My Cardpool.com experiment
We’re buying appliances for the new apartment from the Home Depot, and who doesn’t like to save money? So I purchased quite a few giftcards from Cardpool thinking I could save 8%. I would like to point out that this was against the Wife’s better judgement.
The sale we trying to catch only lasted two more days, so I needed them to stick to their ‘delivery within one business day’ promise. After 36 hours passed without hearing anything, even after email support requests, I started to get nervous. They have no phone number listed on their site and the number they used in the past as a CS number is just a recording now. I realize this doesn’t exactly make me look like a super smart guy. Another support request went unanswered until the 48 hours was nearly up and I received an email saying that because of an ‘inventory problem’, they were refunding my money.
Luckily we can still get to the sale and so I’m just a fool, I’m not a moron. Is it a scam? I can’t say. Here’s hoping that the next person has better luck, but also maybe that they know what to expect.