eGifter is sending out an e-mail to their customers passing on a change Amazon has announced. The policy is as follows:
Amazon is adopting a general policy to remove Amazon.com and Amazon.ca Gift Cards from online gift card malls. This policy applies to all websites that sell gift cards to the public in the US and Canada. Thereafter, any purchase of Amazon Gift Cards would need to be as part of an employee or customer incentive, loyalty, rewards, recognition, disbursement, or other gifting program (including points redemption).
This change in policy is due to come into effect on April 1st, 2018. Most people would be better off purchasing the Amazon.com gift cards from Amazon directly anyway, as many cards earn 5x/5% on Amazon purchases. This is only affecting the online sale of gift cards, so purchasing Amazon gift cards at Staples would still be fine (for those with a card that earns at a high rate on office supply stores). It also looks like gift card exchanges that are selling ‘second hand’ Amazon gift cards (e.g Raise, Cardpool etc) are not affected by this change.
Hat tip to reader James
