Originally Posted by
weaseltown
If you buy a physical gift card instead of an e-gift card the merchant of record will be Best Buy and it'll trigger the offer. For physical gift cards you'll remain on Best Buy's site the whole time and won't be transferred to cashstar.
I'd expect that e-GC's via cashstar will also not earn any BBY points, right?
So the AmEx Offer + the BBY points is definitely a better combo than the cashstar route with the rebate.