Posted by William Charles on May 26, 2015
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Published on May 26th, 2015 | by William Charles

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$20 Amazon Giftcard For Sending $50 With Western Union ($5 Fee) + $20 Referral Bonus

The Offer

Direct link to offer (note, this is Points With A Crew’s referral link)

  • Receive a $20 Amazon gift card when you send $50 or more using Western Union. To receive this promotion you need to use somebodies referral link and enter in your e-mail address, you will then be e-mailed a coupon that needs to be used during sign up.
  • You can also receive a $20 Amazon gift card for each person you refer that ends $50 or more (basically meaning you both earn a $20 Amazon gift card) – although you can only refer a limit of 5 people.

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The Fine Print

  • You’re limited to referring a maximum of five friends
  • Your gift card will be sent out within 2-4 weeks after your first transfer
  • Expiry date is currently July 30th, 2015 but this seems to be constantly extended.

Our Verdict

This is a deal that has been around for awhile, I’ve seen Maximizing Money post about it and more recently Points With A Crew reminded me about this deal. Let’s see if doing this deal makes any sense or not. The cheapest way to send $50 is to send money to somebody in the same currency (Western Union makes money on currency conversions) and send it bank account to bank account, for this Western Union will charge a $4.99 fee.

There are a number of shopping portals that also offer cash back on Western Union transfers, but from what I can tell if you receive a sign up bonus (like the $20 amazon gift card) you will not earn portal cash back. At the end of the day that doesn’t really matter, you’re basically paying $5 to receive a $20 amazon gift card plus the person who referred you will also receive a $20 gift card.

It shouldn’t be difficult hitting the 5 referral limit either, I told a few friends about this deal and offered to give them the $50 back after they transferred it to me and they were more than happy to sign up. Feel free to share your referral links in the comments.


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Kevin R
Kevin R
May 26, 2015 11:20 am

It sounds like Will has used his five referrals and I’m sure PwaC has to. Any other reader want to offer up their code for a few free bucks?

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DealHunter
DealHunter
May 26, 2015 11:24 am

Just completed this deal. I’d appreciate it if anyone uses my referral link – https://goo.gl/ZANuwT

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Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta
May 26, 2015 11:33 am

If anyone wants to use my referral link, here it is:

http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=f838&i=d9eaf1ed5a8b7004c2ddbc5567cb7e2e

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NewToThis
NewToThis
May 26, 2015 1:05 pm

Would it work to just send myself money, from one account to another?

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William Charles
William Charles
May 27, 2015 2:57 am

Has to be to a different person I believe.

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Andrew
Andrew
May 26, 2015 1:31 pm

If anyone still hasn’t used up their 5 referrals, if you send it to awchua at gmail dot com, I’ll gladly use it. Thanks!

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Ben
Ben
May 26, 2015 2:05 pm

Andrew, I sent you a link.

Thanks!

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Prem
Prem
May 26, 2015 2:07 pm

sent u a mail.please check ..

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Prem
Prem
May 26, 2015 2:08 pm

i am using western union when i need to transfer money to India and it is fee free as of now ( for past six months or so ) . so if you have any overseas account please try to use that without fee.

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Ben
Ben
May 26, 2015 2:16 pm

If anyone else wants to use my referral, it would be greatly appreciated:

http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=f8c8&i=16e9374128ee9129a79855bc4ca1b28b

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Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta
May 26, 2015 2:52 pm

I think, one referral code only works once.
If anyone needs it from me, my email is: subodhg at gmail dot com.

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Jeremiah
Jeremiah
May 26, 2015 2:56 pm

Just used one of the above links to register. If anyone would use mine I’d appreciate it!

http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=f8eg&i=e2d283eaecc054bf694727fc52f01b07

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Otto
Otto
May 26, 2015 3:09 pm

Also used a link above to register and send. Here’s my referral: http://bit.ly/1IYIc0E

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Jason
Jason
May 26, 2015 10:00 pm

Just used Michael’s link. Would appreciate passing along the love 🙂

Thanks!

http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=f90w&i=fba7142846c53d44003bd17b256038

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Vadim
Vadim
May 27, 2015 1:53 am

I signed up using Jason link. If anyone would use mine I’d appreciate it!
If anyone would use mine I’d appreciate it!
http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=f9eh&i=99cc499cc1b9a4a036bda479e14adcf3

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Janice
Janice
May 27, 2015 3:40 am

just signed up using Vadim link. I would appreciate it if anyone use mine 🙂
http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=f9fv&i=50995e34f3fbf66775344c063eae1546

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