Discounted Gift Cards on eBay: Staples, eBay, iTunes, $20 Moneymaker

Contents

1 The Offer
2 Our Verdict
3 Resale

The Offer

$170 for a $200 Staples e-gift card from Paypal Digital Gifts on eBay. Limit 2. (Around 10,000 available.)
$40 for a $50 iTunes e-gift card from Paypal Digital Gifts on eBay. Limit 4. (Around 15,000 available.)
$100 for $105 eBay e-gift card from Paypal Digital Gifts on eBay. Limit 1. We reported on this yesterday and this deal is now available again today for those who didn’t purchase yesterday. (Around 1,400 available.)

Our Verdict

What’s really awesome about these deals is that they coincide with a promo of 4x eBay Bucks. Both Staples deal and the iTunes deal (when purchasing more than $100 worth of them) will rack up these bonus Bucks.

And since these are sold by Paypal Digital Gifts, chances are that it will earn 5x rewards with INK.

The main issue here is that PPDG has strict limits on how many gift cards they’ll sell you per month, so they may not allow you to checkout.

Resale

The Staples deal can be a resale opportunity. Cardcash is currently offering 81% on Staples e-gift cards.

Pay $340 for $400 in Staples gift cards
Sell for $324 to Cardcash
Net $27.20 in Bucks
$3.74 from the portal (or more with the Shopathome portal)
Profit: $14.94, plus 1700 UR points from INK, for a total profit of around $20 or more, depending how you value UR points.

Note that prices are constantly in flux, and it’s possible these Cardcash rates won’t last or Cardcash won’t accept the cards for some reason.

A better option for selling the Staples cards is potentially with Raise. After paying the 15% commission rate that Raise charges, you should be able to net around 81% of the face value since the Staples cards usually sell for 3-5% off the face value. If that works out, you’ll end up with the same $20 profit mentioned before, plus you’ll be able to go through the Topcashback portal and get an additional $10 per gift card listing. See Mileswhip’s tips for making sure the portal tracks correctly. (My Raise referral link.)

Even if you don’t have an INK card it can be a great deal: