Disney Gift Card Deals

[linzjane88]

Lol, I woke up to a promo that was sold out. The early bird who also happens to not be on PST gets the worm .

 

[Deirdres]

I have been churning for about a year now, mostly with kroger->target->ebay->target->Disney, with others thrown in here and there (including BB), but have recently added GS to my rotation. I am leery about moving my PPDG GC's to paypal and then using them (at GS specifically) through paypal. Do many of you use this process? I have just been using the digital GC's on my cellphone or printing them out. Also, there used to be a limit at PPDG, but I can't find any info on that, is there still a limit?

 

[JKalai]

Lol, I woke up to a promo that was sold out. The early bird who also happens to not be on PST gets the worm .

Waking up at 5am isn't so bad! Your body just has to get the hang of it

It sucked at first since I start work at 7am everyday, but the benefits such as waking up to ebay offers when they are dropped are totally worth it.

 

[linzjane88]

Waking up at 5am isn't so bad! Your body just has to get the hang of it

It sucked at first since I start work at 7am everyday, but the benefits such as waking up to ebay offers when they are dropped are totally worth it.

LOL. I work night shift. Ain't gonna happen!

 

[lorijohnhill]

They must not have had much in stock to be completely sold out in ~3 hours.

 

[Marionnette]

They must not have had much in stock to be completely sold out in ~3 hours.

84,729 according to the listing. Such an odd amount.

 

[Mike&AllisMom]

Lol, I woke up to a promo that was sold out. The early bird who also happens to not be on PST gets the worm .

Me too. I'm thinking of buying some Delta gift cards instead. I'm ready to book my flights anyway.

 

[lorijohnhill]

84,729 according to the listing. Such an odd amount.

That's not just from today though. I'm pretty sure that is what has sold since they started this particular listing. I want to say that number was somewhere between 80,000 and 82,000 last week when they sold out. But, I totally agree, it is a very odd number.

 

[frannn]

So how long does it usually take for GCM to restock the 150's? I haven't gotten an ebucks offer since last Dec, so no rush for that. I just want to churn as much as possible till our Aug trip.​

 

[kool_kat]

Me too. I'm thinking of buying some Delta gift cards instead. I'm ready to book my flights anyway.

Make sure you read the fine print before you buy delta gift cards (if you've never used them before). Seemed like I looked into buying them but they have restrictions like only so many can be used on one transaction etc... basically it boiled down to be very hard to pay for an entire flight with gift cards.

 

[MrInfinity]

I don't think it is just one or two bloggers. I was googling something related to Disney but not to GC churning or anything like that and a youtube link came up. Something in the verbage under the link caught my eye (something about DISboards) and I clicked on the youtube. The lady did not detail churning but did point people to this thread. It's all over SD's whenever ebucks threads come up. Same with a lot of the CC churning forums. People are churning for more than Disney so this isn't being publicized on just Disney blogs.

Yeah it's not just one or two now, it's massive. Posted everywhere. Right in front of us is some really good data...

* This thread started in June of 2012.
* We hit 300 pages by Sep 2015. (300 pages in 39 months. ~8 pages per month = 160 posts per month.)
* We'll hit 900 pages by May 2016. (600 pages in 8 months. ~75 pages per month = 1500 posts per month.)

The average posts-per-month of the last 8 months is 10x what it was for the preceeding 3 years. There isn't 10-fold more ways to save or things to talk about, it's just 10-fold more people talking about the same processes. Yet, it sat comfortably low and under the radar for many years. If you plotted it it'd be a perfect exponential graph.

 

[hsmamato2]

GCM is currently out of all Target cards.

Woah- that was fast

 

[uncharch7]

Well, it appears my one attempt to use PPDG is going to be my last. Tried to buy a BB GC to dip my toes into having another option (and make the 3x more worthwhile). Account locked. Tried calling PayPal, they say it's an eBay problem. The guy tried to tell me I can't use eBay gift cards to buy other gift cards due to money laundering. Now on hold with eBay.

