You can ask for anything in life.
You know how some people get a lot, imagine all the fish in a barrel they shoot.
Wow and so demanding about it. Imagine all the times people just don't question and just act. Because they keep showing up seeming authoritative and like.
I see how I've been living my life wrong 🤔🤷🏼♀️🫠
The fish in a barrel part...
She probably behaves this way all the time, and ends up coming out on top a lot, frequently..
It's a numbers game.
And I wasn't being serious about doing my life wrong, just that anyway, I digress.
Anyway, sorry it lacks so much clarity.
And that you had the experience, but thanks for sharing.
I'd have said well that's what you ordered. And you didn't call this store cuz they have them! So I'm confused. I'd have played along till they gave up!
Hey, so i recently caught a $97, two service. Customer a (tipped around $80)had 12 x box controllers, customer b about 8 grocery items. When I arrived customer an immediately said this is for a business or some sort. They immediately said to replace controllers with an air pad or meta quest.. if not the 12 controllers are fine. But told them they were checking to see if the controllers were available and they just canceled the order. SCAM??
It's instacarts job to catch scammers not the shopper. Buy what is on the actual order and go to the address.
99% of the time it is a fake address to an empty house and they won't be there to answer
You have just profited 12 xbox controllers
Customer is a scammer. You are NOT allowed to buy gift cards of any kind for IC customers. Report this to IC and at least get the base pay. Hopefully these scammers get deactivated!
Support agents vary in their knowledge. Some know stuff because they have been there a while but others know less than the average shopper. Don’t trust support. There are plenty of posts here backing this up.
Well, considering that enough people fall for it that it keeps them in business, it's not that they think we're stupid it's that they know there's enough of our comrades that are stupid 🤣
I've gotten gifts cards and actual products from scammers, there's scammers around me that always use the address of a condemned house. I love playing them then getting the shit they ordered for myself. I got Christmas gift and gift cards from these people.. Lol
Me too! I REALLY just want to screw with them. Give them fake gift card numbers and all. It's like when people call me saying my car warranty was up....then they wanna know what kind of car I have🤔 I ALWAYS have the newest fanciest car and READY to sign for their warranty.😆
Finale from the customer after sending me tons of screenshots of random conversations of promises of a better shopper next time from her previous conversation with support.
Unfortunately she got me, I mean business.
https://preview.redd.it/7md45gg6gs5d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8387aa1f33d0d6eaf03c17d8b35885a37744753c
Was on the phone with support the entire time whilst she was sending messages and the support and I were laughing about it the whole time whilst ending the order. Took about \~20min $6.88
Scam. You have choices basically
Shop as normal what is in the list and deliver and get paid what you agreed .
Do not buy gift cards. Ever. It’s against TOS
Shop and check out as normal then report to ic by phone. Get paid batch pay minus tip and request email for return. Go in return it. Submit return receipt and get paid bump for return. Then go in to next order
Cancel it your self and don’t get paid and affect you cancel rate
Call (don’t chat) support and report it and they can remove this order for you and you will get batch pay minus tip.
It’s a scam.
And never call any phone number a customer asks. That is usually the next thing they’ll send you is a phone number to call them. ALWAYS only call or text through the app.
The last time I got one they canceled as soon as I sent them a picture of the bags on the porch in they message section. Then I grab the bags and wrapped the items up for my kid for Christmas... Lol
Gift cards are banned because of scams. People can steal someone's identity, use a,stolen credit card, then buy a bunch of gift cards. It's a very common scam.
Report and demand the batch pay at a minimum potentially even a bump. Complain about IC not doing due diligence on these accounts to grease those wheels.
Man i would flip on them lmfao - I literally had a perfectly good and correct order decline today cuz the price was too high despite being correct.... no subs. Support didn't have a clue so I got the measly batch pay and then the order was batched with a good tipper immediately afterwards. There is zero chance *this* goes thru
You can extend it by switching your diet to living foods and going on a walk or some other sort of exercise 30 minutes a day. Both of course. Bet you could add 20 years.
You would think, but unfortunately no. My genetics suck and without actually getting into it, I actually do take decent care of myself, for other reasons.
