Upromise and Disney Visa Rewards

[geniegirl]

Hey for anyone out there who still has to purchase their park tickets. I just ordered gift cards from the on-line Disney story through the Upromise site - you will get a 4% contribution for any purchase on-line. Plus I used my Disney visa and got points toward Disney rewards. Bottom line a $700.00 Gift card will get you $28.00 in my Upromise account and $7.00 Disney rewards not too bad of a deal. An added savings for those who shop early.

 

[nicknamy1996]

I did the same thing a couple of years ago. It was before the Disney Visa, but My CC was running a double points promo (like the DV may be doing right now) I bought $1000 worth of GCs. Then when I went to the Dis Store to use them they were offering a free T-shirt with a $50 purchase. I did 3 separate purchases (one for each of the APs) I ended up getting $40 in Upromise Acct. $20 in Geoffry(Toys R Us) dollars, and 3 free T-shirts.

One very importiant word of warning though. Call your local Dis Store get a manager, get a name and make sure you can use GCs to buy tickets. I never had trouble with it I even called one to make sure it was ok then ended up going to another one since I was passing by and I had no problems there either. But I have heard a lot of people have not been able to use GCs for Tickets(they are a Disney World item/not Disney Store merchandise...which is what the card states that it can be used for)

If I would have been turned down. I would have just kept going back to different store and different workers until one of them let me buy the passes. But this was not necessary.

 

[kilarney]

You can't use these gift cards at the parks, can you?

If only you could buy Disney Dollars online!

 

[nicknamy1996]

In a way you can. Buying gift cards and cashing them in at dis store for dds. But again call and make sure your store will let you do this. Mine did, but it was not a lot. I spend 900+ on the tickets and used the balance for DDs for our trip.

 

[Lizzydoll73]

You can get 6% back (instead of 4%) for Upromise until 3/24/04.

 

[nicknamy1996]

Cool. Thank you. I need to jump over there(the disney store) for some birthday gifts for my wife.