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Purchasing Amazon Gift Vouchers? Beware of This Serious Fraud 🚨
- Thread starter TechnoFino
- Start date
thecardholder
TF Buzz
Purchased Amazon shopping voucher on gyftr/ payzapp in the first week of december. Saw this thread and added it. Worked fine. Maybe an intermiles exclusive problem.
not possible, I used a weird amount in the voucher, highly likely somebody put in the exact same amount
People are replying on Twitter and in WhatsApp groups, stating that this issue is occurring across multiple platforms.
A common factor in all these cases is that the vouchers were issued by Qwikcilver.
- One person reported purchasing an Amazon gift voucher from the OneCard app, only to find that the voucher had already been used.
- Another individual posted in a WhatsApp group that they redeemed reward points for Shoppers Stop vouchers via the ICICI Bank credit card portal. However, some of these vouchers were already used, and ICICI Bank has yet to resolve the issue.
- A third person shared that they purchased a Flipkart voucher from the HDFC SmartBuy portal, discovered it was already used, but SmartBuy has acknowledged the issue and promised a resolution soon.
A common factor in all these cases is that the vouchers were issued by Qwikcilver.
Your voucher purchased date?
Did you tried to track the voucher from amazonn?
Riya
TF Legend
AMEX wale 😂😂
RAMESH BABU N
TF Legend
What exactly does the T&C say about the issuance of such digital Gift Cheques ? Any defined role n responsibility of the branded vendor, the selling site, the paying banker (CC/DC issuer) or the paying firm (rewards, points, miles...), the buyer and the final reciever of these GCs.
In the entire chain of events, clarity to fix the time/stage, who will bear the loss and at what stage. Has these been mentioned ever or agreed to ?
What's the fall back arrangement, who will bear the loss and how to proceed legally - in the absence of admissible n valid proof ?
Lol, they are probably selling the voucher twice.
Yesss. Also income maxxing.
runinc
TF Neo
2 Vouchers were purchsed on 15th Nov.
4 were purchased on 3rd December.
3 were purchased on 9th December.
Tried to add them on 21st December and found out that all were used.
Raised complaint with intermiles, it took them 10+ days to give me the GC ID (Incorrect GC ID shared by them) , so that I could check when it was used.
Later I found a link "https://amazonbalance.qwikcilver.com/en-gb/ewpc" which gives GC ID using GC Code and then tracked all these vouchers on "https://amazonbal.qwikcilver.com/Welcome.aspx?orgname=QwikCilver-Amazon" and saw that all the voucher were redeemed on 15th December.
I haven't raised complaint with amazon yet.
Just curious. why you people don't add those vouchers into your account after buying ?
Faced same issue with Croma Vouchers bought on Gyftr Infinia platform.Even the offline vouchers worth 20K (10K each) showed used within 5 minutes of purchase while i was at the store.Had to follow up for 20 days with Gyftr and they finally revalidated it as if doing it as a favour.The 5X points weren't worth the trouble.
prankster
TF Premier
Better to buy from Amazon or don't buy for a while
Personally few reasons were:
- Risk factor when someone could hack our amazon account and place order using balance which doesn't need OTP unless 2FA is enabled. Faced such issue and luckily it was amazon pay balance instead of gift card and immediately transferred the amount to bank
- Limitations on number of times you can use amazon pay balance . For example in insurance, it is only 5 times a month. Need to use multiple account if you have multiple policies
RAMESH BABU N
TF Legend
Good conclusion. Stick to that.
These should be CONVENIENCE products.
Not INCONVENIENCE ones riddled with tension n headaches.
