Welcome to the Frequent Miler Laboratory! This is the place to read about, propose, and discuss experiments in mile and point gathering. Specifically, we’re looking for places where you can earn shopping portal rewards when clicking through a portal to buy gift cards (even though most portals state that you won’t earn rewards, you sometimes do). We’re also interested in whether or not paying with gift cards earns portal rewards.
On this page you will find a table showing results from all past experiments. At the bottom you’ll also find a comments section in which you can propose your own experiments or discuss your own findings. If you plan to try any experiments, please let us know and, of course, let us know the results!
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Frequent Miler Laboratory Experiment Results
| Merchant | Portal, Tags | Experiment | Result | Last Update | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air France | Purchase refundable airline ticket to earn 20,000 MR for a $1,000 purchase. | Failure | 2019-11-01 | Reported by FlyerDad. All MR will clawed back within 1 day of canceling the refundable ticket. | |
| Staples | RebatesMe, BuyGC | Bought Safeway GC to earn cash back | Failure | 2019-02-09 | Reported by AZ. Tracked but did not pay out. |
| Target | American, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with combined gift card and credit card to earn miles | Success | 2019-01-09 | Reported by Bill. |
| Ralph Lauren | RebatesMe, BuyGC | Purchase gift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2019-01-09 | Reported by AZ. |
| Best Buy | American, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with combination of gift card and Prestige Card to earn AA miles | Success | 2019-01-09 | Reported by Aubergine. Miles earned for total merchandise portion regardless of payment type. |
| Bergdorf Goodman | BuyGC | Neiman marcus and Purchase gift card (both E and physical) to trigger Amex offer. | Failure | 2019-01-09 | Reported by Nick. |
| Neiman Marcus | BuyGC | Neiman marcus and Purchase gift card (both E and physical) to trigger Amex offer. | Failure | 2019-01-09 | Reported by Nick. |
| StitchFix | BuyGC | Purchase gift card to trigger Amex Offer | Failure | 2019-01-09 | Reported by Jessie. Note: terms excluded gift cards. |
| Ralph Lauren | Ebates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2019-01-09 | Reported by Jess. Tracked but did not pay out. |
| Ralph Lauren | Ebates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2019-01-09 | Reported by Chris. |
| Ralph Lauren | Ebates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2018-12-09 | Reported by Brian. Initially tracked but did not pay out. |
| J.Crew | Ebates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Success | 2018-12-05 | Reported by Brian |
| The Container Store | Ebates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cashback | Success | 2018-12-05 | Reported by Brian |
| Levis | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card earn cash back | Success | 2018-11-27 | Reported by Rich |
| AmericanEagle.com | TopCashBack, UseGC | Purchase $55 worth of merchandise with $50 giftcard + $5 on a credit card. | Partial success | 2018-11-20 | Reported by Nicole. Cashback only tracked for portion paid with credit card. |
| Bloomingdale’s.com | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2018-11-11 | Reported by Rich |
| Staples | BuyGC | Purchase Whole Foods gift cards to earn miles | Failure | 2018-11-09 | Reported by Finn. Initially posted then clawed back. |
| Best Buy | Southwest, BuyGC | Purchase gift cards to earn miles | Partial Success | 2018-10-10 | Reported by Justin. Earned miles on $35 of a 4x$25 gift card order |
| Staples | Southwest, BuyGC | Purchase gift cards to earn miles | Failure | 2018-10-10 | Reported by Justin |
| Staples | RetailMeNot | Purchase gift cards to earn $30 off $110 | Failure | 2018-10-10 | Reported by Justin. Originally confirmed but then showed as ineligible. |
| Staples | ChaseUR, BuyGC | Purchase Uber gift card and earn Chase Ultimate Rewards | Failure | 2018-10-10 | Reported by Justin. Initially posted but clawed back. |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Purchase eBay eGift cards to earn miles | Failure | 2018-10-10 | Reported by Brian. Originally posted then clawed back |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Purchase eBay eGift cards to earn miles | Failure | 2018-10-10 | Reported by Eric. Originally posted then clawed back |
| Staples | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Purchase Whole Foods gift cards to earn miles | Failure | 2018-10-10 | Reported by Michelle. Originally posted then clawed back |
| Staples | Alaska, BuyGC | Purchase gift cards to earn bonus miles. | Failure | 2018-10-7 | Reported by Ira Pfeifer |
| Ray-Ban | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Failure | 2018-10-01 | Reported by Brian |
| Ray-Ban | SimplyCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Failure | 2018-10-01 | Reported by Brian |
| Ray-Ban | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-10-01 | Reported by Brian |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Purchase eGift cards with Ink Cash for AirBNB and Bed, Bath & Beyond to earn United miles and UR points. | Partial Success | 2018-09-20 | Reported by Josh. MP portal was offering 6x. United miles posted but were then clawed back; earned 6000 UR points. |
| Staples | AA, BuyGC | Purchase Ebay eGift card using Chase Ink Plus for AA miles and Chase UR. | Failure | 2018-09-05 | Reported by Dee. Originally posted but miles were clawed back |
| Bed, Bath & Beyond | United In-Store, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Success | 2018-08-29 | Reported by Brian |
| BuyBuyBaby | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Success | 2018-08-29 | Reported by Brian |
| BuyBuyBaby | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Success | 2018-08-29 | Reported by Brian |
| BuyBuyBaby | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Success | 2018-08-29 | Reported by Brian |
| Chicos | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-08-23 | Reported by Brian |
| Banana Republic | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-08-23 | Reported by Brian |
| Soma Intimates | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-08-23 | Reported by Brian |
| Cole Haan | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cashback | Failure | 2018-08-22 | Reported by Brian |
| Banana Republic | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cashback | Failure | 2018-08-22 | Reported by Brian |
| Soma Intimates | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Failure | 2018-08-22 | Reported by Brian |
| Lands' End | AA, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with UPX gift card to earn American Airlines miles | Success | 2018-08-22 | Reported by TCCQuest |
| Sears | British Airways, BuyGC | Reload eGC and earn Avios | Failure | 2018-08-22 | Reported by Gregovich1 |
| Soma Intimates | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Failure | 2018-07-27 | Reported by Brian. Amex Offer Triggered. |
| Banana Republic | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Failure | 2018-07-27 | Reported by Brian. Amex Offer Triggered. |
| Chico's | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn cash back | Failure | 2018-07-27 | Reported by Brian. Amex Offer Triggered. |
| Home Depot | AA, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with gift card to earn miles. | Success | 2018-07-24 | Reported by Rob |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Purchase eBay egift card earn miles | Success | 2018-07-20 | Reported by Brian |
| Williams Sonoma | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Success | 2018-07-07 | Reported by Brian |
| Staples | Chase UR, BuyGC | Purchase West Elm gift cards using Chase Ink Plus to earn UR points | Success | 2018-07-07 | Reported by FlyerDad |
| West Elm | British Airways, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with GC to earn Avios | Success | 2018-07-07 | Reported by FlyerDad |
| West Elm | British Airways, BuyGC | Buy GC to earn Avios | Failure | 2018-07-07 | Reported by FlyerDad |
| Office Depot | MPX, BuyGC | Purchase physical ebay gift card using Mileage Plus X app to earn miles | Success | 2018-07-04 | Reported by Brian |
| Crate and Barrel | Extrabux, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-13 | Reported by Brian |
| J. Crew | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-13 | Reported by Brian |
| Macy's | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-13 | Reported by Brian |
| J. Crew | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-13 | Reported by Brian |
| Macy's | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-13 | Reported by Brian |
| Crate and Barrel | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-13 | Reported by Brian |
| Crate and Barrel | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-13 | Reported by Brian |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Purchase third party egift card (Brinker) to earn miles | Success | 2018-06-07 | Reported by Brian |
| Crate and Barrel | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-07 | Reported by Brian |
| Macy's | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-07 | Reported by Brian |
| Sam’s Club | United, BuyGC | Purchase third party gift card earn miles | Failure | 2018-06-07 | Reported by Brian |
| Neiman Marcus | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase eGift cards online for cash back | Success | 2018-05-17 | Reported by Daniel. |
| RayBan | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase eGift cards online for cash back and Amex offer. | Success | 2018-05-17 | Reported by Daniel. |
| Madewell | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase eGift cards online for cash back and Amex offer. | Failure | 2018-05-17 | Reported by Daniel. Cash back initially posted but was clawed back. |
| Levi's | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card to earn cash back | Success | 2018-05-15 | Reported by Rich |
| Madewell | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2018-05-15 | Reported by Rich. Initially tracked but clawed back / Received “Great news! You just used your Amex Offer” |
| J. Crew | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Bought J. Crew physical gift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2018-05-09 | Reported by Justin Kevins. Tracked but shows as $0.00 |
| J. Crew | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Bought J. Crew eGift card to earn cash back | Failure | 2018-05-09 | Reported by Justin Kevins. Tracked but shows as $0.00 |
| Bouqs | eBates, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with combination of gift cards and credit card to earn cash back | Success | 2018-05-05 | Reported by Nicole |
| Bouqs | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase two gift cards from Bouqs to earn cash back | Failure | 2018-05-05 | Reported by Nicole |
| Home Depot | Chase, UseGC | Purchased merchandise with combination of Home Depot GC and to earn Ultimate Rewards I’ve read that portal points wont’t post for purchases done for store pick up. My purchase was part pick up, part shipped, but the whole amount posted. | Success | 2018-05-01 | Reported by Steve. Earned UR on entire purchase even though it was part delivery, part pick in up in store |
| White House / Black Market | eBates, BuyGC | Bought physical GC to earn cash back | Failure | 2018-04-30 | Reported by Ian |
| Giftcardmart.com | Bought gift cards with old ink bold (mastercard) to earn 5x | Success | 2018-04-25 | Reported by Justin Kevins | |
| White House / Black Market | Swagbucks, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and get cashback | Failure | 2018-04-21 | Reported by Brian |
| Hyatt | BuyGC | Purchase $200 Hyatt GC from front desk of Hyatt Regency Columbus to trigger $60 statement credit from Amex | Success | 2018-04-21 | Reported by Stephen Pepper. Received email a few hours after purchase confirming the offer |
| White House / Black Market | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and Buy physical GC and get cashback | Success | 2018-04-21 | Reported by Brian |
| White House / Black Market | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and get cashback | Failure | 2018-04-21 | Reported by Brian |
| Origins | SimplyBestCoupons, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and get cashback | Failure | 2018-04-21 | Reported by Brian |
| Kroger Gas | GasBuddy | Use kroger fuel points to get $1.00 off a gallon and pay with GasBuddy and earn SYWR. | Success | 2018-04-12 | Reported by John. Received additional 50 cents per gallon instantly. |
| Origins | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and get cashback | Failure | 2018-04-08 | Reported by Brian |
| Staples.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Purchased Whole Foods egift card to earn miles | Failure | 2018-04-05 | Reported by Justin |
| NBA | United, BuyGC | Buy eGC to trigger Amex offer and get miles | Success | 2018-04-05 | Reported by Brian |
| Boxed | eBates, BuyGC | Buy Third Party GC to trigger Amex offer and get cashback second attempt (different card and Ebates account than above) | Failure | 2018-04-04 | Reported by Brian |
| Boxed | eBates, BuyGC | Buy Third Party GC to trigger Amex offer and get cashback | Success | 2018-04-04 | Reported by Brian |
| Staples | uPromise. BuyGc | Purchase Whole Foods e-gift card get cash back | Success | 2018-03-30 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler. |
| Home Depot | ChaseUR, UseGC | Buy merchandise, use CC and Home Depot GC to pay, with one item delivered and held for pickup at store. Not sure if this portal’s terms exclude pick-up orders as some are said to do, but regardless, the points posted. I really appreciate how Chase posts quickly and sends a confirmation email. | Success | 2018-03-24 | Reported by Steve. Points posted for entire purchase |
| Best Buy | AA, UseGC | Pay for merchandise with mix of gift cards and credit card, receive cash back | Success | 2018-03-18 | Reported by Jason. Miles posted 4/18/18 for full purchase amount |
| JCrew | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchased JCrew eGC using TCB portal. | Failure | 2018-03-15 | Reported by Brion. Cash back did not track. |
| Staples.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Purchased Gap egift card to earn miles | Failure | 2018-03-12 | Reported by Justin |
| Boxed | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase P.F. changs gc for 4% cash back | Success | 2018-03-10 | Reported by SassMonkey |
| Best Buy | Swagbucks (instore), BuyGC | Buy Best Buy GC get cashback | Success | 2018-03-09 | Reported by Brian |
| SamsClub.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Purchase physical gift card get cash back | Failure | 2018-03-03 | Reported by Brian |
| Groupon | Chase, UseGC | Buy Groupon with mostly Groupon egift card and get UR bonus on entire purchase | Success | 2018-02-20 | Reported by John. Received 4x UR portal bonus at the time. |
| Kohls | eBates, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with a gift card (purchased on United MPX app) to earn cash back. | Success | 2018-02-20 | Reported by Peter Crew |
| GCMart | Buy gift cards using Chase Ink for 5x | Failure | 2018-02-18 | Reported by Max. | |
| Staples | RetailMeNot, BuyGC | Purchase $300 VGC using RMN cashback portal offer $15 back after $75 online purchase on Staples | Success | 2018-02-15 | Reported by Dave |
| eBay | RadissonRewards App, BuyGC | Purchase Airbnb eGC from PPDG Result: Success | Success | 2018-02-14 | Reported by Stephen Pepper. Earned 6 pts / $; prior to points being awarded 4/1/2018 had not shown as tracking |
| 1800Flowers.com | UseGC | Buy flowers mostly with gift card and partially with credit card and earn rewards via 1800Flowers promo code | Success | 2018-01-29 | Reported by Greg, Frequent Miler. Notes: Delivery was 1/31/18. Points appeared in Southwest account on 2/5/18. Earned 1000 Southwest points from promo code RR22. Confirmed that points count towards Companion Pass |
| Bonobos.com | eBates, UseGC | Use e-gift card to purchase merchandise and earn portal rewards (cash back) | Success | 2018-01-29 | Reported by DaveZ |
| Bonobos.com | eBates, BuyGC | Buy Bonobos e-gift card and earn portal rewards (cash back) | Success | 2018-01-28 | Reported by DaveZ. Purchased $250 e-gift card with Amex card ($50 off $250 Amex Offer) and received 5% cash back on Ebates for the gift card amount (total of $12.50 cash back) |
| SamsClub.com | DiscoverDeals, BuyGC | Buy GC and get cashback | Failure | 2018-01-27 | Reported by Brian |
| Best Buy | Swagbucks (in-store), BuyGC | Buy VGC get 2% cashback plus 500SB offer. | Success | 2018-01-20 | Reported by Brian. |
| 1800Flowers.com | UseGC | Buy flowers entirely with gift card and earn rewards via 1800Flowers promo code | Failure | 2018-01-18 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler. Delivery was 1/21/18. No points were earned. Expected 1000 Southwest points from promo code RR22 |
| Petco | eBates In Store, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get cash back from Ebates (4%) along with trigger BofA BankAmerideals deal | Success | 2018-01-16 | Reported by Brian. eBates posting, BofA pending. |
| SamsClub.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift cards for 6% cash back | Failure | 2018-01-15 | Reported by Heidi |
| Staples | BuyGC | Buy $400 vgc , $30 ink, recycle 20 inks in same tran. Use Chase Biz Marriott to earn 10x from Marriott offer. | Success | 2018-01-14 | Reported by Nikki. |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy Spa Finder e-gift card, get 5% cash back. | Failure | 2018-01-12 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler. |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy Whole Foods e-gift card, get 5% cash back. | Success | 2018-01-12 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler. |
| BestBuy.com | United, BuyGC | Purchase Best Buy GC from BestBuy.com via UA portal to earn miles | Failure | 2018-01-05 | Reported by AZ |
| BestBuy.com | United, BuyGC | Buy Exxon/Mobil GC to earn miles | Success | 2018-01-05 | Reported by AZ. |
| ToryBurch.com | UR, BuyGC | Buy goods and gift cards with Amex, get UR points. Used Amex to trigger Amex offer. | Failure | 2017-12-18 | Reported by LeoM. UR portal tracked only goods portion of purchase, not GC’s. Received AmexOffer |
| Crate & Barrel | Swagbucks, BuyGC | Purchase physical GC get points/cashback | Failure | 2017-12-16 | Reported by Brian |
| Brooks Brothers | ChaseUR, UseGC | Buy merchandise with physical gift card for UR points | Success | 2017-12-15 | Reported by Skyflake |
| Macy's | MileagePlusX | Use Freedom for quarterly Dept Stores bonus Result: Failed, only 1UR/$ Purchase | Failure | 2017-12-15 | Reported by ZinCo. Did get 4 Mileageplus/$ for MPX, but did not get 5 UR/$ for Freedom category bonus. |
| Staples | ChaseUR, BuyGC | Buy Whole Foods physical gift cards with Ink Plus to earn 5X for Staples and bonus points for Chase UR portal | Success | 2017-12-12 | Reported by Julian. Earned 13x UR points/dollar on Whole Foods gift cards when Chase was offering 8x on Staples in the UR portal. |
| Crate & Barrel | United, BuyGC | Purchase physical GC get miles | Failure | 2017-12-09 | Reported by Brian |
| Best Buy | Purchase 400 GC using Chase Pay | Success | 2017-12-07 | Reported by Marshall. Got 4000 points on three Chase cards (2 freedom & 1 Chase Sapphire) |
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| Best Buy | eBates In Store, BuyGC | Purchase GC get cash back | Failure | 2017-12-04 | Reported by Brian. Purchase tracked but no CB credited |
| Target | SimplyCashBack, BuyGC | Buy egiftcard and get cash back | Failure | 2017-12-03 | Reported by Brian |
| Starbucks | Purchase $10 gift card in store and trigger 10% back AmEx offer Result: success | Success | 2017-12-02 | Reported by Dan | |
| Newegg | ChaseUR, UseGC | Buy Apple product (iPad) with 100% Newegg GC | Success | 2017-12-01 | Reported by PDXDealsGuy. |
| Bed Bath and Beyond (in-store) | MileagePlusX | Buy merchandise using ATT Access More card via MPX app | Success | 2017-11-28 | Reported by ZinCo. Counts as online purchase (3x) with ATTM due to MPX even though purchase is in-store, PLUS MileagePlus bonus |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy Whole Foods e-gift card (when it was $90 for $100 value) and get cash back | Success | 2017-11-27 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler. (CB paid in March 2018). |
| Staples | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Buy Whole Foods e-gift card (when it was $90 for $100 value) and get cash back | Success | 2017-11-27 | Reported by Greg. ShopAtHome was listing 10% cash back for Staples at that time, but 5% for promotional items. So far the gift card is tracking at 10% |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | eBates In-store, BuyGC | Buy Visa Gift Card and get cash back (also use Amex Offer) Result: Success Purchase Date: 11/26/17 | Success | 2017-11-26 | Reported by Brian |
| Bed, Bath & Beyond | eBates, BuyGC | Buy Visa gift cards with Amex offer | Success | 2017-11-25 | Reported by Marshall. |
| eBags | Alaska, UseGC | Purchased merchandise using gift card to earn miles. | Failure | 2017-11-22 | Reported by Dave. Denied because of use of 30% off coupon. |
| eBags | Ebates, BuyGC | Purchased $500 GC from eBags to earn cash back. | Failure | 2017-11-22 | Reported by Dave. Purchase tracked but 0 dollars awarded. |
| Crate & Barrel | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get cash back | Success | 2017-11-21 | Reported by AZ |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy e-gift cards to earn United miles | Success | 2017-11-13 | Reported by Grif |
| eBags | TopCashBack | Buy electronics (BOSE) get cash back. | Success | 2017-11-08 | Reported by John. Cashback took several months to be payable. Combined with Amex deal. |
| HomeDepot | ChaseUR | Purchased merchandise a with non-Chase CC (Citi AT&T). | Success | 2017-11-06 | Reported by PDXDealsGuy |
| HomeDepot | AA, UseGC | Buy merchandise with Home Depot gift cards | Success | 2017-11-01 | Reported by Thomas |
| HomeDepot | United, UseGC | Buy merchandise with Home Depot gift cards | Success | 2017-11-01 | Reported by Thomas |
| Staples | ChaseUR, BuyGC | Buy e-gift cards with Ink Plus to earn 5X for Staples and bonus points for Chase UR portal | Failure | 2017-11-01 | Reported by Thomas. Earned normal 5x for Staples purchase, but did not earn bonus points for using the UR Mall portal. |
| Stubhub | TopCashBack | Buy ticket with combination giftcard and credit card and get cash back | Failure | 2017-10-24 | Reported by Brian. TCB original tracked, then updated to "declined". |
| Cardcash | BuyGC | Purchase gift card using Chase Ink via PayPal for 5x UR | Failure | 2017-10-23 | Reported by Adriano. |
| Container Store | eBates, UseGC | Pay for merchandise with mix of CS gift cards and credit card, receive cash back on full amount | Success | 2017-10-15 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Kohls | MileagePlusX, UseGC | Purchased merchandise with gift card (MPX) and Amex combo | Success | 2017-10-09 | Reported by Matthew |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | eBates In-Store, BuyGC | Buy Third Party GC to trigger BBB rebate and get cutback | Success | 2017-10-08 | Reported by Brian |
| Staples | MileagePlusX | Purchased merchandise with coupon and rebate at Staples via MileagePlusX app paying with Chase Ink Bold card. | Success | 2017-10-04 | Reported by Mike. Earned 5X Chase UR, 5% Staples Rewards credit, 3X MileagePlus points and 1X MP point additional for having the MileagePlus card. |
| HP.com | United, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn miles | Success | 2017-10-04 | Reported by Nick Reyes |
| BabiesRUs.com | Swaybacks, UseGC | Buy merchandise with GC and partial cash payment to earn cash back | Success | 2017-10-04 | Reported by Brian |
| Allen Edmonds | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and receive cash back | Success | 2017-09-24 | Reported by Helmholtz |
| Macy's | EBates In-Store, BuyGC | Buy GC to trigger Amex Offer and get cash back | Success | 2017-09-14 | Reported by Leo M |
| Walmart.com | TopCashBack, UseGC | Buy merchandise with GC, get cash back | Success | 2017-09-12 | Reported by Brian |
| Macys.com | TopCashBack.com, UseGC | Buy merchandise entirely with gift card (and some Plenti points) and get cash back | Success | 2017-09-01 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| Jet.com | Swagbucks | Buy Applebee's GC, get SwagBucks | Success | 2017-09-01 | Reported by Brian |
| Staples | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy Stubhub eGiftcards; pay with Chase Ink to earn 5x UR plus BA miles | Success | 2017-08-31 | Reported by Craig |
| Staples | UltimateRewards, BuyGC | Buy Stubhub eGift cards; pay with Chase Ink to earn 5x Ultimate Rewards plus UR from portal | Success | 2017-08-31 | Reported by Craig |
| Macys.com | eBates, UseGC | Buy merchandise entirely with gift card (and some Plenti points) and get cash back | Failure | 2017-08-25 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Support ticket submitted to eBates. Received some Plenti points but not full amount. |
| Giftcards.com | TopCashBack | Buy 500 VGC using Chase Ink for 3X Chase UR | Success | 2017-08-23 | Reported by ReconScott |
| Walmart.com | uPromise, UseGC | Buy merchandise entirely with gift card and get cash back | Success | 2017-08-22 | Reported by Frequent Miler. CB pending |
| Staples | UltimateRewards, BuyGC | Buy Darden eGiftcards and earn UR | Success | 2017-08-20 | Reported by Jedi |
| WalMart.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy physical GC, earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-18 | Reported by Leo M. |
| Vegas.com | TopCashBack | Buy show tickets, earn cash back | Success | 2017-08-16 | Reported by Leo M. Earned on full tickets + fees amount |
| BestBuy.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy physical GC, earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-14 | Reported by Leo M. |
| Raise.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy GC, earn miles | Success | 2017-08-14 | Reported by jedi. Terms say w/pay cash back for up to $2000 lifetime |
| HomeDepot.com | AA, UseGC | Buy merchandise with GC; earn miles | Success | 2017-08-12 | Reported by Gaurav |
| Lowes.com | uPromise, UseGC | Buy merchandise entirely with gift card and get cash back | Success | 2017-08-10 | Reported by Frequent Miler. CB pending |
| WarbyParker.com | A+, BuyGC | Buy eGC/GC with GC to earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| WarbyParker.com | AS, BuyGC | Buy eGC/GC with GC to earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| WarbyParker.com | American, BuyGC | Buy eGC/GC with GC to earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| WarbyParker.com | American, BuyGC | Buy eGC, earn miles | Success | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| SierraTradingPost.com | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy eGC with eGC and earn Avios | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike. Merchant canceled orders. |
| SierraTradingPost.com | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn Avios | Partial Success | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike. Partial Success “Purchase of gift cards will receive a lower reward” Tracked at 1x vs of 5x |
| MagicKitchen.com | BritishAirways, UseGC | Buy merchandise with eGC and earn Avios | Success | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| MagicKitchen.com | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy eGC with eGC to earn Avios | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike. Website restriction prevents purchase of eGC with eGC. |
| MagicKitchen.com | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy eGC to earn Avios | Success | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| JosBank.com | AS, BuyGC | Buy eGC, earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| JosBank.com | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy eGC, earn Avios | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| JosBank.com | American, BuyGC | Buy eGC, earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike |
| Hayneedle.com | American, UseGC | Buy eGC with eGC and earn miles | Failure | 2017-08-01 | Reported by Mike. Miles initially posted but were clawed back. |
| Nike.com | eBates, BuyGC | Buy eGift cards and earn cash back | Failure | 2017-07-31 | Reported by LeoM |
| Best Buy | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and earn miles | Success | 2017-07-27 | Reported by Stephen. |
| Best Buy | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and earn cash back | Failure | 2017-07-26 | Reported by Stephen. Initially tracked but declined |
| Best Buy | AA, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and earn miles | Success | 2017-07-25 | Reported by Stephen |
| Jet.com | UltimateRewards, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn points | Success | 2017-07-23 | Reported by Aureliano |
| Jet.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back | Success | 2017-07-23 | Reported by Aureliano |
| Jet.com | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back | Success | 2017-07-23 | Reported by Aureliano |
| Jet.com | Amtrak ,BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn miles | Success | 2017-07-23 | Reported by Aureliano |
| Jet.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn miles | Success | 2017-07-23 | Reported by Aureliano |
| Best Buy | UltimateRewards, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and earn miles | Failure | 2017-07-23 | Reported by Aureliano. |
| Best Buy | British Airways, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and earn miles | Failure | 2017-07-21 | Reported by Stephen |
| Best Buy | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and earn miles | Failure | 2017-07-20 | Reported by Aureliano. |
| eBates | Virgin America | Book award flight and earn cash back on taxes and fees | Success | 2017-07-20 | Reported by LeoM. Note: cb earned on *full* value $ of ticket! |
| Best Buy | AA, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and earn miles | Success | 2017-07-19 | Reported by Aureliano. |
| Best Buy | eBates InStore, BuyGC | Buy GC in store to earn special eBates InStore promo of 1% cash back. (Bought $150 Nike GC’s, $100 Google Play and $100 Netflix) | Partial Success | 2017-07-15 | Reported by LeoM. CB pending for $250 of the $350. |
| Petco | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy physical GC to qualify for Amex $15 off $50 offer and earn miles | Fail | 2017-07-12 | Reported by TheSoCalledFan. GC not serviced by Petco so did not qualify for Amex. BA miles unknown at this time. |
| Boxed.com | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical GC, get cash back | Failure | 2017-07-11 | Reported by LeoM |
| HP | eBates, UseGC | Buy merchandise w/combination of CC and GC and get cash back | Success | 2017-06-29 | Reported by Victor. Cash back received on entire transaction. |
| GameStop | Load Amazon Cash with credit card and earn $10 Amazon credit. | Success | 2017-06-26 | Reported by many | |
| GameStop | UseGC | Load Amazon Cash with Game Stop physical GC and earn Amazon credit | Failure | 2017-06-25 | Reported by Joe |
| Groupon | UR, BuyGC | Buy eGC, receive Ultimate Rewards Points | Fail | 2017-06-21 | Reported by LeoM |
| 1800Flowers | eBates, UseGC | Buy merchandise with mostly gift cards and earn cash back | Success | 2017-06-13 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler. CB earned on total purchase less tax. |
| Bloomingdales.com | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and get cash back | Failure | 2017-06-13 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler |
| Bloomingdales.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and get cash back | Failure | 2017-06-13 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler |
| Bestbuy.com | TopCashBack, UseGC | Buy merchandise with eGC and get cash back | Failure | 2017-06-12 | Reported by Bryant |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | BritishAirways, UseGC | Pay for merchandise completely with BBB gift cards, receive miles | Success | 2017-05-30 | Reported by Steph |
| Staples | Chase, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn Ultimate Rewards. | Success | 2017-05-20 | Reported by Jeremy H |
| 1800Flowers.com | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn miles | Success | 2017-05-17 | Reported by Chong |
| Sears | United, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn miles | Failure | 2017-05-17 | Reported by Leonardo M. |
| Kate Spade | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Failure | 2017-05-17 | Reported by Nicole. |
| Nike | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Failure | 2017-05-16 | Reported by Josh |
| The Bouqs | TopCashBack, UseGC | Buy merchandise with eGC and credit card and earn cash back | Success | 2017-05-10 | Reported by Brandon |
| The Bouqs | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn cash back | Failure | 2017-05-10 | Reported by Brandon. |
| Bloomingdale's | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn cash back | Failure | 2017-05-09 | Reported by Tarheel_95 |
| Bloomingdale's | Ebates, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card and earn cash back | Success | 2017-05-09 | Reported by Tarheel_95 |
| HP | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Failure | 2017-05-08 | Reported by GR. Cashback initially posted but was clawed back. |
| Hayneedle | BeFrugal, UseGC | Buy merchandise with eGC and credit card and earn cash back | Success | 2017-05-02 | Reported by Leonardo M. Success; cutback pending on full purchase amount |
| Sears | BeFrugal, UseGC | Buy merchandise with combination of eGC, credit card, and ShopYourWay Rewards and receive cash back | Success | 2017-05-02 | Reported by Leonardo M. Success. Cash back pending. |
| Petco | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy gift card and receive cash back and Amex Offer. | Partial Success | 2017-04-28 | Reported by Leonardo M. No miles received but Amex Offer posted |
| Petco | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn miles and Amex Offer | Partial Success | 2017-04-28 | Reported by Leonardo M. Amex Offer posted but did not receive miles. |
| Petco | AA, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and receive miles and Amex Offer | Fail | 2017-04-26 | Reported by Luchex. Did not receive miles or Amex Offer, tho AA portal shows visit to Petco store |
| Hayneedle | AA, UseGC | Buy merchandise with eGC and credit card to receive miles | Success | 2017-04-26 | Reported by Leonardo M. Miles posted for full amount. |
| Hayneedle | AA, BuyGC | Buy eGC and receive miles and Amex Offer | Partial success | 2017-04-20 | Reported by Leonardo M. Miles originally posted but were clawed back. Amex Offer posted |
| saksoff5th.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy physical GC and earn miles | Success | 2017-04-17 | Reported by Leonardo M. |
| BumbleandBumble.com | Alaska, UseGC | Buy merchandise with eGC plus credit card and earn miles | Success | 2017-04-12 | Reported by Leonardo M. Miles earned on full purchase amount |
| BumbleandBumble.com | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn miles | Fail | 2017-04-12 | Reported by Leonardo M |
| BassPro | Alaska, UseGC | Buy merchandise with combination of eGC and GC and earn miles | Success | 2017-04-12 | Reported by Leonardo M |
| BassPro | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn miles | Failure | 2017-04-12 | Reported by Leonardo M. Miles originally posted within 2 days but were clawed back a month later |
| Lancome | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard and earn miles | Failure | 2017-04-05 | Reported by Raulf |
| Neiman Marcus | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn cash back | Success | 2017-03-31 | Reported by Glenn |
| Dell | eBates, BuyGC | Buy Xbox gift card to earn cash back | Fail | 2017-03-09 | Reported by Glenn |
| Plastiq | Pay "business services" bill with Citi ATT card to earn 3x. | Fail | 2017-03-06 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Looks like rent still gets 3x | |
| Amazon.com | JetBlue, UseGC | Buy merchandise with eight card and receive miles | Success | 2017-03-03 | Reported by Leonardo M. |
| CardCookie.com | Buy Walmart gift cards with Citi AT&T to earn 3x | Success | 2017-02-27 | Reported by CJ | |
| Petco | Chase, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card to earn points | Success | 2017-02-20 | Reported by Leonardo M. Points pending full price prior to discounts. |
| Lancome | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get cash back | Fail | 2017-02-18 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Lancome | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn cash | Fail | 2017-02-17 | Reported by Glenn. Amex offer tracked but no cash back. |
| Lancome | TCB, BuyGC | Buy eGC and earn cash | Fail | 2017-02-17 | Reported by Glenn. Amex offer tracked but no cash back. |
| Kohl's | eBates, BuyGC | Buy Kohl’s physical GC and earn cash back | Success | 2017-02-15 | Reported by Fanfoot |
| Petco | BA, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive miles | Fail | 2017-02-08 | Reported by edlin. Multiple orders. Amex offers paid out; transactions tracked but marked "declined" after 4-8 days. |
| eBags | Mr.Rebates, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Failure | 2017-02-07 | Reported by murtuza |
| eBags | ShopatHome, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Failure | 2017-02-07 | Reported by murtuza |
| eBags | Plenti, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Failure | 2017-02-07 | Reported by murtuza |
| eBags | VirginAmerica, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Failure | 2017-02-07 | Reported by murtuza |
| Swarovski | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2017-02-02 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Neiman Marcus | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGift card and earn miles and get Amex offer | Fail (Clawback) | 2017-01-28 | Reported by Pal Guy |
| Neiman Marcus | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy eGift card and earn cash back and get Amex offer | Fail | 2017-01-27 | Reported by Chris. |
| Neiman Marcus | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard and earn miles and get Amex offer | Fail (Clawback) | 2017-01-26 | Reported by Daniel. Miles posted but were clawed back. Order was canceled by NM and eGift cards were deactivated |
| SamsClub.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to earn cash back | Fail | 2017-01-24 | Reported by Dave |
| Neiman Marcus | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGift card plus small item to earn miles and get Amex offer | Fail (Clawback) | 2017-01-20 | Reported by Ben. Miles posted initially and were removed as "redemptions" from Alaska miles account |
| Neiman Marcus | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGift card and earn miles | Fail | 2017-01-20 | Reported by Taco. Note: posted 1/21/17, clawed back 1/26/17 |
| Tartecosmetics.com | UR, BuyGC | Buy egift card with Chase Freedom Unlimited Visa card, receive points | Fail | 2017-01-19 | Reported by Leo |
| Neiman Marucs | Splender, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2017-01-19 | Reported by snuggliestbear. Initially tracked, then reversed |
| Apple | United | Buy customized macbook pro, earn UA points | Fail | 2017-01-19 | Reported by kit. credit card was not charged until the laptop was ready |
| Tartecosmetics.com | UR, UseGC | Buy goods with egift card and balance with Chase Visa to receive points | Success | 2017-01-18 | Reported by Leo. Received UR points on total purchase amount |
| Neiman Marcus | American, BuyGC | Buy gift card and get cash back and use Amex offer | Fail | 2017-01-18 | Reported by Matt E. Has not tracked after 5 days; will update status to success if it tracks |
| Best Buy | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy iTunes gift card and get cash back | Success | 2017-01-18 | Reported by Glenn |
| Aveda | UR, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-17 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Aveda | British Airways, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-16 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Aveda | eBates, BuyGC | Buy eGift card and earn cash back | Fail | 2017-01-16 | Reported by Glenn |
| Aveda | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy eGift card and earn cash back | Fail | 2017-01-16 | Reported by Glenn |
| Aveda | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy eGift card and earn cash back | Fail | 2017-01-16 | Reported by Glenn |
| Groupon | eBates | Purchase Groupon with Groupon Bucks and earn cash back | Success | 2017-01-15 | Reported by Paul. Tracked/pending within 2 hours. |
| Aveda | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-15 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Aveda | MrRebates, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-14 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| NewEgg | United, BuyGC | Buy Hyatt eGift card and earn miles | Fail | 2017-01-13 | Reported by Glenn |
| Cole Haan | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn miles | Fail | 2017-01-13 | Reported by Glenn |
| Aveda | Splender, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-13 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Visa gift card and earn cash back | Fail | 2017-01-12 | Reported by DSP |
| Fedex Office Print | UR | Buy Print Service with a Visa Card (not Chase) receive points | Success | 2017-01-12 | Reported by Leo M |
| Aveda | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-12 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Best Buy | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy iTunes gift cards and earn cash back | Success | 2017-01-11 | Reported by Glenn |
| Aveda | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-11 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| NewEgg | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Nike eGift card and get cash back | Success | 2017-01-10 | Reported by Dan |
| NewEgg | Splender, BuyGC | Buy Nike eGift card and earn cash back | Success | 2017-01-09 | Reported by Glenn |
| Mac Cosmetics | Splender, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-09 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Mac Cosmetics | Splender, BuyGC | Buy physical card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-08 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | Mr. Rebate, BuyGC | Buy physical Starbucks gift card, get cash back | Success | 2017-01-07 | Reported by kv |
| Mac Cosmetics | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-07 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| SamsClub.com | SimplyBestCoupons, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get cash back | Failure | 2017-01-06 | Reported by Brian |
| Mac Cosmetics | MrRebates, BuyGC | Buy egift card, get cash back | Fail | 2017-01-06 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Nike | Chase, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with a gift card (purchased on United MPX app) to earn Chase points | Success | 2017-01-02 | Reported by dumbaidiot. |
| Staples | UR | Use Amex credit card, buy e-GCs | Fail | 2016-12-31 | Reported by kct |
| Staples | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy Target eGiftcard and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-31 | Reported by Dan |
| Staples | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy Target eGiftcard and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-31 | Reported by Dan |
| Staples | eBates, BuyGC | Buy Target eGiftcard and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-31 | Reported by Dan |
| Staples | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Target eGiftcard and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-31 | Reported by Dan |
| Lowes | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-30 | Reported by Sarhaan. Purchased gc that looked like a present. |
| Neiman Marcus | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn miles | Success | 2016-12-27 | Reported by JustSaying |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy Whole Foods eGiftcard, get miles | Success | 2016-12-26 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Miles counted toward portal's NY bonus also |
| Macy's | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy Macy's physical gift card, get cash back | Fail | 2016-12-23 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Best Buy | AA, BuyGC | Buy iTunes eGiftcard and earn miles | Success | 2016-12-22 | Reported by Glenn |
| Staples | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical Hyatt gift card and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-21 | Reported by Glenn |
| Best Buy | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-21 | Reported by Glenn |
| Sears | Giving Assistant | Reload GC and get cash back | Success* | 2016-12-20 | Reported by Greg the Frequent Miler. *At the time of this experiment, terms said gc earned cash back. This tested whether reloads also earned cb. Current terms don't say gcs earn cash back. |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy Target physical gift card, earn miles | Fail | 2016-12-18 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy Target eGfit card, earn miles | Fail | 2016-12-18 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy Whole Foods physical gift card, get miles | Fail | 2016-12-18 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| Sears | United | Reload Sears gift card and earn miles | Fail | 2016-12-18 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Miles were clawed back |
| NewEgg | Splender, BuyGC | Buy Visa virtual gift card and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-18 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Cash back pending. |
| Sunglass Hut | TopCashBack, UseGC | Buy merchandise with GC and receive cashback | Success | 2016-12-16 | Reported by Leonardo M. CB took over 5 months to be payable. |
| Express | Discover Deals | Buy merchandise with eGC and Discover and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-16 | Reported by Leonardo M. Received cash back on full amount |
| Sears | TopCashBack | Buy merchandise with SYW Rewards and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-16 | Reported by PowerT |
| Sunglass Hut | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn miles | Fail | 2016-12-15 | Reported by Glenn |
| Staples | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy Hyatt gift card, earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-15 | Reported by Glenn. Initially tracked, then reversed. |
| Sears | United | Buy merchandise with SYW Rewards and earn miles | Success | 2016-12-15 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Miles pending. |
| Sears | TopCashBack | Reload Sears gift card, get cash back | Fail | 2016-12-15 | Reported by JCB |
| Sears | BeFrugal | Reload Sears gift card, get cash back | Fail | 2016-12-15 | Reported by JCB |
| Macy's | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, get cash back | Fail | 2016-12-14 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| GiftCardMall | BeFrugal | Buy AirBNB gift cards and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-14 | Reported by JCB. |
| Sears | TopCashBack | Reload Sears gift card, earn cash back | Failure* | 2016-12-13 | Reported by Duncan. Tracking at $0 the day after purchase. Will update if it tracks. |
| 1-800-Flowers | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-13 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| Sears | BeFrugal | Buy merchandise with egfitcards and credit card and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-12 | Reported by JCB. Earned cash back on full amount of purchase. |
| NewEgg | Splender, BuyGC | Buy Nike eGift card and earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-12 | Reported by Glenn |
| Cole Haan | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back | Failure | 2016-12-12 | Reported by Glenn |
| Staples | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy eGift cards, receive cash back. Purchase was 3 x $25 Gap, 1 x $25 Athleta | Partial Success | 2016-12-09 | Reported by Anita. Purchased tracked at $25 instead of $100 |
| Staples | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy Hyatt physical gift card and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-09 | Reported by Glenn |
| Staples | Splender, BuyGC | Buy Hyatt physical gift card and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-12-09 | Reported by Glenn |
| Petco | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-12-05 | Reported by CJ. Bought 4x$25 GC. Amex Offers paid out. Cash back payable. |
| 1-800-Baskets | BeFrugal | Buy physical gift card, get cash back plus Amex Harry & David offer | Success | 2016-12-05 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Amex Offer was to spend $75, Get $20 from Harry & David. Terms show that offer is good at variety of 1-800-etc brands. Cash back pending from BeFrugal. Cash back received from Amex. |
| Lowes | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Failure | 2016-12-04 | Reported by Tom. Tracked but at 0% |
| Lowes | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-04 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Note: chose card that looked like a present; card was not personalized. |
| Saks | UR | Use Amex credit card to buy merchandise and earn UR points | Success | 2016-12-03 | Reported by kct |
| Under Armour | eBates, BuyGC | Buy gift card, earn cash back | Success | 2016-12-02 | Reported by Rich |
| Under Armour | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card, earn cash back | Failure | 2016-12-02 | Reported by Rich |
| Under Armour | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy gift card, earn cash back | Failure | 2016-12-02 | Reported by Rich |
| Sears | United | Reload eGiftcard, earn miles | Success | 2016-11-29 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Miles posted within 3 days. |
| Sears | United, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn miles | Failure | 2016-11-29 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| Sears | BeFrugal | Buy merchandise with SYW Rewards only and get cash back for store pickup. | Success | 2016-11-29 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| Sears | BeFrugal, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card to earn cash back and SYW Rewards | Success | 2016-11-29 | Reported by Frequent Miler. SYW posted within an hour; CB within 5 hours |
| Cole Haan | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Failure | 2016-11-29 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy physical Hyatt gift card and earn miles | Success | 2016-11-28 | Reported by Glenn |
| Sears | TopCashBack | Reload Sears gift card and earn cash back | Success | 2016-11-28 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Note: Worked whether paying directly with Amex or through Amex Checkout. |
| Sears | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy eGift card and earn cash back | Failure | 2016-11-28 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Note: tracked at $0 whether paying directly or through Amex Checkout |
| LL Bean | Ebates | Buy merchandise with gift card and credit card to earn cash back | Success | 2016-11-27 | Reported by Liz. Cash back on full amount of purchase. |
| Cole Haan | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back | Failure | 2016-11-27 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Anthropologie | TopCashBack | Buy merchandise, pay partially with egiftcard and partially on credit card | Success | 2016-11-27 | Reported by Nicole |
