So I went to our local Walmart to buy a few Blizzard Balance cards as well as a couple 60 day prepaid cards. In fact, I was purchasing 4 of the $50 prepaid cards. The employee informed me that there is a 2 card cap per person per day. So like any other WoW lover would do, I found a loop-hole. I luckily had my daughter with me, so I had her buy 2 Balance cards and 1 Pre-paid card and I bought the others. The woman got real mad and I told her that this is 2 different types of cards and I am 1 customer and my daughter was a 2nd customer. I found my loop-hole much to the employee’s dismay! She in the end had to sell them to me. As it is she looked like I was disturbing her in the first place because she looked aggro’d that she had to stop talking to come assist me in my purchase and now I messed up the whole only 2 cards thing! I am not sure if Blizzard would appreciate a ‘cap’ on their product being sold or not. Some how, I really don’t think they would care for that idea. Seriously, Blizzard wants to make money from us and they certainly would not put a cap on how much you can or can’t spend on their product. Anyone else ever had a store tell them you can not buy as many games, balance card, prepaid time cards, etc…?
Could be an internal Walmart policy to prevent fraud. Seems like it would be easy to get the balance on a card, cash it in and later if the credit card used was found to be stolen it might be harder to get those funds back. If you were paying cash, I don’t have any other theory.
Usually limits like that are done to combat scammers. They’ll make up some reason that they can’t just send the money directly to get people to send them things like gift cards/time cards/etc instead of just cash.
It is, they do the same thing with google pay cards and everything else. But I have bought a bunch of varying gift cards using the same method the OP did. It really pisses them off, but they cant do anything about it.
Did it with play station cards about a year ago. Walked in with myself, my wife, and two friends and bought 4 a piece. Really steamed them.