Category - Gift Cards

Back in June 2016, Home Depot stopped allowing merchandise credits to be used online.  Beginning April 10th, in-store use of merchandise credits will be limited to the one who received it. You’ll have to supply photo ID to prove... Read More →

What a pleasant surprise! Paypal Digital Gifts purchases have been going smoothly of late for most people. PPDG is a favorite place to buy gift cards since they earn 5x with INK and the cards come quickly via email. They often... Read More →

Just a quick update: many readers confirm that SVM on eBay is still posting as a cash advance. I’m shocked that they’d send out an email indicating the issue has been fixed when it hasn’t, but that appears to be the... Read More →

Raise recently extended their Buyer Protection from 100-days to a year. (Link) Should a gift card turn out depleted for up to one year from purchase, you can contact Raise for a refund. All reputable second-hand exchanges offer... Read More →

A few readers reached out to let us know that the Giftcardmart site was showing an error message and wasn’t working for the past few days. Today it’s back up. One of the smaller second-hand gift card exchanges is... Read More →

[Update 6/29/18: Seems Seashells went out of business.] Seashells Gift Cards Shopseashells Shopseashells is a site to buy discounted first-hand gift cards in any denomination you choose. They sell many top brands including Amazon... Read More →

Amazon is selling a $50 e-gift for $35 with promo code: AIRBNB15 It’s live now for Prime members and should be live at 11 AM ET for everyone if it isn’t yet sold out. Here’s our affiliate link to the offer. You can... Read More →

Raise now accepts Paypal as a payment option. Why is this interesting? I’m not sure yet. Raise allows Amex gift cards to be used directly on their site so you don’t need Paypal for that. But I guess it could be convenient in... Read More →

This deal has now sold out, make sure you follow us on Twitter so you don’t miss out on deals in the future. Reposting because deal is now live. Go go go! The Offer Direct link to offer Amazon will be offering a lightning deal on... Read More →

eBay changed the terms to allow up to $5,000 in eBay gift cards to be used per calendar month. The daily limit is $2,000. There have been many stages with regards to eBay gift card usage, the most recent being that we can use $2,000 per... Read More →

[Originally posted 9/4/16. Reposting on 10/11/16 with a bit more detail since the issue affected many people and is ongoing for some.] Many people report their e-gift cards purchased last month from Paypal Digital Gifts are showing with... Read More →

The Paypal Digital Gifts site was completely offline for the past week, even for those who previously bought gift cards and wanted to view their codes. The site is back up now and previously purchased gift codes can be viewed... Read More →

Background Many people like buying gift cards from Paypal Digital Gifts (PPDG) since these purchases have been working to earn 5x on the Chase INK cards as part of the Utilities category. There are many gift card sales on eBay, and PPDG... Read More →

Buying on Raise.com Raise.com is a marketplace where sellers list their unwanted gift cards for sale and buyers purchase them using Raise’s secure checkout system. All transactions are handled exclusively by Raise themselves, and... Read More →