| Anthropologie | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, earn cash back | Success | 2016-11-27 | Reported by Nicole |
| Sur la Table | Alaska, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card and credit card, earn miles | Success | 2016-11-25 | Reported by Leonardo. Earned miles on full amount of purchase |
| Sur la Table | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn miles | Failure | 2016-11-25 | Reported by Leonardo |
| Sears | ShopAt Home | Reload Sears gift card, get cash back | Fail | 2016-11-24 | Reported by Bret. Initially received credit, later reversed. |
| Staples | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy Hyatt physical gift card | Success | 2016-11-23 | Reported by Glenn |
| Newegg | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy Hyatt egift card and earn cash back | Failure | 2016-11-23 | Reported by Glenn |
| Best Buy | UR | Use Citi credit card to buy merchandise and earn UR points | Fail | 2016-11-22 | Reported by kct |
| Macy's | AA | Buy merchandise with a combination of Plenti points and credit card to earn AA miles and Plenti points | Success | 2016-11-21 | Reported by Jesson |
| Staples | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical Hyatt GC and earn cash back | Success | 2016-11-18 | Reported by Glenn |
| Sunglass Hut | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn miles | Success | 2016-11-18 | Reported by Glenn |
| Staples | Upromise, BuyGC | Buy egift card and earn cash back | Failure | 2016-11-17 | Reported by Anita. Transaction did not track. |
| Newegg | Splender, BuyGC | Buy Southwest egift card and earn cash back | Failure | 2016-11-17 | Reported by Anita. Transaction did not track. |
| Newegg | Splender, BuyGC | Buy CVS egift card | Success | 2016-11-17 | Reported by Anita |
| Gap/Banana Republic | AA | Buy Banana Republic merchandise by adding it to cart then clicking Gap through AA portal and checking out on Gap site. Paid with combination of GC + CC. Used BR coupon codes. | Success | 2016-11-17 | Reported by VRHunter. Note check out/pay on the Gap affiliated storefront that has the highest cash back payout |
| Boden | ExtraBux, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-11-17 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Cash back pending until 2/15/17 |
| Sur La Table | AA, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn points | Success | 2016-11-15 | Reported by Nate |
| JCPenney | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn points | Success | 2016-11-15 | Reported by Nate |
| Cole Haan | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Failure | 2016-11-14 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Looks like a change from previous results? |
| Jet.com | Ebates | Buy merchandise using Jet Cash and get cash back. | Success | 2016-11-13 | Reported by Yosk |
| HP | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-11-12 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Nike | UR, UseGC | Use e-gift card, earn portal points | Fail | 2016-11-2 | Reported by kct |
| SamsClub.com | Discover | Buy Visa GC with non-Discover card to earn 5% cash back | Failure | 2016-11-09 | Reported by Lela Shifton |
| Newegg | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy eGift card, earn miles | Failure | 2016-11-09 | Reported by Dan |
| JC Penney | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and receive miles | Failure | 2016-11-09 | Reported by Dan |
| Staples | UR, BuyGC | Buy Overstock eGift card to earn UR points. | Success | 2016-11-03 | Reported by Angela |
| Ralph Lauren | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Fail | 2016-11-03 | Reported by Josh. Originally tracked, then declined |
| West Elm | AA, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn American Airlines miles | Success | 2016-11-02 | Reported by Nate |
| Newegg | AA, BuyGC | Buy egiftcard to earn miles | Failure | 2016-11-01 | Reported by Nate |
| Ralph Lauren | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn cash back | Success (pending) | 2016-10-27 | Reported by Stephen. Showed as pending, but note other RL data |
| Sears | ShopAtHome | Reload Sears gift card, get cash back | Fail | 2016-10-25 | Reported by Bret. Initially received credit, later reversed. |
| Bloomingdale's | AA, BuyGC | Buy eGiftcard, earn American Airlines miles | Fail | 2016-10-14 | Reported by Michael. Purchase did not track. |
| Saks | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn United miles | Fail | 2016-10-10 | Reported by Michael. Purchase did not track. |
| Saks | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn United miles | Fail | 2016-10-10 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Purchase 10/10; as of 10/24 not tracking. |
| Sakes | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn United miles | Fail | 2016-10-10 | Reported by Dave. Purchase 10/10; as of 10/24 nothing tracked. |
| HP | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-10-09 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Target | Virgin Elevate | Bought merchandise at Target through Virgin Elevate to see how long it takes to post | 2016-09-20 | Reported by Anita. Purchase date: 6/27/2016 Post date: 8/12/2016. |
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| Nike | AA, BuyGC | Bought Nike e-Gift cards through AA portal and earn miles | Fail | 2016-09-20 | Reported by Taco |
| Nike | United, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, receive miles Purchase Date: 9/4/2016 | Fail | 2016-09-20 | Reported by FM. Purchase Date: 9/4/2016 |
| GNC | Splender | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2016-09-20 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Purchase date 05/09/2016 |
| GNC | BeFrugal | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back Result: FAIL Purchase Date: 05/09/2016 | Fail | 2016-09-20 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| HP | AA, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive miles | Fail | 2016-09-17 | Reported by RT. Purchase date: 8/5/2016, initially tracked but clawed back 9/17/2016 |
| Best Buy | BuyGC | Tried to use Best Buy gift card in store to buy Visa gift card | Fail | 2016-09-16 | Reported by Ricardo. Registers were hard-coded to not allow it |
| Nike | United Airlines, BuyGC | Buy physical Nike gift cards and earn miles | Fail | 2016-09-16 | Reported by Chris |
| Allen Edmonds | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and receive cashback | Success | 2016-09-16 | Reported by Me. CB showed up as pending within 2 hours. |
| Allen Edmonds | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and receive cashback | Success | 2016-09-16 | Reported by James. Appeared as pending in TopCashBack the next day. (9/13) |
| Petco | MrRebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, get cash back | Success | 2016-09-15 | Reported by Ben |
| Bliss | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-09-15 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Allen Edmonds | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Partial Success | 2016-09-12 | Reported by Volker. Only $100 of $300 tracked. |
| Allen Edmonds | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Partial Success | 2016-09-12 | Reported by Volker. Only $100 of $300 tracked. |
| Staples | Alaska Airlines | Buy merchandise with mix of CC and Staples Rewards to receive miles | Partial success; earned for CC portion only | 2016-09-11 | Reported by LeonardoM. Purchase date 9/1/2016 |
| SamsClub.com | Amtrak, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive points | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by ENOTTY. Purchase date 8/6/2016 |
| SamsClub.com | Purchase merchandise with Chase Freedom to earn 5x category bonus | Success | 2016-09-11 | Reported by ENOTTY | |
| OfficeDepot.com | eBates | Purchase merchandise online for in-store pickup and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by John Hopper |
| Nike | Alaska Airlines, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card w/ Amex Platinum and receive Alaskan Miles and Amex Offer | Successs | 2016-09-11 | Reported by Rich |
| Nike | United Airlines, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, earn miles. | Success | 2016-09-11 | Reported by Marko. Purchase date 8/9; miles pending 8/19 |
| etsy.com | Alaska Airlines, BuyGC | Buy e-gift certificate, receive miles | Success | 2016-09-11 | Reported by LeonardoM. Purchase date 9/2/2016. |
| etsy.com | Alaska Airlines, UseGC | Merchant: etsy.com Use e-gift certificate, receive miles | Success | 2016-09-11 | Reported by LeonardoM. Purchase date 9/2/2016. |
| Eddie Bauer | Topcashback, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-09-11 | Reported by Stephen. Purchase date 8/16/2016 |
| ebags.com | Virgin Elevate, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-09-11 | Reported by LeonardoM. Purchase date 6/2/2016 |
| ebags.com | Alaska Airlines, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by LeonardoM. Purchase date 8/18/2016 |
| ebags.com | AA Shopping Mall, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by LeonardoM. Purchase date 8/18/2016 |
| ebags.com | Topcashback, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by LeonardoM. Note that he did receive the Amex Offer for the purchase. Purchase date 4/28/2016. |
| Best Buy | Alaska Airlines, BuyGC | Buy physical GC, receive miles | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by ENOTTY. Purchase 8/4 or 8/21/16 |
| Best Buy | United Airlines, BuyGC | Buy physical GC, receive miles | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by ENOTTY. Purchase 8/4 or 8/21/16 |
| Best Buy | AA, BuyGC | Buy physical GC, receive miles | Fail | 2016-09-11 | Reported by ENOTTY. Purchase 8/4 or 8/21/16 |
| Allen Edmonds | eBates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back. SUCCESS, tracked correctly with EBates (as expected, has always worked previously too) | Success | 2016-09-11 | Reported by Glenn |
| West Elm | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-09-04 | Reported by REI |
| West Elm | BritishAirways, UseGC, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card w/ electronic gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-09-04 | Reported by REI |
| West Elm | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy electronic gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-08-30 | Reported by REI |
| Eddie Bauer | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Success | 2016-08-27 | Reported by REI. Cashback pending and payable in 5 weeks. |
| Allen Edmonds | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, earn cash back | Success | 2016-08-27 | Reported by REI. Cash back pending and payable in 5 weeks. |
| Sears | ShopAtHome, UseGC | Bought merchandise with a combination of SYW points and gift cards. | Fail | 2016-08-23 | Reported by CE. Purchase 8/23; shopathome responded "Sears does not offer as back on electronics purchases" |
| Sur La Table | Splender, BuyGC | Buy egift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | Splender, BuyGC | Buy physical eBay gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Note: cashback posted after about 9 weeks. |
| Nike | United, BuyGC | Buy electronic gift card, receive miles | Success | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Daisy C |
| Kate Spade | Splender, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Kate Spade | Topcashback, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, receive cash back | Fail | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| HP.com | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy eGC with Amex Simply Cash and get cashback plus 5% from OPEN. | Success | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Michael |
| HP | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy electornic gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Rich |
| Delta | None | Buy $1000 Delta gift cards with American Express to see if it qualifies for 20% Delta purchase Amex Offer | Success | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Million Mile Secrets |
| Costco | Google Express | Purchase merchandise at Costco via Google Express and earn 5% cash back with Chase Freedom. | Success | 2016-08-10 | Reported by Masa. Purchase date 8/3/2016 |
| Sur La Table | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Sur La Table GC with Sur La Table GC via TopCashBack | Fail | 2016-07-21 | Reported by Daniel Gordon |
| Nike | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, receive cash back | Success | 2016-07-21 | Reported by Mark B. |
| Lands' End | ChaseUR, UseGC | Buy Lands' End merchandise with GC and Chase Sapphire Preferred | Fail | 2016-07-21 | Reported by TCCQuest. Earned 1x only for the portion paid with CSP |
| Lands' End | ChaseUR, BuyGC | Buy a End GC and pay with Chase Sapphire Preferreed | Success | 2016-07-21 | Reported by TCCQuest |
| Kohls | eBates, UseGC | Buy merchandise with a gift card and get cash back. | Fail | 2016-07-21 | Reported by Avi. (Note that others have reported success getting cash back when paying with a GC.) |
| ScoreBig | Buy tickets and use a coupon, and also earn miles | Fail | 2016-07-09 | Reported by Anita. Airline linked versions of ScoreBig are hardcoded to not accept coupons. | |
| ScoreBig | Buy tickets with a credit card linked to both ShopYourWayRewards and Fuel Rewards and earn rewards from both | Success | 2016-07-09 | Reported by Anita | |
| ScoreBig | iConsumer | Buy tickets and earn both cash back and Southwest miles | Success | 2016-07-09 | Reported by Anita. Note that Southwest miles aren't earned through SW portal but through SW linked version of ScoreBig. |
| Honest | MrRebates, BuyGC | Buy gift card and received cash back | Success | 2016-07-09 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. GC balance can be added to account and used for subscriptions. |
| Estee Lauder | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy egift card and earn cash back | Fail | 2016-07-09 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| ScoreBig | FlyStore(VirginAmerica) | Buy tickets at ScoreBig to see how long it would take for points to post. | Points posted approximately 48 hours after purchase | 2016-06-26 | Reported by Anita. Purchase made Saturday afternoon; points posted Monday afternoon. |
| United | Pay for fees on award flights with Citi Access More and earn 3x | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 4 of 7 purchases earned 3x. | |
| Target | ebates, UseGC | Pay with Target gift card and Target Redcard and earn cash back | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by John. Cash back earned only on portion paid with Target Redcard. |
| Staples | BritishAirways, BuyGC | Buy Groupon GC and earn BA miles | Fail | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Coldagglutannin |
| Sears | Splender | Pay with SYWR and Discover and get cash back | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by John. Cash back earned on portion paid with Discover. |
| ScoreBig | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | Fail | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 1 of 4 transactions earned 3x. (and not the big one!) |
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| Raise.com | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | SUCCESS | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 4 of 4 purchases earned 3x. | |
| Panera | MileagePlusX | Buy Panera gift card via MileagePlusX using Amex Platinum to earn reimbursement credit for United. | SUCCESS | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita |
| Home Depot | Chase UR, UseGC | Buy merchandise at Home Depot using Home Depot gift card and earn UR | SUCCESS | 2016-06-18 | Reported by el. |
| Groupon | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 5 of 6 purchases earned 3x. | |
| GiftCardSpread | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 1 of 1 purchases earned 3x. | |
| GiftCardRescue | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 1 of 1 purchases earned 3x. | |
| eSaving | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 2 of 4 purchases earned 3x. | |
| eBay | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 3 of 4 purchases earned 3x. | |
| eBags | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | SUCCESS | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 2 of 2 purchases earned 3x. | |
| Delta | Pay for fees on award flights with Citi Access More and earn 3x | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 4 of 5 purchases earned 3x. | |
| Costco.com | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | Partial Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 4 of 5 purchases earned 3x. | |
| Amazon | MileagePlusX, BuyGC | Buy Amazon gift card via MileagePlusX using Amex Platinum with United designated as airline for reimbursement; earn UA miles and Amex fee reimbursement. | Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita |
| Amazon | MileagePlusX, BuyGC | Buy Amazon gift card via MileagePlusX using Amex Platinum with United designated as airline for reimbursement; earn UA miles and Amex fee reimbursement. | Success | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Kathy Nokes. Earned 2x UA, .5x as UA cardholder, and airline credit from Amex. |
| Amazon | Buy merchandise with Citi ATT Access More card and earn 3x | SUCCESS | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita. 12 of 12 transactions earned 3x. | |
| 1-800-Flowers | Buy flowers at 1-800-Flowers using the RR22 promo code to see how long before miles posted to Southwest Airlines account. | Miles posted the 5th day after date of delivery | 2016-06-18 | Reported by Anita | |
| Pottery Barn | United, BuyGC | Buy Pottery Barn physical gift card to earn United miles & track how long it takes for miles to post | 1 day | 2016-06-15 | Reported by Anita. Miles posted one day after transaction. No confirmation email received. |
| Pottery Barn | AA, BuyGC | Buy Pottery Barn physical gift card to earn American miles & track how long it takes for miles to post | 7 days | 2016-06-15 | Reported by Anita. Received confirmation email saying I'd received miles one day after transaction, but miles didn't post until 7 days after. |
| Pottery Barn | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy Pottery Barn physical gift card to earn Southwest miles & track how long it takes for miles to post | 7 days | 2016-06-15 | Reported by Anita. Received confirmation email saying I'd received miles one day after transaction, but miles didn't post until 7 days after. |
| Staples | AA, BuyGC | Buy e-gift cards and earn miles | Partial Success | 2016-06-09 | Famous Jack, Deal Killer. Miles for Safeway e-gift card posted; miles for Target and Whole Foods e-giftcards did not post. |
| Plastiq | Pay bill classified as "Cable, Phone and Internet" with Ink Plus via Plastiq, earn 5x Ultimate Rewards | Fail | 2016-06-09 | Reported by Frequent Miler | |
| Plastiq | Pay bill classified as "Business Services" with Ink Plus via Plastiq, earn 5x Ultimate Rewards | Fail | 2016-06-09 | Reported by Frequent Miler | |
| Panera | MileagePlusX, BuyGC | Buy Panera gift card through MPX app to see how quickly miles post | IMMEDIATE | 2016-06-09 | Reported by Anita. Miles were posted to my United account within minutes. |
| Kickfurther | Pay for Kickfurther claim with Citi AT&T Access More and earn 3x for online purchases | SUCCESS | 2016-06-09 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Purchase was classified as "MerchandiseMENS / LADIES CLOTHING STORE) | |
| eBags | MrRebates, UseGC | Use gift cards and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-06-09 | Reported by Mike |
| eBags | MrRebates, BuyGC | Buy gift cards and earn cash back. | Fail (edited: unknown at this point) | 2016-06-09 | Reported by Mike. Originally cash back posted, then was removed. It has now been added back. |
| eBags | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn cash back. | Fail | 2016-06-09 | Reported by Chuck. Note that cash back initially posted but was clawed back. |
| Target | MyPoints, BuyGC | Buy e-giftcard and a small item and earn MyPoints | Fail | 2016-05-25 | Reported by Anita. This worked previously but may be dead. |
| Warby Parker | Splender, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and receive cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| GiftCertificates.com | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy $100 supercertificate for $95 (using coupon code) and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Note: uPromise tracked 5% cash back of the face value rather than the paid value. |
| GiftCertificates.com | Splender, UseGC | Use $100 supercertificate to buy merchant gift card and get cash back Result: FAIL | FAIL | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Note: Purchase did not track which confirms older test results |
| 7 For All Mankind | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and receive cash back | Fail | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| 7 For All Mankind | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and receive cash back | Fail | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| 7 For All Mankind | Splender, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and receive cash back | Fail | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| 7 For All Mankind | eBates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and receive cash back | Fail | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| 7 For All Mankind | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and receive cash back | Fail | 2016-05-24 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | Advantage, BuyGC | Buy e-giftcard for Safeway and earn miles. | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Jack |
| Sonos | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy gift card and receive cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Red Robin | MileagePlusX, BuyGC | Buy gift card for Red Robin via United's MileagePlusX app using Amex HHonors card, earn Hilton points and United miles | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Emile |
| Plastiq | Pay bill classified as "Business Services" with Citi AT&T card via Plastiq bill pay service, earn 3x Citi Thank You points | Success | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Citi classified it as Services REAL ESTATE AGENTS, BROKERS, MANAGERS |
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| Plastiq | Pay bill classified as category "Other" with Citi AT&T card via Plastiq bill pay service, earn 3x Citi Thank You points | Fail | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Citi classified it as "utilities-electric, gas, sanitary, water". | |
| Petco | Advantage, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn miles. | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Jamie |
| Neiman Marcus | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| HP | eBates, UseGC | Use e-gift card and earn cash back. | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| HP | eBates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn cash back. | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| GNC | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn cash back. | FAIL | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| eBags | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn cash back. | FAIL | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Rose |
| Bed, Bath & Beyond | iConsumer, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| 1800Flowers | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy gift card and receive cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| 1800Baskets | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card and get cashback | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Repeated 3x; received full cash back each time. |
| 1800Baskets | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise with combination of gift card and Amex and get cash back. | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Earned Discover cash back and Amex cash back. |
| 1800Baskets | Discover, UseGC | Buy gift card with Amex and get cash back and Amex Offer | SUCCESS | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Frequent Miler. Earned Discover cash back and Amex Offers cash back |
| 7 for All Mankind | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back. | Partial success. Received 50% of correct amount. | 2016-05-16 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Bouqs | TopCashBack | Buy merchandise, pay partially with egiftcard and partially on credit card | Success | 2016-05-06 | Reported by Nicole |
| Bouqs | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, earn cash back | Success | 2016-05-06 | Reported by Nicole |
| Staples | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy eBay eGC and earn Southwest miles. | Fail | 2016-04-29 | Reported by Glenn |
| 1800Flowers | iConsumer, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-04-29 | Reported by Frequent Miler |
| HP | Topcashback, BuyGC | Buy eGC and get cashback. Paid with AMEX Business Gold and get 5% from OPEN. | SUCCESS | 2016-04-18 | Reported by Aureliano |
| HP | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy eGC and get cashback. Paid with AMEX Business Gold and get 5% from OPEN. | SUCCESS | 2016-04-18 | Reported by Aureliano |
| AirBnB | Use PenFed Travel Rewards credit card to earn 5 points per dollar | SUCCESS | 2016-04-18 | Reported by Calvin | |
| Toys R Us | UseGC | Buy merchandise and gift card and pay with e-gift card. | FAIL | 2016-04-05 | Reported by Stu. Register hard-coded that gift card needed to be run up separately from the merchandise. |
| Toys R Us | UseGC | Buy gift card and pay with with e-gift card. | FAIL | 2016-04-05 | Reported by Stu |
| Tory Burch | GoCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back. | FAIL | 2016-04-05 | Reported by Will |
