Disney Gift Card Deals

[pillow]

Added my Kroger digital coupon for 4x this morning, and it is good until October 1 (register receipt had said Sept 24). That changes my strategy considerably, since I can now hold out until Oct 1 and get fuel points for October and November. I buy the $100 visa gift card (fixed value earn fuel points where variable load do not) and then use those $100 at a time as a debit card to buy a Disney (or whatever) gift card, which makes it more like a 22% plus SW miles (I am over my 6K limit on my 6% amex). The math goes something like this: spend 529.75 on 5 $100 visa debit cards, earn 2000 fuel points. Use 5 $100 gift cards to buy $500 in disney cards, earn 2000 fuel points. Save 140 on fuel but spent 30 on activation fees, so 110 savings/500 value is 22% saved, plus SW miles (which were worth about 1.6% but I don't know if they still are with the new usage plan).

I hadn't thought to use these as debit. I do the same, but register the card and run it as credit. Is there an advantage to running as debit?

And thanks for the heads up on the Kroger coupon. Gonna go check that now. Oct deadline is great!!

 

[MichelleB]

I do the same, but register the card and run it as credit. Is there an advantage to running as debit?

I wouldn't think there'd be a difference as to how it's run but I could be wrong.

 

[DomesticKrys]

Meijer has an mperk coupon for $10/$100 BB GC one per account. That's an easy 10%

 

[smellyia]

Added my Kroger digital coupon for 4x this morning, and it is good until October 1 (register receipt had said Sept 24). That changes my strategy considerably, since I can now hold out until Oct 1 and get fuel points for October and November. I buy the $100 visa gift card (fixed value earn fuel points where variable load do not) and then use those $100 at a time as a debit card to buy a Disney (or whatever) gift card, which makes it more like a 22% plus SW miles (I am over my 6K limit on my 6% amex). The math goes something like this: spend 529.75 on 5 $100 visa debit cards, earn 2000 fuel points. Use 5 $100 gift cards to buy $500 in disney cards, earn 2000 fuel points. Save 140 on fuel but spent 30 on activation fees, so 110 savings/500 value is 22% saved, plus SW miles (which were worth about 1.6% but I don't know if they still are with the new usage plan).

I'm maxed out between now and October after getting my USO cards but this is an awesome strategy! I'm out of town for our WDW trip starting 9/30 so I'll miss this round, but I'm going to bank this for next promo in October.
The Visas can be used like a debit and also used to go back and pay for other gift cards? What if you try to run them as credit? Doesn it work for any of the Visa Mc or Amex?

 

[smellyia]

I hadn't thought to use these as debit. I do the same, but register the card and run it as credit. Is there an advantage to running as debit?

And thanks for the heads up on the Kroger coupon. Gonna go check that now. Oct deadline is great!!

So if you register them is that the trick to make it like you're not paying gc to gc?

What about paying out of eBay with a Visa gc bought on discount for purchase of a gc there?

 

[DisneyMomLJ]

Have to laugh that ebay is (possibly) going to allow gc-gc purchases again (if briefly) since I have spent down most of mine (I didn't really need an Apple Watch, but I needed one more than I needed 200 in ebay cards I couldn't buy gc with). I do still have ~750 in ebay cards, so it will be nice to turn those into something spendable. If they still have the 2k/60 days limit I won't be getting extras to run through, but if they do I might build up my kroger fuel points since there's a 4x starting tomorrow. Guess we will find out before too long.

Sorry OT, but how do you like the Apple Watch? I'm considering it.

 

[pillow]

So if you register them is that the trick to make it like you're not paying gc to gc?

What about paying out of eBay with a Visa gc bought on discount for purchase of a gc there?

Yes, registering has generally worked for me at Kroger. With the exception of during the previous 4x promo. My hubby had bought some Disney gc's in the morning (paying with the Visa GC's) and then came back at night to buy more, and the transaction would not go through. I suspect he just bumped up against a Kroger limit (I made a mental note to not attempt more than 1 purchase per 24 hours as I have no clue what their limits are).

I haven't tried purchasing on eBay with a registered Visa gc, but I have bought on Raise/Cardpool (forget which - was a long time ago) with one. I remember being surprised it worked.

 

[wendow]

My BB gc's from PPDG are drained. Is contacting ebay my first step?

 

[iivye]

My BB gc's from PPDG are drained. Is contacting ebay my first step?

Go back a page. There is a long post about what to do.

