As of September 22, this deal is dead – no more Chase gift cards without fees.
Buy $500 Chase Gift Cards with Chase Credit Cards for no Fee
I’m not even going to pretend like this was my idea. I read Jared’s blog this morning (Online Travel Review – famous for his IcelandAir Deal to Hawaii) which links to this lengthy FT post. I was able to order $1,000 (2 x $500) of Chase Gift Cards with my new Chase Southwest Airlines Credit Card that arrived this afternoon for no fee and no shipping. Essentially getting 1,000 points for free. Here is how I did it…
Go to this website and buy a gift card up to $500. There is a strange rule that people who live in Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont cannot order these gift cards (not sure why, but sucks to be them). The $4.95 shipping cost is waived for this purchase.
Enter your Chase credit card information on the payment screen. Only Chase Credit Cards can be used to buy these Chase Gift Cards.
Verify your order is correct and click Submit Order.
Congratulations, your order has been successfully submitted.
You will also receive a confirmation email from Chase.
After logging into my Chase Southwest Airlines Credit Card account, I am able to see the charge. Reports are that the charge goes through as a purchase, not a cash advance.
Jared has already typed up the steps:
Here’s how it works:
– Chase will sell you gift cards up to $500 each with NO SHIPPING CHARGE (at least for the time being there is no shipping charge) and with no service fee at this website.
– You must pay for the purchase with a Chase credit card (so you can’t use this for minimum spends on cards issued by other banks, which is a bummer for my last churn).
– You can purchase up to $2,600 in cards in a rolling 30 day period on a given card.
– When you receive the card, you call the number on the back to activate it. Use the automated activation and they will assign you a PIN.
– Unfortunately you have to call each time individually to activate each card. IE, you cannot activate multiple cards in one phone call – you’ll have to call once for each call.
– Oh, and you’ll want to change the PIN on each card, because you’ll never keep all of those PINs straight.
– Wait to hear confirmation on the phone that the card is activated and the PIN has been changed.
– Go to Wal-Mart and load your Bluebird account with the Gift Card (it will work because there is a PIN — you cannot load a Gift Card with no PIN). Read this post.
Don’t thank me, thank Jared for the great work. Happy shopping everyone!
Grant,
Do you know if the gift card can be used to get cash at an ATM if it comes with pin?
I believe it says on Chase’s GC website that the PIN cannot be used to get cash out at an ATM :(
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears Blue Bird has changed their maximums to $100 a day and $1,000 a month from debit cards. Is this correct? I don’t have a Blue Bird account yet, but if these limits are true with a $2 per $100 then the value has been diminished.
Got my united business card yesterday. Just in time to get these gift cards and meet the minimum spend without breaking a sweat. Thanks for the info!
Good job Syed, enjoy those easy United miles!
Hello! Can I use these Chase GCs to load my Serve account? I know I read it somewhere that there’s a limit per day but I forgot (sorry). Is it $1000 per day and $2500 per month?
Thank you!
If you have a Serve account, you should definitely open a Bluebird account. I haven’t used Serve in several months, nor did I reload it. I would guess $1,000 daily reload, but that’s just a guess.
Be very careful when using Serve. (should read Flyer Talk thread on Serve) They will shut you down if you change your debit card often. For credit card, they will call your bank to verify if you are the owner of the card or you have to fax in your cc statement to show proof of ownership.
Dang what a hassle. Glad I got rid of Serve and got Bluebird.
I tried linking my husband’s serve account with the chAse gc but I keep getting an error. I closed my serve account last week and was told that I need to wait 30 days before I can open a BB account. Does anyoke have the same experience with Serve?
I was able to close my Serve account and open my Bluebird account on the same day. That was several months ago though. Try calling Serve and have them remove your account from their system.
Thank you Grant! Was able to sign up now!! Hoping to get my bb card soon!!!!
I’ve tried to sign up. The link doesn’t work for me. Is the offer still available?
This offer is dead, unfortunately.