| 1-800-Flowers | UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift cards and earn points using code for 1750 SW Rapid Rewards points per order | FAIL | 2016-04-05 | Reported by Superworm. Told by CSR that orders paid with gift cards and celebrations pass awards are not eligible. |
| JCPenney | TopCashback, UseGC | Use gift cards (100%) to purchase merchandise and get cashback | SUCCESS | 2016-03-22 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| CardCash | Pay for gift cards with Paypal using Chase Ink card to earn 5x bonus | SUCCESS | 2016-03-13 | Reported by Anita | |
| CardCash | Pay for gift cards with Chase Ink to earn 5x bonus | SUCCESS | 2016-03-13 | Reported by Anita | |
| CardCash | SunshineRewards, BuyGC | Buy gift cards at CardCash and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-13 | Reported by Anita |
| Sonos | SavingStar, UseGC | Use physical gift cards to buy merchandise and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-11 | Reported by Diamond Vargas; confirmed double dip works. |
| Sonos | SavingStar, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and get cash back. | SUCCESS | 2016-03-11 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Sephora | Discover, UseGC | Use gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Olanky. Confirmation email did not show transaction date or order ID. |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Prove that online Sears e-gift card will count for Discover's 5% Department Stores category | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM. Purchase coded as DIRECT MRKTNG-COMBO CATALOG & RETAIL |
| Kiva | ATTAccessMore | See if Kiva loans count for 3X online purchases AT&T Access More card | FAIL | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM |
| HP | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | PARTIAL SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Should have received $10 cash back but got $6. |
| Giftcards.com | ATTAccessMore | See if giftcards.com counts for 3X online purchases with AT&T Access More card | FAIL | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM |
| Fandango | Splender, UseGC | Use gift card to buy movie tickets and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM |
| Fandango | Marriott, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn points | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM. Portal initially showed an incorrect 100x but later changed to 1x. |
| eBags | Mr Rebates, UseGC | Use gift cards to buy merchandise and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Melanie |
| eBags | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Melanie |
| eBags | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy gift card and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Melanie |
| eBags | Extrabux, UseGC | Use eBags GC to buy merchandise and earn cashback and eBags Rewards | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Jenny |
| eBags | Extrabux, BuyGC | Buy eBags GC to earn cash back and eBags Rewards | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Jenny. Also paid with Amex and used Amex Offers |
| Cole Haan | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Backcountry.com | Chase | See if points would be earned via CSP portal when paying with Chase Ink+ | FAIL | 2016-03-04 | Reported by jcb |
| Amazon | MileagePlusX, BuyGC | Buy gift card through MPX app using Amex Platinum to earn bonus miles and Amex Platinum fee reimbursement. | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Terri M. Note: United selected as preferred airline with Amex Platinum. |
| 1800Flowers | Buy celebrations pass and pay with gift card | FAIL | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM. Website wouldn’t allow gift card as payment for Celebrations Pass |
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| 1800Flowers | Southwest, UseGC | Buy flowers with GC and apply promo code to earn Southwest points, plus earn Southwest points from portal | FAIL | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM. Promo code points successful. Portal points were initially posted and then clawed back 3 weeks later. |
| 1800Flowers | iConsumer, UseGC | Partial pay with gift card to earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by Stephen. Cash back only on merchandise; not on service charge, delivery or tax. |
| 1800Flowers | Splender | Buy Celebrations Pass and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-03-04 | Reported by FM |
| Target | UseGC | Use e-gift card and Target Redcard to get 5% discount. | SUCCESS | 2016-02-14 | Reported by Anita. At least $.01 must be on credit card to get 5% off entire order. |
| Target | MyPoints, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and small item and get MyPoints | SUCCESS | 2016-02-14 | Reported by Anita |
| Target | SwagBucks, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and small item to get SwagBucks | FAIL | 2016-02-14 | Reported by Anita |
| Target | SimplyCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and a small item and get cash back | FAIL | 2016-02-14 | Reported by Anita |
| Target | eBates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and a small item and get cash back. | FAIL | 2016-02-14 | Reported by Anita |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-02-02 | Reported by FM; over 5 weeks from purchase (12/20/15) to email confirmation of cash back (2/1/2016) |
| 1800Flowers | iConsumer, UseGC | Use physical gift card to buy flowers/food/etc and get cash back | SUCCESS (cash back pending) | 2016-02-02 | Reported by FM; 3 of 5 orders pending next day; 2 of 5 pending after 3 days |
| 1800Flowers | iConsumer, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS (cash back pending) | 2016-02-02 | Reported by FM |
| Sears | Discover, UseGC | Use both Sears GC and Discover It to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-01-19 | Reported by Ford. Received cash back for total purchase |
| Warby Parker | Alaska, UseGC | Use egift card to earn miles | FAIL | 2016-01-13 | Reported by Steve |
| Warby Parker | Alaska, BuyGC | Buy egift card to earn miles | SUCCESS | 2016-01-13 | Reported by Steve |
| Sears | Splender, SYW | Use ShopYourWayRewards points to buy merchandise and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-01-13 | Reported by Avi |
| Sears | Splender, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2016-01-13 | Reported by Avi |
| Saks | United | Buy physical gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-12-23 | Reported by Andyandy (ThePointsNinja) |
| Saks | Barclays RewardsBoost, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn points | FAIL | 2015-12-23 | Reported by Glenn |
| Saks | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-12-23 | Reported by Glenn |
| Sears | Splender, BuyGC | Buy egift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-12-19 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Saks | ShopAtHome, UseGC | Use Saks egift cards and credit card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-12-19 | Reported by JustSaying |
| J Crew | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-12-15 | Reported by Glenn |
| J Crew | Splender, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-12-15 | Reported by Glenn |
| Toys R Us | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-12-14 | Reported by Josh |
| Home Depot | BuyGC | Buy Physical Gift Card with AMEX to get Amex Offer ($60 off $400) | FAIL | 2015-12-14 | Reported by Matt S NYC. Posted as HomeDepot CSTAR GFTCRD, no Amex offers congrats email |
| Jet | Jet, BuyGC | Buy $450 Saks egift card and earn Jet points | FAIL | 2015-12-13 | Reported by JustSaying. Did receive $100 Amex Offer credit |
| Neiman Marcus | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Buy $1500 e-gift cards and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-12-10 | Reported by JustSaying |
| HP | eBates, BuyGC | Purchase both e-gift card and by mail gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-12-09 | Reported by Glenn |
| HP | United, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-21 | Reported by Glenn |
| Last Call | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-11-20 | Reported by Corey |
| Cole Haan | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-11-20 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| NewEgg | AAdvantage, BuyGC, UseGC | Buy physical gift card, use gift card for part of the purchase and credit card for the rest, and get miles | PARTIAL | 2015-11-18 | Reported by ENOTTY. Got miles for the credit card amount of the purchase |
| Best Buy | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, use savings code for part of the purchase and credit card for the rest, and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-18 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| Kmart | AAdvantage, UseGC | Use gift card and SYW points to buy merchandise and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-17 | Reported by Victor |
| Best Buy | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-17 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| Sears | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Reload gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-16 | Reported by Victor |
| Sears | AAdvantage, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-16 | Reported by Victor |
| Last Call | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn cash back | FAIL | 2015-11-16 | Reported by char |
| Sears | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Reload gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-15 | Reported by Victor |
| Best Buy | Discover, UseGC | Use gift card to pay for most of order (everything but sales tax) and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-11-13 | Reported by Calvin. Notification email received 12/18 |
| NewEgg | NewEgg, TopCashBack | Buy eBay e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-11-11 | Reported by Calvin |
| eBay | United, BuyGC | Buy Staples e-gift card from PPDG and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-09 | Reported by Glenn |
| Sonos | SavingStar, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift cards and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-11-08 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| HP | FatWallet, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-11-07 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| Williams-Sonoma | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-06 | Reported by aresay |
| West Elm | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-06 | Reported by aresay |
| Pottery Barn Kids | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-06 | Reported by aresay |
| Pottery Barn | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-06 | Reported by aresay |
| Staples | Amtrak, BuyGC | Buy ebay e-gift card and earn points | FAIL | 2015-11-04 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| Best Buy | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-11-03 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| HP | SimplyBestCoupons, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card from shopping.hp.com and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-31 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| HP | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card from shopping.hp.com and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-30 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| Sears | United, UseGC | Make large merchandise purchase and pay entirely with gift cards and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-27 | Reported by Kev |
| Sears | ShopAtHome, UseGC | Use SYW points and credit card to buy items and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-27 | Reported by Kevin. He received cash back for entire purchase amount |
| Sears | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Reload gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-27 | Reported by Kevin |
| Sears | United, UseGC | Purchase item entirely with SYW points and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-26 | |
| Sears | United, UseGC | Purchase item with combination of gift card and credit card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-26 | |
| Sears | United, UseGC | Purchase item entirely with gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-26 | |
| Amazon.com | Giving Assistant, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-24 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| Serve | Attempted to add AMEX Fidelity Rewards to my Serve account and authorized user card (same card number) to another Serve account in that person's name. | FAIL | 2015-10-23 | Reported by LiteSalt | |
| Sears | Southwest, UseGC | Buy merchandise and pay entirely with gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2015-10-23 | Reported by Kev |
| Sears | Southwest, UseGC | Use SYW points and credit card to buy merchandise and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-23 | Reported by Justin. He received miles for the entire purchase |
| LastCall | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-23 | Reported by Yao. Also worked with UA, Southwest, Alaska |
| LastCall | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-23 | Reported by Yao. Also worked with Mr Rebates and BeFrugal |
| Sears | AAdvantage, UseGC | Use SYW points and credit card to buy merchandise and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-21 | Reported by Justin. He received miles for the entire purchase |
| Hayneedle | BeFrugal, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-10-19 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Initially tracked cash back but was later declined |
| eBay | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical eBay gift card and earn miles | FAIL | 2015-10-17 | Reported by ENOTTY |
| Sears | Discover, UseGC | Purchase merchandise entirely with Shop Your Way points and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-15 | Reported by yogi |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Reload Sears gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-12 | Reported by Josh |
| Target | Simply Best Coupons, BuyGC | Buy eBay e-gift card from a.com and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-10-11 | Reported by J |
| Sears | AAdvantage, UseGC | Use SYW points and gift card to buy merchandise and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-10-10 | Reported by Justin. He received miles for the entire purchase |
| Pottery Barn | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn miles | FAIL | 2015-10-10 | Reported by Robert |
| Columbia | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-09 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Home Depot | Discover, UseGC | Use physical Home Depot gift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-10-07 | Reported by Matt S NYC |
| Hotwire | Use PenFed Travel Rewards credit card to earn 5 points per dollar | SUCCESS | 2015-10-06 | Reported by Calvin | |
| Barnes & Noble | Discover, UseGC | Use gift card to partially pay for order and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-09-23 | Reported by Calvin. Initially showed full amount of order for cashback, but later changed to just part paid by credit card (Note from FM: This is known to happen with B&N with all portals) |
| J Crew | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-22 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Kmart | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-09-17 | Reported by Daniel W |
| Bed Bath and Beyond | UseGC, BuyGC, UpgradeGC | Use Bed Bath & Beyond gift card to buy Visa gift card in-store | SUCCESS | 2015-09-14 | Reported by Duane |
| GNC | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-09-06 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Purchase tracked but with a $0 cash back amount. |
| Orvis | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-09-04 | Reported by Diamond Vargas. Initially tracked at proper cashback %, but was later declined |
| Petco | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical Petco gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-09-03 | Reported by gaurav |
| Orvis | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-03 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Sears | United, UseGC | Buy merchandise with SYW points and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | It took about 2 weeks for the portal to report this as pending |
| Sears | United, BuyGC | Reload gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | It took about 2 weeks for the portal to report this as pending |
| Sears | United, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | It took about 2 weeks for the portal to report this as pending |
| Sears | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | It took about 2 weeks for the portal to report this as pending |
| Sears | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise with SYW points and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Reload gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | |
| KMart | Southwest, UseGC | Buy merchandise with SYW points and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-09-01 | I'll have to retest this one. |
| KMart | Southwest, BuyGC | Reload gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | It took about 2 weeks for the portal to report this as pending |
| KMart | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | It took about 2 weeks for the portal to report this as pending |
| KMart | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-09-01 | It took about 2 weeks for the portal to report this as pending |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Reload gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-31 | Reported by Trevor. Bought reload on 8/31 and received email on 9/2 |
| heather | Discover, BuyGC | Reload gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-29 | Reported by heather |
| William Sonoma | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn points | SUCCESS | 2015-08-28 | Reported by Vinh |
| Michael L | Discover, BuyGC | Reload gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-28 | Reported by Michael L. It took a while to get confirmation (2 weeks?) |
| Macys | Discover, UseGC | Use gift card and credit card to buy merchandise and get cash back for full amount | SUCCESS | 2015-08-27 | Reported by Ell |
| Boden | UPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-27 | Reported by Jamie |
| Dell | EBates, UseGC | Use gift card for entire purchase amount to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-23 | Reported by Trevor who wrote that the transaction didn't track. He submitted a claim with the email confirmation but without the full detail showing that he paid with a gift card. The claim was approved and paid. |
| Dell | EBates, UseGC | Use gift card for entire purchase amount to buy merchandise and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-23 | Reported by Trevor who wrote: Transaction did not track. I submitted a claim and was denied when they saw that it was paid with a GC. When submitting the claim I submitted the full invoice. |
| Dell | EBates, UseGC | Use gift card and credit card to buy merchandise and get cash back for entire purchase amount | SUCCESS | 2015-08-23 | Reported by Trevor |
| Target | United, BuyGC | Buy eBay e-gift card and earn miles | FAIL | 2015-08-20 | Reported by Mike |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy eBay e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-20 | Reported by Mike |
| Home Depot | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise and pay with both gift cards and credit card and receive cash back for entire purchase | SUCCESS | 2015-08-20 | Reported by CopperHog |
| eBay | TopCashBack, BuyGC, UseGC | Buy eBay gift card and pay with other eBay gift cards and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-19 | Reported by Jeremy |
| Sharper Image | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gc and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-18 | Reported by janol. Had to call to get gift card |
| Sephora | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gc and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-18 | Reported by janol |
| Nordstrom | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Nordstrom e-gc and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-18 | Reported by Marigold |
| Macys | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gc and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-18 | Reported by janol |
| Bloomingdales | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Bloomingdales e-gc and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-18 | Reported by Marigold |
| Hayneedle | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-17 | Reported by Diamond Vargas who wrote: Transaction initially tracked properly, but cashback was reversed a few days later, opened a claim with Mr. Rebates who confirmed it would not be payable due to gift card purchase |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical Nordstrom gift cards from Staples.com and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-16 | Reported by Trevor. Some gcs were sent to store, some home. None earned cash back |
| Saks | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-08-12 | Reported by FBG |
| Living Social | Discover, BuyGC | Use Discover credit card to buy discount gift certificate on Living Social and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-12 | Reported by Chuck Sithe. "Gift certificate is technically excluded in terms." "Interestingly, I received cb on the entire $50, despite the fact that I used a promo code and only actually paid $42.50." |
| Hayneedle | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-12 | Reported by Diamond Vargas who wrote: Transaction did not initially track, opened a claim with TCB and the cash back showed as pending within a day, then payable a day after that |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC, UseGC | Use OfficeMax eGC to purchase Office Max physical Gift Card | FAIL | 2015-08-11 | Reported by Glenn. “Attention: Certificates can not be applied to orders containing a gift card.” |
| Nordstrom | Discover, UseGC | Use Nordstrom physical gift card and Discover card to buy merchandise and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-11 | Reported by swizzera |
| Lands End | AAdvantage, UseGC | Use Lands End gift card and credit card to buy merchandise and earn miles | PARTIAL | 2015-08-11 | Reported by akr1970akr. Only the credit card portion tracked. |
| Kmart | AAdvantage, UseGC | Use Kmart gift card to buy merchandise and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-08-11 | Reported by akr1970akr |
| JCrew | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-05 | Reported by Marigold. Also got Amex offer cash back |
| HP | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card from shopping.hp.com and get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-08-05 | Reported by Glenn |
| Bliss | SavingStar, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-08-03 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Load $25 on a physical gift card from Sears using Discover card and get Discover Deals cash back and Quarterly bonus | SUCCESS | 2015-07-31 | Reported by Manny. Transaction coded as Sears.com |
| Backcountry | United, UseGC | Use gift card and credit card to buy merchandise | FAIL | 2015-07-29 | Reported by LUCHEX. Points posted, then 2 weeks later were taken away |
| Sears | Discover, UseGC | Use Sears gift card to buy and schedule a tire installation | SUCCESS | 2015-07-28 | Reported by Jack |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy $500 gift card from Sears (e-gift card?) and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-28 | Reported by Jack |
| JCPenney | Discover, UseGC | Use JCP gift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-07-28 | Reported by Jack |
| Amazon | Giving Assistant, UseGC | Use Amazon e-gift card to buy merchandise from a 3rd party seller and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-27 | Reported by patternseverywhere |
| Amazon | Giving Assistant, BuyGC | Buy Amazon e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-27 | Reported by patternseverywhere |
| Sports Authority | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise, pay with gift card, get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-24 | Reported by Stantheman |
| PetSmart | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise, pay with both gift card and credit card, and get cash back | PARTIAL | 2015-07-24 | Reported by Christine. Payout was for 5% of total rather than advertised 15% |
| Walmart | Discover | Purchase merchandise and pay with non-Discover card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-23 | Reported by Nidhi: Purchased furniture from Walmart which was sold by wayfair from non discover card and received 5% discover portal cashback |
| Gamestop | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Gamestop E-gift card to buy Shell Gift cards | SUCCESS | 2015-07-22 | Reported by Deanna |
| ToysRUs | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Toys R Us Gift card to purchase Visa Variable Load gift cards | SUCCESS | 2015-07-20 | Reported by Deanna. Note that many others have recently reported problems trying to do this. YMMV |
| Staples | BuyGC | Buy e-gift card for any merchant from Staples | FAIL | 2015-07-19 | Many readers have reported that this was not working as of late July |
| Verizon | Verizon, Discover | Buy gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-07-17 | Reported by janol |
| Boden | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-15 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | AAdvantage, UseGC | Use Staples gift cards to buy tablets and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-07-14 | Reported by Oren |
