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Raise recently started selling eBay gift cards. This is great. The more gift cards that are available the better. That being said, I can't see a reason I will be buying them for now.
When you look at the Raise site, the discount has been steady at 3% since they were added.
This isn't bad. If you buy the cards with a Fidelity American Express, you are earning another 2%. If you buy the cards with an AMEX Gift Card you bought with a Fidelity American Express when the payout was 2.25% (like yesterday), you can add another 1.9% assuming you have free shipping. That's 6.9% off! Not too shabby, but we can do better.
Raise recently started selling eBay gift cards. This is great. The more gift cards that are available the better. That being said, I can't see a reason I will be buying them for now.
When you look at the Raise site, the discount has been steady at 3% since they were added.
This isn't bad. If you buy the cards with a Fidelity American Express, you are earning another 2%. If you buy the cards with an AMEX Gift Card you bought with a Fidelity American Express when the payout was 2.25% (like yesterday), you can add another 1.9% assuming you have free shipping. That's 6.9% off! Not too shabby, but we can do better.
Even Better Alternatives
- Buy on eBay when they are already discounted.
- Haven't seen one in a little while, but hopefully they will come back. This is especially great when they are sold by PayPal Digital Gifts which should earn 5x Ultimate Rewards Points with a Chase Ink card. If a portal pays out for the purchase, which it often does, you can earn another 1% or so.
- Buy from another location.
- It could be from a Staples store via a Chase Ink or from a grocery store with AMEX Blue preferred (6%) or AMEX Everyday Preferred (4.5x Membership Rewards points when you have 30 or more transactions a month). This option really gets good when you can earn Fuel Points in addition.
- Buy eBay eGift Cards from Staples.com with Chase Ink.
- You will earn 5x Ultimate Rewards points and lately portals have been paying out for these purchases. That is 5% on top of the Ultimate Rewards points.
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