The Offer
I’m not yet seeing this one myself, but many got targeted today with a bonus Bucks offer.
- Get 6% eBay Bucks on all purchases $50 or more
- Valid three days, September 1 – September 3
What to Buy
There are a whole bunch of gift card deals available on eBay for merchants you might be shopping at anyway.
Here’s a link to all gift card deals on eBay
- $25 AMC for $20 from PPDG
- $60 TGI Fridays for $50 from PPDG
- Free $5 eBay gift card with $100 Google Play gift card purchase from PPDG
- $100 American Airlines for $92 from PPDG, limit of five (eGiftcard – 81.3%)
- $100 Southwest for $92 from PPDG, limit of five (eGiftcard – 81%)
- $100 Staples for $95 from PPDG, limit of five (eGiftcard – 79.5%)
- $100 Groupon for $95 from PPDG, limit of five (eGiftcard – N/A)
- $50 Domino’s for $45 from PPDG, limit of five (eGiftcard – 78.3%)
- $100 Overstock.com for $95 from PPDG, limit of five (eGiftcard – 80%)
- $50 Golfsmith for $40 from PPDG, limit of three (eGiftcard – 65%)
- $50 Chili’s for $42.5 from SVM, limit of five (eGiftcard – 72%)
- $100 ChevronTexaco for $92 from SVM, limit of three (87%)
- $100 Sunoco for $92Â from SVM, limit of three (86%)
$100 Speedy gas for $92 from SVM, limit of three (88%)- $100 Children’s Place For $85 from SVM, limit of three (72%)
- $50 CVS for $46Â from SVM, limit of five (77%)
- $100 CVS for $88 from SVM, limit of three (77%)
- $50 Regal Entertainment for $40 from Cardency, limit of five (75%)
- $100 Cabela’s for $88 from SVM, limit of five (76%)
- $50 Barnes & Noble for $46Â from SVM, limit of 3 (74%)
- $50 Boston Market for $42.50Â from SVM, limit of 3 (64%)
- $50 Hibbett Sports for $40
Our Verdict
Lots of these deals are a bit ‘meh’ without the Bucks, but with an extra 6% they’re more enticing.
From a reselling angle, since we can no longer purchase third party gift cards with eBay gift cards, the math is always much more difficult. Some of the gas deals could start making sense with the added 6%, especially if you go through a portal for another 1% – 1.5%, but again, nothing amazing.
Also there’s currently a 1,000 mile United shopping bonus with $350 in spend. United is currently offering .5 miles per dollar on eBay, or 1 mile per dollar if you have their credit card. And remember to use INK for the PPDG cards.
Here are 34 things to know about eBay.
I bought TGI Fridays $50+$10 bonus, which has always come as one $60 GC from PPDG in similar deals…but all only have balance of $50. Anyone else have this issue after the PPDG ‘reboot’?
don’t buy gift card from PPDG any more.
it looks the server got hacked and many of my gift card got stolen.
I found a $50 purchase only showed 2% bucks. Maybe it has to be over $50?
Mine showed 2% and then after I bought my bucks page had the correct amount.
do SMV GCs purchased with Ink CC get 5x, or only for the PPDGCs?
Only PPDG
thx chuck! thought so too, but wanted to be certain after another blogger was also uncertain about the SVM’s
Speedway is sold out. That is the only one I would have bought.
Thanks, let me update
United portal reward states it does not include gift card purchase. Do Ebay purchases as gift cards work because they code differently?
Ah, right. I believe third party gift card purchases on eBay work, although if it doesn’t post automatically you might have trouble getting it manually credited.
gift cards triggered the bonus during the back-to-school promotion:
Your shopping between July 23 – August 12 was enough to earn back-to-school bonus award miles.
they counted just fine for me in the past… but it may change any time, who knows.
Ebay could possibly change the terms about using Ebay Bucks to purchase third party gift cards, similiar to what they did recently with the Ebay gift cards
I bought Chevron, Sunoco, Speedy and Regal. Nor sure there are other resale opportunities there.