Marriott Gift Card is no longer processed as “Visa”
In the past, Marriott Gift Card was processed as Visa, but it’s no longer the case, they started to use a new processing vendor and the charge on your receipt will be showed as Gift card instead. What will happen?
1 Many hotels will have no clue how to do it, if it’s on the weekend when Gift card center is not open, you may end up pay with Credit card instead
2 Above situation will be even worse for international properties
3 You can no longer benefit from any promotion assoicate with Visa, especially Mega bonus
4 You can no longer use the card for Prepaid rate by adding 4 in front of rest 15 numbers. In theory, hotel can still process it offline for prepaid rate only if you contact hotel right way after the booking and they want to do it, but most likely they won’t.
I am sure this will affect Gift card sales and create many problems for us
sunspotzsz said,
damn, I just bought $250 worth from discover america!
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