Kyle D.

WARNING: The criminals running this website have established a brand new one called GiftCardOutlets in summer 2021. I was scammed by these two Indian guys there, but they have no listing on Google so I am leaving my review below on their first "business" page:

This "company" is 100% a scam. I submitted a bid for a Tractor Supply Gift Card and was counter-offered a bit less. I decided to accept their offer and provided the card number and PIN along w/ my credit card number for security. This is fairly standard for the larger, and actually legitimate gift card re-sellers, as they need to secure your card to ensure that you do not sell it to them and then turn around and use up the gift card after having pocketed the cash. I have had good experiences with cardcash.com and giftcardgranny.com in the past using this exact method. Well, I should have known better having found out this site/"company" has only been in business since this past summer. Shame on me, I should have known better.

Anyhow, 2 weeks goes by and no direct deposit has been issued. I call and get a man with a middle eastern accent who assures me it can take up to 3-4 weeks to process payments during the holiday season. Same day I check my TSC card balance and its all still there. Well, I wait until the week before Christmas as instructed and can't get anyone on the phone all week now. I login and check my TSC card and its zeroed out. Great, so someone must've purchased the card from them and spent it up (still pretty typical for a transaction like this). No, in fact found out direct from TSC that the gift card was used at a store location in the same town as this "business" is located in. Haha ok, so they were gracious enough to re-issue the gift card for me (Thanks TSC!). I reported these guys to the BBB and on a couple other scam tracking websites like this one, chalk it up as a lesson learned for myself - Be smarter about these sites and research them more before doing business lol. Well, tonight I get a $1200 transaction from target.com... then another $1200 as I'm dialing my bank's fraud hotline... Then another $1200 on hold... They finally get my card frozen (WTF took Navy Fed so long I have no idea, they routinely freeze my account for gassing up my truck down the road from where I live for God's sake lol). While on the phone with them waiting for a new card to be reissued and mailed, get hit with 6-7 more notifications of declined transactions at target.com for my old, and now cancelled, credit card. Guess where the merchandise was supposed to be sent? You better believe it, same town this "business" resides in.

Needless to say, these criminals aren't too bright (Ok, Admitedly they got mine and at least a few other people's info haha, but seriously mailing the goods right to yourself and using the customer's gift cards down the road?). So to sum it all up, I was lucky to make out whole on the situation with a valuable lesson... And as of 20 minutes ago, the Chicago PD has a boatload of evidence (screen shots, phone call transcripts, email communications, photos) to [hopefully] pursue these criminals in the near future. But consider yourself well warned, STAY AWAY FROM www.giftcardoutlets.com AS IT IS 1000% A SCAM.