Hopefully others will learn from my mistake. During my Xmas shopping earlier in the month I saw Disney gift cards at Walgreens. I went home and ordered a rather large amount of Walgreen cards at a 13% savings from a card service. They came in today and I just got home from a very sad trip to Walgreens. The checkout girl tried several times and different ways to run it through. Called in the manager and all of my pleading fell on deaf ears. Walgreens will not accept their own gift cards for other gift cards. I'm to embarrassed to admit the amount I now have in Walgreens gift cards. Suffice to say I could never spend this amount at Walgreens in my lifetime.
I'm so glad that worked out for youAn update. The gift cards I purchased above was from CardPool. Just shy of $1,000 worth. After discovering I could not use the Walgreen cards I figured I would sell them back at whatever their buy rate was and take the hit. I emailed cardpool and explained I could not use their cards for the purpose I had purchased them for and wanted to sell them back to them. They replied that they could not purchase cards back that they have sold but, I was about to cry at this point, under their 100% customer satisfaction warranty they would be glad to refund my purchase up to the max limit of $1,000 if I returned the cards within 100 days of purchase unused and in the same condition as received.
I waited to post this until the refund hit my bank account. I know this does not add anything to getting Disney gift cards at a discount but thought my experience with CardPool was worth mentioning. I would not hesitate to purchase from them again.
An update. The gift cards I purchased above was from CardPool. Just shy of $1,000 worth. After discovering I could not use the Walgreen cards I figured I would sell them back at whatever their buy rate was and take the hit. I emailed cardpool and explained I could not use their cards for the purpose I had purchased them for and wanted to sell them back to them. They replied that they could not purchase cards back that they have sold but, I was about to cry at this point, under their 100% customer satisfaction warranty they would be glad to refund my purchase up to the max limit of $1,000 if I returned the cards within 100 days of purchase unused and in the same condition as received.
I waited to post this until the refund hit my bank account. I know this does not add anything to getting Disney gift cards at a discount but thought my experience with CardPool was worth mentioning. I would not hesitate to purchase from them again.
Been doing exactly the same. I have close to 2k planning on Fall 2017 so hoping to go for free (well not really my time should count for something!)
Ok.... I am trying to follow this idea....why ebay? Is it b/c of the 5x points specials? I that what makes that part of this work? What does 5x points = in actual money? (mostly) get the raise/target/disney thing... but I am not getting the ebay part....what if you bought a gc at ebay without any 'deals' is that pointless?
I just copied and pasted this into a doc on my computer for reference.... thanks for the info!
Check the Swagbucks thread for easy earning opportunites. Why SB? Because they reward for shopping at Raise, Target .com, and eBay.
I did earn 135 points for a $135 Raise purchase which was nice. I need 500 total to be able to cash out for a $5 Target GC. Surveys can earn you some Swagbucks. I think I prefer Ebates in general (just the look and feel of it all is easier to me, personally) but I will definitely use Swagbucks for Raise and other saving opportunities!
Keep reading! The post that you were looking for has been moved forward a page or two (or ten or twenty or eighty)! 
I shop at Target regularly, so the money will get spent. I would much rather have the funds tied up in Target GCs, where I can use them to buy groceries and other essentials, than to have my money sunk in Disney GCs and tickets.
I am kind of wondering that myself.
