Disney Gift Card Deals

[scottmel]

Okay. I don't have a DVA. We just called and made our ressies with Disney and planned to pay through them. Do I just call in periodically and give them 10 codes.

Thanks so much for the reply.

I never had a DVA until 5 days ago and could kick myself for not doing it years earlier. I did as you are describing, stack up the giftcards and call them in every so often. My biggest worry was them not working as I get them from all over different places various times of the year so the DVA allows me to input the card immediately and know the balance was good etc.

You can do it the way you described, I did for years...but the DVA even pays 2 percent on giftcard money that really would just sit in a shoebox

 

[MissMaryQC]

Question: if I buy Target GCs and use them to buy Disney GCs will I get the 5% from my red card if it's attacks to my account?

 

[HappyMomma]

I never had a DVA until 5 days ago and could kick myself for not doing it years earlier. I did as you are describing, stack up the giftcards and call them in every so often. My biggest worry was them not working as I get them from all over different places various times of the year so the DVA allows me to input the card immediately and know the balance was good etc.

You can do it the way you described, I did for years...but the DVA even pays 2 percent on giftcard money that really would just sit in a shoebox

So I can still set one up? I put a down payment already to Disney. We aren't going for 6 more months. I'm sorry. IDK how the DVA works. I know I'm killing you with questions.

 

[lions1995]

Question: if I buy Target GCs and use them to buy Disney GCs will I get the 5% from my red card if it's attacks to my account?

As long as you have you red card listed as your preferred payment - yes. I buy my target cards on Raise.com at a 4% discount with a rewards credit card. I get an email within 15 minutes usually from Raise.com withe the card numbers and pins. The i hop over to target.com, add my disney gift cards and then to check out. Make sure you do not complete the order, but rather edit the payment option. Then you can copy and paste the gift card numbers from raise to your order.

Some time the target sites get a little hung. And I have had two cases where my order got cancelled the next day. Do you have to keep watch. If your order foes get cancelled, you can go into it and it will show you the gift cards used. Then you can recreate the order since your target gift cards still have the amount on them.
The most you can put on one order is 3 - $50 cards (150). And it appears as if they do like if you place more than 3 sets of orders in a day (450). When I have tried 4 orders in a day, one seems to get cancelled.

 

[bigjon1805]

Here is a major money saver. Office Depot has $100 Sears gift cards for $80. You can buy three at a time. Sears sells Disney gift cards. I did the transaction today and was able to use 3 sears gift cards to buy $300 worth of Disney gift cards. That's 20% off plus whatever rewards cards you use at Office Depot. Some sears may not let you buy gift cards with a gift card. Sears has other gift cards as well such as BP. Saving 20% on gas is awesome! This deal is on until the 18th. Have fun!

 

[scottmel]

Here is a major money saver. Office Depot has $100 Sears gift cards for $80. You can buy three at a time. Sears sells Disney gift cards. I did the transaction today and was able to use 3 sears gift cards to buy $300 worth of Disney gift cards. That's 20% off plus whatever rewards cards you use at Office Depot. Some sears may not let you buy gift cards with a gift card. Sears has other gift cards as well such as BP. Saving 20% on gas is awesome! This deal is on until the 18th. Have fun!

great find! Wonder if sears lets you buy Disney gift cards on line...

 

[scottmel]

So I can still set one up? I put a down payment already to Disney. We aren't going for 6 more months. I'm sorry. IDK how the DVA works. I know I'm killing you with questions.

oh yes! Set it up now. It is basically a virtual Disney bank. You set one up and you can either do charge card payments but why bother I say...or bank deposits etc..I prefer to do one time payments each time I get a Disney gift card. Once you have the account for 120 days you earn 20.00 for each 1k you put in there. So say you put 500 in today...and on day 119 you put another 500 in. On day 120 you are mailed a 20.00 gift card. Say you put 1k in 5 days later, again a 20 dollar gift card. You simply just have to have the account ACTIVE for 120 days before the 1k 20.00 gift card rule comes into play

It is virtually going to be ONE BIG GIFT CARD at redemption time. Check it out. I love it b/c I am not stacking gift cards in a closet.
Disneyvacationaccount.com
A trick though when you open it you have to use a charge card, I just put 10.00 on my amex as a one time payment. THEN it allows you to pay per deposit in gift cards. Id on't know why...

