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I ve written before about using Amazon Payments to help meet the minimum spending to get the sign-up bonus on a credit card.   You can send $1,000 a month using a credit card , without any fees, from one person to another.  So this is a great way to meeting minimum spending requirements on a credit card!
Perhaps you have Visa, American Express, or MasterCard gift cards with small balances.  Or you mistakenly bought gift cards instead of Vanilla fox rent a car las vegas Reload cards. fox rent a car las vegas   Or perhaps you buy gift cards with your:
To be clear, buying a gift card with a credit card and then using Amazon Payments to empty the balance on that gift card takes a lot more time than just using the credit card directly with Amazon fox rent a car las vegas Payments.
You also have to keep adding gift cards (see step 2 below) to your Amazon Payments fox rent a car las vegas account, and the constant addition of cards could be a red flag to Amazon.  As always, do what you re comfortable with.  There will always be someone doing something crazier than what you do to earn miles and points!
You usually have to register your gift card online before you can use it online or with Amazon Payments.  Registering your card is fairly easy just go the web address at the back of the gift card and enter your zip code and in some cases your name.
When you add *some* gift cards to Amazon Payments, there will be a temporary authorization of $1 on the card.  This means that you won t be able to use the entire balance immediately until the temporary authorization falls off.
For example, if you add a $100 American Express gift card to Amazon Payments, but there is a $1 temporary authorization, your transaction will be declined if you attempt to send $100 using that gift card via Amazon Payments.
The best option (to me) is to wait a a few days until the temporary authorization falls off and then use the gift card.  You can see the authorization when you log into the website at the back of your gift card.
If you re the impatient type and want to get everything done in one go, Frequent Flyer University suggests using an incorrect card expiration date.   This doesn t feel comfortable to me, so I ve never done it.  But it could be useful for some.
However, Amazon Payments doesn t put a temporary authorization on ALL types of gift cards just certain fox rent a car las vegas types.  Here s my experience with a few gift cards, but your experience could always be different.
You can add a Visa, American Express, and MasterCard gift card to Amazon Payments, but check to see if there is a temporary authorization on your gift card account before using it on Amazon payments.   You can do this by logging into your gift card account by going to the web address fox rent a car las vegas at the back of your gift card.
If there is a temporary authorization, you can either wait for it to fall off, use the gift card (less the amount of the temporary fox rent a car las vegas authorization) or use Frequent Flyer University s method to get around that.
If there is no temporary authorization, you can use Amazon Payments for the full value of your gift card!  If you buy the gift cards at stores which give you a bonus for using certain types of credit cards, you may earn more than 1 point per $1 spent!
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Thanks. Wish I had read this before spending my Christmas gift cards. Are there any gift cards that you specifically can t load into amazon.com? Or am I safe walking fox rent a car las vegas into my local CVS and picking up what s on their shelf? (obviously not retail store gift cards).
Can a person have more than one Amazon Payments account? Say you had multiple bank accounts? I want to see if it is possible to expand beyond the $1000 per month in free transactions on Amazon Payments.
For Amazon payments, gift cards $50 and less (for payments of $50 or less) will have no authorization fox rent a car las vegas or hold. Gift card payments of more than $50 will have a $1 hold. I use Amazon payments to cash out gift cards I get for product rebates fox rent a car las vegas or similar promotions, since gift cards don t get me points.
I ve converted a lot of my spend to the Vanilla Visa gift cards that I get at Office Depot. 5000 points for $4.95 however, I find when I get towards the end I have had trouble fox rent a car las vegas coming up with transactions to finish off the card.. But, I have now discovered that Amazon allows you to buy gift cards starting at $0.15 so I finish off my Vanilla visa cards with Amazon fox rent a car las vegas gift cards now (though most of my amazon spend gets amazon gift cards, bought at Staples)
Right now I have about $1.02 available as Receiving and $2.35 available as Sending since I have used up my AP for the month. Can I still do this gift card thing? Is it separate from the monthly $1,000 sending/receiving limit?
Thanks fox rent a car las vegas for the heads up. Even though I ve been hitting Amazon Payments and the gift card thing separately pretty hard, I hadn t thought to combine them. 5k Chase points a month instead of 1k? I ll take that any day!
Okay, but I fail to see the step about liquidating the card s value. Let s say I have a $500 giftcard that I added to Amazon payments through the steps above. How do I get that value deposited into my bank account?
fox rent a car las vegas One question: could the money trasferred by amz payment be part of the receiver s taxable income? To avoid the cash advance fee, I guess you have to choose goods and services when using AP, but doesn t that look like the other person is selling you something?
Can someone help me calculate the points return for the Amex PRG? With it being a 2 points card at grocery stores what is my mininum purchase with consideration that Amazon only allows $1000 per month? 2x $500 minus the typical $4.95 fee for gift cards puts it at about 990 points. That is basically a loss of 1:1 versus 2:1 normal spending? Does that sound right?
fox rent a car las vegas @RomsDeals, Dude, def not classy. MMS had you as a guest on his blog back in December, and now you turn around and post dumb comments. AP will get shut down eventually, but not because of this blog or blogs in general. fox rent a car las vegas AP knows people are using it for reasons they didn t intend, and have chose to keep it live . As a newbie to game Romsdeals, please use some more discretion,and don t just act like all these other people who comment.
@Adrian fox rent a car las vegas - You get 2,000 points if you buy the gift cards at a grocery store (in addition to fuel points and other promotions), or an extra 1,000 points for the gift card fee. This could be worth it depending on how you value Membership Rewards fox rent a car las vegas points.
@david @duke Amazon Payments is on Slick Deals, Fat Wallet, FlyerTalk and many other sites with much more traffic than this blog. Of course it will die. But it will die when Amazon wants it to die. Not sooner, and not later.
Opposite to what some others may have said, I appreciate you mentioning these different tips/tricks/mistakes. I d love to be able to follow the other forums that may list these suggestions ahead of your website, but I struggle to find the right forums and have little time to do so. Thanks for the work your doing for your readers.
Hi I was wondering if you can help me.I just got approved for the platinum offer for me and my wife and I have $6,000 to spend.Now the thing is that I need to pay $8,000 to my wifes collage but they don t except amex (neither does charge fox rent a car las vegas smart). Do you know of any other way I can do it?
Quick question on Amazon Payments..I just sent a test amount ($10) to my friend using my Amex AAdvantage Citicard and noticed that the payment went through but there was also a $1 charge by Amazon. Any idea what that is?
Everyone seems able to register Amex GCs online, but I haven t figured out how. I had to phone in (use zero in the phone tree to finally get to a human) to register the card, and wound up talking to a person in a faraway land who took all my information.
@Big boy - You could buy Vanilla Reloads at a CVS with the card, transfer it to your Bluebird , and then have Bluebird mail a check to the college. Or buy visa/amex/mastercard gift cards in a store and send them to your wife via Amazon Payments (but you re limited to only $1,000 a month).
LOL I went thru the other link and saw how negative and closed fox rent a car las vegas minded some people are regarding the secretive Amazon payments FT for all purpose is a pretty dumb site + community. fox rent a car las vegas Not generalizing, but it is pathetic to see such exclusivity building on internet groups. I hope such people log off the net and remain in their closed world no one tell them about free search engines, wikis, helpful tools and links they can live with their amazon payments for ever. Just to diss such kind, I will schedule lots of transfer till they shutdown that service Just kidding (before the flaming begins!) anyways thanks for this site, which I visit daily, for showing the pros and cons of amazon payments. For the good of community, I will only sparingly use that service and hopefully others follow suit so that good things dont die while everyone gets to benefit from it.
There was one deal about gradsave.com missing on your side they had a credit-card fee free day recently. It is a good site for those who want to contribute for education purposes. Thanks for this site again.
something rather bizarre happened to me. I verified my info, Loaded an amex card, as per instructions. saw the limit of the card $1 authorization. thought i d wait a few days till the $1 fell off and then send the money i owe to my brother.
MMS, have I been shut down or something of the sort? Seems odd given that i haven t sent anything yet but just loaded the card and 2 days later no balance. Maybe i need to add a bank