How do you know?

I don't know about $150. But even if I knew it had worked for me, I couldn't say that it would work for you. I know that $12x worked for me, just over a week ago, but that's no guarantee that it will work for anyone else.

I suspect that charges *sometimes* get flagged to be checked by a human before reimbursement is approved. I suspect that those humans are less likely to pull up all the details of a transaction if the card account is active. My gift card purchases were surrounded by other airline purchases, which I suspect gives me more leeway than people whose only transactions are those they want reimbursed, by reducing the likelihood of charges being flagged for inspection and reducing the extent of any checking that does occur. But I'm only speculating.

By reading reports like this one:

There are indeed many reports indicating that it's wise to keep purchases to $100 or below. But it would be wrong to conclude that there's a firm rule that "over $100 will not be reimbursed".

Agreed, although that's not what milaohu wrote.

I think we have sufficient data to "know" that $100 (or less) is reliably reimbursed, and that $200 is seldom reimbursed. We do not have many reports of intermediate amounts. Your report is appreciated.

I'll be buying my 2017 AA gift cards soon and, as long as I have other airline purchases, will experiment.

I assume you will have use for the $150 even if it doesn't get reimbursed so thank you for experimenting and reporting back. It's what makes this site work. ^

2017 success
 

My $100 AA gift card that I purchased on Jan 1 was reimbursed this a.m. Going in for round two now ;)

Success as well.


Purchased two gift cards on Jan 1st. One for $90 and the other for $60. Reimbursed on Jan 3rd.

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2015 -2016 reports archived HERE.

Got my credit
 

I bought 4x $50 gift cards on 1/1, and the credit was there this AM on 1/4. ^

Switched my airline from Delta to American on Jan 1st then purchased a $100 AA gift card. Transaction posed on Jan 2 and reimbursement on Jan 3.

Another report of success. 1x$100 on PRG, 1x$100 on Plat purchased 1/1, posted 1/3, travel credit posted today but dated 1/3.

Just purchased 2x100 on separate transactions. Will notify when posted.

Success with $100 on Platinum. Doing one more round as well as the PRG.

Are you buying electronic cards or physical? Just wondering if there's a difference when it comes to the credit being applied.