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MyGiftCardsPlus is currently offering cashback of 10%-20% on a wide variety of gift card brands. That includes some travel gift cards as they’re giving 10% cashback on Delta and Airbnb, as well as DoorDash.
The Deal
- MyGiftCardsPlus is offering higher cashback rates for a number of brands including 10% cashback for:
- Direct link to other deals (see scrolling banner).
Key Terms
- Delta & Airbnb – Limit $1,000 per brand per household
- DoorDash – Limit $500 per household.
Quick Thoughts
Saving 10% on all these brands is a decent offer and might be preferable to the Airbnb and Delta deals at Best Buy seeing as those offers give Best Buy gift cards free rather than a discount/cashback.
In case you’re not familiar with how MyGiftCardsPlus works, you pay full price for the gift cards, but then they pretty much immediately award cashback. In some ways that’s even better than a discount because it means you’re able to generate more spend. MyGiftCardsPlus is owned by Prodege which also owns Upromise, Swagbucks and more. You link one of those other accounts and the cashback gets sent there. Many people use Swagbucks seeing as they can be cashed out via PayPal, while I use Upromise as it automatically gets sent to my checking account – you don’t have to use it to fund a 529 account.
MyGiftCardsPlus sometimes likes to verify your billing address. To do that, they send a postcard in the mail with a code on it. That can be a bit of a pain initially as it means you’ll have to wait several days to receive that and so your order won’t be fulfilled until that point. However, once you’re verified then you should be good to go.
Something to consider when paying for flights with Delta gift cards or stays with Airbnb gift cards is that you could be forgoing travel protections. The 10% savings might be worth that to you, but it’s something to consider. Paying for most of a booking with a gift card and the balance with a credit card could provide travel protections on the full amount – it depends on which card you pay with.
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I’m only seeing 2% for Airbnb now, but still 10% for Delta. Could be me.
I think Airbnb has sold out now at 10%.
@Stephen Pepper: it looks like Airbnb deal is dead, but Delta is still available.
I’m still seeing 10% for Airbnb.
Oh, it could be because I hit the limit for 10% cashback for Airbnb.
Oh, that would be it then if you took advantage of the offer already.
Is Swagbucks down for anyone else? Also, I can’t link my new account with Swagbucks, it just doesn’t do anything when I click the link button.
Are you using a VPN? Their site is fussy about that.
I’m not in the US right now, so that might be it.
Whatever you do, never redeem Swagbucks with your VPN turned on. They lock your account and it’s a pain to get it reopened. I’ve managed it with Swagbucks a couple of times, but I’m several months into trying to get them to reopen my MyPoints account with ~$300 worth of points in there when I forgot to turn the VPN off before making a redemption.
I managed to link them while using Windscribe VPN.
Would chase (or any other bank for that matter) have any reason to see this purchase as manufactured spending/use as a reason for shutdown?
No, I’ve never heard of any shutdowns over anything like this.
While Chase allows people to redeem points for gift cards, Chase also sells gift cards. And, in that section of its website, Chase has actually stated that the purchase of gift cards is an easy way to meet the minimum spending requirement of a credit card. I have seen it with my own eyes.