NEW Disney Gift Card Deals and More.

[CarolynFH]

Nada here all day even waiting way past 24 hour mark. I wish I knew what algorithms BB was running to determine repeat eligibility!

I do, too! DH was able to order 3 more this evening, >24 hours after yesterday’s second order. He was able to order another set of 3 after those arrived, but then BB cancelled the order. Sigh. At least we’ve added $450 since we paid our dues!

 

[my523]

I was able to buy 3 DGC from Best Buy followed by 3 more. Set an alarm to buy more tomorrow. 12% off is not too bad. I have DVC dues, a trip to Disneyland in March and another trip to WDW in April to pay for.

Can yo help me understand how you get 12% with the BB offer? I thought it was only 10% and portals don’t typically work for gift cards.

 

[Liquidice]

I'm planning to do this, too. It sounds like a headache but probably still worth it. Get 10% off twice...plus 5% back on Chase offer...plus use a click through site. Correct?

Yup, I already used all of my $1500 on my Chase Freedom card, so I can't take advantage (or if you mean the Chase offer, I don't have the offer) - but it should work if you haven't already used it and yes to everything else. You're limited to $600 worth of giftcards dot com GCs per account and you can only use a single $100 giftcard to pay for the Disney Gift Card. So if you buy $600 worth for $540, you then need to do 6x separate transactions which results in 6x $1.99 shipping fees and 6x separate envelopes being mailed to you. Annoying that they won't let you use multiple giftcards together to make 1 big purchase.

 

[Liquidice]

Interesting. I wasn’t aware you could buy such non-standard denominations.

There is a field to type in any amount you want up to $500. Since you're getting 10% off and you want to use as much of the $100 giftcard dotcom GC, I was buying $109 DGCs which results in a price of $98.10, plus $1.99 shipping = $100.09, meaning I use the entire $100 giftcard and then have to pay an additional $0.09. But since I have to do 3x transactions, I guess I started to set off fraud alerts for making 2x$270 transactions followed by 3x $0.09 transactions. It might be better to use PayPal and use your bank account for the $0.09 transactions.

Because of the issues I was having, for the last 2x, I just purchased $108 and left $0.81 on the last 2 $100 gift cards.

 

[Liquidice]

Can yo help me understand how you get 12% with the BB offer? I thought it was only 10% and portals don’t typically work for gift cards.

I know for me, my credit card offers 2% cashback on all purchases. So you'd get roughly 12% off (11.8% effectively if you want to be precise).

 

[TheDailyMoo]

There is a field to type in any amount you want up to $500. Since you're getting 10% off and you want to use as much of the $100 giftcard dotcom GC, I was buying $109 DGCs which results in a price of $98.10, plus $1.99 shipping = $100.09, meaning I use the entire $100 giftcard and then have to pay an additional $0.09. But since I have to do 3x transactions, I guess I started to set off fraud alerts for making 2x$270 transactions followed by 3x $0.09 transactions. It might be better to use PayPal and use your bank account for the $0.09 transactions.

Because of the issues I was having, for the last 2x, I just purchased $108 and left $0.81 on the last 2 $100 gift cards.

So for me to take full advantage of the Chase 5% back I would need to buy $1000 in DGCs with the 10% off. However you think I'd be better off using the 5% on the 6x100 GiftCard GCS and then using those for the DGCs? I'd probably come out ahead doing that

 

[tx911]

I do, too! DH was able to order 3 more this evening, >24 hours after yesterday’s second order. He was able to order another set of 3 after those arrived, but then BB cancelled the order. Sigh. At least we’ve added $450 since we paid our dues!

I was able to get $450 as well

ETA: Make that $600!

 

[greeny41]

Just check the terms on your Chase offer. Mine says One Time Use Only so not sure how many Giftcard GCs I could buy so in my case I'm probably going to go straight 10% on the DGCs in one larger order. Unless someone else who has the same one time use term knows a workaround?

Good point. It looks like 3 of the $100 GCcom gift cards is the max I can buy at 1 time with the 10% off, so I'd have a charge for $270 on my credit card, and I'd get $13.50 back from Chase. I essentially miss out on the other $36.50 (max of $50 from Chase), which I wouldn't even save by buying the DGC 1 at a time x 3...so I'm better off just going straight Disney.
That was a mind boggler for me. Wow!