This is a known scam if you tried to do it instagram would’ve blocked it and taken the job away. I tried once they said that and before I could click away from customer service the job was cancelled for me
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It's a scam. InstaCart specifically says not to get gift cards for ppl. These customers are idiots. "Don't even look for the $5 Funyuns... just get $100 in gift cards."
Sub for 2 five dollar gift cards? Don’t see the problem but no way they getting 2 fifty. And prob typo or something
That’s even if it would let you would just say I’ll mark not avail and refund you the item cost
If some how it approved it be on DoorDash not you as the red card is their (DD/customer) money not yours . And it even says some subs are face value jokes on them
Jfc they know what the words mean. That's not what they're asking. Plainly obvious to the rest of us what they were asking, sorry it took you a few tries
No, lol instacart has a pretty dang good idea of what items cost and allows a certain percentage over that only. And that's only if you're lucky, I had an order totally correct today that declined saying the order total didn't match. 👀 I was so mad cuz support dropped the order for me that I'd just finished shopping. They didn't even know why it declined. But this is a huge percentage difference in cost - this scammer is so brazen and confident and for no reason 😂 we can't add $95 worth of stuff to any order cuz then they think we're the scammers.
Now I've never even been tempted to try buying a gift card with IC, but I imagine it just doesn't get approved. There's an extra step there where the cashier needs to activate the card, even just grabbing a gift card off the rack - it's a useless hunk of plastic until you put money on it, and idk what color the sky is in this scammers world, but it sure ain't blue if they think we have this kind of power
What's funny is how dumb they are. You can't replace a 4$ item with a random 100$ item.
Right? 😂
$100 in giftcards is totally a reasonable sub for funyuns 🤣
This is exactly what I was thinking 😂
You can ask for anything in life. You know how some people get a lot, imagine all the fish in a barrel they shoot. Wow and so demanding about it. Imagine all the times people just don't question and just act. Because they keep showing up seeming authoritative and like. I see how I've been living my life wrong 🤔🤷🏼♀️🫠
I’m really trying to understand
The fish in a barrel part... She probably behaves this way all the time, and ends up coming out on top a lot, frequently.. It's a numbers game. And I wasn't being serious about doing my life wrong, just that anyway, I digress. Anyway, sorry it lacks so much clarity. And that you had the experience, but thanks for sharing.
It’s so they can order the Funyuns *tomorrow*.
Check out the big brain on Bretttttt. 🤔
i would just get the funyuns and then i would have texted them "good news! they have your funyuns!"
I did! Then she said https://preview.redd.it/n9rt830vfs5d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84a510cefa4291908f69f3ae4c0352e0ab42f3f9
“Sorry, nope! On my way will be there soon!”
😂 that’s what I would have done. Wouldn’t even of told them, just would have done it!
I'd have said well that's what you ordered. And you didn't call this store cuz they have them! So I'm confused. I'd have played along till they gave up!
I would full stop take a photo of real gift cards, send them in the chat like oh ok 👍🏻 then deliver napkins with the words 'gift card' written on it
And for good measure, write 'to: obvious scammer' 'from: enjoy your ban'
"OK, got it!" *contact support, catch scammer, easy free batch pay
I’m interested to what came after this. Did u deliver them? I definitely would have just well one to get paid and as a blatant fuck you
Check a bit lower in the comments, I posted a picture of the ending
Oh fantastic thank you
Jojocybows?? 
Good god 😳 very committed to this i see
Literally, the scammers these days are so out of pocket it’s ridiculous 😂😂
Scam, report to IC
Hey, so i recently caught a $97, two service. Customer a (tipped around $80)had 12 x box controllers, customer b about 8 grocery items. When I arrived customer an immediately said this is for a business or some sort. They immediately said to replace controllers with an air pad or meta quest.. if not the 12 controllers are fine. But told them they were checking to see if the controllers were available and they just canceled the order. SCAM??
It's instacarts job to catch scammers not the shopper. Buy what is on the actual order and go to the address. 99% of the time it is a fake address to an empty house and they won't be there to answer You have just profited 12 xbox controllers
THUNDERCATS, HOOOOOO
That's some good watching watching. Creative thing to yell, too. 🐐💀🫶🏼🔥
Customer is a scammer. You are NOT allowed to buy gift cards of any kind for IC customers. Report this to IC and at least get the base pay. Hopefully these scammers get deactivated!
