Topic: [WTS] US$50 Hot Topic Gift Card - asking $45 (Read 751 times)

I know right.... "we ship to over 150 countries"... right up until I put my address in:

And yes, I have tried contacting them... the missus even moaned at them on Facebook (which apparently is the best way to get their attention it would seem)... Got some badly spell checked canned response and was told that our shipping address was invalid. Which is rubbish... the shipping address is perfectly fine, Amazon ship stuff to it all the time

Then they told me to call them... so I wasted some more money on an international call to the States, talked to the nice guy for like 30 mins entering my order manually, confirming address and billing info etc... for him to tell me that he was getting the same error

Then we tried the package forwarding address and that was OK, but there was some issue with the credit card payment (Total order value was over $50 so I was trying to pay the rest with my Credit Card)... so then the guy talked to the Finance team to attempt to figure out if it was a "Verification of Address" issue and whether I needed to get my bank on a 3-way call to verify my address... another 10 minutes on hold...

And then the icing on the cake was after I handed over to the finance team guy, I randomly got put on hold and then the call disconnected  

45 minutes of my life I'm not getting back. At this point, I'm just totally over it... I just want to get "some" money back so I can go and use Amazon because that just works...


As a side note... the gift card was originally purchased using Bitcoins from eGifters.com. (I can probably show the receipt and sign a message from the bitcoin address if a potential buyer wants proof)

I'm a bit confused, because they mention on the FAQ that they can accommodate shipping internationally:

https://www.hottopic.com/customer-service/faq/international/

Have you tried emailing them to get your order through?

Not sure if they allow it through the normal ordering process, but it looks like they will dispatch to most countries.

Unfortunately buyers of online giftcards are far too easily scammed by credit card fraud resellers, even if the story does sound convincing.

Ok, so I tried to be nice and bought my missus a USD$50 Hot Topic eGift Card so she could buy herself some cool Wonder Woman Themed stuff that they don't sell here... Unfortunately, I didn't realise that Hot Topic won't ship here, even tried a US-Based package forwarding service and Hot Topic just cancelled the order saying the shipping address was invalid >

I have setup the item for sale over at Selly: https://selly.gg/p/bb15e71a

Card is worth USD$50.00... hoping to get $45.00 worth of BTC for it so I can just go buy her an Amazon Gift Card like I should have done in the first place

Gift Card Code gets automatically sent to your email by Selly after 1 confirmation

If you have any questions... just ask or PM.


NOTE: I can only recommend that US-Based folks buy this... as I can't guarantee Hot Topic will ship to your location if you aren't in the US!