 

[Bamagirl43]

Here is a major money saver. Office Depot has $100 Sears gift cards for $80. You can buy three at a time. Sears sells Disney gift cards. I did the transaction today and was able to use 3 sears gift cards to buy $300 worth of Disney gift cards. That's 20% off plus whatever rewards cards you use at Office Depot. Some sears may not let you buy gift cards with a gift card. Sears has other gift cards as well such as BP. Saving 20% on gas is awesome! This deal is on until the 18th. Have fun!

Hi bigjon. Where did you see the Office Depot deal? I've looked online and don't see where they sell a Sears gift card.

 

[Eighty8Keys]

oh yes! Set it up now. It is basically a virtual Disney bank. You set one up and you can either do charge card payments but why bother I say...or bank deposits etc..I prefer to do one time payments each time I get a Disney gift card. Once you have the account for 120 days you earn 20.00 for each 1k you put in there. So say you put 500 in today...and on day 119 you put another 500 in. On day 120 you are mailed a 20.00 gift card. Say you put 1k in 5 days later, again a 20 dollar gift card. You simply just have to have the account ACTIVE for 120 days before the 1k 20.00 gift card rule comes into play

I just set up my account this week, but from what I read in the program details you earn $20 for each $1,000 you spend on eligible purchases after your account has been open for 120 days, rather than earn $20 for each $1,000 you put into the account. Here's the quote from the website:

"You'll be eligible for a $20 Disney Gift Card for every $1000 you spend on qualified vacation purchases with your Disney Vacation Account prior to December 31, 2015 (date subject to extension), up to a total $500 in Disney Gift Card(s) per household. Your Disney Vacation Account must be active for a minimum of 120 days at the time of spending in order to receive this bonus. Request your Disney Gift Card(s) 4-6 weeks in advance of your vacation date to allow time for delivery to your mailing address. See FAQs for complete details."

It's still a good deal and a great way to combine all the $50 gift cards I'm accumulating. Today I bought $300 in Target gift cards from Raise.com for 5% off, using my Discover card for an additional 5% cash back, then turned around and bought $300 of Disney gift cards for another 5% off because of my Red card discount for a total of 15% off.

 

[lions1995]

It's still a good deal and a great way to combine all the $50 gift cards I'm accumulating. Today I bought $300 in Target gift cards from Raise.com for 5% off, using my Discover card for an additional 5% cash back, then turned around and bought $300 of Disney gift cards for another 5% off because of my Red card discount for a total of 15% off.

I looked into this account some time ago. I am DVC member, so I was looking for a way to apply it yo my room charges. They told me it needs to be used yo buy a package. So has anyone had luck using it ss an account to pay off rom charges?

 

[Eighty8Keys]

I looked into this account some time ago. I am DVC member, so I was looking for a way to apply it yo my room charges. They told me it needs to be used yo buy a package. So has anyone had luck using it ss an account to pay off rom charges?

From what I can tell, it can't be used to pay off expenses you charge to your room. It doesn't have to be a package though. We'll do room only reservations and it looks like I can use the DVA to pay those off prior to check-in. We'll also use it to purchase our 10-day park hoppers online. There is an option to put any remaining balance from your account onto a Disney Gift card (subject to a DVA lifetime maximum of $500). You could use that to pay off room charges. However, it didn't appear that this amount was considered "spending" and wasn't eligible for the $20 bonus per $1,000 spent. Our trip isn't scheduled until January 2016 at the earliest and I'm hoping they'll change things so you can use your account to pay down room charges at the front desk. We only plan to save enough in our account to pay for our rooms and tickets. We'll charge our food to our rooms and then bring gift cards to pay down the balance every few days.

