Originally Posted by
GatorBlues
I thought the point of the gift cards was to get credit card spend by purchasing the cards and then using the cards to pay for things you can't do by credit card. You can pay your taxes by credit card for the 2% fee, so why try to use the gift cards at all?
If bluebird will cut a check to the Dept. of Revenue for you, then maybe the bluebird idea would save you about half percent on your transaction costs.
He's talking about buying gift cards at Office Depot with a Chase Ink card, which gets 5X points at office supply stores.
Paying taxes with credit card = 1X points
Paying taxes with gift cards purchases at Office Depot with Chase Ink: 5x points
Also, those gift cards purchases at Office Depot are debit cards, so when you pay, the fee is substantially lower (flat fee vs. % fee for CC)
Doesn't matter now though, because Office Depot is getting rid of the $500 cards.