When a cardholder is in possession of an inactive gift card, we ask for proof of purchase (receipt or gift receipt). “We regret to hear about this cardholders’ experience.įor context, the gift cards on display at retail have no value until they are activated at the cash register, when the buyer is provided with a receipt and a gift receipt. The day after our story aired, a representative with InComm Financial Services sent KPRC 2 Investigates this email: She has been waiting on the Vanilla Visa to respond since the day after Christmas. Herring is filing that complaint now along with another one to the Better Business Bureau. Prepaid credit cards are considered money service businesses in Texas and regulated by this agency. While Vanilla Visa didn’t share this information with Herring, its website directs Texas customers with unresolved issues to file complaints with the Texas Department of Banking. Everything was still closed and sealed up,” Herring explains. There weren’t any bends or creases in the packaging. “When I opened it, the seal was still sealed. And it is unclear if her gift card ever had money on it or if the money was somehow stolen before she received it. Leslie’s mom bought her Vanilla Visa card from Walmart but the retailer told her it couldn’t help because it wasn’t their product. On Christmas Day Donna wrote, “horrible to purchase the visa card and cannot get a hold of anyone. Sean A complained that he “bought Visa gift cards for Xmas, $500 each. (Copyright 2020 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) There’s a total of 73 complaints to the Better Business Bureau in Columbus, Georgia for INCOMM financial services, the parent company of Vanilla Visa prepaid cards.īBB complaints about visa gift cards that don't work. Many complaints about Vanilla Visa gift cards not working And while no one with Vanilla returned our messages, plenty of people are complaining online. Herring said the customer service rep told her there had been other reports of the same problem. “But they cannot give me any money back and my card is still inoperable.” “I waited on hold for three hours and then they opened it and put a case number on it,” explains Herring. When she tried to check the balance on Vanilla Visa’s website, it directed her to call a toll-free number. Went to go check out online, but the number in and it said, ‘there’s a problem with this card,’” explains Herring. So when her mom gave her a $100 Vanilla Visa gift card for Christmas, this mama wanted some new shoes! Leslie Herring is a Katy mom of twins and a school teacher who is always helping and doing for others. Customers get gift cards that do not work One thing is clear, a whole lot of people said they can’t use the cards they were gifted. We hear about gift card fraud, scams, and thefts frequently but it’s not clear that is what is happening with Vanilla Visa gift cards. Now that people are trying to use them, some are saying their cards are worthless and the company that issues them won’t help. HOUSTON – Gift cards are always the popular go-to holiday present.
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I didn’t exactly know what it was…is it Asian or is it a burger shack or both? I had to know what’s going on there. Bento Burger for a while from my manager. My friend’s spicy chicken burger with chili fries from Joe’s Burger in Bridgeport Village, Tigard This is the place for a cheap, old fashioned, and fast burgers…definitely one of the best in town. For me, This is definitely a place to come in summer time, sit outside in the mall courtyard and enjoy live music with a perfect bite of simple gourmet burger. Menu here may be short but it has some variety to offer. My Guacamole burger from Joe’s Burgers in Bridgeport Mall, Tigard If you are not up for burgers, try their hotdogs or chili dogs. And their fries are always fresh and crunchy too. Since their burger patties are grilled after the order has been placed, they are hot and juicy. My Guacamole burger was big and deliciously mouth watering. Joe’s Burgers Menu in Bridgeport Mall, Tigard After first bite, my daughter’s first comment was that this was very close to famous In ‘N Out’s animal style burger…that means, it was extremely good for her to even compare it with In ‘N Out. Last Friday night I had the Guacamole Burger while my daughter had the Joe’s Classic cheeseburger. It This was my second time there and this is somewhere I’d always go back for some GOOD ol’ traditional burgers and fries. Joe’s Burger is an artisan burger place in the courtyard of Bridgeport Village in Tigard. Santa Rosa, California, has the highest ratio of full-service restaurants to fast-food establishments, 1.80, which is 3.5 times higher than in Jackson, Mississippi, the city with the lowest at 0.51. PHOENIX Food connoisseurs here in the Valley won’t have to travel very far to get delicious food, as a study conducted by WalletHub ranked Scottsdale as Arizona’s top foodie city. 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To determine the best and cheapest local foodie scenes, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. Top ten cities for Vegetarians and Vegans. The dataset ranges from affordability and accessibility of high-quality restaurants to food festivals per capita to craft breweries and wineries per capita. Philadelphia comes in 14th place on personal-finance website WalletHub’s report on 2017’s Best Foodie Cities in America. To determine the best and cheapest local foodie scenes, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. on dining quality, diversity and affordability. To determine the best and cheapest local foodie scenes, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. 2 among Americas top foodie cities, according to WalletHub, which ranked 182 places in the U.S. The personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2018’s Best Foodie Cities in America. Happy to see the new benchmark is optimized better and my scores make more sense now. Just scored a 6002 overclock, almost 2k higher than the old benchmark at same overclock settings. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions. One thing, i dont see an option to enable vsync in the benchmark, is there one? Weve benchmarked 2375 CPU units to provide a trusted benchmark score for this. Wow, i just downloaded the char creation benchmark (i was using the old one two posts up) and my score increased by like 1500 on max. Hmm nearly 19k at 1080p, it looks much better at 2560 x 1440p though. #FFXIV Score:18867 1920x1080 Maximum Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU 3.50GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Disable rendering of objects when not visible. Use low-detail models on distant objects. #FFXIV Score:11396 1024x768 High (Desktop) AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Beta 260.63 drivers improve FFXIV Benchmark another 7 and 20 for GTX 460. 2049īenchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.įINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Website Sheet1 Reminder: 7 performance increase for Geforce 400 Series with New 258.96 drivers not included on high res, Ill add 258.96 after GPU name to entries using this driver. Blur the graphics around an object in motion. Naturally darken the edges of the screen. Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality. Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings. Modest score of 11396 running a AMD FX4100 and a GTX 660TI 16GB ram, everything is with no overclocking.įINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation) “And the coup de grâce … Area 51.” They gave so many storylines in NT2. “Did the Apollo really land on the Moon? Did it? Did it? “The 18 and a half missing minutes of the Watergate tapes. “And I’m not just talking about JFK here, guys. In an earlier, set-up scene Riley explains: “It happens to be a collection of documents for presidents, by presidents and for presidents’ eyes only. We know this president had a fascination for America’s first president George Washington, and while Gates is in a tunnel with him at Mount Vernon (Washington’s home in Virginia), he urges him to let him have a look at the book. In NT2, there are references to a mysterious page 47 made by the President of the United States (played by Bruce Greenwood) to the book of secrets, the president’s diary. Needless to say, the two films made a fortune – a total of $806 million in box office receipts. “At the same time, we were developing National Treasure for the theatres with Nicolas Cage – which we still are. “We said we’d like to make another National Treasure and they said, ‘Sure, let’s come up with a new cast’,” Bruckheimer said. So I think we’ll get it to him shortly,” Bruckheimer said.įast-forward to this week, and Bruckheimer has opened the door slightly wider while talking up the Disney+ series to E!Online. Hopefully likes it, but it’s really good. “Let’s hope we’re working on the script right now. Then in August Bruckheimer spoke to to promote Top Gun: Maverick and confirmed an NT3 script was written and they were just waiting on Cage to approve it. Will Gates need to wear the ocular device built by the founding father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin?Īfter Disney+ confirmed that spin-off series National Treasure: Edge of History was headed to the streamer, and wouldn’t feature Cage’s character, it felt like National Treasure 3 was buried for all time. Hopefully, whoever plays the younger Gates can still bring that wild and loose energy that Cage is known for.Will all the old support cast return, including Justin Bartha (Riley), Jon Voigt and Diana Kruger (Abigail)? Will it be about what’s on page 47 of the President’s Book of Secrets? The president asks Gates for a big favor: find the "life-altering" item on page 47 of his book. The ending of Book of Secrets teased what could possibly happen in the third installment. Luckily when the matter is resolved, the president harbors no ill feelings towards his kidnappers and clears them of all charges. But in order to retrieve the Book of Secrets, which points to the real conspirator, Gates has to kidnap the book's owner, the president of the United States (Bruce Greenwood). In the follow-up film, Benjamin has to clear his family name after Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) accuses his ancestor, Thomas Gates, of being involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. In the first installment, not only Gates and his team have to steal the Declaration of Independence, they also have to decode the secret messages hidden within the most prestigious document. Together as a team, they uncover the biggest secrets of U.S. Koichi Kamoshida/Gettyįor those who need a refresher course on the film franchise, historian Benjamin Gates (played by Cage) hatches elaborate heists with his friend Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) and on-and-off girlfriend, Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger). OKYO, JAPAN-DECEMBER 17: (L-R) Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Diane Kruger, Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha and movie director Jon Turteltaub pose for photo in front of a poster of their latest film " National Treasure " during a press conference on Decemin Tokyo, Japan. The one for theatrical would be the same cast," Bruckheimer, whose previous credits include Top Gun, Armageddon and Bad Boys, added. "The one for Disney+ is a much younger cast. Hopefully, they'll both come together and we'll bring you another National Treasure, but they're both very active." In a recent interview with Collider, the franchise's producer Jerry Bruckheimer talked about the difference between the film and the television versions of National Treasure: "We're certainly working on one National Treasure for streaming and we're working on one for the big screen. Having done the first two films, Turtletaub recently directed two episodes of NBC's musical comedy/drama, Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist. Since the beginning of the year, Bad Boys 4 Life co-writer Chris Bremner has been working on the screenplay for the franchise's third installment. The last time audiences saw the cast of the big screen version was for the 2007 sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Disney+ is currently in the process of developing a TV series based on director Jon Turtletaub's 2004 action/adventure blockbuster National Treasure, which starred Nicolas Cage as treasure-seeking historian Benjamin Franklin Gates. There is no pressure gauge, and you’re advised to start slow. The top and bottom plates are each three inches by five inches, which is pretty standard for most presses. But most users stick to around 195 degrees.Īlthough it’s small, you can press about four grams of material at once. Its clamp can exert three tons of pressure, and its plates can reach around 485 degrees Fahrenheit. 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One additional player that is either a defender, midfielder, or forward.Managers use the cards to build a virtual team of five players, each of which must be represented by a different player card: However, the common cards do not exist as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain and cannot be leveled up, sold, or traded. The rare, super rare, and unique cards can be bought, sold, and traded within Sorare. Every season, 100 rare cards, ten super rare cards, and one unique card are released. Each card represents a real-life player, such as Cristiano Ronaldo or David Beckham. The game separates the player cards into tiers by scarcity - common, rare, super rare, and unique. Sorare users (called “managers”) buy, sell, and trade player cards represented as NFTs using the ERC-721 token standard. Sorare is a football-based NFT platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. 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