 

[HappyMomma]

oh yes! Set it up now. It is basically a virtual Disney bank. You set one up and you can either do charge card payments but why bother I say...or bank deposits etc..I prefer to do one time payments each time I get a Disney gift card. Once you have the account for 120 days you earn 20.00 for each 1k you put in there. So say you put 500 in today...and on day 119 you put another 500 in. On day 120 you are mailed a 20.00 gift card. Say you put 1k in 5 days later, again a 20 dollar gift card. You simply just have to have the account ACTIVE for 120 days before the 1k 20.00 gift card rule comes into play

It is virtually going to be ONE BIG GIFT CARD at redemption time. Check it out. I love it b/c I am not stacking gift cards in a closet.
Disneyvacationaccount.com
A trick though when you open it you have to use a charge card, I just put 10.00 on my amex as a one time payment. THEN it allows you to pay per deposit in gift cards. Id on't know why...

Thank you!!!!

 

[scottmel]

I just set up my account this week, but from what I read in the program details you earn $20 for each $1,000 you spend on eligible purchases after your account has been open for 120 days, rather than earn $20 for each $1,000 you put into the account. Here's the quote from the website:

"You'll be eligible for a $20 Disney Gift Card for every $1000 you spend on qualified vacation purchases with your Disney Vacation Account prior to December 31, 2015 (date subject to extension), up to a total $500 in Disney Gift Card(s) per household. Your Disney Vacation Account must be active for a minimum of 120 days at the time of spending in order to receive this bonus. Request your Disney Gift Card(s) 4-6 weeks in advance of your vacation date to allow time for delivery to your mailing address. See FAQs for complete details."

It's still a good deal and a great way to combine all the $50 gift cards I'm accumulating. Today I bought $300 in Target gift cards from Raise.com for 5% off, using my Discover card for an additional 5% cash back, then turned around and bought $300 of Disney gift cards for another 5% off because of my Red card discount for a total of 15% off.

I think we are saying the same thing? What I understand is your account must be open 120 days before you can earn any type of gift card. However 1k doesn't have to be in there to earn 1K. This is how it was explained to me by someone who has successfully used it for two trips. Is this what you are saying?

 

[Marionnette]

I just set up my account this week, but from what I read in the program details you earn $20 for each $1,000 you spend on eligible purchases after your account has been open for 120 days, rather than earn $20 for each $1,000 you put into the account. Here's the quote from the website:

"You'll be eligible for a $20 Disney Gift Card for every $1000 you spend on qualified vacation purchases with your Disney Vacation Account prior to December 31, 2015 (date subject to extension), up to a total $500 in Disney Gift Card(s) per household. Your Disney Vacation Account must be active for a minimum of 120 days at the time of spending in order to receive this bonus. Request your Disney Gift Card(s) 4-6 weeks in advance of your vacation date to allow time for delivery to your mailing address. See FAQs for complete details."

It's still a good deal and a great way to combine all the $50 gift cards I'm accumulating. Today I bought $300 in Target gift cards from Raise.com for 5% off, using my Discover card for an additional 5% cash back, then turned around and bought $300 of Disney gift cards for another 5% off because of my Red card discount for a total of 15% off.

I think we are saying the same thing? What I understand is your account must be open 120 days before you can earn any type of gift card. However 1k doesn't have to be in there to earn 1K. This is how it was explained to me by someone who has successfully used it for two trips. Is this what you are saying?

scottmel, I think that eighty8keys is agreeing with you on that point but disagreeing with you as to when the $20 GC is available. It is my understanding that just putting a total of $1K into the account is not enough to trigger the reward. You get the $20 bonus for every $1K spent. You get nothing until you actually spend that money on a Disney purchase.

Eighty8keys, if you want to add another 1% to your already awesome savings, sunshine rewards .com rewards for raise . com purchases. They're a little slow to credit for your purchases unless you're one of their super members but you can redeem for Paypal or Disney GCs when you reach their threshold. If you're buying a lot of GCs on Raise, it might be worth going thru that website.

