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.
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.
is there any credit card allows to be treated as purchase (instead of cash advance) with western union transfer?
The offer is back: https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/legal/refer-a-friend-terms-and-conditions.html
Western Union will provide you and your Referee with a USD$20 Amazon e-gift code each (the “Reward”) if your Referee accepts the Program Terms and Conditions through the Referral Link and completes an online Western Union international or domestic Western Union® Online Money Transfer (“Money Transfer”) sent from the United States of at least USD$100 principal amount within 30 days of creating a profile during the Program Period.
Ends at 11:59:59 pm (MT) on December 31st, 2023.
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signed up with urs.
Here is mine, http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=nh92&i=d40319be64b643d97ad79af816e935bb
Used the link and got my gift card a few weeks later!
Here’s my referral, would greatly appreciate if someone would use it!
http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=h376&i=f62d9519c3535734f34dcc3bbb896cc5
My wife and I both got the gc for trying the service. Have not received the gc for the referrals, though.
Thanks Doc! Not sure why others haven;t jumped on this…
Used Eric’s link, here’s mine-
http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=h376&i=f62d9519c3535734f34dcc3bbb896cc5
Thanks in advance!
Used junejtt16s link. here is mine.
http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=ftiy&i=1b09bc097dff8eb36a8378bd0dba2c1d
Thanks for sharing this info. I used the link in the post. I would appreciate it if someone would use mine:
http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=fnyu&i=b61a42b27502cbed7ab33f0f350a38b6
Thanks for sharing! Here is my link:
http://refer.westernunion.com/r/url?l=fljn&i=8c14c4caa1fd2d1dd62014b7003e5b62