Feb 3, 2017, 6:02 pm
Last edit by: ValueAdd82
This is the thread about the Five Back Visa card for 2017. The previous discussion can be found here.
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Simon sells $500 5back metabank vgc. Read the Simon thread for more details. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manufactured-spending/1812413-simon-mall-gift-cards-2017-a.html
Simon- Check balance: https://www.simon.com/giftcard/card_balance.aspx
FB - Check balance: https://www.fivebackgift.com/
Best Participating Stores: See the participating list for more stores
CVS - No longer working
Kmart - No longer working
Staples & Staples.com - No longer working
Lowes - Limited to buying $200 cards - more fees to pay and more to liquidate
CVS exit rumors appear: 1/9/17
CVS removed from program 1/20/17
KMart exit rumors appear: 2/2/17
KMart removed from program 2/7/17
Staples exit rumors appear: 4/26/17
Staples removed from program: 4/30/17
Lowes exit rumors appear: 5/11/17
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Simon sells $500 5back metabank vgc. Read the Simon thread for more details. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manufactured-spending/1812413-simon-mall-gift-cards-2017-a.html
Simon- Check balance: https://www.simon.com/giftcard/card_balance.aspx
FB - Check balance: https://www.fivebackgift.com/
Best Participating Stores: See the participating list for more stores
CVS - No longer working
Kmart - No longer working
Staples & Staples.com - No longer working
Lowes - Limited to buying $200 cards - more fees to pay and more to liquidate
CVS exit rumors appear: 1/9/17
CVS removed from program 1/20/17
KMart exit rumors appear: 2/2/17
KMart removed from program 2/7/17
Staples exit rumors appear: 4/26/17
Staples removed from program: 4/30/17
Lowes exit rumors appear: 5/11/17
Five Back Visa Card(2017)
May 12, 2017, 3:39 pm
#1202
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: NY
Posts: 523
Don't forget K. I still have 25's I haven't cashed out yet.
May 13, 2017, 7:40 pm
#1204
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: South Florida, USA
Posts: 184
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours at Lowe's converting stacks and stacks of FBs to Amazon GC. Some of them were as old as 2016! I was lazy about cashing in all those $25s and certainly wasn't going to bother getting small MOs with them. And sure enough, the $1.25 was loaded to all of them already. Next step is using at the local supermarket to drain them once and for all. It's the end of a good run. ^
Another interesting thing. While I was there, another guy came in with a stack of FBs, but his were all $1.25 or so, and he was converting them to Amazon GC. Hardcore! Getting that last 6 cents of 5% back.
Another interesting thing. While I was there, another guy came in with a stack of FBs, but his were all $1.25 or so, and he was converting them to Amazon GC. Hardcore! Getting that last 6 cents of 5% back.
May 13, 2017, 9:14 pm
#1206
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: Continental Onepass, Hilton, Marriott, USAir and now UA
Posts: 6,439
I went to Simon yesterday. The CSR showed me the new Simon email and Lowes as well as the other merchants mentioned above had been removed from their site of participating sites. I had her make me a copy.
There is no doubt they are gone. Given the prior FB history, the ax will fall Monday when the normal M-F 9-5 workers show up.
There is no doubt they are gone. Given the prior FB history, the ax will fall Monday when the normal M-F 9-5 workers show up.
May 14, 2017, 5:11 am
#1208
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: Continental Onepass, Hilton, Marriott, USAir and now UA
Posts: 6,439
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours at Lowe's converting stacks and stacks of FBs to Amazon GC. Some of them were as old as 2016! I was lazy about cashing in all those $25s and certainly wasn't going to bother getting small MOs with them. And sure enough, the $1.25 was loaded to all of them already. Next step is using at the local supermarket to drain them once and for all. It's the end of a good run. ^
Another interesting thing. While I was there, another guy came in with a stack of FBs, but his were all $1.25 or so, and he was converting them to Amazon GC. Hardcore! Getting that last 6 cents of 5% back.
Another interesting thing. While I was there, another guy came in with a stack of FBs, but his were all $1.25 or so, and he was converting them to Amazon GC. Hardcore! Getting that last 6 cents of 5% back.
Why Amazon GCs? Are they any more useful that another GC other than the fact that you may use Amazon on a very routine basis? IOWs, is there something "special" about these cards?
May 14, 2017, 9:30 am
#1210
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 506
More flexibility including buying other GC with amazon GC. I also mix them with eBay, Shell GCs at Lowes.
May 15, 2017, 10:45 am
#1212
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: South Florida, USA
Posts: 184
Nothing special about them, just that I consider Amazon GC credit to be the closest thing to cash (when compared to GC of other merchants). Normally I would also consider gasoline GC to be equivalent to cash, but since I can get those at a discount, Amazon GC wins (for a cash-on-cash transaction).
May 15, 2017, 1:06 pm
#1213
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 12
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours at Lowe's converting stacks and stacks of FBs to Amazon GC. Some of them were as old as 2016! I was lazy about cashing in all those $25s and certainly wasn't going to bother getting small MOs with them. And sure enough, the $1.25 was loaded to all of them already. Next step is using at the local supermarket to drain them once and for all. It's the end of a good run. ^
Another interesting thing. While I was there, another guy came in with a stack of FBs, but his were all $1.25 or so, and he was converting them to Amazon GC. Hardcore! Getting that last 6 cents of 5% back.
Another interesting thing. While I was there, another guy came in with a stack of FBs, but his were all $1.25 or so, and he was converting them to Amazon GC. Hardcore! Getting that last 6 cents of 5% back.
May 16, 2017, 8:20 am
#1214
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: South Florida, USA
Posts: 184
Yeah, that's often a problem. When you have $500 on VGC, it's just a debit card, you swipe, enter PIN, and purchase your Amazon GC easily, it appears to be a regular debit card transaction. But when you need to go through 8 different cards at $25 each for a $200 Amazon GC, then it doesn't look like a regular debit card anymore.