Gift Card Churning

[spaghetticat]

arch01, the flights that were 86,736 points were $1,371.84.

I know I can get flights on spirit for around $850 (not including baggage). I'm going to try to make this work with points but I don't know if I will be able to get enough in time. If I switch days I can get flights for 70,788

[ribollita]

Mar 11, 2016 18:05:58 GMT -5 arch01 said:

Mar 11, 2016 17:45:59 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

good to know! what is Raise?

Raise is a discount GC website-I have alerts for Target set to tell me when they're selling for 7% off or higher. 

Have you seen any at 7% or higher lately? I just bought a number of cards at 5.1% off after monitoring for a week and not seeing much higher.


Related:
I'm nervous about walking around the airport with hundreds/thousands of dollars in GC! I know how to be safe and will take photos of the cards before we leave, but still...

[arch01]

Jul 12, 2016 17:49:44 GMT -5 ribollita said:

Mar 11, 2016 18:05:58 GMT -5 arch01 said:

Raise is a discount GC website-I have alerts for Target set to tell me when they're selling for 7% off or higher. 

Have you seen any at 7% or higher lately? I just bought a number of cards at 5.1% off after monitoring for a week and not seeing much higher.


Related:
I'm nervous about walking around the airport with hundreds/thousands of dollars in GC! I know how to be safe and will take photos of the cards before we leave, but still...

I've gotten some alerts for 9 and 10%, but they go so fast that if I'm right in front of the computer I can click the email and by the time I add it to my cart, it's gone.

Are you going to combine the GCs into one?

[ribollita]

Jul 12, 2016 19:23:11 GMT -5 arch01 said:

Jul 12, 2016 17:49:44 GMT -5 ribollita said:

Have you seen any at 7% or higher lately? I just bought a number of cards at 5.1% off after monitoring for a week and not seeing much higher.


Related:
I'm nervous about walking around the airport with hundreds/thousands of dollars in GC! I know how to be safe and will take photos of the cards before we leave, but still...

I've gotten some alerts for 9 and 10%, but they go so fast that if I'm right in front of the computer I can click the email and by the time I add it to my cart, it's gone.

Are you going to combine the GCs into one?

I've never done that before and I'm not sure I have enough time. Will have to look into it!

[ribollita]

Jul 12, 2016 19:23:11 GMT -5 arch01 said:

Jul 12, 2016 17:49:44 GMT -5 ribollita said:

Have you seen any at 7% or higher lately? I just bought a number of cards at 5.1% off after monitoring for a week and not seeing much higher.


Related:
I'm nervous about walking around the airport with hundreds/thousands of dollars in GC! I know how to be safe and will take photos of the cards before we leave, but still...

I've gotten some alerts for 9 and 10%, but they go so fast that if I'm right in front of the computer I can click the email and by the time I add it to my cart, it's gone.

Are you going to combine the GCs into one?

Ok now that I've read about it I definitely will, I didn't know you can combine them online. I am going to pay off my hotel bill then combine the rest. Thanks!!

[arch01]

Jul 13, 2016 7:44:35 GMT -5 ribollita said:

Jul 12, 2016 19:23:11 GMT -5 arch01 said:

I've gotten some alerts for 9 and 10%, but they go so fast that if I'm right in front of the computer I can click the email and by the time I add it to my cart, it's gone.

Are you going to combine the GCs into one?

Ok now that I've read about it I definitely will, I didn't know you can combine them online. I am going to pay off my hotel bill then combine the rest. Thanks!!

Any time! I have a pile of GCs that I've combined and write the dates I combined it with my main GC on the back just in case there's a problem.

[spaghetticat]

Jul 12, 2016 19:31:39 GMT -5 Loco Coco said:

spaghetticat do you have a Disney visa? I opened one a few months ago because they offered me $50 gift card to add an authorized user and $250 gift card to spend $500 on the card in 3 months. So that was a super easy $300 in gift cards right there.

I also sometimes wonder who I signed up with swagbucks from. Lol. I hope they enjoy my referral points!

I do have one. I find that overall it sucks. lol. But I will look into any benefits. Thanks!

[krz1211]

I just scored 2 $200 Target GC on card cash with 6.7% off, then will use my 5% RedCard to buy Disney GC. We will use these to pay for Dining Plan, or our DVC maintenance fees!

[miss1180]

Jul 13, 2016 7:44:35 GMT -5 ribollita said:

Jul 12, 2016 19:23:11 GMT -5 arch01 said:

I've gotten some alerts for 9 and 10%, but they go so fast that if I'm right in front of the computer I can click the email and by the time I add it to my cart, it's gone.

Are you going to combine the GCs into one?

Ok now that I've read about it I definitely will, I didn't know you can combine them online. I am going to pay off my hotel bill then combine the rest. Thanks!!

Yup! Disneygiftcard.com... It's pretty easy :-) I combined a bunch into $1000 cards and sent them to my TA to pay off our trip :-) then I have one $1000 one for spending down there (we don't have dining plan) I plan to charge everything to our bands, and then go down to the front desk with the gift card to pay our room charges down...

[ribollita]

Jul 13, 2016 10:03:28 GMT -5 miss1180 said:

Jul 13, 2016 7:44:35 GMT -5 ribollita said:

Ok now that I've read about it I definitely will, I didn't know you can combine them online. I am going to pay off my hotel bill then combine the rest. Thanks!!

Yup! Disneygiftcard.com... It's pretty easy :-) I combined a bunch into $1000 cards and sent them to my TA to pay off our trip :-) then I have one $1000 one for spending down there (we don't have dining plan) I plan to charge everything to our bands, and then go down to the front desk with the gift card to pay our room charges down...

Yes,I've paid down our charges at the desk with GC before and it was easy but I only had $50 cards... A lot of them lol. Poor CMs!

I was excited that Target had $100 GC in stock but this is even better!

[ribollita]

I also read a tip on Disboards to keep an empty GC on your profile on the site and keep it in your safe. If your $1000gc is lost/stolen you can go online and quickly shift the amount to the empty card.

[spaghetticat]

Can you just give them the number at the hotel or do you have to physically give them the card?

I am mad that I thought 4% was a good deal on raise.