Good morning everyone. I just received an email from eGifter this morning for an eBay gift card promo. When you purchase an eBay gift card of $100 or more, you will get a free $10 bonus card (link). This offer is only available from November 19-26, or until supplies last.
I’m not 100% sure if the bonus card is a $10 eBay gift card or a $10 eGift gift card. I’m assuming it is a $10 eBay gift card, but I don’t know for sure.
Good morning everyone. A friend of mine sent me an email that his PayPal account was frozen (I didn’t ask why, but I believe it was related to loading PayPal My Cash Cards to his PayPal account). To add insult to injury, he had $200 in eBay Bucks that were set to expire next week. If you are unfamiliar with how to redeem eBay Bucks, you must log into your PayPal account to confirm payment, even if your eBay Bucks balance covers the full purchase price. Long story short, since his PayPal account was frozen, he could not redeem his $200 in eBay Bucks that were expiring next week.
He reached out to me and we brainstormed possible solutions for ways to spend his eBay Bucks. I had an idea that I could log into his eBay account and use his eBay Bucks by logging into my (unfrozen) PayPal account. We then brainstormed things to buy on eBay to redeem his eBay Bucks. His first thought was to buy eBay gift cards, but I told him that in order to redeem eBay gift cards, you need to log into your PayPal account. That would put him back in the same situation he is in now. I thought about buying Amazon gift cards and he agreed with my plan.
After I logged into his eBay account, I found a few Amazon gift cards that added up close to $200. Side note: Amazon gift cards are the only gift cards on eBay that often sell for more than face value (around 8-15% above face value). The sellers know that people willingly pay more than face value for Amazon gift cards, so they can charge higher prices.
Update and Warning: the purpose of this post was to show what the new PPMCCs looked like and show how the PPMCC loading website has changed. I did not mention the danger of using PPMCCs as a way to MS and I wanted to make it very clear that PPMCCs are very dangerous, if you value your PayPal account. If you withdraw funds from your PayPal account or transfer funds to another PayPal account, you will receive a warning email from PayPal. If you continue, they may freeze your account and hold the funds in your account for up to 6 months. For most people, it is better to stay far, far away from PPMCCs. You have been warned.
Good evening everyone, I stopped by my local CVS and noticed a new gift card on the gift card rack. The traditional white PayPal My Cash Card (PPMCC) has changed and is now mostly light blue. The loading process is almost identical to before, but has a better user interface now. Just like the Vanilla Reload Cards back in the day (RIP old friend), these cards have a date stamp (0215v1) which means February 2015, version 1. I was able to purchase this card with my credit card at CVS without any problems. The card says reusable on the front, so I wonder how that would work.
Updated at 9:30am PST on 1/31/2015: the winners of the contest have been chosen. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see who won.
This is an idea that came to me a few weeks ago, but I never gave it much thought until writing my recent tell-all MS posts (Part 1: My Manufactured Spend and Redbird Loading Strategy and Part 2: My Manufactured Spend Strategy with PayPal, Chime, Meetups, Reselling, and More!). If you assumed the miles, points, or cash back posted right away (rather than when the statement closed), could you MS during the week to pay for a weekend trip?
To make things more realistic, let’s ignore credit card sign up bonuses and only focus on using the credit cards and prepaid cards you currently have today. Timing is everything, so let’s assume today is the first of the month and all your monthly MS limits have been reset (Bluebird, Serve, Redbird, PayPal, etc.). Your net out of pocket expenses should be $100 or less.
Good afternoon everyone, I buy a lot of items on Ebay and use a lot of Ebay gift cards to pay for those items. With Frequent Miler’s recent post regarding Ebay gift cards and Doctor of Credit’s recent post about Ebay shopping portals, I thought it would be a good idea to show you where to find your unused Ebay gift cards. I will show you where to look when you log into your PayPal account from a desktop computer and from the Ebay app on your smartphone.
Log into your PayPal account from your desktop computer and click the Wallet tab at the top of the screen.
