Originally Posted by
bj2757
...On a side note. Two years ago my wife and I both received 1099s from e-rewards because we got so many gift cards plus I redeemed for airline and hotel rewards almost every month. Last year we didn't get enough between us to be over the limit for 1099 purposes.
I too got a 1099 several years ago, and like you it was a year in which I was aggressively playing e-rewards and redeeming for GC at a number of retail stores, in addition to UA miles and Hilton points. But just to clarify: I remember tallying up the GC I had earned that year and the dollar amount exactly matched the amount of the 1099. Only the dollar value of the GC rewards counted towards the $600 ceiling that triggered a 1099. The airline and hotel rewards didn't count, as it's likely they had no way to properly value miles & points.