Mastercard free $20 gift card promotion; UPDATE Post #6

[Marionnette]

Mastercard is offering a free $20 gift card when you register your card and spend $200 online between now and Dec. 31, 2011. Details here:

https://holiday.mastercard.com/

I know that I can easily reach $200 in spending between now and then. Aside from Christmas, I have 4 birthdays to buy gifts for.

 

[cseca]

Fine print:
Starts 11/15/11. Ends 12/31/11 or while supplies last. Offline, PIN-based & international transactions ineligible. Gift Card quantities are limited to the first 80,000 eligible entrants & maximum 10,000 other gifts to next 10,000 eligible entrants. Restrictions apply. Click here for Terms & Conditions & complete details.

 

[MouseloverJD]

Just registered. Thanks.

 

[Green Tea]

does anyone else worry it might be a scam with having to register the card number? It isn't on FatWallet, at least that I saw. Did it come mailed to you from your bank, OP?

 

[Green Tea]

Update: I went to the mastercaard homepage and found it there. All good

 

[Marionnette]

I just got my $20 GC in the mail this afternoon. We leave in 10 days so this is a nice little bonus!

AFAIK, this promotion is still going on! Try the link in my first post or check on Mastercard's website for the "Here's to Mom" promotion.

 

[Piecey]

Darn! I wish I'd seen this thread way back when. I don't think we need anything for $200 but I registered just in case. You never know...

Maybe I could order a Disney Gift Card? We're going in January.. Hmmm.

 

[QVCshopper]

I got my $20 card today as well. I ended up buying a few things for people and they paid me back, so it was really like free money.

 

[cole6179]

Darn! I wish I'd seen this thread way back when. I don't think we need anything for $200 but I registered just in case. You never know...

Maybe I could order a Disney Gift Card? We're going in January.. Hmmm.

It can be accumulated purchases. I haven't spent $200 in a swoop and it told me I earned one the other day. I know I've made lots of small purchases though!

 

[DawnM]

Can I pay a bill online with it or does it need to be goods purchased?

Dawn

 

[Piecey]

It can be accumulated purchases. I haven't spent $200 in a swoop and it told me I earned one the other day. I know I've made lots of small purchases though!

I JUST registered my card, though. I can't think of anything online I'd need in the immediate future that came to anywhere close to $200.

But a $200 Disney Gift Card? Could be our spending money for the January trip vs. just using cash. I need to read through the fine print better and see if that would count!

 

[Marionnette]

I JUST registered my card, though. I can't think of anything online I'd need in the immediate future that came to anywhere close to $200.

But a $200 Disney Gift Card? Could be our spending money for the January trip vs. just using cash. I need to read through the fine print better and see if that would count!

My $200 in online purchases consisted of 4 $50 gift cards. Three were for the grocery stores close to where the kids go to college and one was for a Disney gift card. So, gift card purchases counted.

DawnM, I don't know whether online bill payments would work. I think that it would depend on how it gets processed since all of these transactions are looked at by computers at Mastercard to determine if they qualify.

 

[DawnM]

Do you get an email confirmation that you have made your $200 quota? Since it is so close to the deadline I would like to know ASAP if I need to make another purchase.

I too was thinking of getting gift cards. Walmart maybe or Costco if I can get them online. I haven't looked yet.

DaWn

My $200 in online purchases consisted of 4 $50 gift cards. Three were for the grocery stores close to where the kids go to college and one was for a Disney gift card. So, gift card purchases counted.

DawnM, I don't know whether online bill payments would work. I think that it would depend on how it gets processed since all of these transactions are looked at by computers at Mastercard to determine if they qualify.

 

[DawnM]

My Costco membership is due. It is $100. I can do that online.

I could easily get $400 in Costco gift cards as well as we spend at least that much per month on food.

My Mastercard is really a debit card through ING though, so the cash will be taken out immediately.

 

[xbatman]

I just saw this last night. Thanks for posting!

I didn't see anything excluding gift cards, so I bought a $200 Wegman's gift card. If it doesn't go through for some reason, I haven't spent anything I wouldn't have spent anyway.

 

[DawnM]

This was my thinking too.

Sprint bill
A couple of Christmas gifts
Costco Membership
Costco gift cards for groceries


All would have been spent anyway.

Dawn

I just saw this last night. Thanks for posting!

I didn't see anything excluding gift cards, so I bought a $200 Wegman's gift card. If it doesn't go through for some reason, I haven't spent anything I wouldn't have spent anyway.

 

[Bren's Mom]

I just received an e-mail a couple days ago saying I'm met the $200 and asking me where to send my $20 gift card.

 

[DawnM]

How long ago did you spend the $$?

Dawn

I just received an e-mail a couple days ago saying I'm met the $200 and asking me where to send my $20 gift card.

 

[Bren's Mom]

How long ago did you spend the $$?

Dawn

This is my mileage card, and all of our Christmas purchases went on it. I don't really recall when I signed up (it was within the last couple weeks though) and so I don't know if they counted purchases from the start date of the program (prior to me signing up) or not.

 

[Sarah'sMomfrom PA]

Is this for online purchases only? Do you just go to the website's of whatever store you want to buy an online card at?