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The Offer
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- Check your Just4U for two Visa coupons:
- $15 off when you purchase two $100 cards ($5.95 activation fee)
- $10 off when you purchase two $50 cards ($4.95 activation fee)
The Fine Print
- Expires 4/17/2018
- Limit one per household
- Terms exclude variable load cards
Our Verdict
Fees really eat into the profits here, but if you use a card that earns at a high rate on grocery store purchases then the $100 cards in particular should still be worth doing. Keep in mind that both the Discover it and Chase Freedom cards earn 5% on grocery store purchases this quarter. Looks like variable loads are specifically excluded this time so I doubt they will work.
Hat tip to @ChurnTx
I just sent this message to William, but I thought I would share it here as well. My wife just got back from Safeway in Northern California. Evidently, an new internal memo just came down (within the last 24 hours) that said they are no longer accepting credit card payments for Visa gift cards.
what city?
Wonder if its valid for the other stores too, or just Safeway at the moment.
Coupon no longer available to add. But if it’s added, I think it’s still good to use by 04/17.
Local Safeway said $50 max purchasing gift cards with a credit card will try another store but not looking promising in my area.
Tried 2x Dining Everywhere Texas, 100 each, no discount even after total (209.90); ended up getting 2x 100 VGC dated 02/17, which after their 5.95 fee, goes to 196.90 total, and no gas points!
This is a really crappy deal w/o gas points and w/ hardcoding to 100.00 fixed; I don’t think I’ll be back. These deals used to be especially fruitful for the occasional gas points alone. At least nowadays Safeway/Randalls accepts Android Pay, although it almost never works at most of their registers and/or depending on the day.
With this offer i am done with my Discover Q2 5 %. Had 5 acme numbers (family members) and bought with all of them.
Bought all 4, roughly $300 with the discount and fees (close to break even) but got zero fuel points. Strange, because I recently bought a fixed denom gift card at a Ralphs (Kroger store) and not only got the points but 4X as well.
a) Ralphs is not Safeway
b) Count yourself lucky that you get fuel points from Kroger; some Kroger stores give zero for fixed GC.
I don’t see the offer in my JustForYou account. Am I the only one?
Does Amex get level 3 data from Safeway?
Did the 2x 100VGCs at Safeway, they asked for an ID, which was a little uncalled for. Paid 196.90$, didn’t earn any gas points
This could be a bad deal for many out there but for me is a great deal, here is why:
3 x $500 = $1500 – 2 x $100 = $200
VGC Fees: $14.75
MO: $1.76
Total Fees: $16.51
Using my 5% CC gain will be – $69.23
Using SPG will be 1715 SP at ~ 1 cpp
I already have $2 discount (expiring on April 30) and $2 (expiring on May 31) from the Kroger deal couple of weeks ago so gas on this one in a “i don’t care”, also i used some of the Lowe’s spend $50 get $10 back Amex’s offers to buy Kroger GCs so there is a $10 gain there when i need gas (i do the 35 gal every time i go), i understand that many don’t MS and doing this from your bed is priceless but for me doing this will take me no more than 30 mins, Safeway and WM are crossing the street, and the $16.51 fee is like paying for a haircut if i decided to go for the SPG route, because i cut my hair myself i’m still winning with this deal.
lol, will do… slow & steady for folks that don’t have a few to meet msr
I have some trouble following your “math” but I believe you base this off $500 variable load cards. Those are excluded and it has been reported that the terms are enforced.
Here:
3 VGCs x $500 + 2 VGCs x $200
VGC: $1700
Fees: $29.75
Discount: $15
Total: $1714.75
so 200 VGCs worked?
Can you confirm whether $200 VGCs worked for the $15 discount?
Sorry for the confusion, here what i did and it worked: 3 VGCs x $500 + 2 VGCs x $100, don’t know if the $200 works for the $15 discount.