Originally Posted by
FlyerInCmh
You can get 500 points for buying at least a $5 Starbucks e-gift card. Go to Shop -> All Merchants. If you're eligibile for this offer, Starbucks should be listed on the top of the list.
Small MyPoints success story for this same promo: got an email for 500 points for Starbucks card purchase, clicked through for 5 pts and purchased a $10 card to be sent to myself (one of the check boxes allows you to do this). For checkout they allow you to use a registered Starbucks card to buy the new code, and since I go there a lot and I have many registered cards, I selected that.
So I used an old Starbucks card I got as a birthday gift to buy a new email code, which is a wash (spent $10 SBUX credit to buy $10 SBUX credit). And the 500 points credited on MyPoints within 10 seconds. I spent a total of probably 45 seconds on the whole transaction.
I don't know why some people get down on MyPoints. For the savvy user, it's easy, free cash.