Now that I am up and my brain is working a little better, I need to take another look at my plan. I'm going to stick with $100 increments when I churn. It feels like an amount that is enough to be profitable on my end and still low enough to fly under the radar. Without an eBucks promo, the cost of shipping on the Walgreen's cards negates the eBucks earned, rendering that pointless. I currently have $65 in BB and $25 in eBay on hand, in addition to $213 in eBucks. Here's my plan...
The first step is to stop at BB and get a $65 eBay card. That will give me a total of $303 in eBay funds. Then, I will use that money to buy (2) $100 Walgreen's gift cards and (1) $100 BB gift card from PPDG. I'll convert the BB gift card into an eBay gift card and that way, I will have $100 on hand to order another Walgreen's card if a promo comes up while I am waiting for the other Walgreen's cards to arrive. I think if I run my "cycle" with no more than $100 at a time, and no more than once a week, through PPDG, I may be OK. I want to make sure that I have at least $100 in eBay on hand at all times in case a promo comes up. When it does, I would have two options: buy Walgreen's directly, or do BB=>eBay and double-dip. Depending on the timing, the double-dip might be doable.
No matter how I proceed, I have two things working to my advantage. First, ALL of my current churning money is "free". I have no cash tied up at this point. Second, our next planned trip isn't until April 2017 so I have time to be patient...but maybe not the willpower

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