Earnwallet is an app which offers rewards on dining purchases which can be redeemed for gift cards. Currently, they are offering a discounted redemption rate on Amazon gift cards which results in being able to get $25 in Amazon gift cards with $150 or $250 in restaurant e-gift card purchases.
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The app works similar to MPX and many others whereby your essentially just buying a gift card through Earnwallet and using that to pay at the register. Or you can buy gift cards on the app to use online or however you’d like.
The earn rate is usually either 3 or 5 stamps per $25 gift card purchased; sometimes the rate might be higher. For example:
- UberEats, Chipotle, and Starbucks gift cards have a rate of 3 stamps per $25 gift card.
- Olive Garden, Panera, Papa John’s and many other restaurants offer 5 stamps per $25 gift card.
- You may find some smaller restaurants or special promotions to get 7 stamps per $25 as well.
Once you hit 10 stamps, you’ve filled a stamp card and are eligible for a reward. Redemptions are usually worth $5 per stamp card. You can get a $5 gift card of your choice as a reward redemption, including the following options: $5 Amazon, Home Depot, Uber, Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Starbucks, and many more options.
So for example, buying $50 worth of Olive Garden gift cards gets you a full stamp card (10 stamps) and allows you get get a free $5 Amazon gift card reward. That’s a 10% reward.
Payment is with Amazon Pay using any payment method accepted there. Let us know if you find out how this codes and whether it earns bonus dining rewards on the credit card.
Special Offer
Currently, Earnwallet is running two special offers (they seem to run these periodically):
- Get a $10 Amazon gift card for one stamp card. In the above example, the $50 of restaurant gift cards will get you $10 back in Amazon gift card.
- Get a $25 Amazon gift card with three stamp cards. In the above example, $150 of restaurant gift cards will get you $25 back in Amazon gift card.
The first deal above is slightly better percentage, the second gets you a bigger reward. It might be possible to do both of those, not sure.
Our Verdict
The special Amazon offer mentioned above is a nice little bonus on top of the regular redemption rate.
As far as ongoing use of EarnWallet, the most scalable thing in this list for a lot of our readers will be UberEats since those gift cards function as ordinary Uber gift cards and they aren’t easy to find at high discounts. Essentially, it’s a way to earn a $5 Amazon gift card for each $83.33 purchased in Uber gift cards.
Same idea will work for any other restaurant you spend a lot at. Just keep in mind for many restaurants there are discounted gift cards up for sale on the exchanges at better discounts.
We’ll add Earnwallet to our Complete List of Methods to Buy Gift Cards with Discounts and Bonus Rewards page.
Forget it… they have a minimum spend amount at each restaurant to earn a stamp. I don’t eat at most the restaurants they offer. I just don’t spend $25 at the DQ on a regular basis… John 3:16
I’d be really interested to see how this codes… if it codes as a restaurant it could be stacked with CC rewards. If I’m in a restaurant where it can be used, I’ll try it and be the dp on how it codes. John 3:16
N00b question: can an UberEats gift card be used for Uber rides?
yes
It’s not that hard to find Uber gift cards at a better discount from individuals on places like the Dan’s deals forums. They just aren’t balance check friendly and thus not carried by the major marketplaces
What do you mean “balance check” friendly? How can you really be secure when transacting with third parties like that?