My churning has been on hold too. Nothing appealing at this time. The types of exchanges are so limited... in value they produce per purchase, and in how large of chunks one can do them. Just a couple months ago, it was worth the time to do $1800 a flip since it would produce around $90+perks on each end of the flip. But that is history and things are generating Ebay Bucks only, and only on one side of the flip... and costing gas money. Flipping $200 for 8% ($16) Ebay Bucks is not a good deal if it costs $5 to go to
Best Buy, $5 to go to Game Stop, and 2 hours of time. That process earns approx. $4/hour. Even my son earns $20/hour mowing lawns so I'm not going to risk tying up my funds dealing with teenage retail employees who might block you just because they think they're enforcing policies, leaving me wasting even more time to get flipped.
Some ppl might be able to make the current options work for them, but the hassles outweigh the benefits for me right now.
I might look for $10 off $100 gas cards... that's a pretty good way to convert Ebay value to offset real expenses.