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Old Mar 27, 2015 | 6:42 pm
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roki
 
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Originally Posted by jamboree
I'm considering - not sure if it's doAble but I'm thinking I would buy Amazon gift cards with my Chase 5x points card at Staples. Add the gift cards to my amazon account and purchase that way.

camera will cost about $4,000.
No purchase protection when you buy with GCs. As others have said, it's not really worth it to give up the purchase protection/extended warranty from AMEX. 20K UR points would be nice, but I wouldn't do it, personally.
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