 

[greeny41]

So for me to take full advantage of the Chase 5% back I would need to buy $1000 in DGCs with the 10% off. However you think I'd be better off using the 5% on the 6x100 GiftCard GCS and then using those for the DGCs? I'd probably come out ahead doing that

Yes, exactly! Many fewer steps, too. Tough to wrap your brain around it, but that seems to be the best bang for the buck when you crunch numbers.
Edit: $1111 in DGC with 10% off is probably the optimal number.
Edit #2: didn't account for shipping, so take $6ish off the $111 GC for the max.

 

[Liquidice]

So for me to take full advantage of the Chase 5% back I would need to buy $1000 in DGCs with the 10% off. However you think I'd be better off using the 5% on the 6x100 GiftCard GCS and then using those for the DGCs? I'd probably come out ahead doing that

The 6x100 giftcards dotcom GCs is the better deal as you're already saving ~18.5% before the Chase 5% back. Just realize you are limited in the number of times you can use the 10% off DGCs with the GCWEEK10 coupon so if you did want to purchase more after you buy your ~$600 worth then you may need another account.

It is a lot less work to buy the DGCs at 10% off though and lower risk since they are sending you each DGC in a separate envelope (higher chance one of them gets lost).

 

[eticketplease]

So for me to take full advantage of the Chase 5% back I would need to buy $1000 in DGCs with the 10% off. However you think I'd be better off using the 5% on the 6x100 GiftCard GCS and then using those for the DGCs? I'd probably come out ahead doing that

I came out ahead with $270 spend.

Without going through a portal almost received 26% off.

Unfortunately I was down to only one chase Freedom left as I already maxed out the other two.

Still may use giftcard.com offers on more $100 cards but the savings will diminish some.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/annual-dues-info-posted.3957690/page-5#post-65889030

 

[Potigant]

Interesting. I wasn’t aware you could buy such non-standard denominations.

You can buy $108.91 disney cards and drain it exactly to the $100 gcgc value after 1.99 shipping. Did it 6 times myself. Chase freedom 5% through paypal.

 

[Liquidice]

You can buy $108.91 disney cards and drain it exactly to the $100 gcgc value after 1.99 shipping. Did it 6 times myself. Chase freedom 5% through paypal.

Nice, I didn't know you could do less than whole dollar amounts. I thought you were stuck with $108 or $109. Good to know for future.

 

[eticketplease]

You can buy $108.91 disney cards and drain it exactly to the $100 gcgc value after 1.99 shipping. Did it 6 times myself. Chase freedom 5% through paypal.

Rats! I didn’t realize you could squeeze another penny out. I was using $108.90

 

[eticketplease]

Nice, I didn't know you could do less than whole dollar amounts. I thought you were stuck with $108 or $109. Good to know for future.

These are the same as variable loads at Grocery stores. I like to keep mine at $1k so I always have to do math after a trip or in this case after paying my dues.

I really wish I could just transfer any amount but of course the site takes all of the card and won’t let you go over $1k

 

[Bozni]

Rats! I didn’t realize you could squeeze another penny out. I was using $108.90

Same...a penny saved is a penny earned!

 

[robinb]

Can yo help me understand how you get 12% with the BB offer? I thought it was only 10% and portals don’t typically work for gift cards.

I get an extra 2% in my Fidelity credit card. It’s not quite 12%, it’s more like 11.8% but I rounded up.

 

[TheDailyMoo]

So in your opinion, if I'm willing to take the 6 separate mailings risk, I should grab the 6 GC GCs and then do the DGCs and call it a day on my one time use Chase offer?

 

[MMCD]

When is the BestBuy DGC $50 for $45 end?

 

[Potigant]

So in your opinion, if I'm willing to take the 6 separate mailings risk, I should grab the 6 GC GCs and then do the DGCs and call it a day on my one time use Chase offer?

I believe the discounted gcgcs is limited to 3 in one transaction. I didn’t use a chase offer. I bought 3 and 3 separately on a Freedom through PayPal to get 5x URs