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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2595436, member: 27832"]I can see the reasoning behind it -- eBay loses a bit to merchants on gift card sales, and they probably collect their smallest fees from large-scale bullion dealers, so they may well lose money on gift-card bullion sales. (I assume that's also why they stopped giving eBay Bucks on bullion.)</p><p><br /></p><p>What's got me riled up is that they made this change <i>without notice</i>, and <i>without recourse for cards already purchased</i>. I'd just finished going through close to $1000 worth of eBay gift cards, all spent on coins. If my timing had been slightly different, I would've been stuck. Since there was no notice, I wouldn't even have had the chance to "dump the balance" before the ban.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: not meaning to hijack OP's thread. This is a great deal for gold bars. I guess bringing the thread back to the top of the recent-posts list isn't a bad thing, at least. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2595436, member: 27832"]I can see the reasoning behind it -- eBay loses a bit to merchants on gift card sales, and they probably collect their smallest fees from large-scale bullion dealers, so they may well lose money on gift-card bullion sales. (I assume that's also why they stopped giving eBay Bucks on bullion.) What's got me riled up is that they made this change [I]without notice[/I], and [I]without recourse for cards already purchased[/I]. I'd just finished going through close to $1000 worth of eBay gift cards, all spent on coins. If my timing had been slightly different, I would've been stuck. Since there was no notice, I wouldn't even have had the chance to "dump the balance" before the ban. Edit: not meaning to hijack OP's thread. This is a great deal for gold bars. I guess bringing the thread back to the top of the recent-posts list isn't a bad thing, at least. :)[/QUOTE]
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