lol.... I remembered my small amount return after posting that question. But we are talking about several hundred(or even thousand) $$$ return here.EPcjay wrote: ↑ The CSR refunded directly on the GC all three times. Did not "Re-buy" a GC. Maybe that's the difference. Refunding cash, (when originally purchase was GC) would raise a redflag IMO. Even if they went though with it like that in your example, the GC is still limited to the face value. For example, you can't load 200$ on to a 100$ card, it would have to be put on 2 x 100$ cards.
Weren't you the OP asking whether you can buy something with the GC, and then refund it onto another GC? Why are you asking if you know "it depends" on the CSR. I went to three different location yielding the same results. Maybe I got lucky, but IMO that would be the norm. YMMV.
They grapped a GC from the shelf which has no face value at that time, so they can enter any $$$ amount into it. So this does not apply "you can't load 200$ on to a 100$ card."