Getting spending up without the Mint
Aug 16, 2012, 11:29 am
#2656
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 46
Hello,
It most likely has been asked before many a-time, but if I have an AmEx gift card and I use it to buy let's say $10 worth of stuff at Walmart/Target etc., can I use ask for money back with a transaction. Not a large amount, of course, but perhaps, $40
I bought a $1 K gift card and trying to think of ways to use it as quickly as possible...
It most likely has been asked before many a-time, but if I have an AmEx gift card and I use it to buy let's say $10 worth of stuff at Walmart/Target etc., can I use ask for money back with a transaction. Not a large amount, of course, but perhaps, $40
I bought a $1 K gift card and trying to think of ways to use it as quickly as possible...
Aug 16, 2012, 11:31 am
#2657
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Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 2,998
Hello,
It most likely has been asked before many a-time, but if I have an AmEx gift card and I use it to buy let's say $10 worth of stuff at Walmart/Target etc., can I use ask for money back with a transaction. Not a large amount, of course, but perhaps, $40
I bought a $1 K gift card and trying to think of ways to use it as quickly as possible...
It most likely has been asked before many a-time, but if I have an AmEx gift card and I use it to buy let's say $10 worth of stuff at Walmart/Target etc., can I use ask for money back with a transaction. Not a large amount, of course, but perhaps, $40
I bought a $1 K gift card and trying to think of ways to use it as quickly as possible...
Aug 16, 2012, 8:59 pm
#2658
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: On the Lake USA
Programs: Marriott Ambassador, Hilton Diamond because they have nothing higher
Posts: 523
Hello,
It most likely has been asked before many a-time, but if I have an AmEx gift card and I use it to buy let's say $10 worth of stuff at Walmart/Target etc., can I use ask for money back with a transaction. Not a large amount, of course, but perhaps, $40
I bought a $1 K gift card and trying to think of ways to use it as quickly as possible...
It most likely has been asked before many a-time, but if I have an AmEx gift card and I use it to buy let's say $10 worth of stuff at Walmart/Target etc., can I use ask for money back with a transaction. Not a large amount, of course, but perhaps, $40
I bought a $1 K gift card and trying to think of ways to use it as quickly as possible...
Last edited by Nottafatslob; Aug 17, 2012 at 11:17 am Reason: sp
Aug 17, 2012, 11:35 am
#2659
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 46
Aug 17, 2012, 1:48 pm
#2660
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: On the Lake USA
Programs: Marriott Ambassador, Hilton Diamond because they have nothing higher
Posts: 523
Let me explain first you will be better at this if you are friendly with the bartender. So lets say you hit happy hour for some $2 beers or whatever and sit at the bar and eat some half priced appetizers and get to know the bartender. Why not propose to take your $30 bill and put it on a $50 gift card and say you will leave a $10 tip if you can put down $20 for the tip and get $10 cash back. Most of them cheap on taxes on their tips anyway or pay little in taxes anyway if you find one with kids and no more income ect.
So you are thinking but that tip is double what I might leave at 33% but think of it this way next time you will be friends now and definitely get top quality drinks
and next time you can scale it back to maybe a 20% tip with the same result. I think more fun than selling the Gift cards for a loss online on some website.Secondly you may see people you know or get to know who pull out cash to pay their bill and you can use my other trick of offering to pay their tab and they give you the cash. Just say hey I need the Red Stripe points at Fridays to get enough to give someone a birthday dinner and many will do it.
I think I am addicted to this stuff now LOL ^
Aug 17, 2012, 2:16 pm
#2661
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: SFO
Programs: Hyatt Diamond, Hilton Diamond, IHG Plat
Posts: 275
rephrased my question a bit, I am looking for ways to spend on AMX, from this thread I know there's AP and AMX PP with V reload but I don't know if there's any other way to spend on AMX.
Any comment or help here, please feel free to PM, thanks very much
Any comment or help here, please feel free to PM, thanks very much
Last edited by NttDocomo; Aug 17, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Aug 17, 2012, 2:32 pm
#2662
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: On the Lake USA
Programs: Marriott Ambassador, Hilton Diamond because they have nothing higher
Posts: 523
You repeated too much dead info there. Go to Visabuxx site and look at other funding sources they are there. Maybe change the names of part of your post to flavors or colors or something to avoid the Cardinals
Aug 17, 2012, 2:35 pm
#2663
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Stockholm, Sweden + Austin, Tx
Programs: "But, I'm a GLOBALIST guest...."
Posts: 2,848
Aug 18, 2012, 10:47 am
#2664
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: On the Lake USA
Programs: Marriott Ambassador, Hilton Diamond because they have nothing higher
Posts: 523
Well maybe in some bars but I wouldn't call the chains ghetto LOL
I stopped with a group at Applebees last night and the bill was over $400 and it went on my card to make a UNNAMED bank happy. I want my cards to last forever. ^
I stopped with a group at Applebees last night and the bill was over $400 and it went on my card to make a UNNAMED bank happy. I want my cards to last forever. ^
Aug 19, 2012, 10:05 am
#2665
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: BWI (Annapolis) & PWM (Bailey Island)
Programs: AA LT Gold (MM), WN A-List, Fairmont L/T Plat, HH Diamond
Posts: 884
I find my daily *bux trips help increase my swipe count. Although one downside to this is it decreases my free certs received from my Gold status there. If there is a GSP this year, the ppd's should help the burn for those looking for the full hit count.
Aug 19, 2012, 11:02 am
#2666
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: On the Lake USA
Programs: Marriott Ambassador, Hilton Diamond because they have nothing higher
Posts: 523
I donated a gift card at church services this morning.
Aug 19, 2012, 5:48 pm
#2668
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: LAS
Programs: DL PM, UA PS, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 4,904
golden tip about one state's laws: any merchant gc with a balance less than a Hamilton can be cashed out. a corpouration from our friends up in the pacific northwest allows gc balance transfers online, and many places sell these gcs in packs of hamiltons or hamiltons + lincolns.
Aug 19, 2012, 6:26 pm
#2669
Join Date: May 2002
Location: St Louis, MO
Programs: AA L.T. PLT
Posts: 3,315