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DjGABE
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 Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: Do you really have to activate the Gift Cards at Grocery Stores? |
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| How does the register know how to activate the Gift card ( Itunes, Starbucks, Red lobter, Old Navy) if it is not connected to an online source? It must already be activated? |
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JTJ21M
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe its a magnetic strip just like those that need to be demagnetized as to not set off alarms. Its not electronic.*edit* apparently after reading the other answers im wrong! oh well two points for me still o.O |
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i.dopey
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| The black strip they usually have stores the information. If money is invested and stored on that card, when it is registered and activated, the information about money and handling is stored on the strip or the bar code, whichever the company uses. |
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americanfreeman
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| if they do not activate it, the card will not work.The register IS connected and it reads the bar code on the card. |
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Mike C
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Most registers are connected to an online source...thats how their debt works. I have heard of people scamming people by exchanging non-active gift cards for items on websites...so, it looks like they are not active at first. |
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GiftCardBlogger™
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Gift card activation at the register is to reduce the incidence of theft. Otherwise, people will just steal them easily. So, they are linked to the Point of Sale system on the register and become activated once the cashier swipes the bar code on the card. |
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