Ok so youre only making...
Whats really bothering you? That youre late to this party? Really, your comments are nonsense.
You say I'm late to this party... I'm probably in this party before you... and I just wanted to share my 2 cents and anyone can do whatever he wants, but don't cry when "stores" change their policy while in other area's in the US the fun will continue with no problems, you have to understand neither the cashier nor the CSR are made to stand and make sure you finish liquidating all your GC's, that's not what they are paid for, if they will see this happens a lot they will stop it, period.
When there was the AA 100k promo I did 3 cards in 2 months using 2 BB accounts and 30K in VR's, this was extremely simple for me, since they stopped taking CC MS went down, Now RC came in I did a 3BM with Amex made over 20K spend in no time, why do things have to change for bad reasons? for the few bonus miles (max 200k per year) it's worth killing millions of potential miles?