Prime Day kicked off today, so there are discounts to be had on Amazon.com on all kinds of items.
One way to lock in savings for the future is to take advantage of the numerous third party gift cards that Amazon has put on sale, with many brands available for 10%-20% off or more. That includes DoorDash, Instacart, Lowe’s, Lyft, Sephora (indirectly) and more.
The Deal
- Save on select third party gift cards from Amazon.
- Direct link to offer (our affiliate link)
Key Terms
- Various limits/denominations.
Quick Thoughts
There are some great deals available today, but you’ll have to check the details for each eligible brand’s gift card as they’re all different. For example, you can save $10 on $50 worth of Bath & Body Works gift cards, get $20 off $100 of Lyft gift cards, $15 off $100 of Lowe’s gift cards, etc. Those are all straight discounts, but there are some deals offering Amazon promo credit that’ll expire in the coming months, so you’ll want to have a plan to redeem those credits.
Also note that some of the deals are for eGift cards, while others are for physical gift cards that’ll be shipped to you.
There are a few One4All/Choice gift cards listed in there too which can be exchanged for many different brands. The One4All eGift Card is giving $10 off on $100 of spend and can be redeemed for a wide range of brands including Home Depot. The One4All/Choice Fun & Fabulous brand can be exchanged for gift cards for brands including Sephora, Nordstrom, Victoria’s Secret and more.
Be aware that you don’t have to buy the specific denominations to get the discount. For example, if a deal gives $20 off a $100 gift card purchase, you don’t necessarily have to buy a $100 gift card. You could instead buy two $50 gift cards, four $25 gift cards, etc. If you’re buying for personal use then it might not be worth buying several smaller denominations, but if you want to buy some as gifts (e.g. by stocking up on stocking stuffers for December), buying several smaller denominations could come in handy.
It looks like most of these aren’t one-time only deals. Although you’re limited to one discount/bonus per brand per order, it appears that you can get the discount again in a subsequent order. Just be sure to verify the discount is being correctly applied when checking out; it worked when quickly checking a brand I’d already bought just now, but some brands might have some kind of limit hardcoded. (Update: Instacart does seem to be limited to one discount per account rather than per order, but I was able to get a discount on other brands more than once).
To take advantage of these deals you’ll need a Prime subscription – adding them to your cart as a non-Prime member will result in no discount being applied. The good thing is that it’s usually possible to get a 30 day free trial to Prime which means you can enroll for free now, then cancel before the 30 day trial is up if all you want to do is get Prime Day deals. Click here (our affiliate link) to see if you’re targeted for the free trial.
You can save even more on these gift card deals if you’re targeted for one of the bank offers giving a discount on Amazon when using one or more of their points. For example, this Membership Rewards offer gives up to 40% off on up to $100 of spend. These types of deal are only valid on items shipped and sold by Amazon which these gift cards are. I bought $500 worth of gift cards earlier for $379.99 based on 15% and 20% discounts, as well as $40 off from that Membership Rewards deal, along with a $0.01 discount for redeeming one Membership Reward point. That’s a total discount of 24% overall which is a superb deal.
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Thank you so much for posting the link! I tried to search on my own early this morning and found nothing worthwhile, but your link brought up some great options!
Well that was quick. It looks like these are gone already. Still some gift card deals, but none of any value.
Do you have a Prime membership? If not, that might be why you’re not seeing the discounts. I literally placed a couple more orders a few seconds ago and got the discounts.
I do, and the Prime logo is showing at the top. I even went to the Prime deals and filtered for gift cards, also searched for some of the brands (Instacart, Lyft). Switched accounts to P2 (also has Prime), and same selection.
Did you try using the link in the post above? The eGift card deals aren’t showing up on the main Prime page, but are when using that link.
Deals are still there for me.
I also have a pretty meager selection of discounted gift cards available. Bummer. Could it be account specific?
I wouldn’t have thought so. Are you using the link in the post?
Yep, and searching for Prime Day gift cards on the site. Also tried P2’s account. No luck.
Doesn’t work for me either and I used the link in post and have prime. 🙁
I’m also using the link in the post and it’s pretty much just junk. Nothing in Stephen’s post is discounted for me. Just a bunch of goofy restaurants and clothing stores that are readily available at 15%+ any other day of the year if you spend a little time looking. Bummer.
Another DP, I also have a very meager selection of cards with the deal.
As others are reporting, selection seems to be targeted. I did use the link in the post first before trying other methods of finding these deals.
DOC has links to the specific product pages for each of these deals and those DO work. So you might want to break out the specific deals with links to each because Amazon is doing something funky with just filtering who sees what in the deals pages.
Just purchased a Lyft card and received the $20 off a $100 card and it worked fine. Stacked the Amex offer as suggested! Thanks!
For me, the “Prime Day Deals” filter took away most of the deals. Now that I am looking without that on, I can see all the deals!