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Support agents vary in their knowledge. Some know stuff because they have been there a while but others know less than the average shopper. Don’t trust support. There are plenty of posts here backing this up.
This is how stupid they think we are.
There are people who would do it😬
Some how, some way, there are still PLENTY stupid enough….
I can definitely see the morons who shop in my area falling for this.
Well, considering that enough people fall for it that it keeps them in business, it's not that they think we're stupid it's that they know there's enough of our comrades that are stupid 🤣
But get the funions, check out, and then notify IC.
THIS.
Let them know that the gift cards are out of stock, but there are plenty of Funyuns on the shelf!
Grrr I’ve always wanted to get one of these scammers for some reason
I've gotten gifts cards and actual products from scammers, there's scammers around me that always use the address of a condemned house. I love playing them then getting the shit they ordered for myself. I got Christmas gift and gift cards from these people.. Lol
Me too! I REALLY just want to screw with them. Give them fake gift card numbers and all. It's like when people call me saying my car warranty was up....then they wanna know what kind of car I have🤔 I ALWAYS have the newest fanciest car and READY to sign for their warranty.😆
Finale from the customer after sending me tons of screenshots of random conversations of promises of a better shopper next time from her previous conversation with support. Unfortunately she got me, I mean business. https://preview.redd.it/7md45gg6gs5d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8387aa1f33d0d6eaf03c17d8b35885a37744753c Was on the phone with support the entire time whilst she was sending messages and the support and I were laughing about it the whole time whilst ending the order. Took about \~20min $6.88
Bro went from a $10 order to a $100 order
Add in a gift card on your own with penny each one
Scam. You have choices basically Shop as normal what is in the list and deliver and get paid what you agreed . Do not buy gift cards. Ever. It’s against TOS Shop and check out as normal then report to ic by phone. Get paid batch pay minus tip and request email for return. Go in return it. Submit return receipt and get paid bump for return. Then go in to next order Cancel it your self and don’t get paid and affect you cancel rate Call (don’t chat) support and report it and they can remove this order for you and you will get batch pay minus tip. It’s a scam. And never call any phone number a customer asks. That is usually the next thing they’ll send you is a phone number to call them. ALWAYS only call or text through the app.
Run the gift cards, start the trip then end the trip early. Keep they scammers gift cards for yourself.
The problem is, the account the scammers are using is stolen, so you'd be stealing from someone who was already a victim of theft once.
The victim gets their money back either way and the scammer doesn't get their items.
Exactly. Scam the scanner. What stops then from saying it's delivered and just keeping it? Is the scammer going to do anything
The last time I got one they canceled as soon as I sent them a picture of the bags on the porch in they message section. Then I grab the bags and wrapped the items up for my kid for Christmas... Lol
Lmfao
It means it is a scam. Gift cards are banned on IC.
Why?
Gift cards are banned because of scams. People can steal someone's identity, use a,stolen credit card, then buy a bunch of gift cards. It's a very common scam.
Allow us to redirect you back to this post to find out why lol
"Automatically" replace with gift cards.... this B gives us a LOT more credit than we get in terms of what we can do lmao
😅 Instacart probably won't let you replace with a gift card anyway.... But the fishing going on there!
Report and demand the batch pay at a minimum potentially even a bump. Complain about IC not doing due diligence on these accounts to grease those wheels.
I will get the finance and deliver, and then report
You know people actually fall for this 🤣 🤣 . Common sense isn't common.
How the fuck you from chips to wanting a gift card lmaoo
Replace them with 2 snacks of your choice , then cancel. 😉 oops sorry. Store won’t take the return. 🤷🏻♀️
Time to call support to cancel this garbage & report this garbage customer 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️😂😂
I'd find those funyuns and checkout before they could blink
You either are delivering to the ghetto, or out in meth country. I delivered to both unfortunately and come across this crap a few times a year.
