Out of curiosity, what was wrong with the gift card? Was it an older card?
has to be above 750 for signature. was changed from 600
There were 2 offers in January during the Bucks redemption period. So there is a possibility.
I went to Kmart today with my $100 sears physical gift card that I had gotten yesterday from trading in my $100 sears paypal digital gift card (that I had paid $85 for 2 weeks ago). I found a whole bunch of $50 gamestop gift cards, so I got 2 of those instead of 4 $25 ebay cards. I was kind of sad, though, because I was going to end up not getting about $30 of my ebay bucks.
Then, I had a brilliant idea on my way to Gamestop. I have a DiscoverIt card and hadn't spent $500 of my 5% cash back for transportation. So, I stopped by Speedway (on the way to the mall anyway). I spent $500 buying 20 $25 gamestop gift cards (the only denomination they had). I have 40x speedy points on merchandise, so I got 20K speedy points, plus it gave me 3K bonus points for buying gaming gift cards. 23K speedy rewards is pretty close to $20. I will get $25 from Discover next month and $25 more from Discover in October because I am in my first year and they double cash back. Then, I took my $600 total in gamestop cards and got 2 $300 ebay cards (I wait for another customer to go, and made sure the guy was ok with me using 22 gift cards), to get my ebay bucks total to 499.90 for the quarter. I also spent $1.95 on shipping on a GCM order yesterday from my paypal balance (it wouldn't take a 15th card, I tried).
I also got a $60 AMC card, $120 in Darden cards, a $25 steak and shake card and a $30 Petco card, plus the $295.30 I was short of my ebay bucks total before yesterday, and $56.50 in other cashback (iConsumer 3% to $20 and then splender 2%, plus splender $5 signup bonus). And, I have $562 more in target or sears gift cards than I started with, for my $502 additional investment. By my calculations, I made more than $700 in profit the last 2 days (although I did choose to get $235 of it to use, and not in churnable cards).
It was a problem with how they combined cards when I was in the store last week. Basically I combined a few gift cards and they recycled all of the cards, which they weren't supposed to do. I had called on Tuesday and told them all of the cards I had noticed odd activity on, but not the one I was trying to use since the balance looked correct. Turns out the lady on Tuesday had flagged the gift cards on my account without me knowing until she could look into everything further. She called me yesterday afternoon and everything was settled.
Swagbucks has been good on my eBay purchases. I haven't had any luck with any sites crediting me for my Target GC purchases. I'm about to give up on that.
1/20 there was a 4x
Are you getting swagbucks from eBay purchases when paying with a gift card?
UGH! Just another problem to look out for with Target! I get a lot of digital Target GCs from rewards programs. At least they can't recycle those! I'll have to be careful about the others. Maybe I should just mark the physical GCs up with a Sharpie so they cannot be recycled to another customer?
Me, too! I'm so appreciative that they've come out of lurking and are bringing a fresh perspective to the process.
but I wanted to report that my new eBay account got the 5x offer! The old one (10+ year old account, opted in to eBucks about a month ago) did not. So I feel a little better, at least now I am certain I wasn't just missing them somehow. I bought 4x $100 Target gift cards with eBay gift cards I had saved, but f course I forgot to go through a portal. $40 in Ebucks is great though for a $405.94 order! I had to buy a couple of gift cards for gifts so I have another $20 coming via eBucks and I went through eBates that time.
usually wont credit till your order ships, so 3-4 days.
