Home Depot / Lowes Gift Cards
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Home Depot / Lowes Gift Cards
Flyertalkers,
I'm planning a renovation project for my home that will most likely go through home depot. I think it will be around 20k (hardwood floors). I don't think its possible to purchase hardwood floors through the web site. Is there a shopping portal left that will give points for home depot gift cards?
marben
I'm planning a renovation project for my home that will most likely go through home depot. I think it will be around 20k (hardwood floors). I don't think its possible to purchase hardwood floors through the web site. Is there a shopping portal left that will give points for home depot gift cards?
marben
#2
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Right now Discover card is offering, as a special, 10X points on purchases made through their shopping portal. Chase has its regular offer of 5X points through Ultimate Rewards.
You can purchase gift cards for Lowe's or Home Depot at a 7.2% or 8.2% discount respectively on cardpool.com. Denominations vary. There is no expiration. You can get either paper gift cards, mobile gift cards or electronic gift cards. Snail mail takes a week or more for paper. The electronic gift cards are usable only on-line and are generally available next day. Mobile gift cards are delivered almost instantaneously. There are a couple other discount card websites but cardpool seems to be best for selection as well as discount.
An additional way to save is to purchase 10% discount vouchers on ebay which are generally for Lowes but readily accepted at Home Depot under their competitor match policy. The vouchers usually expire in 1-2 months. I've purchased batches of them several times for a recently completed project. 7 10% off Lowes vouchers usually cost about $2-$5 dollars, shipping included.
EBay also offers gift cards at a discount but I've never purchased them there.
You can purchase gift cards for Lowe's or Home Depot at a 7.2% or 8.2% discount respectively on cardpool.com. Denominations vary. There is no expiration. You can get either paper gift cards, mobile gift cards or electronic gift cards. Snail mail takes a week or more for paper. The electronic gift cards are usable only on-line and are generally available next day. Mobile gift cards are delivered almost instantaneously. There are a couple other discount card websites but cardpool seems to be best for selection as well as discount.
An additional way to save is to purchase 10% discount vouchers on ebay which are generally for Lowes but readily accepted at Home Depot under their competitor match policy. The vouchers usually expire in 1-2 months. I've purchased batches of them several times for a recently completed project. 7 10% off Lowes vouchers usually cost about $2-$5 dollars, shipping included.
EBay also offers gift cards at a discount but I've never purchased them there.
#3
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Flyertalkers,
I'm planning a renovation project for my home that will most likely go through home depot. I think it will be around 20k (hardwood floors). I don't think its possible to purchase hardwood floors through the web site. Is there a shopping portal left that will give points for home depot gift cards?
marben
I'm planning a renovation project for my home that will most likely go through home depot. I think it will be around 20k (hardwood floors). I don't think its possible to purchase hardwood floors through the web site. Is there a shopping portal left that will give points for home depot gift cards?
marben
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The Lowes 10% off vouchers are free if you are willing to drive down to your local post office and get a couple of change of address packets.
They also come with a 10% off at best buy coupon (with several restrictions) and many other coupons.
They also come with a 10% off at best buy coupon (with several restrictions) and many other coupons.
#5
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Flyertalkers,
I'm planning a renovation project for my home that will most likely go through home depot. I think it will be around 20k (hardwood floors). I don't think its possible to purchase hardwood floors through the web site. Is there a shopping portal left that will give points for home depot gift cards?
marben
I'm planning a renovation project for my home that will most likely go through home depot. I think it will be around 20k (hardwood floors). I don't think its possible to purchase hardwood floors through the web site. Is there a shopping portal left that will give points for home depot gift cards?
marben
#6
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After you look around first which I suggest then yes use the 10% off coupon from the post office change of address form. You can ask for a few packs when you are there. The coupon is for savings up to $500 so you can split up your purchase to maximize it. Also if you sign up for the lowes credit card (I don't think there is a sign up bonus) you will then save another 5% everyday there.
#7
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I am getting flooring from Lumber Liquidators. Was about to place order through lumberliquidators.com/Chase UR mall, but the style I wanted was out of stock at the warehouse, so I ended up having to call my local store to secure what they had in stock. Not a big loss (they were only 1 extra mile/$) and as it turns out, the store appears to have disappeared from the UR mall this week anyway!
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I too would look at the benefit of cost savings vs maximizing miles. We almost bought our laminate flooring from Home Depot at 5x pts/$. The flooring we wanted would have cost us around $3500. That would have netted us around 17,500 miles/points. But instead we went through another flooring online retailer and paid around $2300 total including shipping. We got some points for the purchase but most importantly we save over $1200. So trading in 17,500 miles/points for $1200 was a no-brainer.
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After you look around first which I suggest then yes use the 10% off coupon from the post office change of address form. You can ask for a few packs when you are there. The coupon is for savings up to $500 so you can split up your purchase to maximize it. Also if you sign up for the lowes credit card (I don't think there is a sign up bonus) you will then save another 5% everyday there.
#10
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Read the rules when purchasing gift cards from online shopping portals for cash back or points/miles to make sure that purchasing gift cards qualify. You may be better off purchasing the gift cards from a grocery store with a card that offers more points, but I don't think you'll be able to find anywhere near $20k worth of gift cards at grocery stores or at online gift card resellers.
#11
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Bigcrumbs sells home depot gift cards for a very small percentage, for either physical or emailed gift cards. If you're certain that you'll use HD, that's a good way to go.
#13
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Your home depot may take the Lowes 10% of card. Ask and see. Then you could combine the 10% off with the Home Depot Gift Cards. I picked up movers packets at a small post office last week - so if the one you go to says use the terminal - try a smaller post office that may not have a terminal.
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Any updated experiences with this...? I saw that a FTer recently got US miles for a HD GC purchase... I see that the AA mall excludes HD GCs from getting miles, but I wonder if anyone slips through that exclusion...
#15
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Your home depot may take the Lowes 10% of card. Ask and see. Then you could combine the 10% off with the Home Depot Gift Cards. I picked up movers packets at a small post office last week - so if the one you go to says use the terminal - try a smaller post office that may not have a terminal.