How can I purchase a $500 ebay gift card?

[maxine*j]

I believe $200 is the tops.   Go to the link below to learn about eBay Gift Cards.   Please, please read the section about gift card SCAMS.  Scams involving eBay gift cards are common.   Remember that a gift card is just that -- something you buy to give as a gift to family or friends, and not a form of payment for goods or services. 

eBay Gift Cards:

https://www.ebay.com/b/eBay-Gift-Cards/172036/bn_7208216

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[mtgraves7984]

You can enter 'eBay gift card' into the Search bar. You may have to buy more than one to reach the $500 value.

Before you do that... why do you need such a large gift card? I'm kind of afraid for you...

[simba6]

First off, there is no such thing.  They only go as high as 200.00.   That said, why do you want to?  If it's to pay for an item you saw on another site and were instructed that eBay would handle the payment so your protected?  That is a LIE from a SCAMMER.

There is no point exchanging your good money for a gift card that may or may not have any value when you try to use it.

NEVER buy gift cards.

To answer your question, you would have to buy more than one to add up to that total.

[soh.maryl]

Evidently at quite a few retailers, but I believe they are only $100, so you would have to buy five.

HOWEVER, when I see that you just registered today on eBay, I have to ask:  Why are you buying a gift card?

If it's to pay for something you found on another site, not eBay, please be advised that you could be dealing with a scammer.

We would like reassurance that you're not about to be taken for five hundred bucks.

Please return and tell us more about your reason for this purchase.  

[franwil_28]

I am pursuing a 2007 jeep grand cherokee  SRT8 for 1,000 . The vehicle is in eBay buyer protection  program.  The email states that the buyer pays eBayy with eBay cards (2 )500  or (4 )200 cards. Ebay will put in trust account until buyer receive and verify  the item . The seller is paid by eBay. I could only purchase with eBay card.

[eburtonlab]

@franwil_28 

Beware scammers who advertise on other sites and tell you that the transaction will be handled through eBay.

That is not how eBay works. eBay does not rely on users finding ads on Facebook or other sites and sending contact information to a seller. Likely the seller will send a phony "invoice" that appears to be from eBay but is not, asking you to pay with gift cards to have the vehicle shipped to you for a free evaluation period.

eBay has no warehouse and does not ship vehicles. eBay does not handle such transactions or provide "vehicle protection orders". Scammers often promise those things, though. Any phone number you may receive on such an "invoice" does not connect to eBay, but to the scammer.

Anyone that asks you to purchase gift cards or to send card codes to them to complete a transaction is trying to take advantage of you. Anyone asking for a gift card is looking for a gift at your expense. Once anyone else knows the code, your money will be gone and you will have no recourse.

See here for some info about avoiding such scams (US links):

https://pages.motors.ebay.com/buy/security/index.html

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/online-vehicle-sale-fraud

The only way to purchase a vehicle on eBay is to sign in to eBay, find the vehicle on eBay and complete the checkout process on eBay, so that the item appears in your Purchase History. Then you typically meet the seller to inspect the vehicle, pay the seller, and collect the keys, title and vehicle.

If you encountered an ad on another site, contact that site to have the ad removed. eBay is not involved with any ads listed on sites other than eBay itself.

[albertabrightalberta]

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@franwil_28 wrote:

I am pursuing a 2007 jeep grand cherokee  SRT8 for 1,000 . The vehicle is in eBay buyer protection  program.  The email states that the buyer pays eBayy with eBay cards (2 )500  or (4 )200 cards. Ebay will put in trust account until buyer receive and verify  the item . The seller is paid by eBay. I could only purchase with eBay card.

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It's a SCAM! Ebay doesn't have anything to do with car sales on other sites. 

[downunder-61]

OP id is no longer available - I assume @franwil_28  is another id of the orignal OP?

If so  SCAM do not do anything, do not pay anyone and report the seller on the site you found the vehicle.

[soh.maryl]

You found this vehicle listed elsewhere, not on eBay.  How do I know that? Because all of the information that you have given here is EXACTLY the way a scammer works.

The vehicle cannot be "in eBay buyer protection program" because the vehicle is not listed for sale on eBay.

The ONLY place that a buyer can pay with eBay gift cards is for an item actually listed for sale ON eBay.  Even then, vehicles cannot be paid for with gift cards.

There is no such thing as an eBay "trust account".

Are you the same person who posted about this back in September, 2021?

Regardless of that, you are looking at a SCAM attempt.  Please read back a few pages on this Board.  You will find messages exactly like yours.  Unfortunately, some people ask about this AFTER they have bought the gift cards and given the numbers to the scammer.  

One more point:  How dumb would anyone have to be to offer to ship a valuable vehicle at his own expense  to a total stranger? 

[aproudparent2010]

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@franwil_28 wrote:

I am pursuing a 2007 jeep grand cherokee  SRT8 for 1,000 . The vehicle is in eBay buyer protection  program.  The email states that the buyer pays eBayy with eBay cards (2 )500  or (4 )200 cards. Ebay will put in trust account until buyer receive and verify  the item . The seller is paid by eBay. I could only purchase with eBay card.

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SCAM.....I hope you have not gave the card numbers to this person or you are out all that money.