A number of portals have added fine print to their exclusions lists for eBay. Previously eBay branded gift cards and bullion were excluded, now on some sites (e.g eBates, BeFrugal & Upromise) all gift card purchases are excluded from earning cash back. Topcashback doesn’t currently have this exclusion. eBay was also recently pulled from all Cartera portals and you can no longer purchase third party gift cards with eBay gift cards.
It looks like eBay are really intent on eliminating people reselling gift cards for a profit, I’d assume if this is the case that you will no longer earn eBay bucks on gift card purchases in the future as well – but let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. eBay also often make changes like this based on upcoming promotions they are planning – so it might just be they are planning a big gift card sale and don’t want to be paying out portals on top of that.
Thanks to reader @havemeier for making us aware of this.