 

[bbsearchlight]

My BB gc's from PPDG are drained. Is contacting ebay my first step?

If you are within 30 days (ie, you purchased them after August 12) then you can go through ebay. If you are not within 30 days, then you will have to contact paypal and hope they will give you the money back. They have for some people but not for others. If they don't refund your money, hold on to your gift cards and any other relevant information. There is a good chance there will eventually be a class action lawsuit.

 

[wendow]

If you are within 30 days (ie, you purchased them after August 12) then you can go through ebay. If you are not within 30 days, then you will have to contact paypal and hope they will give you the money back. They have for some people but not for others. If they don't refund your money, hold on to your gift cards and any other relevant information. There is a good chance there will eventually be a class action lawsuit.

Thank you for your response and for all the info you have shared!

 

[wendow]

Go back a page. There is a long post about what to do.

I see the post now. I had read back a few pages (to beginning of hack chatter) but somehow missed that top part of the post. My brain is so fried from our trip

 

[3 DD love princesses]

I know some of you use rapid rewards shopping, does it credit for buying disney gc on best buy? I know it says no gc but didnt know if it would work. thanks

 

[wendow]

So, not only is my BB drained but my $300 in SW is gone also

I have a ton of Lowe's (was saving for new countertops) and have only checked one at this point but it still had value on it.

 

[Scomadtzoo]

Just want to thank everyone on here I only did this since about November of last year and probably made about 1500 total towards Disney and other things.

 

[CMNJ]

So, not only is my BB drained but my $300 in SW is gone also

I have a ton of Lowe's (was saving for new countertops) and have only checked one at this point but it still had value on it.

Ugh your SW is gone, too? Did you buy those recently or have you had them for a while? I have $200 I bought a while back and they are still good but that makes me nervous. Wish you didn't have a 1 yr exp date if you booked a flight to prevent theft

 

[mexxican]

So, not only is my BB drained but my $300 in SW is gone also

I have a ton of Lowe's (was saving for new countertops) and have only checked one at this point but it still had value on it.

Did you call and verify the gift card with Southwest? Mine came up with errors but when I called them they all had correct balances.

 

[DIS_MERI]

I'm maxed out between now and October after getting my USO cards but this is an awesome strategy! I'm out of town for our WDW trip starting 9/30 so I'll miss this round, but I'm going to bank this for next promo in October.
The Visas can be used like a debit and also used to go back and pay for other gift cards? What if you try to run them as credit? Doesn it work for any of the Visa Mc or Amex?

I hadn't thought to use these as debit. I do the same, but register the card and run it as credit. Is there an advantage to running as debit?

And thanks for the heads up on the Kroger coupon. Gonna go check that now. Oct deadline is great!!

I run them as debit because some of the krogers in the area ask for id on credit purchases of gift cards and require that the id match the credit card. Since they say "A GIFT FOR YOU" as the name, that's obviously not going to match. I know the visas either come with a pin, or allow you to set one, so I just run them as debit with the pin and then I don't need to worry. Since debit requires a pin, they don't match ids.

Sorry OT, but how do you like the Apple Watch? I'm considering it.

I've only had my (first) iphone for 2 months now, so I'm not as good with it as many iphone users likely are. So far, it's okay. Battery life is annoying (you will likely have to charge it daily) where my fitbit charge HR would get 2 or 3 days. I finally got the display how i wanted after watching some youtube videos and DD19 is going to have to help me figure out a few things she loved that made me lean towards it. I definitely wouldn't have gotten it had I not been trying to spend down ebay cards. DD19 loves hers, and so does my BFF, so more experienced iphone users who've had theirs a while seem happy with them. Sorry, probably not very helpful lol.

 

[wendow]

Did you call and verify the gift card with Southwest? Mine came up with errors but when I called them they all had correct balances.

What kind of errors did you get? I am getting an error on each card saying the security code is bad. I have booked lots of SW travel with GC's and never gotten an error. Only on these three cards I had not used yet. I assumed they were no longer good. Who did you call...SW or PP?

 

[wendow]

Ugh your SW is gone, too? Did you buy those recently or have you had them for a while? I have $200 I bought a while back and they are still good but that makes me nervous. Wish you didn't have a 1 yr exp date if you booked a flight to prevent theft

One I bought in the Spring and the other two I had bought in June. I really wish there was a way to store the GC's in their system. I'd actually buy them every time they were on sale if they offered something like that. Kind of like Amazon has.