| Allen Edmonds | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-14 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | Discover, BuyGC | Buy iTunes physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-07-13 | Reported by Chuck Sithe |
| Staples | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Target egift card from Staples.com and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-11 | Reported by Oren |
| Sur La Table | Discover, BuyGC, UseGC | Buy Sur La Table e-gift card and pay with Sur La Table e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-07-10 | |
| Sears | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise, pay with combo of SYWR points, gift card, and amex gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-10 | Reported by janol |
| Lands End | Discover, UseGC | Use Shop Your Way Rewards SYWR to buy merchandise and earn cash back | FAIL | 2015-07-10 | Not surprised. Lands End is also known to not pay out for use of gift cards (but they do pay out for purchasing gift cards) |
| Saks | AAdvantage, BuyGC | Buy Saks e-gift card and earn miles | FAIL | 2015-07-09 | Reported by fauxblogger who reported: Failed to track. Opened up a claim. Claim denied, citing: GCs not eligible per T&C |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy eBay e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-07-04 | Reported by Miles Whip |
| Brooks Brothers | United, BuyGC | Buy physical Brooks Brothers gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-07-04 | Reported by Miles Whip and Max |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy Nordstrom e-gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-06-30 | Reported by Ken |
| Henri Bendel | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-06-30 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Henri Bendel | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-30 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Staples | Discover, BuyGC | Buy eBay e-giftcard and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-26 | Reported by RadR |
| 1800Flowers | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-25 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| 1800Baskets | BuyGC | Buy 1800Flowers gift cards from 1800Baskets and pay with Visa card linked to Sears' Shop Your Way Rewards program to earn 20% back in points | SUCCESS | 2015-06-24 | |
| 1800Baskets | Discover, BuyGC | Buy 1800Flowers from 1800Baskets website and earn portal cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-24 | 1800Baskets was offering higher portal returns than 1800Flowers, so it was worth clicking through to their site instead |
| Brookstone | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Brookstone physical, by-mail, gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-20 | |
| BestBuy | Discover, UseGC | Use both gift card and credit card to buy merchandise and earn cash back (and Best Buy rewards) | FAIL | 2015-06-20 | Reported by Oren. Received Discover and Best Buy rewards only for portion paid by credit card. |
| Staples | United, BuyGC | Buy Target e-gift card from Staples.com and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-06-19 | Reported by Pam |
| Staples | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Whole Foods e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-19 | Paid with Chase Ink card |
| Apple Store | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Apple by-mail gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-19 | Paid with Discover It card |
| Brookstone | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-06-17 | I didn't actually make the purchase since the link to buy e-gift cards sent me to coinstar.com. That never works for portal rewards. |
| Sears.com | Discover, UseGC | Use Shop Your Way Rewards (SYWR) points to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-15 | |
| Brooks Brothers | Mr Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-15 | Reported by Diamond Vargas |
| Horchow | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and earn points | SUCCESS | 2015-06-14 | Reported by Jigar. Earned miles even though there was a sale going on and a code was applied at checkout for it |
| Horchow | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy Horchow e-gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-06-14 | Reported by Jigar |
| Sears.com | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Sears e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-12 | Paid w/ Discover card. Transaction shows as Sears |
| Sears.com | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Sears physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-12 | Paid w/ Discover card. Transaction shows as Kmart |
| Sears.com | Discover, BuyGC | Reload Sears gift card online and get cash back. | SUCCESS | 2015-06-12 | Paid with Discover card. Transaction shows as Sears |
| Staples | Alaska MileagePlan, BuyGC | Buy eBay e-gift card from Staples and get miles | FAIL | 2015-06-11 | Reported by Kevin |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy $300 physical gift card from Sears using non-Discover card and get Discover Deals cash back | FAIL | 2015-06-11 | Reported by Manny. Transaction coded as Sears.com |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy $200 e-gift card from Sears using non-Discover card and get Discover Deals cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-06-10 | Reported by Manny. Transaction codes as Kmart.com |
| Wag.com | BuyGC | Buy gift card to get Amex Offers credit. | FAIL | 2015-06-05 | Reported by Jessica |
| Staples | EBates, UseGC | Use eGift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-05-27 | Reported by Glenn |
| Neiman Marcus | BuyGC | Buy Neiman Marcus e-gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2015-05-23 | Reported by Hank |
| Whole Foods | BuyGC | Buy phyiscal gift card from WholeFoods.com, get cash back from Amex Offers promo | FAIL | 2015-05-21 | Reported by Glenn. Transaction shows: VESTA GIFTANGO WHOLE |
| Staples | BuyGC | Buy Gap e-gift card at Staples.com and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-05-21 | Reported by Chuck Sithe |
| Rite Aid | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Rite Aid gift card to buy 3rd party gift cards in-store | FAIL | 2015-05-21 | Reported by Stephen. System block |
| Neiman Marcus | BuyGC | Buy Neiman Marcus gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-05-21 | Reported by Chuck Sithe. Took over a week for cash back to be reported. |
| Home Depot | BuyGC | Buy phyiscal gift card from HomeDepot.com, get cash back from Amex Offers promo | SUCCESS | 2015-05-21 | Reported by Glenn |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use BBB gift card in-store to buy 3rd party gift card | SUCCESS | 2015-05-21 | Reported by Stephen |
| Staples | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy Staples egift card and earn cash back | FAIL | 2015-05-13 | Reported by Glenn |
| ToysRUs | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy Visa gift card in-store with ToysRus gift card | FAIL | 2015-05-10 | Reported by a number of readers |
| Neiman Marcus | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy Neiman Marcus e-gift card and earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-05-09 | Reported by Chuck Sithe |
| Jos A Bank | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, get miles | SUCCESS | 2015-05-08 | |
| Staples | Alaska MileagePlan, BuyGC | Buy Nordstrom e-gift card and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-04-27 | Reported by Yao |
| Golden1 Credit Union | N/A | Fund account with credit card (Citi Prestige) and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2015-04-23 | Reported by EY |
| BestBuy | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy egift card and earn miles | FAIL | 2015-04-22 | Reproted by Patrick L |
| Lego | uPromise, UseGC | Use gift card plus credit card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-04-20 | Reported by Yao |
| Lego | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-04-20 | Reported by Yao |
| Lego | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-04-20 | Reported by Yao |
| Lego | MrRebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-04-20 | Reported by Yao |
| Lego | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-04-20 | Reported by Yao |
| JCrew | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-04-20 | Reported by Chuck Sithe |
| Quill | uPromise, UseGC | Use Quill cash + credit card to buy merchandise and earn cash back | PARTIAL | 2015-04-06 | Reported by Nate. Received cash back only for credit card portion |
| Staples | uPromise, UseGC | Use combination of credit card and store rewards to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-03-04 | Reported by Nate. Received cash back based on amount paid (not including rewards amount) |
| Office Depot | uPromise, UseGC | Use combination of credit card and store rewards to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2015-03-04 | Reported by Nate. Entire amount received cash back. |
| NewEgg | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Hyatt e-gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2015-03-01 | |
| Bloomingdales | ExtraBux, BuyGC | Buy Bloomingdale's gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2015-02-19 | Reported by Larry Ordway |
| Staples | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy Groupon egift card from staples.com and earn portal points | SUCCESS | 2015-02-17 | Reported by Patrick L |
| Groupon | Southwest, UseGC | Use Groupon e-gift card and earn portal points | SUCCESS | 2015-02-17 | Reported by Patrick L |
| Any | Southwest, N/A | Earn points through portal to verify that they count towards Southwest Companion Pass | SUCCESS | 2015-02-17 | |
| 1800Flowers | N/A | Use promo code to earn Southwest points and verify that they count towards Southwest Companion Pass | FAIL | 2015-02-17 | While you'll still earn points, as of early February, Southwest stopped counting points from 1800Flowers towards the companion pass. |
| Shutterfly | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-02-07 | Reported by Amy C |
| Sephora | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-02-07 | Reported by Amy C |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card (Lowes) and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-02-04 | Reported by Joe |
| Staples | SavingStar, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card (Lowes) and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-02-04 | Reported by Joe |
| TigerDirect | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2015-01-27 | Reported by Kurt |
| Saks | Discover, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-12-29 | Reported by Josh |
| Saks | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-12-29 | Reported by Josh |
| Sephora | TopCashBack, UseGC | Use GC for partial cost of merchandise, earn cash back for entire order | SUCCESS | 2014-12-23 | Reported by Amy C |
| Sears | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy Visa gift card in-store with Sears e-gift card | SUCCESS | 2014-12-22 | Reported by JayR |
| Sears | BuyGC | Buy Sears physical GC with Chase Freedom for dept store bonus | FAIL | 2014-12-22 | Reported by JayR (note this happens because credit card bill shows Kmart, not Sears) |
| Sears | BuyGC | Buy Sears e-GC with Chase Freedom for dept store bonus | SUCCESS | 2014-12-22 | Reported by JayR |
| Sears | BuyGC | Buy physical Visa GC in store with Chase Freedom for dept store bonus | SUCCESS | 2014-12-22 | Reported by JayR |
| Brookstone | Discover, UseGC | Use gift card and promo code to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-12-13 | |
| Saks | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-12-07 | Reported by josh |
| Sony | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-11-24 | Reported by FMF |
| Staples | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card (Whole Foods) and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-11-18 | |
| Lids | WellsFargo, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-11-18 | Reported by Bob |
| Lids | WellsFargo, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-11-18 | Reported by Bob |
| PetCo | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-11-16 | Reported by luchex |
| AllenEdmonds | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-11-16 | Reported by Alek |
| AllenEdmonds | Alaska MileagePlan, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-11-16 | Reported by Alek |
| PetCo | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-11-11 | Reported by Frank |
| William Sonoma | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-26 | Reported by Colin |
| West Elm | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-26 | |
| Pottery Barn | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-26 | |
| PBTeen | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-26 | |
| AllenEdmonds | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-10-26 | |
| Neiman Marcus | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card to get points | FAIL | 2014-10-13 | Reported by Jordo06 |
| Neiman Marcus | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card to get points | FAIL | 2014-10-10 | Reported by Jan |
| Modcloth | United, UseGC | Use e-gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-10 | Reported by Jen. |
| Modcloth | United, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card to get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-10 | Reported by Jen. |
| SurLaTable | Delta SkyMiles, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-07 | |
| SurLaTable | Delta SkyMiles, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-07 | |
| Sports Authority | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-10-07 | |
| Sports Authority | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-10-07 | |
| SamsClub.com | Delta SkyMiles, BuyGC | Buy physical merchant gift card (Starbucks) and get miles | FAIL | 2014-10-07 | |
| Jcrew | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-10-07 | |
| Jcrew | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-10-07 | |
| Horchow | Southwest, UseGC | Use e-gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-10-07 | |
| Horchow | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-10-07 | |
| Backcountry | United, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-10-07 | |
| Cooking.com | Alaska MileagePlan, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-09-29 | Reported by Barry |
| Cooking.com | Alaska MileagePlan, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-09-29 | Reported by Barry |
| Neiman Marcus | United, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-09-24 | Reported by fauxblogger |
| Walmart | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy 3rd party physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-09-19 | Reported by Vinh |
| Backcountry | Alaska MileagePlan, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-09-12 | Reported by Vinh |
| Neiman Marcus | Delta SkyMiles, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-09-02 | Reported by fauxblogger |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Reload existing Sears gift card and pay with non-Discover card and still get Discover cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-08-15 | |
| Marriott | BuyGC | Buy Marriott gift card at Marriott Courtyard in order to get Amex Sync 20% rebate | SUCCESS | 2014-08-06 | |
| GiftCertificates.com | uPromise, BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use SuperCertificate to buy regular gift card (e.g. AA gift card) and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-08-06 | Purchase did not track within uPromise |
| GiftCertificates.com | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy SuperCertificate and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-08-06 | |
| Amex | UseGC | Use Amex B&N Campus Edition card to reload Serve online as a credit card | FAIL | 2014-08-06 | When I tried to link the card I kept getting We're sorry, something went wrong! |
| Cumberland Farms | BuyGC | Buy gift card or Vanilla Reload card with credit card | FAIL | 2014-08-02 | Reported by Cumby |
| Staples | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Staples gift card online to buy other gift card | FAIL | 2014-07-28 | At some point in July 2014 Staples.com stopped allowing their gift cards to be used online to buy other gift cards |
| Kohls | SavingStar, BuyGC | Buy Kohls physical gift cards to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-07-28 | Reported by Vinh |
| Amex | BuyGC | Buy Amex traveler's cheque (not gift card) with Amex credit card and earn points | FAIL | 2014-07-28 | Was not charged cash advance, but also didn't earn credit card points |
| Kohls | Discover, UseGC | Use a gift card and promo codes and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-06-27 | |
| Sears | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Reload existing gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2014-06-18 | Reported by Tianyi. FM note: this is a surprising finding since gift card reloads seem to result in points from other portals |
| Crate & Barrel | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-06-18 | Reported by John |
| Crate & Barrel | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-06-18 | Reported by John |
| BestBuy | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-06-17 | Reported by ANdy |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy Southwest e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-06-16 | Reported by Bob. Purchased $10 item along with $700 worth of e-gift cards. Cashback for $10 item posted, e-gift cards did not. |
| Columbia Sports | Discover, BuyGC | Buy gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-06-15 | Reported by oipunk77 |
| Sears | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy Sears e-gift card via portal to get points | SUCCESS | 2014-06-12 | |
| Sears | Southwest, BuyGC | Reload existing gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2014-06-12 | |
| Sears | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy Sears physical (by mail) gift card via portal to get points | SUCCESS | 2014-06-12 | Credit card shows purchase from Kmart, but points are awarded anyway |
| RoadRunner Sports | Chase, UseGC | Use physical gc to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-06-12 | Reported by Debbie |
| Kohls | Discover, BuyGC | Buy a physical gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2014-06-07 | |
| Staples | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy Visa gift card online and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-05-15 | |
| Staples | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Visa gift card online and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-05-15 | |
| RoadRunner Sports | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | PARTIAL | 2014-05-12 | Reported by Debbie. Portal only paid for first $100 worth of gift cards |
| Sports Authority | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise and pay with gift card to earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-04-29 | Reported by Free-quent Flyer |
| Bloomingdales | ExtraBux, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-04-23 | Reported by Travis |
| Crate & Barrel | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2014-04-22 | Reported by oipunk77 |
| NationalCar | , UseGC | Online, use 3 National Car Rental gift cards from Discover Cash Back rewards to book single car rental | SUCCESS | 2014-04-21 | |
| Alamo | , UseGC | Via phone, use 2 Alamo Car Rental gift cards from Discover Cash Back rewards to book single car rental | 2014-04-21 | Reported by Ben. This could not be done online | |
| RoadRunner Sports | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise | SUCCESS | 2014-04-15 | Reported by Nick |
| RoadRunner Sports | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-04-15 | Reported by Nick |
| Meijer | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical Meijer gift card without other merchandise in cart to get cash back | FAIL | 2014-04-08 | Reported by multiple readers |
| Meijer | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical Meijer gift card with other merchandise in cart to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-04-08 | |
| 1800Flowers | ShopAtHome, | Buy flowers with credit card linked to Plink and to SYWR and enter SWA code for extra miles | PARTIAL | 2014-04-03 | Plink and SWA points posted. No points from SYWR and no cash back from ShopAtHome |
| 1800Flowers | Discover, | Buy flowers with credit card linked to Plink and to SYWR and enter SWA code for extra miles | PARTIAL | 2014-04-03 | Plink and SWA points posted. No points from SYWR and no cash back from Discover |
| 1800Flowers | Aadvantage, UseGC | Buy flowers with gift card and use 30X Alaskan Airlines miles code | PARTIAL | 2014-04-03 | 30X miles posted and AA portal miles initially posted but were later reversed out |
| Target | ShopAtHome, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2014-03-19 | Reported by JohnBL |
| Target | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2014-03-19 | Reported by JohnBL |
| Target | BigCrumbs, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2014-03-19 | Reported by JohnBL |
| Lowes | Chase, BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy physical Lowes gift card with Home Improvement card to earn portal points | FAIL | 2014-03-14 | Reported by Big Habitat |
| Home Depot | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card to fully pay for merchandise and get portal points | SUCCESS | 2014-03-06 | Reported by Jon |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy Visa or MasterCard gift card with OfficeMax gift card | SUCCESS | 2014-03-05 | Reported by Mario. 3rd store was the charm |
| Lowes | Chase, UseGC | Buy merchandise and pay with Lowes gift card to get portal points | SUCCESS | 2014-03-04 | Reported by 405#Club |
| ToysRUs | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal cash back | FAIL | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| ToysRUs | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal miles | FAIL | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| ToysRUs | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal cash back | FAIL | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| ToysRUs | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal miles | FAIL | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| ToysRUs | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal miles | FAIL | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| Neiman Marcus | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal miles | SUCCESS | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| Neiman Marcus | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal miles | SUCCESS | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| Neiman Marcus | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal miles | SUCCESS | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| Lands End | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| BlueNile | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get portal miles | FAIL | 2014-02-25 | Reported by Miks S |
| 1800Flowers | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy 1800Flowers physical gift card to get portal miles | SUCCESS | 2014-02-24 | Reported by Mike U |
| Bloomingdales | Delta SkyMiles, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-02-20 | Reported by Milesmath |
| Bloomingdales | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-02-20 | Reported by Milesmath |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy Visa or MasterCard gift card with OfficeMax gift card | FAIL | 2014-02-18 | Reported by Mario. Cashier was willing to try, but register prohibited it. |
| Nike | Chase, UseGC | Use e-gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-02-16 | Reported by Dina |
| Nike | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2014-02-16 | Reported by Dina |
| West Elm | Chase, UseGC | Buy merchandise with a combo of gift card and credit card to earn points | SUCCESS | 2014-02-09 | Reported by Toni |
| Kmart | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Kmart gift card to buy Visa gift card | FAIL | 2014-02-09 | Reported by Kyle S. Registers are hard coded not to allow this |
| Walmart | UseGC | Buy money order or do bill pay with Amex for Target | FAIL | 2014-02-05 | Reported by gasponi |
| Nordstrom | MrRebates, UseGC | Use gift card and credit card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-02-04 | Reported by Toni |
| Walmart | 17 different portals, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get points or cash back | FAIL | 2014-01-29 | Reported by Jonathan (purchases were made a couple of months ago) |
| Walmart | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Walmart gift card online to buy Visa gift card | FAIL | 2014-01-28 | Reported by several readers |
| Kroger | BuyGC | Buy Amex gift card to get fuel points | FAIL | 2014-01-28 | Reported by MichaelP |
| Jcrew | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card to get points | FAIL | 2014-01-28 | |
| AmexGiftCards | Delta SkyMiles, BuyGC | Buy gift cards using code not shown on portal and earn miles | SUCCESS | 2014-01-27 | Works despite T&C. Points earned on full value of purchase, not just on purchase fee. |
| Meijer | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Meijer gift card to buy GameStop gift card online at meijer.com | SUCCESS | 2014-01-23 | |
| Meijer | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Meijer gift card to buy Staples gift card in-store | SUCCESS | 2014-01-23 | Was able to swipe Meijer gc to pay |
| Walgreens | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Walgreens gift card to buy Amazon gift card in-store | FAIL | 2014-01-22 | Reported by MLH |
| RadioShack | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use RadioShack gift card to buy Amazon Kindle gift card in-store | SUCCESS | 2014-01-22 | |
| Jcrew | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2014-01-22 | Reported by Steve |
| Jcrew | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get points | FAIL | 2014-01-22 | Reported by Steve |
| BrooksBrothers | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card and credit card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-01-22 | Reported by Steve |
| Lands End | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, pay with Amex, and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-01-21 | Reported by Clint |
| Jcrew | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card, pay with Amex, and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-01-21 | Reported by Clint |
| Amazon.com | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Amazon gift card to buy another gift card | FAIL | 2014-01-20 | Reported by MichaelP |
| Jcrew | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2014-01-14 | Reported by Julian |
| Jcrew | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-01-14 | Reported by Ben |
| JCPenney | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get points | FAIL | 2014-01-14 | Reported by Julian |
| BestBuy | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2014-01-14 | Reported by Julian |
| Neiman Marcus | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise, use discount promo code, and pay with combo of gift cards & credit card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2014-01-13 | Reported by John |
| GiftCards.com | BeFrugal, UseGC | Sell e-gift card to giftcards.com and get cash back from portal | FAIL | 2014-01-13 | Reported by FrequentMiler |
| Pipertime | Aadvantage, UseGC | Buy merchandise with combination of gift card and credit card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-01-12 | Reported by Toni Perkins |
| Kohls | Chase, BuyGC | Buy two identical physical $25 gift cards in one transaction to get points | PARTIAL | 2014-01-07 | Reported by Penny W |
| JCrew | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get miles | FAIL | 2014-01-07 | Reported by Arrek. |
| West Elm | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2014-01-01 | Reported by Julian |
| West Elm | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2013-12-26 | Reported by Jason |
| Coach | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-24 | Reported by Colin |
| NorthFace | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy two $300 gift cards in one transaction to get miles | PARTIAL | 2013-12-23 | Reported by Luchex. Received miles for one gift card, but not for both. |
| NorthFace | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy single $750 gift card to get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-23 | Reported by Luchex |
| Macys | Southwest, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get points | FAIL | 2013-12-22 | Reported by Gad |
| BestBuy | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2013-12-22 | Reported by Jason |
| Target | Discover, | Buy merchandise with non-Discover card (Target credit card) and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Colin |
| Sears | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Home Improvement gift card to reload Sears gift card | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Steve |
| Nordstrom | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy two $75 physical gift cards and get cash back from portal | FAIL | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Colin |
| Neiman Marcus | US Airways, BuyGC | Buy physical gift cards and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Adriano |
| Neiman Marcus | Chase, BuyGC | Buy $200 e-gift card and get portal points | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Allison |
| Neiman Marcus | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy $200 e-gift card and get portal points | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Naina |
| Macys | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy egift card to get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Abe |
| BestBuy | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use BestBuy gift card to buy $200 Visa gift card in-store | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Abe |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy egift card to get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-19 | Reported by Abe |
| AmexGiftCards | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift cards using code not shown on portal and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | Works despite T&C |
| AmexGiftCards | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift cards with >$500 value and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-19 | After logging into Amex account, larger denomination options show up |
| Sephora | Chase, UseGC | Use physical gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2013-12-15 | Reported by Toni |
| Hyatt | Ebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2013-12-15 | Reported by Ted |
| West Elm | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-14 | Reported by Kyle |
| Walmart | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical Visa gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-14 | Reported by Kyle |
| Neiman Marcus | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-14 | Reported by Kyle |
| Coach | United, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-14 | Reported by Kyle |
| Coach | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-14 | Reported by Kyle |
| Neiman Marcus | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-12 | |
| Macys | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-12 | Reported by Abe |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-12 | Reported by Abe |
| Backcountry | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy gift cards and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-12 | Reported by Jonathan |
| Walgreens | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Walgreens gift card to buy merchant gift cards (Amazon, iTunes, etc.) | SUCCESS | 2013-12-09 | Reported by Robert |
| GuitarCenter | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy Guitar Center e-gift card and earn miles | FAIL | 2013-12-09 | Reported by Bob |
| GuitarCenter | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy Guitar Center physical gift card and earn miles | FAIL | 2013-12-09 | Reported by Bob |
| AAA | BuyGC | Buy Visa gift cards from AAA using AAA BOA Visa card to earn bonus points | SUCCESS | 2013-12-09 | Reported by Travis. He earned 3X points on the purchase |
| AAA | LoadGC | Load AAA TravelMoney prepaid card with AAA BOA Visa card to earn credit card rewards | FAIL | 2013-12-09 | Reported by Travis |
| Magazines.com | Aadvantage, UseGC | Use combination gift card and credit card to buy magazine and get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-05 | Only portion paid by credit card received miles |
| Magazines.com | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-05 | |
| Magazines.com | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-05 | |
| Gamestop | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Gamestop gift card in-store to buy Amazon (Kindle) gift card | SUCCESS | 2013-12-05 | Reported by multiple readers |
| Walmart | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Visa gift card online to get cash back | FAIL | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Chris F |
| Walmart | LoadGC | Use Sears gift card, Amex gift card, or Walmart gift card to load Bluebird | FAIL | 2013-12-02 | Reported by several readers. |
| Walgreens | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Walgreens gift card in-store to buy another gift card | SUCCESS | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Bob. He used the Walgreens gift card to buy a Whole Foods gift card |
| Venmo | LoadGC | Load Venmo account with UFB Direct debit card to earn miles | FAIL | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Ed. Venmo charged 3% for load which wipes out benefit of earning miles this way. |
| Staples | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Staples gift card in-store to buy merchant gift card | SUCCESS | 2013-12-02 | Ability to do this depends upon cashier allowing it. |
| Sony | TopCashBack, UseGC | Use e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Jonathan. |
| Sony | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Jonathan. |
| Sears | MrRebates, UseGC | Use Sears gift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-12-02 | Reported by FlyingBoat |
| Office Depot | UpgradeGC | Use OfficeDepot gift card to buy fixed value Shell gift card | FAIL | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Nick. Register would not allow gift card as payment |
| Neiman Marcus | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy Neiman Marcus gift card to get miles | FAIL | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Mary Beth. Her points initially posted, but then disapeared. No one else reported that result. |
| Neiman Marcus | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy Neiman Marcus physical gift card to get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Adriano |
| Neiman Marcus | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card, physical gift card, and merchandise (all together) and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-12-02 | Reported by Ken |
| Kohls | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Kohls physical gift cards to get UR points | PARTIAL | 2013-12-02 | Works for physical gift cards when order is $100 or less. Larger orders often get credit only for $100. |
| Walgreens | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy mix of physical gift cards and merchandise to get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-11-25 | Reported by Ken |
| Kroger | BuyGC | Buy $500 Visa gift card (or any variable load visa/mc gift card) and earn fuel points | FAIL | 2013-11-25 | Reported by many readers as of 9/1/2013 |
| Sears | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get points | FAIL | 2013-11-06 | |
| Petsmart | Chase, BuyGC | Buy gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2013-11-06 | Reported by Steve |
| Starbucksstore | TopCashBack, UseGC | Buy merchandise, pay with gift card and credit card | PARTIAL | 2013-10-21 | Reported by nrdk. Only credit card portion received cash back |
| Sears | United, BuyGC, UseGC | Use Home Improvement gift card to buy Sears' e-gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Luke. Note that the ability to earn points on buying e-gift cards is most likely dead since the T&C changed shortly after this. Was able to use full $500 of HI card without $1 hold issue. |
| Sears | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy Sears physical gift card via portal to get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | |
| Sears | Aadvantage, UseGC | Use Sears gift cards to buy merchandise and get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | |
| RoadRunner Sports | Chase, UseGC | Use physical gift card and non-Chase credit card to buy merchandise and earn points | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Jonathan |
| RoadRunner Sports | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Jonathan |
| Petsmart | Discover, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Nate |
| OfficeMax | TopCashBack, UseGC | Buy merchandise, pay with gift card | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | Reported by nrdk. Received cash back for full order less sales tax. |
| Lowes | Chase, BuyGC, UseGC | Buy Lowes gift card and pay with Home Improvement gift card | FAIL | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Steve. Transaction failed. |
| LLBean | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Liz |
| Fandango | Hilton, UseGC | Use gift card and credit card to buy merchandise | PARTIAL | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Ryan. Only credit card portion received points |
| Fandango | Hilton, BuyGC | Buy gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | Reported by Ryan |
| BestBuy | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy gift cards, get cash back | FAIL | 2013-10-21 | Reported by foxxeehi and Nick |
| AmexGiftCards | BigCrumbs, BuyGC | Buy personalized Amex gift cards and get cash back | FAIL | 2013-10-21 | Reported by several readers. Transaction cancelled. |
| AmexGiftCards | BigCrumbs, BuyGC | Buy gift cards to get cash back. Use BDAY100 code to waive per card fees | SUCCESS | 2013-10-21 | |
| NorthFace | Aadvantage, UseGC | Use store gift cards and get points | SUCCESS | 2013-08-29 | Reported by Anita |
| NorthFace | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Buy store e-gift cards to get points | SUCCESS | 2013-08-29 | Reported by Anita |
| Sears | United, BuyGC | Buy Sears physical gift card via portal to get miles | SUCCESS | 2013-08-19 | |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Sears physical gift card through portal to earn cash back (pay with non-Discover card) | SUCCESS | 2013-08-19 | |
| Walmart | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Visa gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2013-08-18 | Reported by Chris F. Received cashback for the fee and/or another small item purchased with the GC, but no cashback for the GC itself. |
| Walmart | Buy 5 cent plastic bag with debit card and request $100 cash back (as a way to avoid ATM fee) | SUCCESS | 2013-08-18 | Reported by Jonathan | |
| Walmart | UseGC | Use Walmart or Sears gc to load Bluebird | FAIL | 2013-08-18 | Reported by Jonathan |
| Walmart | BuyGC | Buy Visa gift card online and get Amex sync bonus (occassional promotion) | SUCCESS | 2013-08-18 | Reported by Chris F |
| Walmart | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Visa gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2013-08-18 | Reported by Chris F. Received cashback for the fee and/or another small item purchased with the GC, but no cashback for the GC itself. |
| Walgreens | UpgradeGC | Use Walgreens gift card to upgrade to Shell gift card | FAIL | 2013-08-02 | Reported by Nick. Register would not allow gift card as payment |
| Stewarts | BuyGC | Try to buy GreenDot Prepaid MC and MoneyPaks and pay with Amex credit card | FAIL | 2013-08-02 | Reported by JohnBL |
| Office Depot | UpgradeGC | Use OfficeDepot gift card to buy $200 fixed value Visa gift card | FAIL | 2013-08-02 | Reported by Nick. Register would not allow gift card as payment |
| Gap | Chase, UseGC | Buy merchandise, use 40% off promo codes, get portal points | SUCCESS | 2013-08-02 | Reported by tp |
| Banana Republic | Chase, UseGC | Buy merchandise, use 40% off promo codes, get portal points | SUCCESS | 2013-08-02 | Reported by tp |
| Nordstrom | TopCashBack, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-06-18 | Reported by alexi |
| Nordstrom | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get cash back | FAIL | 2013-06-18 | Reported by alexi |
| Speedway | BuyGC | Buy Home Improvement gift card and earn Speedway rewards | SUCCESS | 2013-06-07 | Reported by Chris |
| Sears | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and pay with Home Improvement card and get points | FAIL | 2013-05-22 | This originally worked, but recently there have been several reports that it no longer works |
| LLBean | Chase, UseGC | Use e-gift card + some credit card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2013-05-22 | Reported by Harvson3 |
| Target | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise and pay with gift card to earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-05-06 | Reported by Tim2 |
| Target | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card to earn cash back | FAIL | 2013-05-06 | Reported by Tim2 |
| GiftCardMall.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Choice e-card to buy part of Visa gift card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-05-06 | Limited to 1 $250 Choice card per transaction. Received cash back for full amount of Visa gift card |
| GiftCardMall.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy GiftCardMall Choice e-card and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-05-06 | |
| Walgreens | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Walgreens rebate card to buy BestBuy gift card | FAIL | 2013-04-22 | Reported by thewingtipper |
| Staples | UseGC, PIN | Use $200 Visa gift card with PIN to load Bluebird at Walmart. | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Used last 4 digits of card # as PIN |
| Staples | BuyGC | Buy $200 Visa gift card and earn Staples rewards | FAIL | 2013-04-22 | |
| Speedway | UseGC, PIN | Use $500 OneVanilla Visa gift card with PIN to load Bluebird at Walmart. | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | PIN set automatically upon first use |
| Speedway | BuyGC | Buy $500 Visa gift card and earn Speedway rewards | FAIL | 2013-04-22 | |
| Sears | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use ShopYourWayRewards points to buy Visa gift card in-store | FAIL | 2013-04-22 | Set PIN by calling |
| Sears | UseGC, PIN | Use $100 Visa gift card with PIN to load Bluebird at Walmart. | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | |
| Sears | BuyGC | Buy $100 Visa gift card and earn ShopYourWayRewards | FAIL | 2013-04-22 | |
| Pottery Barn | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy PotteryBarn Kids gift card to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Reported by Lori |
| Pottery Barn | Chase, UseGC | Used PBCC rewards certificate, a coupon, and the remaining amount on the giftcard to make a Pottery Barn purchase. Received points for full amount | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Reported by Lori |
| OfficeMax | UseGC, PIN | Use $100 Visa gift card with PIN to load Bluebird at Walmart. | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Set PIN by calling |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC | Buy $100 Visa gift card and earn OfficeMax rewards | FAIL | 2013-04-22 | |
| Office Depot | UseGC, PIN | Use $200 Visa gift card with PIN to load Bluebird at Walmart. | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | PIN set automatically upon first use |
| Office Depot | BuyGC | Buy $200 Visa gift card and earn OfficeDepot rewards | FAIL | 2013-04-22 | |
| Macys | Chase, UseGC | Use Macys gift card to buy items and receive points | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Reported by Robert M |
| Lowes | United, BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy physical Lowes gift card with Home Improvement card to earn portal points | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Reported by Jen. NOTE: NO LONGER WORKS |
| Lowes | Chase, BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy physical Lowes gift card with Home Improvement card to earn portal points | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Reported by Travel Bear. NOTE: NO LONGER WORKS |
| Lowes | Aadvantage, BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy physical Lowes gift card with Home Improvement card to earn portal points | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Reported by Piecerate. NOTE: NO LONGER WORKS |
| Kroger | UseGC, PIN | Use $500 Visa gift card with PIN from US Bank to load Bluebird at Walmart. | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Set PIN by calling |
| Kohls | Chase, UseGC | Use Kohls gift cards along with 30% off code to buy merchandise & get UR points | SUCCESS | 2013-04-22 | Reported by Frequent Miler and others |
| OfficeMax | Discover, BuyGC | Use Amex OPEN credit card to buy physical gift card at OfficeMax.com to get both Discover cash back and Amex OPEN cash back | PARTIAL | 2013-02-28 | RomsDeals received Amex OPEN cash back but not anything from the portal |
| Lowes | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card from Lowes to get extra points | FAIL | 2013-02-28 | I didn't actually try this because the link to the e-gift cards took me to a different URL. No chance of points that way. |
| Lowes | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card from Lowes to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2013-02-28 | I paid with a Home Imrprovement gift card |
| BestBuy | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy physical BestBuy gc with Cash+ credit card & get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-02-28 | Reported by Vinh |
| Lands End | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Lands End e-gift card and pay with Home Improvement card & get points | FAIL | 2013-02-15 | Land's End could not process payment from the Home Improvement card |
| Lands End | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Lands End e-gift card & get points | SUCCESS | 2013-02-15 | |
| Kohls | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Kohls e-gift cards to get UR points | FAIL | 2013-02-15 | Didn't work for me |
| OpenSky | Use Cash+ card at OpenSky with Home Improvement selected as 5% category | SUCCESS | 2013-01-31 | Did receive 5% back from Cash+ card, as expected | |
| Lands End | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Lands End e-gift card & get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-31 | |
| Lands End | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical Lands End gift card & get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-31 | |
| DrugStore.com | Use Hilton Amex at Drugstore.com to see if awarded 6X for drugstore category | SUCCESS | 2013-01-31 | Earned 6X points as expected. Unfortunately drugstore category is supposedly going away May 2013 | |
| Buy.com | Use Cash+ card at Buy.com with electronics selected as 5% category | FAIL | 2013-01-31 | Did not receive 5% back from Cash+ card | |
| BestBuy | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy physical BestBuy gc with Cash+ credit card & get cash back | FAIL | 2013-01-31 | TCB lists $0 pending |
| BestBuy | Use Cash+ card at BestBuy with electronics selected as 5% category | SUCCESS | 2013-01-31 | Did receive 5% back from Cash+ card, as expected | |
| JCPenney | Ebates, UseGC | Use gift card (100%) to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-21 | Reported by Skippy |
| J&R | Discover, | Used non-Discover card (Visa) to pay for merchandise to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-21 | Reported by Kadim |
| DrugStore.com | Chase, BuyGC | Buy DrugStore.com gift card by going to Beaty.com to get points | SUCCESS | 2013-01-21 | DrugStore.com claims that they don't give points for gc purchases, but their partner Beauty.com does. Replicated recently by AdamH |
| DrugStore.com | TopCashBack, | Use combo drugstore.com dollars and credit card to buy merchandise and get cash back | PARTIAL | 2013-01-14 | Received cash back for portion paid by credit card. No cash back for portion paid with drugstore.com dollars |
| Buy.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy Buy.com e-gift card to get cash back | PARTIAL | 2013-01-14 | TCB has tiered cash back levels for Buy.com. Received only 1% cash back |
| BestBuy | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical BestBuy gc with Cash+ credit card & get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-14 | Received email from Discover: 5% cash back awarded |
| OpenSky | Buy merchandise with Cash+ card and see if it earns 5% back as Home Improvement category | SUCCESS | 2013-01-11 | OpenSky often offers 50X through MyPoints so this is a great double dip | |
| Chase Bank | UseGC | Attempt to get cash advance at bank with Mio Prepaid card | SUCCESS | 2013-01-11 | After 3 or 4 days a $4 fee showed up on my Mio account |
| Chase Bank | UseGC | Attempt to get cash advance at bank with American Express for Target Prepaid card | FAIL | 2013-01-11 | Teller attempted to do the cash advance, but it didn't work |
| Sears | Discover, UseGC | Use Sears gift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-09 | Reported by Vinh and Greg Z |
| Performance Bike | Chase, UseGC | Use e-gift card + credit card to get points | SUCCESS | 2013-01-09 | Reported by Chris L. Full points awarded |
| Performance Bike | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2013-01-09 | Reported by Chris L |
| JCPenney | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use JCPenney gift card in-store to buy another merchant gift card (such as Starbucks, iTunes, etc.) | FAIL | 2013-01-09 | Reported by WishyAnand |
| Groupon | Buy item from Groupon with Ink Bold to see if it gets 5X as an office supply purchase | FAIL | 2013-01-09 | ||
| Groupon | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card for cash back | FAIL | 2013-01-09 | |
| Eddie Bauer | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card to get cash back | FAIL | 2013-01-09 | Reported by Vinh |
| DrugStore.com | Discover, BuyGC | Buy gift card with MasterCard to see if cash back is awarded | FAIL | 2013-01-09 | Unclear if failure is due to buying gift card or to not using Discover card |
| DrugStore.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card at Beauty.com to get extra cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-06 | Reported by Greg Z. Beauty.com gift cards work at Drugstore.com |
| DrugStore.com | Chase, UseGC | Use Beauty.com gift card at DrugStore.com to get extra points (pay partially with credit card) | PARTIAL | 2013-01-06 | Success reported by Greg Z, Fail reported by AdamH. AdamH says he received points only for the portion of the order not paid by gift card |
| Walmart | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Walmart e-gift card in-store to buy Visa gift card | SUCCESS | 2013-01-04 | Reported by Ed |
| Nike | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical and/or e-gift cards online to get extra points | FAIL | 2013-01-04 | Reported by Mike and AJH |
| Nike | Chase, UseGC | Use Nike gift card to buy merchandise and earn points | SUCCESS | 2013-01-04 | Reported by AJH |
| Home Depot | Discover, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card online to get cash back | FAIL | 2013-01-04 | Reported by VISA MCC Code Rob |
