> Someone should not be able to buy $3000 of Target gift cards without doing a lot of explaining
Apparently it was $1k at Target and another $2k at Safeway. This was just under the limit of $1030 per person per store at Target. Perhaps the limit should be lower, or employees should be instructed to be more wary.
I imagine Target doesn't want to be too strict here, both because they don't want to inconvenience customers making legitimate purchases, and because they don't want to give up the revenue derived from scammers defrauding people (not that they would ever admit to the latter).
The OP states they've spent "hours" on the phone with Target, which has already more than obliterated whatever slim profit they made on that $1000 gift card (commissions are around 5%).
On average, using up 10 hours of employee time in a big company paying people to act as support will cost the company 10 hours of pay, plus overhead. It's not frutiful to examine it as 0 0 0 0 0 $30000 0 0 0 0.
Apparently it was $1k at Target and another $2k at Safeway. This was just under the limit of $1030 per person per store at Target. Perhaps the limit should be lower, or employees should be instructed to be more wary.
I imagine Target doesn't want to be too strict here, both because they don't want to inconvenience customers making legitimate purchases, and because they don't want to give up the revenue derived from scammers defrauding people (not that they would ever admit to the latter).