I have been a red card debit card holder since 2012, so I think my limit is higher than most. I often drop $500 shopping at target. I was buying Disney GC at Target over the weekend online. I bought $1K a day ($950 to target) of GC. They blocked my card at the $3,000 mark. I started last Thursday and they blocked me on Sunday. I called in Sunday, told them exactly what I was doing (paying off my
disney cruise) and they said I should try using it again on Tuesday. I tried using it this morning online. The transaction went through, but within 15 minutes instead of receiving my GC link, I received an email stating they canceled my order.
I called back in, and asked why they canceled my order. The man said I had to wait 24-48 hours after the other transactions cleared. I told him I did, the first one should have rolled off by now, it was 5 days ago. Then he told me since I tried to make a purchase again today, I had to wait another 24-48 hours. That makes no sense in my mind because the purchase didn't go through... when I pointed that out he did the, " yea? well I answered your question so bye!" kind of pivot. lol
We will see how long it takes for my card to go active again. I gave the remaining money to my mom and she bought the cards for me with her red card. They sell the $5-500 cards at our local store (my mom happens to work there) and this cashier was like, "I am sorry, we can not make GC transactions larger than $300." (again, they sell the $5-500 gift cards there). So she went to another line and the person gave her the two gift cards, go figure!