<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by flipside:
Just so people stop asking, his idea was buying one "points" earning gift cert and then using that cert in a seemingly endless loop to buy another cert, and using that cert to buy another cert.. blah blah a looping loophole.
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And just to further clarify, it probably can't be done. Merchants are not going to give any kind of points for a purchase with a gift certificate.
For example, during the AA 20/20 promo I bought a Hickory Farms gc for $10 then used it to buy a $20 gc for another family member. The second family member only got miles/points for the extra $10 spent - not the entire $20. In my case, I was not trying to defraud the merchant. I was merely accumulating partners for separate AA accounts. The last person used the larger cert for a purchase.