up but then had the old receipt from the last time I used it, which I had kept with the page. I showed it to her asked if she tried entering it manually as a credit card, where the old receipt said was a manually entered Visa card number. She tried it again, entered the remaining balance, and it worked. But it was a lot of work for this. I paid the remaining balance and tip in cash. But it was weird and I think they almost never have these redeemed. I’m not even sure it wasn’t some general purpose prepaid Visa card that I could have used elsewhere.
My credit card rewards program also has some of the oddest printouts. I’ve saved to PDF and printed. Some are normal looking, but for Brinker (Chili’s, Maggiano’s, On the Border) they look nothing like the eGift cards that I’ve bought directly from the Chili’s website that have a normal looking QR code that prints out as maybe an inch wide. On these (from my credit card rewards program) the QR codesprint out maybe a quarter inch wide and I can’t get it to read through the camera on one of those tabletop tablets. I’ve used the PDF copy on my device and zoomed in, where I can see it looks pixelated on the edges, but it’s then big enough for the camera to scan it. I’ve also found ways to expand the size of the QR code and print it on the other side.
So last night I tried using what I thought was the remaining balance (which I wrote down), and they had a 25% discount with at least a $10 purchase. Everything went well, but by the time I had to pay, the server said was declined, twice. Wasn’t sure what to do. I called the number on the page to check and see if maybe I got the balance wrong. And it wouldn’t respond without entering a “two digit mark code”, which didn’t sound like anything on the page. I kind of gave up but then had the old receipt from the last time I used it, which I had kept with the page. I showed it to her asked if she tried entering it manually as a credit card, where the old receipt said was a manually entered Visa card number. She tried it again, entered the remaining balance, and it worked. But it was a lot of work for this. I paid the remaining balance and tip in cash. But it was weird and I think they almost never have these redeemed. I’m not even sure it wasn’t some general purpose prepaid Visa card that I could have used elsewhere.
My credit card rewards program also has some of the oddest printouts. I’ve saved to PDF and printed. Some are normal looking, but for Brinker (Chili’s, Maggiano’s, On the Border) they look nothing like the eGift cards that I’ve bought directly from the Chili’s website that have a normal looking QR code that prints out as maybe an inch wide. On these (from my credit card rewards program) the QR codesprint out maybe a quarter inch wide and I can’t get it to read through the camera on one of those tabletop tablets. I’ve used the PDF copy on my device and zoomed in, where I can see it looks pixelated on the edges, but it’s then big enough for the camera to scan it. I’ve also found ways to expand the size of the QR code and print it on the other side.