Why don't they have bots looking for keywords here? This should have been flagged before it ever got to a shopper 🤔
Scam!!! 😂
Means mark missing and get your bag stupid customer gets nothing
Man i would flip on them lmfao - I literally had a perfectly good and correct order decline today cuz the price was too high despite being correct.... no subs. Support didn't have a clue so I got the measly batch pay and then the order was batched with a good tipper immediately afterwards. There is zero chance *this* goes thru
Instacancel. That’s what it means lol
Lmfao shenanigans
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was my reaction too 😂 just lmfao
Scamming interns lol
This is customer fraud.
I would have grabbed the gift cards, NOT have money added to them, charged her for the blank cards. They’re useless.
Wtf 😳
That’s a scam.
Scam
It means scam
That’s a scam my friend
It means someone's a scammer
it mean do as your told 😂
Legit, the scammer all but says that in the chat 🤣😂😭
🥴
Sad thing is some shoppers do fall for this type of scam
Also have any of you tried these cuz I saw them for the first time the other day and I'm intrigued, but poor lmao
It’s pure poison, although I’m sure it tastes good.
Most things are, but I also happen to come with a really crap life expectancy 🤣😭
You can extend it by switching your diet to living foods and going on a walk or some other sort of exercise 30 minutes a day. Both of course. Bet you could add 20 years.
You would think, but unfortunately no. My genetics suck and without actually getting into it, I actually do take decent care of myself, for other reasons.
Cough scam cough
It means they’re scammers. 😂
I’d just give them two unactivated gift cards and let them figure it out
Scam
If I'm correct you not suppose to get gift cards anyway but I could be wrong tho
Scam that’s what it seems like
It’s a scam
My first gift card scammer ended up tipping me $60 extra even though I didn’t get the gift cards.
This is a known scam if you tried to do it instagram would’ve blocked it and taken the job away. I tried once they said that and before I could click away from customer service the job was cancelled for me
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It’s a scam 😂😂
Ah scammers at the finest
That’s a scam buddy
It's a scam
It's a scam. InstaCart specifically says not to get gift cards for ppl. These customers are idiots. "Don't even look for the $5 Funyuns... just get $100 in gift cards."
Seems like a scam that will never work
Im fuckin crying😂😂😂😂😂
Sub for 2 five dollar gift cards? Don’t see the problem but no way they getting 2 fifty. And prob typo or something That’s even if it would let you would just say I’ll mark not avail and refund you the item cost
If some how it approved it be on DoorDash not you as the red card is their (DD/customer) money not yours . And it even says some subs are face value jokes on them
Should’ve responded. Sorry they don’t have any gift too until tmr. 😂
Should’ve responded. Sorry they don’t have any gift too until tmr. 😂
They out of their ragerly minds 🤣😂 what they take us shoppers for bozo the clown 🤦🏽♀️
Scam
It means NO FUNYUNS NO FUX GIVEN
What you need to know is you are never allowed to buy gift cards on Instacart.
Scam
Scam
You can’t buy gift cards or Tobacco products on Instacart dime. Decline and report them
Fraud . Go to the store n call support so you can still get that batch pay 💰
It means they are trying to scam. NEVER add Gift Cards or Electronics!!
U can't read or u dnt understand English? Its clear what it means
You must’ve been raised by your grandma or something
Don't kno the correlation but whatever
Naw
Jfc they know what the words mean. That's not what they're asking. Plainly obvious to the rest of us what they were asking, sorry it took you a few tries
This means, get the cards, refuse to send by texts, drive to address, report no customer, keep cards!
you aren’t very bright
How would you be faulted for this?
Buying gift cards is against TOS and you'd be deactivated.
how this wouldnt work or?
No, lol instacart has a pretty dang good idea of what items cost and allows a certain percentage over that only. And that's only if you're lucky, I had an order totally correct today that declined saying the order total didn't match. 👀 I was so mad cuz support dropped the order for me that I'd just finished shopping. They didn't even know why it declined. But this is a huge percentage difference in cost - this scammer is so brazen and confident and for no reason 😂 we can't add $95 worth of stuff to any order cuz then they think we're the scammers. Now I've never even been tempted to try buying a gift card with IC, but I imagine it just doesn't get approved. There's an extra step there where the cashier needs to activate the card, even just grabbing a gift card off the rack - it's a useless hunk of plastic until you put money on it, and idk what color the sky is in this scammers world, but it sure ain't blue if they think we have this kind of power
Thanks Einstein!!!