| HalfOffDepot | ShopAtHome, UseGC | Use ShopAtHome credit to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2013-01-04 | Reported by Steve. He used $10 credit to buy an $11 item. He received cash back for the full $11 purchase. |
| eBags | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2013-01-04 | Reported by Dina |
| eBags | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card to get extra points | FAIL | 2013-01-04 | Reported by Dina |
| Sears | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Sears e-gift cards to get points | FAIL | 2012-12-12 | As of 11/1/2012, physical gift cards work, but not e-gift cards |
| Sears | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Sears physical gift cards to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-12-12 | As of 11/1/2012, physical gift cards work, but not e-gift cards |
| Cole Haan | Mr. Rebates, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card and earn cash back | Failure | 2012-12-12 | Reported by Glenn |
| CVS | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Vanilla Visa card in person at CVS to buy Vanilla Reload card or PayPal card | SUCCESS | 2012-12-10 | |
| BestBuy | United, BuyGC | Buy iTunes gift card from Best Buy and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-12-10 | Reported by Colin |
| Barnes & Noble | LoadGC | Try to load Amex Campus Edition card with credit card at regular B&N store (not campus store) | FAIL | 2012-12-10 | |
| Victorias Secret | Chase, UseGC | Use store gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-12-04 | Reported by Kyle |
| NorthFace | Chase, UseGC | Use store gift cards (and pay partially with credit card) and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-12-04 | Reported by Chris D. The amount paid for taxes did not receive points (as expected) |
| NorthFace | Chase, BuyGC | Buy store gift cards to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-12-04 | Reported by Chris D |
| J&R | Discover, | Use PayPal to pay (instead of Discover card) and get cash back | FAIL | 2012-12-04 | Reported by Colin. |
| Apple | Discover, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise & earn cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-12-04 | Reported by Colin. Small part of total paid for with Discover card, but cash back was earned on entire transaction. |
| Sears | BuyGC | Use Cash+ card at Sears.com (to buy physical gift card) to get 5X for department store category | FAIL | 2012-11-28 | Gift cards are reported as sold by Kmart, so that might have been part of the problem |
| Sears | Discover, UseGC | Buy merchandise with combination of Sears gift card and Discover card, get cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-11-28 | Reported by Colin. Cash back given for full purchase, not just amount on Discover card |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Sears physical gift card through portal to earn cash back (pay with Discover card) | SUCCESS | 2012-11-28 | |
| Sears | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Sears e-gift card through portal to earn cash back (pay with Discover card) | FAIL | 2012-11-28 | |
| Kmart | Use Cash+ card at Kmart (to buy physical gift card) to get 5X for department store category | FAIL | 2012-11-28 | I guess Kmart isn't treated as a department store! | |
| Kiva | Make Kiva loan with US Bank Cash+ card to see if it counts as Charity for 5% back | SUCCESS | 2012-11-15 | ||
| Diapers.com | TopCashBack, UseGC | Use gift card at Diapers.com for extra cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-11-15 | Reported by Steve |
| Diapers.com | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card from Diapers.com for extra cash back | FAIL | 2012-11-15 | Reported by Steve |
| Barnes & Noble | LoadGC | Try to load Amexs Campus Edition Prepaid card with Citi Forward card for 5X | SUCCESS | 2012-11-15 | Citi Forward card earns 5X at bookstores. This worked for 5X and did not count as a cash advance! |
| StateFarm | UseGC | Use VanillaVisa prepaid card (temporary card) to pay insurance online | SUCCESS | 2012-11-07 | Reported by Tanu |
| JCPenney | Chase, UseGC | Go through UR Mall, use JCP gift cards to buy merchandise, get points | SUCCESS | 2012-11-06 | Reported by HikerT and Kushal. Kushal found that it works regardless of whether a portion is paid with credit card |
| Eastern Mountain Sports | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card for extra cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-11-05 | Reported by Troy |
| Eastern Mountain Sports | MrRebates, UseGC | Use gift card to get extra cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-11-05 | Reported by Troy |
| Lowes | Chase, UseGC | Use Lowes gift card to buy merchandise and earn points (100% of purchase made with gift card) | SUCCESS | 2012-10-19 | Reported by donna pfau. Maybe older reports were wrong? |
| Macys | Chase, UseGC | Buy merchandise and pay mostly with gift cards & partly with credit card and get full points | SUCCESS | 2012-10-18 | Reported by Will |
| Pottery Barn | Chase, UseGC | Use e-gift card through portal and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-10-11 | Reported by Mommy Points |
| Pottery Barn | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card and get points | FAIL | 2012-10-11 | Reported by Mommy Points and Jessica |
| Nordstrom | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-10-11 | Reported by frequent churner |
| Buy.com | Chase, UseGC | Use Buy.com gift card to buy merchant gift card and get portal points | FAIL | 2012-10-11 | Buy.com doesn't allow you to use a Buy.com gift card to buy other gift cards |
| Groupon | Discover, UseGC | Use Groupon gift card & Discover card through portal to get cash back | FAIL | 2012-10-10 | Reported by Frequent Grouponer. Only part paid with Discover card was given cash back |
| Groupon | Discover, UseGC | Use Groupon gift card through portal to get cash back | FAIL | 2012-10-10 | Reported by Frequent Grouponer |
| Groupon | Discover, BuyGC | Buy Groupon gift card through portal to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-10-10 | Reported by Frequent Grouponer |
| Office Depot | LoadGC | Try to add value to reloadable prepaid card at Office Depot register without buying Vanilla Reload card | FAIL | 2012-10-03 | |
| Barnes & Noble | LoadGC | Try to load American Express Campus Edition Prepaid card with credit card | SUCCESS | 2012-10-03 | Successfully used $500 Vanilla Visa to load Amex at register |
| Barnes & Noble | LoadGC | Try to load American Express Campus Edition Prepaid card with B&N gift card | FAIL | 2012-10-03 | |
| Crate & Barrel | Chase, UseGC | Use Crate & Barrel gift card to buy merchandise and get portal points | SUCCESS | 2012-10-02 | Reported by Jeanne at Heels First |
| Crate & Barrel | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Crate & Barrel gift card in order to get portal points | SUCCESS | 2012-10-02 | Reported by Jeanne at Heels First |
| Petco | Chase, UseGC | Buy merchandise with gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-09-22 | Reported by IrishTiger |
| Buy.com | Chase, UseGC | Use Buy.com gift card to buy merchandise and get portal points | SUCCESS | 2012-09-21 | |
| Buy.com | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Buy.com gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-09-21 | |
| Bloomingdales | Chase, UseGC | Use Bloomingdale's gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-09-21 | |
| Bloomingdales | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Bloomingdale's e-gift card to get points | FAIL | 2012-09-21 | |
| Walgreens | BuyGC | Buy Vanilla Reload card with credit card | FAIL | 2012-09-13 | I tried two Ann Arbor locations. No luck |
| Walgreens | BuyGC | Buy $500 Vanilla Visa gift card with credit card | SUCCESS | 2012-09-13 | |
| Walgreens | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Walgreens gift card to buy $500 Visa gift card | SUCCESS | 2012-09-13 | |
| RiteAid | BuyGC | Buy $500 Vanilla Visa gift card with credit card | SUCCESS | 2012-09-13 | |
| RiteAid | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy Shell gift card using Rite Aid gift card | SUCCESS | 2012-09-13 | Reported by Rich |
| Buy.com | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Marriott gift card (or other merchant gift card) at Buy.com and get extra points from portal | SUCCESS | 2012-09-10 | Buy.com charges a fixed shipping/handling fee so larger denomination cards make more sense |
| Groupon | TopCashBack, UseGC | Use gift card to get additional cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-08-15 | Reported by Gabriel |
| Groupon | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-08-15 | Reported by Gabriel |
| PacSun | Chase, UseGC | Use Pacific Sunwear gift card (& small amount with credit card) to buy merchandise and get more points | SUCCESS | 2012-08-13 | Reported by Chris L |
| PacSun | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Pacific Sunwear gift card to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-08-13 | Reported by Chris L |
| OnlyNaturalPet | TopCashBack, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-08-09 | Reported by FrequentFlyerCollector |
| OnlyNaturalPet | TopCashBack, BuyGC | Buy gift card to get cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-08-09 | Reported by FrequentFlyerCollector |
| JCPenney | ShopAtHome, UseGC | Go through ShopAtHome, use JCP gift cards (+ some credit card) to buy merchandise, get cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-07-17 | Reported by Steve |
| Michael's | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy merchant gift card in-store with Micheal's gift card | FAIL | 2012-07-10 | The clerk tried to use the gift card, but the register didn't allow it |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC, OPEN | Buy $25 OfficeMax gift card online to get 5% back via Amex OPEN savings | SUCCESS | 2012-07-09 | Sweet. With the new OPEN rules, you get 10% back for purchases of more than $250, so a $300 gc should return 10%! |
| OfficeMax | Chase, BugGC | Go through Ultimate Rewards Mall to buy OfficeMax gc, see if points post | FAIL | 2012-07-09 | |
| BestBuy | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use BestBuy gift card to buy Amazon kindle gift card in-store | SUCCESS | 2012-07-09 | Reported by a reader and confirmed by Frequent Miler |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use OfficeMax gift card in-store to buy a different merchant gift card | SUCCESS | 2012-07-08 | |
| ToysRUs | uPromise, BuyGC | Buy ToysRUs gift card via uPromise/ToysRUs.com to get 5% cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-07-06 | I was surprised about this since the T&C states not for gift cards |
| ToysRUs | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use ToysRUs gift card to buy Amazon kindle gift card in-store | SUCCESS | 2012-07-05 | Reported by a reader. Confirmed by Frequent Miler |
| Marshalls | BuyGC | Use Marshall's gift card in-store to buy a different merchant gift card | FAIL | 2012-07-05 | I wasn't able to find any merchant gift cards to even attempt this. |
| Bed Bath & Beyond | Aadvantage, BuyGC | Use Bed, Bath & Beyond gift card in-store to buy a different merchant gift card | SUCCESS | 2012-07-05 | I used a $25 BBB gift card to buy a $25 Visa gift card (paid the extra fee with a Visa gift card) |
| Office Depot | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy a different gift card using an Office Depot gift card in-store | SUCCESS | 2012-07-03 | Reported by benji |
| JCPenney | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy a different gift card using a JC Penney gift card in-store | FAIL | 2012-07-03 | Reported by bexho2000 |
| DrugStore.com | Chase, BuyGC, UseGC | Buy Drugstore.com e-gift card online through the UR Mall to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-07-03 | Reported by smurf |
| Office Depot | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy a different gift card using an OD gift card | FAIL | 2012-07-02 | Reported by reader bf |
| Marriott | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Marriott gift card at Marriott.com via UR Mall for extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-06-30 | Reported by a reader |
| Nike | Aadvantage, UseGC | Use Nike gift card to buy merchandise and earn points | SUCCESS | 2012-06-08 | Reported by Jeff |
| Lowes | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Lowes gift card in-store to buy Shell gift card | FAIL | 2012-06-08 | Reported by bf |
| BestBuy | TopCashBack, UseGC | Use BestBuy gift card for entire purchase and get cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-06-08 | Reported by Steve |
| OverStock | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card at OverStock to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-06-01 | Reported by Frequent Flyer Collector |
| OverStock | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card at OverStock to get points | FAIL | 2012-06-01 | Reported by Frequent Flyer Collector |
| ClubCarlson | Add business ID to promo reservation after the fact via phone or in-person at hotel | FAIL | 2012-06-01 | Reported by Greek2Me | |
| Sony | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card at Sony to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-05-30 | As long as you buy items that meet the T&C, this double dip seems to work! |
| Jcrew | Chase, UseGC | Use Jcrew gift card to buy merchandise to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-05-30 | Reported by Mommy Points |
| Jcrew | Chase, BuyGC | Buy e-gift card at JCrew to get points | FAIL | 2012-05-30 | Reported by matuag. Evidence is a bit sketchy here. May need to redo experiment |
| Jcrew | Chase, BuyGC | Buy physical gift card at JCrew to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-05-30 | Reported by matuag. Evidence suggests that eGift cards may not result in points |
| ShoeBuy | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card at ShoeBuy to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-05-28 | Reported by readers. Note isse: one reader was unable to use gift card and discount coupon at the same time |
| ShoeBuy | Chase, BuyGC | Buy gift card at ShoeBuy to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-05-28 | Reported by readers |
| QVC | Chase, UseGC | Use QVC gift cards at QVC to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-05-28 | Reported by carwag25. |
| QVC | Chase, BuyGC | Buy eGift card at QVC to get points | FAIL | 2012-05-28 | Reported by carwag25. eGift cards actually sold by CashStar not QVC. Physical gift cards might work. |
| OldNavy | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card at Old Navy to get extra points | SUCCESS | 2012-05-19 | Reported by reader Mike. Mike made part of purchase with Chase card. Still need to dermine if 100% gift card use works. |
| Staples | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Staples gift card in-store to buy merchant gift card | FAIL | 2012-05-17 | Greek2Me was told they do not allow Staples gift cards to be used to purchase any gift cards at all. Reported by GreekToMe |
| CVS | UseGC | Use CVS gift card in person to buy Visa gift cards | FAIL | 2012-05-17 | Reported by Greek2Me |
| CVS | UseGC | Use CVS gift card in person to buy merchant gift cards | FAIL | 2012-05-17 | Reported by Greek2Me |
| Walmart | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Buy Visa gift card online using Walmart gift card | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | |
| Walmart | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Visa or merchant gift card online at Walmart.com and get extra points from portal | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | |
| Staples | Chase, Coupon | Buy merchandise to get points and use Staples coupon | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | Reported by Sam |
| Sephora | Chase, UseGC | Use Sephora gift card to buy merchandise and earn points | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | Reported by multiple readers |
| Sephora | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Sephora gift card and get points | PARTIAL | 2012-01-01 | One reader reported success, another reported failure |
| Sears | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | In person at Sears, buy Ebay gift cards using Sears or Kmart gift cards | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | 100% success (but gift card rack can be hard to find!) |
| Sears | Chase, BuyGC, UseGC | Buy Sears gift card using Sears gift card to get points forever | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | Sears website doesn't allow this |
| Sears | Chase, UseGC | Use gift card to buy merchandise and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | 100% success |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC, OPEN | Buy $200 Visa gift card in person using Amex business card to get 5% back from OPEN Savings | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | This option won't be available after 6/15/2012 |
| OfficeMax | BuyGC, OPEN | Buy $100 Amazon gift card in person using Amex business card to get 5% back from OPEN Savings | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | This option won't be available after 6/15/2012 |
| Office Depot | BuyGC | Buy $500 prepaid Vanilla reload card using Ink Bold to get 5X points category bonus | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | A few stores have turned people down, but most allow it |
| Office Depot | BuyGC | Buy $500 prepaid Amex using Ink Bold to get 5X points category bonus | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | A few stores have turned people down, but most allow it |
| Office Depot | BuyGC | Buy $500 prepaid Visa using Ink Bold to get 5X points category bonus | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | A few stores have turned people down, but most allow it |
| Magazines.com | Chase, UseGC | Use Magazines.com gift card to buy magazines and get points | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | Initial tests were partially successful, but they later fixed this loophole |
| Magazines.com | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Magazines.com gift card and get points | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | |
| Magazines.com | BigCrumbs, UseGC | Use Magazines.com gift card to buy magazines and cash back | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | |
| Lowes | Chase, UseGC | Use Lowes gift card to buy merchandise and earn points | PARTIAL | 2012-01-01 | Like Home Depot, this seems to only work when part of order is paid with credit card. Reported by multiple readers. |
| Kohls | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Kohls gift card in person to buy a different merchant gift card (such as Best Buy) | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | Cashier tried, but register wouldn't allow it |
| Kohls | Chase, UseGC | Use Kohls gift cards to buy merchandise & get UR points | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | Almost always worked. Did have to call Chase a few times to get credit for one purchase. Yes, even purchases made 100% with gift cards worked for me (one reader reported otherwise) |
| Kmart | BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | In person at Kmart, buy BP, Ebay, and other gift cards using Sears or Kmart gift cards | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | Some mean cashiers won't allow this, but most do |
| Kmart | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Kmart gift cards to get points | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | Bought physical gift cards, didn't try e-cards |
| Home Depot | Chase, UseGC | Use Home Depot gift cards and get UR points | PARTIAL | 2012-01-01 | Full points are awarded only when part of purchase is made with credit card |
| Home Depot | Chase, BuyGC | Buy Home Depot gift cards to get UR points | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | Reported by Jeff |
| GiftCards.com | MyDeals&Coupons, SellGC | Sell Walmart gift card & get additional cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | Pleasantly surprised to find cash back was % of face value |
| DrugStore.com | Chase, BuyGC, UseGC | Buy gift card at Beauty.com and use at DrugStore.com in order to get twice as many DrugStore.com dollars | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | This was really an accidental finding 🙂 |
| DrugStore.com | BigCrumbs, BuyGC, UseGC, UpgradeGC | Use Beauty.com gift card at DrugStore.com to buy a different gift card | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | Drugstore.com doesn't allow buying gift cards with gift cards |
| DrugStore.com | BigCrumbs, UseGC | Use Beauty.com gift card at DrugStore.com & get cash back | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | |
| DrugStore.com | BeFrugal, UseGC | Use Beauty.com gift card at DrugStore.com & get cash back | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | |
| DrugStore.com | Aadvantage, UseGC | Use Beauty.com gift card at DrugStore.com & get AA miles | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | |
| CouponTrade | TopCashBack, SellGC | Sell gift cards, get extra cash back | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | Earned fixed $2.50 per sale. Good for small face value cards ($20, $25) |
| Barnes & Noble | BuyGC, OPEN | Buy gift cards in-store using Amex business card to earn OPEN Savings | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | I didn't actually try this because the OPEN Savings terms and conditions say discount is not applicable to purchases made in Barnes and Noble stores |
| Barnes & Noble | MrRebates, UseGC | Use gift cards to buy merchandise & earn cash back | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | No cash back earned |
| Barnes & Noble | Ebates, UseGC | Use gift cards to buy merchandise & earn cash back | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | No cash back earned |
| Barnes & Noble | Chase, BuyGC, OPEN | Buy gift cards online to earn points AND Amex OPEN Savings | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | Yes, you can use Amex cards for Ultimate Rewards Mall purchases |
| Barnes & Noble | Chase, UseGC | Use gift cards to buy merchandise & earn points | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | Only the part of the order paid by credit card received points |
| Barnes & Noble | Chase, BuyGC | Buy gift cards to earn points | SUCCESS | 2012-01-01 | |
| Barnes & Noble | BigCrumbs, UseGC | Use gift cards to buy merchandise & earn cash back | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | No cash back earned |
| Amoozle | BuyGC | Buy 2 gift cards for the price of 1 (Walmart or Target) | FAIL | 2012-01-01 | I had to dispute charges with Chase to get my money back |
| Walmart | CNB Easy Rewards, UseGC | Purchase merchandise with gift card to receive points. it took 20+ days to post and no notification / emails or anything. | Reported by Aubergine. Received points after 20+ days; no notification. | ||
| Intermedia.com | Spend $200, get 20,000 Amex Membership Rewards | Reported by Nick Reyes. Bryan adds that the first month is prorated and suggests subscribing at the end of one month to get full $200 charge. |
Rakuten, on dell.com, bought XBox GC, got MR back.
Giftcards.com. CitiPrestige 5x as online purchase. Success
Used Chase UR portal, BestBuy GC and BestBuy rewards to buy things from bestbuy.com, got UR cashback for BestBuy GC paid portion, no cashback for Reward paid portion.
Lands End – Ebates, Use PGC, Buy PGC / Merchandise – Buy Lands End PGC and merchandise with PGC & get cashback – FAIL – 2DEC19 – Only received cashback on merchandise
Not sure if the lab is still being maintained, but posting a fail (would not have posted if it was a success). I had a promo on my AMEX to receive 20,000 MR for a $1,000 purchase on Air France. I bought a refundable economy ticket and waited two months, and then cancelled. Within a day, all the points (for the purchase and the bonus) were clawed back. No disappointment–I was curious what would happen. So now I know.
I have a question and I don’t know where else to ask it. Has anyone ever gotten a 1099 from a portal? I’ve accumulated some rather sizable balances and never cashed out, wondering if I should draw down smaller amounts every year or …? Anyone ever drawn over $600 from a portal or cb site ?
I’ve received 1099s for referring friends, but not for portal rewards. Portal rewards are considered rebates, just like credit card rewards, and therefore you shouldn’t be taxed.
Thanks FlyerDad. I’m surprised that they are clawing back so aggressively. Very good to know.
Curious about what? Whether or not you could defraud Air France and/or American Express? Keep it classy
Added a gilt credit to my account (PS this takes 24-48 hours for them to do now); and bought an item after a click through on mr rebates. Purchased an item in the giltcity area paid in full with credit, and got a confirmation email from mr rebates and my 1% is in pending.
[…] but many things in this hobby do not work that way. That’s why, for example, we have the Frequent Miler Laboratory for testing what works with shopping portals. The stated terms are often wrong. In the case of […]
[…] any rewards. While most portals exclude gift card purchases, it is always worth checking out our Laboratory for any recent results and/or simply testing by going through a portal to see what […]
CNB Easy Rewards Portal (their version of the UR portal) – used Walmart GC to buy from Walmart.com Rec’d points for that, but it took 20+ days to post and no notification / emails or anything.
Thanks, this has been added to the table.
Bought Safeway e-Gift card from staples.com using Rebatesme.com, tracked but 0 cashback.
Thanks. Your data points have been added to the table.
Success ..Used Target GC through AA portal for ~90% of purchase, and received AA miles for full purchase.
Thanks Bill. I’ve updated the lab table to reflect this experiment.
