Walgreen's are having issues with their GCs. They have deactivated several lots of GCs. This includes the lots that SVM was selling on Ebay. I had 5 $100 cards that I had purchased from them. But when I tried to use them, they showed as an invalid tender. Checking the balance showed that the cards had a the $100 balance.
After about a month of back and forth between SVM and Walgreens. With each one blaming the other, I finally got new cards issues from Walgreens last night. I had to show that I had legally purchased them, that each card had to be verified for the balance, and it took reminding them that if they don't honor them, the state fines them $300 per card and they still have to honor the card.