 

[Eighty8Keys]

scottmel, I think that eighty8keys is agreeing with you on that point but disagreeing with you as to when the $20 GC is available. It is my understanding that just putting a total of $1K into the account is not enough to trigger the reward. You get the $20 bonus for every $1K spent. You get nothing until you actually spend that money on a Disney purchase.

Eighty8keys, if you want to add another 1% to your already awesome savings, sunshine rewards .com rewards for raise . com purchases. They're a little slow to credit for your purchases unless you're one of their super members but you can redeem for Paypal or Disney GCs when you reach their threshold. If you're buying a lot of GCs on Raise, it might be worth going thru that website.

Thanks for clarifying Marionnette, that's exactly what I was trying to say.

I'll definitely look at sunshine rewards. Every percent off adds up.

 

[scottmel]

Thanks for clarifying Marionnette, that's exactly what I was trying to say.

I'll definitely look at sunshine rewards. Every percent off adds up.

Yes I see great way to explain .. In my case I am going to wdw on room only pkg for Easter and ABD trip in July. I will call in a 1k payment to trigger the giftcard. I do know that it is slow to arrive do I will plan to pay off package 45 days out to hopefully get the 180 in gift cards before the trip. Make sense?

 

[w84no1]

Yes I see great way to explain .. In my case I am going to wdw on room only pkg for Easter and ABD trip in July. I will call in a 1k payment to trigger the giftcard. I do know that it is slow to arrive do I will plan to pay off package 45 days out to hopefully get the 180 in gift cards before the trip. Make sense?

At the 120 day mark, a "Request Bonus" link will appear on your DVA account. I just requested mine and it asks for your travel date and says "Request your Disney Gift Card(s) 4-6 weeks in advance of your vacation date to allow time for delivery to your mailing address."

 

[pillow]

At the 120 day mark, a "Request Bonus" link will appear on your DVA account. I just requested mine and it asks for your travel date and says "Request your Disney Gift Card(s) 4-6 weeks in advance of your vacation date to allow time for delivery to your mailing address."

FYI . . . Our vacation date is Nov 21, and I just received an email yesterday saying my bonus gift cards are being shipped and should arrive w/in 10 business days. Thats a little earlier than I thought they would arrive. Love this account!

Jodie

 

[MrBean]

I think we are saying the same thing? What I understand is your account must be open 120 days before you can earn any type of gift card. However 1k doesn't have to be in there to earn 1K. This is how it was explained to me by someone who has successfully used it for two trips. Is this what you are saying?

Just to clarify, you get $20 for every $1000 spent, regardless of when you spent it using the DVA. Meaning you can open you account today, put $1000 in today, spend $1000 today, and you'll still receive the $20. The catch is that you have to wait 120 days from the time the account was opened to request your bonus.

I can confirm this as I've used my account for DVC PAPs, a vacation package, cruise through a TA, and onboard cruise credit (to get to the next thousand). Part of the spending was less then a month after I opened the account, all of it counted and I just received my bonus for everything expected.

Hope that helps

 

[pillow]

Just to clarify, you get $20 for every $1000 spent, regardless of when you spent it using the DVA. Meaning you can open you account today, put $1000 in today, spend $1000 today, and you'll still receive the $20. The catch is that you have to wait 120 days from the time the account was opened to request your bonus.

I can confirm this as I've used my account for DVC PAPs, a vacation package, cruise through a TA, and onboard cruise credit (to get to the next thousand). Part of the spending was less then a month after I opened the account, all of it counted and I just received my bonus for everything expected.

Hope that helps

What was your experience like paying through the TA for a cruise? Someone else here reported that her TA had to conference DCL in to have her give the DVA # directly to DCL. Was this your experience? We're planning to give this a shot, but I'm a little nervous since others have reported having issues paying through their TA. Curious to know what your experience was like. We use Costco.

Thanks!

Jodie