List of Best Options for Full-Price Gift Cards on eBay

October 8, 2015
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by Chuck

Full-Cost Gift Cards

There are four authorized gift card sellers on eBay: Giftcardmall, Paypal Digital Gifts, SVM Gift Cards, and Cardency. Paypal Digital sells e-gift cards while the others sell physical gift cards.

Usually, we post here on DoC about opportunities to purchase gift cards from these sellers at a discount. However, it’s often worthwhile to purchase full-cost gift cards on eBay due to a variety of factors (sometimes a combination of these factors):

  • eBay Bucks We can get the standard 2% in eBay Bucks on the purchase of gift cards (with the exception of eBay gift cards), and we often get targeted with as much as 10% back in Bucks which can amount to a great discount on anything purchased on eBay.
  • Portal We can get usually get at least 1% back on the purchase of gift cards. Currently, it’s possible to get 5% back – see Best Shopping Portal for eBay Purchases.
  • Expiring eBay Credit You may have an eBay Bucks certificate or other similar eBay credits which are expiring soon and buying gift cards (including eBay gift cards) is a good way of using those up.
  • Coupons There’s a 10% off coupon which pops up randomly in targeted eBay accounts and there’s also public coupon codes which pop up every once in a while that offer 15% off all eBay purchases. Buying gift cards is a fast and easy way to take advantage of these offers.
  • Use up eBay Gift Cards It’s often possible to purchase eBay gift cards at a discount. You can then turn the eBay gift card into any other gift card available for purchase on eBay that you choose.
  • Chase INK Purchases made from Paypal Digital Gifts on eBay have been working to get the bonus rate of 5x rewards with the Chase INK cards. (Purchases from all other sellers on eBay won’t earn this bonus rate.)

Purpose of this List

Many struggle figuring out what to buy in the above scenarios, especially when there are time-sensitive deals which don’t allow lingering. The focus of this post is to lay out some of the options available. Of course, the best deal is whichever gift card you’ll be able to make use of, but we listed below many of the more popular options for quick reference. If you buy lots of gift cards on eBay, you may find it useful to bookmark this page. We’ll also reference it in future posts when referring to ways of making use of various eBay offers.

Another thing we accomplished in this post is finding the best shipping rate on each gift card. All e-gift cards ship free, but physical gift cards usually have a shipping fee. Some of the cards are sold be multiple sellers and it’s worth buying from the seller who offers the lowest shipping fee. For example, Sears gift cards ship free from SVM but come with a $3 shipping fee from Giftcardmall. There are many such examples.

One thing to keep in mind is that with regards to extremely time-sensitive deals (e.g. a 15% off publicly available coupon), it may be worth heading straight for the physical gift cards and not the e-gift cards since Paypal is more prone to making the checkout process difficult for e-gift card purchases, see The Obscure Limits of Paypal Digital Gifts.

Also note that we rounded off the shipping costs to make an easier read; for example, a $3.95 fee we recorded as $4. And we also assumed the purchase of the highest denomination cards when calculating the shipping fees.

Links to Gift Card Sellers on eBay

Full list of e-gift cards from Paypal Digital Gifts on eBay

Full list of physical gift cards from Giftcardmall on eBay

Full list of physical gift cards from SVM Gift Cards on eBay 

Full list of physical gift cards from Cardency on eBay

Popular Physical Gift Cards

Gas Gift Cards

Popular E-Gift Cards 

Restaurant Gift cards

Travel-Related Gift Cards 

Note that all the links in this post are our eBay affiliate links. We appreciate when you use our links, but you’ll do better for yourself by going through a shopping portal instead and getting the cashback or points that come along with it.

Please let us know if you see anything that needs to be added or updated.

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