 

[kool_kat]

Yeah it's not just one or two now, it's massive. Posted everywhere. Right in front of us is some really good data...

* This thread started in June of 2012.
* We hit 300 pages by Sep 2015. (300 pages in 39 months. ~8 pages per month = 160 posts per month.)
* We'll hit 900 pages by May 2016. (600 pages in 8 months. ~75 pages per month = 1500 posts per month.)

The average posts-per-month of the last 8 months is 10x what it was for the preceeding 3 years. There isn't 10-fold more ways to save or things to talk about, it's just 10-fold more people talking about the same processes. Yet, it sat comfortably low and under the radar for many years. If you plotted it it'd be a perfect exponential graph.

I think you also have to look at how things have changed since then as well, since the changes have made it a lot easier / more profitable. If I remember correctly, GCM started selling Target GC's around May of last year. This opened the process up to target-ebay/rinse & repeat formula. Prior to that most people did raise/target/Disney and was done. You had to be a pretty hard core churner / manufacturing spender to do much more than this. However, it was still relatively regulated because of the PP / Ebay GC limit of 5k for 6 month. That has since been lifted which makes this process even easier / more popular.

 

[Mike&AllisMom]

Make sure you read the fine print before you buy delta gift cards (if you've never used them before). Seemed like I looked into buying them but they have restrictions like only so many can be used on one transaction etc... basically it boiled down to be very hard to pay for an entire flight with gift cards.

I checked - you can use 3 forms of payment. This is good advice! I will be able to earn around $96 in Ebucks this way.

 

[kool_kat]

I checked - you can use 3 forms of payment. This is good advice! I will be able to earn around $96 in Ebucks this way.

That's right...I was looking into flights to Hawaii from the East Coast...no way was that happening with 3 gift cards lol.

 

[Marionnette]

So how long does it usually take for GCM to restock the 150's? I haven't gotten an ebucks offer since last Dec, so no rush for that. I just want to churn as much as possible till our Aug trip.​

Could be anywhere from a few hours, to overnight, to over a week. There's no concrete answer. Someone usually posts when they come back in stock.

 

[lorijohnhill]

Yeah it's not just one or two now, it's massive. Posted everywhere. Right in front of us is some really good data...

* This thread started in June of 2012.
* We hit 300 pages by Sep 2015. (300 pages in 39 months. ~8 pages per month = 160 posts per month.)
* We'll hit 900 pages by May 2016. (600 pages in 8 months. ~75 pages per month = 1500 posts per month.)

The average posts-per-month of the last 8 months is 10x what it was for the preceeding 3 years. There isn't 10-fold more ways to save or things to talk about, it's just 10-fold more people talking about the same processes. Yet, it sat comfortably low and under the radar for many years. If you plotted it it'd be a perfect exponential graph.

I think this data is still a bit skewed though. Just because the average posts increased 10x, doesn't mean the number of people using the process has increased 10x. You have to take into account people like me, who may have posted once or twice between 2012 and 2015 but post a lot more now. I was doing the raise>target>disney churn, but not posting about it. I post more now because I have become more comfortable posting on the forums here. You also have to take into consideration the many multiple pages that flew by when Target stopped the 5%. Those weren't all pages adding in new people, and just because they are new to this thread, doesn't mean they are new to churning. It simply means we are talking to each other about it more while adding in a few new "players" here and there. I'm not saying the numbers of churners hasn't increased. I would say it has for sure. I'm just saying that you can't accurately use this data to say by how much the numbers have increased. You'd have to do a lot more filtering of the data to get anything near an accurate graph.

 

[lordog]

Me eBay offer says 6%. Does that calculate into to 3x that everyone is mentioning?

 

[havaneselover]

Me eBay offer says 6%. Does that calculate into to 3x that everyone is mentioning?

Yes.