[…] don’t track the 2 purchases for cash back. You can also check online resources like the Frequent Miler Laboratory for other customers recent experience using a cash back portal to purchase a merchant […]
Bought Ralph Lauren e-Gift card using Rebatesme.com, tracked but 0 cashback.
Thanks for adding to our database!
Used AA portal to buy Chromebook on Best Buy.com using partial BB GC and Prestige Card, got full AA points from portal on the merchandise part of the order. (Points given on GC component, which was about 25%)
ATT Access card
Random data points for ATT card. These all coded up for the online bonus
KLwines.com
winebid.com
Amazon
Amazon Prime Now
Amazon Prime Now Tips
Google Photos
CostPlusWorldMarket online
The first two were the ones I really was interested in.
Ebates (in store): bought GC, tracked 12/19, added to balance on 12/24 for 2 cards
stacked nicely with chase offer, dosh
sorry for the long delay. What retailer was this?
sorry for the omission – it was for sephora
Retailed: Ralph Lauren
Portal: eBates
Experiment: Buy physical gift card and earn cash back
Result: Failure – Purchase tracked for full amount $150 but cash back earned was $0
Ralph Lauren physical gift cards through Ebates: Dismal Failure
Added to table. Thanks!
Neiman marcus and Bergdorf Goodman now use a different website for online gift card (both E and physical) purchases. Not able to trigger Amex offer nor shopping portal cash back.
Which cash back portal(s) did you use? I’d like to add that detail to the lab table. thanks!
It’s structural; all GC purchases on their website redirect to the wGiftCard site (like Cashstar) so it doesn’t matter what route you take to get to the NM site
AmEx Offer for Stitchfix excludes gift cards. I bought a gift card and it did not register – FAIL
Thanks Jessie! It’s always useful to test whether these exclusions are adhered to.
Merchant: Ralph Lauren
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Success
Thanks, Brian! Your data points have been entered.
Update, this one ended up failing. Tracked but did not get paid.
got it, thanks!
Merchant: The Container Store
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Success
Merchant: J.Crew
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Success
Bloomingdale’s.com – Ebates, BuyGC, Buy physical gift card and get cash back, Fail, 2018-11-11
Ebates – Levi’s – Buy PGC and earn cashback – Success – 27NOV18
Miles clawed back at Alaska portal to purchase Target and Whole Foods GC at Staples.com
Purchase $55 worth of items on AmericanEagle.com, through TCB. Used a $50 giftcard + paid $5 on a credit card. Cashback only tracked for the $5 cash portion. Purchase and tracking on 11/20/18
Given all the grab backs of United miles earned by buying gift cards at Staples through the MileagePlus portal I don’t think I will ever again use an airline shopping portal to buy gift cards again. It’s too easy for them to grab the miles back.
I’ve updated all of the latest reports. Bummer about the clawbacks. Please let us know if you’ve had any other lab successes or failures that we can include in the table. Happy Black Friday, everyone!
My Chase portal purchase at Staples.com for gift card was also clawed back.
I was getting ready to report success buying gift cards at Staples.com through the Alaska portal, but since many people have written recently about Staples related clawbacks, I’ll wait a while before reporting it for the Lab
It turns out all 7200 miles I scored buying gift cards on the Staples portal in the Mileageplus shopping on $1200 at 6x miles were grabbed back by United. At least, having made the purchases with my Ink Cash card, I still earned the 6000 UR points.
Thank you for letting us know. I’ve updated the table accordingly.
Purchased 1 Whole Foods e-gift card on Staples.com through the Chase Shopping Portal using Chase Ink. I was testing to see whether I would receive both the Chase Ink 5x bonus and the limited time Chase Shopping Portal 5x bonus for Staples for a total of 10x. SUCCESS! 2,000 points for $200 WF e-gift card purchase.
I’m going to hold off on adding this to the table due to the recent reports of clawbacks. Please up date us if yours are clawed back.
AA miles for egc purchase at Staples were clawed back! please edit this entry accordingly.
Staples AA, BuyGC Purchase Ebay eGift card using Chase Ink Plus for AA miles and Chase UR. Success 2018-09-05 Reported by Dee
Thanks, Dee, for letting us know. I’ve edited the table to reflect the clawback.
November 10th – Chase Portal -> 5x at Staples.com: Ordered a $50 Uber gift card. Received Chase portal confirmation email after five days for 250 points.
November 10th – RetailMeNot app -> $30 off $110 online purchase at Staples.com: Ordered $50 Uber and 2x $25 Uber gift card. Received email confirmation of $125 purchase after two days, but after five days offer status in app changed to show only $25 purchase and therefore ineligible.
November 10th – Southwest Portal -> 4x at Staples.com: Ordered a $25 Uber gift card. No confirmation after five days.
November 10th – Southwest Portal -> 0.5x at BestBuy.com: Ordered a 4x $25 Uber gift cards. Received email confirmation after one day of $35 (?) order. Afterwards, portal website credited 12 points for $25 order.
[…] This is because the system won’t always catch exactly what you purchased. There are various data points showing that you can earn shopping portal points/miles on gift card purchases — but this is […]
United portal clawed back miles earned in October for eBay emailed gift cards purchased through Staples online as well.
Confirming that I also have seen United’s portal clawback Staples eBay GC purchases in October and November.
BA portal clawed back points originally earned in October for Whole Foods physical gift card purchased through Staples online.
Started receiving claw backs on United a few weeks after buying Whole Foods GC’s from Staples.
Can you post what portal you used so I can add that to the lab table? Thanks for the data point.
United Mileage Plus
Staples via Alaska portal, bought 6x West Elm gift cards, failed to earn bonus miles.
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9/5/2018 – AA portal to Staples for Ebay egc using chase ink plus for 5x. successful.
Thanks! This has been added to the laboratory table.
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At the MileagePlus shopping portal the Staples store is offering 6x points. I just spent $1200 on gift cards using my Ink Cash card. (2 x $500 Airbnb cards and 1 $200 Bed Bath Beyond gift cards. My MileagePlus account was credited with 7200 miles and my Chase account with 6000 UR points. K’ching!
Awesome. Did you buy e-gift cards or by-mail?
via email I learned that Josh’s Airbnb and Bed Bath Beyond cards were e-gift cards. He also reported success with Starbucks by-mail gift card
Thanks, Josh. This data point has been added to the table.
[…] in order to get $10 back from the Amex Offer. For expediency, I bought e-gift cards even though I knew from past experiments that I wouldn’t earn portal rewards when buying them. I should have tried buying physical […]
Merchant: Ray-Ban
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Fail, tracked at $0
Merchant: Ray-Ban
Portal: Simplycashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail, tracked at $0
Merchant: Ray-Ban
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail, tracked at $0
Thanks, Brian. These have been added to the table.
[…] I’ve been out vacationing and pursuing Marriott Platinum status, Frequent Miler Laboratory experiments have continued without out me, thanks to a number of industrious […]
Merchant: Buybuybaby
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Success
Merchant: Buybuybaby
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Success
Merchant: Buybuybaby
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Success
Merchant: Bed, bath & beyond
Portal: United in-store
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Success
Thanks Brian! All of your data points have been added to the lab.
Merchant: Soma Intimates
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Fail
Merchant: Banana Republic
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Fail
Merchant: Chicos
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Fail
Merchant: Soma Intimates
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail
Merchant: Banana Republic
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail
Merchant: Cole Haan
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail
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Land’s End, through AA portal, paid with UPX gift card. SUCCESS, portal tracked for item price, excluded tax and shipping. All was paid with UPX GC.
Merchant: Sears
Portal: BA
Tags: BA, ReloadGC
Experiment: Reload eGC and earn Avios
Result: Failure
Thanks for all the data points! I’ve added all (except one needing clarification) to the table. Keep them coming 🙂
Anita
Merchant: Chico’s
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail, Amex Offers Triggered
Merchant: Banana Republic
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail, Amex Offers Triggered
Merchant: Soma Intimates
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn cashback
Result: Fail, Amex Offers Triggered
Used Home Depot gift card for a purchase through aa shopping portal. Successfully received miles.
Merchant: Staples
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase eBay egift card earn miles
Result: Success
Merchant: Williams Sonoma
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Success
Success: Purchased $2,000 in West Elm gift cards from Staples. Received 5% using Chase Ink Plus.
Did you also get points from Chase Portal? Thanks.
Fail. British Airways is now showing 12X at West Elm. Bought $250 WE gift card through BA, then used the gift card for a $250 furniture purchase (so hoping for 6,000 Avios). I did not receive Avios for the gift card (or delivery charges). I know it says gift cards are excluded in the T&C, but in 2016 a FM Lab experiment was able to get Avios for a WE gift card purchase.
Merchant: Office Depot
Portal: United in-store
Experiment: Purchase physical ebay gift card earn miles
Result: Success
Befrugal portal, 6/4/18;
Buy $200 eBay eGC, $800 total Home Depot GCs
$40 Cash Back
Befrugal portal, 6/5/18;
Buy $1000 total Home Depot GCs
$0 Cash Back
Michael, Can you clarify what merchant you shopped at? I see you used Be Frugal as the portal and bought several 3rd party gift cards but need to know from whom to add to the alb table. Thanks!
Oops, Staples.com
Merchant: Crate and Barrel
Portal: Extrabux
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Brian, thank you for all these great data points! I wish you’d had better luck, though.
Anita
Update on the Staples through United portal. Miles posted to account on 6/20. Purchase date was 5/31 so took a while but did come through.
Thanks Brian. Which specific third party egift card did you buy? Some work and some do not.
This one was for Brinker.
Merchant: J.Crew
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Macy’s
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: J.Crew
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Crate and Barrel
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Crate and Barrel
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Macy’s
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Sam’s Club
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase third party gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Macy’s
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Crate and Barrel
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card earn miles
Result: Failure
Merchant: Staples
Portal: United
Experiment: Purchase third party egift card earn miles
Result: Failure
I bought Neiman Marcus eGift card and got 15% cashback on eBates.
I bought Ray-Ban eGift cards online and got eBates cashback and Amex Offer.
I bought Madewell eGift cards online and I got 15% cash back on eBates and I got Amex offer.
Ebates just deleted my cashback.
All data points through 5/15 am have been added to the table.
Here is a handy format to follow as you post your experiments:
Merchant:
Portal:
Experiment:
Result:
Notes:
Merchant: Madewell
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase PGC
Result: Failure
Notes: Initially tracked but clawed back / Received “Great news! You just used your Amex Offer”
Merchant: Levi’s
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Purchase PGC
Result: Success
Notes: Received “Great news! You just used your Amex Offer”
Thanks, this has been added to the lab table!
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Hi, it looks like wholefood giftcard at staples.com is the only giftcard that tracks?? anyone have purchased other brands at staples.com and got the cashback tracked? thanks.
The other recent successes in the table show that purchases of VGC tracked.
Bought J. Crew eGift Cards and Physical Gift Cards thru TopCashBack, both showing $0.00, but eCards tracked the correct purchase amount
Update us if you earn cash back on this. For now I’m listing on the lab table that it failed
Purchase two gift cards from Bouqs on 5/2, via Ebates, nothing track. Fail
Purchase $90 worth of flowers with gift cards + partial credit card via Ebates, 100% of purchase price tracked. Success.
Added to table, thank you!
Home Depot purchase via Chase portal, used Home Depot GC for most of it and a CC for the balance = success.
I’ve read that portal points wont’t post for purchases done for store pick up. My purchase was part pick up, part shipped, but the whole amount posted. Will have to try this again to see if HD via Chase will post points even if entire purchase is for store pick up.
White House Black Market didn’t earn CB on phyiscal GC via Ebates despite a recent success DP.
Bought some gift cards on giftcardmart.com and paid with old ink bold (mastercard). purchase earned 5x
All data points through 4/24 10am have been added to the table. Thanks everyone!
Merchant: White House Black Market
Portal: Swagbucks
Experiment: Buy physical GC and get cashback
Result: Failure
Purchase Date: April 21
Merchant: Hyatt
Portal: N/A – purchased in hotel
Experiment: Purchase $200 Hyatt GC from front desk of Hyatt Regency Columbus to trigger $60 statement credit from Amex Offer
Result: Success
Purchase date: 4/21/2018. The offer didn’t seem to get triggered initially, but about an hour or two later I received an email from Amex confirming the offer had been used.
Merchant: White House Black Market
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Buy physical GC and get cashback
Result: Success
Purchase Date: April 21
Merchant: White House Black Market
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Buy physical GC and get cashback
Result: Failure (tracked at $0)
Purchase Date: April 21
Merchant: Origins
Portal: Simplybestcoupons
Experiment: Buy physical GC and get cashback
Result: Failure
Purchase Date: April 21
Merchant: Origins
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Buy physical GC and get cashback
Result: Failure
Purchase Date: April 8
Could you give me a tip to use Alaska miles?
on Alaska miles search there is only economy seat from LAX to HKG 37,500
but if I fly FAT SAN PHX LAX HKG there is 1st class option for 70K.
How do I book the 4 leg trip but only ride the last leg?
Charles,
This is the wrong place to post this question if you need help. Maybe check the Alaska program page.
Merchant: Best Buy
Portal: Aadvantage eShopping Mall (American Airlines)
Experiment: Pay for merchandise with mix of gift cards and credit card, receive cash back on full amount
Result: Success
Purchase Date: 3/30/18, miles posted for full amount on 4/18/18
Use kroger fuel points to get $1.00 off a gallon and pay with GasBuddy and earn SYWR.
Success! Received an additional 50 cents per gallon (35 gallon purchase) instantly!
John, I’m unfamiliar with GasBuddy and don’t have Kroger near me. Can you check my entry in the lab table to make sure I recorded this accurately?
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I tried to used the Alaska Mileage Plan portal on 3/12 and 4/5 to buy third party giftcards. Neither transaction posted.
What vendor did you purchase from?
Oops . Staples.com. One purchase was Gap. I don’t remember the other.
Thanks Justin. Do you remember if they were e-gift cards or mailed? With Staples, it makes a difference which brand you get and which type (e-gift vs mailed)
Looked them up. The other brand was Whole Foods. All were egift.
Thanks. I’m surprised about the Whole Foods datapoint then since I’ve always had good luck with their e-gift cards through Staples
Merchant: Boxed
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Buy Third Party GC to trigger Amex offer and get cashback
Result: Success on one attempt, second attempt (different card and Ebates account) failed
Purchase Date: April 4
Any idea why the second one failed? Is the ebates account under the same name? Did the second attempt get the Amex offer but not earn cash back?
Merchant: NBA Store
Portal: United
Experiment: Buy eGC to trigger Amex offer and get miles
Result: Success
Purchase Date: April 5
Merchant: eBay
Portal: Radisson Rewards app (earns 6x Radisson Rewards points on eBay purchases)
Experiment: Purchase Airbnb eGC from PPDG
Result: Success
Purchase date: 2/14/2018, points awarded 4/1/2018 (it didn’t show as tracking before that – they just appeared in my Radisson Rewards account)
Merchant: Staples
Portal: uPromise
Experiment: Purchase Whole Foods e-gift card get cash back
Result: Success (pending)
Purchase date: 3/30/2018
Merchant: Staples
Portal: uPromise
Experiment: Purchase Whole Foods e-gift card get cash back
Result: Success (paid)
Purchase date: 12/1/2017
Merchant: Home Depot
Portal: Chase
Experiment: Buy merchandise, use CC and Home Depot GC to pay, with one item delivered and held for pickup at store
Result: Success – points posted for entire purchase
Purchase Date: March 24
Not sure if this portal’s terms exclude pick-up orders as some are said to do, but regardless, the points posted. I really appreciate how Chase posts quickly and sends a confirmation email.
FAIL – purchased JCrew eGC using TCB portal. As with prior posts, cash back did not track.
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Merchant: Best Buy
Portal: Swagbucks In-Store
Experiment: Buy Best Buy GC get cashback
Result: Success (took a few days to track)
Purchase Date: March 9
Merchant: Boxed
Portal: eBates
Experiment: Purchase P.F. changs gc for 4% cash back
Date: 3/10/18
Result: Sucess 🙂
Added to the lab table, thank you!
Merchant: Sam’s Club
Portal: Topcashback
Experiment: Purchase physical gift card get cash back
Result: Fail
Purchase date: 3/3/18
Thank you. This has been added to the lab table.
Merchant: Staples.com
Portal: RetailMeNot
Experiment: Purchase $300 VGC using RMN cashback portal offer $15 back after $75 online purchase on Staples
Result: Success
Purchase date: 2/15/18
Wow. Nice find! I assume that the cash back is just pending at this point? Can you follow up later if/when it becomes payable?
Added to table, thank you!
Merchant: EBags
Portal: TopCashback
Purchase date: 11/8/2017
Buy electronics (BOSE) get cash back. Finally got 20% cashback as payable today. As I recall there was also an Amex deal.
added to table, thank you!
Merchant: Sam’s Club
Portal: Discover Deals
Experiment: Buy GC and get cashback
Result: Failure
Purchase Date: January 27
Merchant: Groupon
Portal: ChaseUR
Experiment: Buy Groupon with mostly Groupon egift card and get UR bonus on entire purchase
Result: Success
Purchase Date: 02/20/2018
Notes: Received 4x UR for portal at the time.
Thanks! Has been added.
I purchased ~$80 worth of flowers on 1-800-FLOWERS 2/8/18 that was delivered the next day. I used the United Shopping portal (I think it was 30x that day), but the miles aren’t showing up (not even pending). I purchased more flowers on 2/12 (delivered 2/14) using MrRebates (20% cash back), and that’s showed up as pending like 2-3 days later. Does it take longer for it to show up on UA portal since it’s technically a code on checkout? I didn’t use any other codes and I paid with AMEX for both transactions. For the first transaction (UA portal), I also purchased the Celebrations Passport too.
I’d expect the miles from a promo code to post about a week after delivery, but I haven’t personally used the United code so I don’t know if that one is slower. Anyone else know?
My longest experience was 3 weeks
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I purchased a gift card with MileagePlusX and then used Ebates and collected the cashback rewards.
Where did you make the purchase? I’ll want to include that in the table.
Thanks,
anita
Oops sorry Kohls!
Thanks! I’ve added this.
[…] the hits just keep on coming: We have received two reports here on the blog — from reader Max in our Laboratory and reader Sophie on the post What’s left for 5x Ink? indicating that […]
Gcmart no longer earning 5x on chase ink.
Table updated with this one. Thanks!
Lab Data Point:
Used a Brooks Brothers physical gift card for a purchase via UR shopping portal and received 100% of points 12/15/17 – sorry for delay in report.
Added, thank you!
Anita
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Merchant: 1800Flowers.com
Portal: N/A
Experiment: Buy flowers mostly with gift card and partially with credit card and earn rewards via 1800Flowers promo code
Result: Success
Purchase date: 1/29/18
Notes: Delivery was 1/31/18. Points appeared in Southwest account on 2/5/18. Earned 1000 Southwest points from promo code RR22. Confirmed that points count towards Companion Pass
added 🙂
So after you get a great deal on a gift card by racking up miles and points, what is the next step?
Do you actually keep the giftcard, or are you able to sell them back to a third party? I’m trying to devise a strategy to hit my Amex $5000 spending bonus. I understand how to get points from buying gift cards strategically, but I am very unclear how the best way to liquidate them.
Mostly this info is useful for getting the most rewards when actually buying stuff. Reselling 3rd party gift cards is tough to win at since the resellers will not pay anywhere close to the card’s face value for most gift cards. One exception is when there are Amex Offers that you can stack with portal rewards. In those cases you can often save 20% on the gift card purchase AND earn portal rewards. If you can then sell back those gift cards for about 80% of face value, you’ll come out ahead.
thank you! I’m wondering because I need to hit a $5,000 spending amount to get 70,000 in bonus miles. There is no way I can do that on my own. I signed up for the perks: but it would be a huge bonus if I could capitalize on this too!
I will look into Amex offers and see if there is a worthwhile strategy available. Do you have any more suggestions? Locations to sell gift cards?
First, if you haven’t already, check out our guide to manufacturing spend: https://frequentmiler.com/go/ms. That should give you ideas for how to hit the $5K spend.
Regarding selling gift cards, see the section of that post titled Gift Card Churning.
Good luck
All data points through 1/29 have been added to the lab table.
Thanks for all, and keep them coming!
Anita, FM Lab Manager
Merchant: Bonobos.com
Portal: Ebates
Experiment: Use e-gift card to purchase merchandise and earn portal rewards (cash back)
Result: Success
Purchase date: 1/29/18
Notes: Purchased clothes using a Bonobos gift card (which was purchased from Bonobos earlier and also earned rewards), and received 5% cash back on Ebates for the purchase amount