One thing I have found that is common with a lot of frugal shoppers is that when it comes to earning reward points many are often on the lookout for offers where you can buy gift cards to receive the bonus. The reasoning is pretty simple as you are literally getting free money and not having to buy say an item that may not be at its best sale price as of yet just for the points. A common deal I see is when you purchase a $100 gift card for a store in return you will get $20 worth of points for free. It gives you the flexibility to spend money when there is an actual good deal while receiving the bonus still.<\/p>\n
A lot of times though the offers will specifically state that gift cards are ineligible. But if you can take advantage of it you should. It\u2019s kind of funny when you go to a supermarket in the mall where they have a promotion like this and the company\u2019s gift card you are buying is literally just steps away. Restaurant gift cards can often be found in the supermarkets too. I know a popular one here recently was a Keg gift card where buying a $100 card gave you $20 in free credit. So if you had to dine out for a special occasion as an example that\u2019s a great way to lower the bill.<\/p>\n
I find for myself too that many times when it comes to redeeming points for some kind of reward program the gift card is often the best value as it\u2019s almost like paying full retail with your rewards if you actually get something directly. But like here it\u2019s all about having the flexibility to truly get the best deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One thing I have found that is common with a lot of frugal shoppers is that when it comes to earning reward points many are often on the lookout for offers where you can buy gift cards to receive the bonus. The reasoning is pretty simple as you are literally getting free money and not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[122,993],"class_list":["post-10562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-gift-cards","tag-rewards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lakeballoon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2Km","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10563,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions\/10563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}