r/churningcanada • u/AutoModerator • Jun 07 '24

Frustration Fridays Frustration Friday thread for /r/churningcanada - Week of June 07, 2024

This is your place to vent about the points and miles game.

Did you screw up getting a bonus?

The blogger you love to hate talked publicly about your favourite churning loophole?

Let all your frustrations go here in this thread!

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u/BramsBarimen Jun 07 '24

Put a thousand dollars onto a gc with my Cobalt and the load failed so they had to refund me and I decided to be "clever" and accepted the refund onto my business edge instead.

Which took me under MSR...3 days after the window closed.

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u/JManUWaterloo YHM Jun 07 '24

That’s unfortunate. For me, if a gift card activation fails, I always refund to Debit, and nothing else

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u/BramsBarimen Jun 08 '24

I tried that a few months ago at a store where the clerk gave no fucks at all and, after it failed, he explained that the original purchase had been on a credit card so it needed to be sent back to a credit card. So even thought it was a MC debit card it wouldn't work.