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.
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
Used Shannon’s link, please use mine!
http://t.co/RRo8P8UglM
Thank you!