{"id":1235,"date":"2011-01-06T05:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2011-01-06T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:49:27","slug":"get-the-last-few-bucks-off-of-your-visamastercard-gift-card-using-amazon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Get the last few bucks off of your Visa\/Mastercard gift card using Amazon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5725933\/from-the-tips-box-gift-cards-distraction-deterrents-and-the-android-keyboard\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">tip from Lifehacker<\/a> on draining the last few dollars from your open-loop (Visa\/Mastercard\/Amex\/Discover) gift card buy buying Amazon.com gift bucks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with Visa\/AMEX gift cards is that it&#8217;s difficult to spend  every cent.  It usually takes several transactions to whittle away the  majority of the gift card&#8217;s value. Once the remaining balance gets low  enough, you forget to use it or have trouble finding suitable  transactions that are cheap enough.  Adding to the frustration, most  retailers won&#8217;t accept two forms of payment for a single bill so these  cards just collect dust in your wallet.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to get your money&#8217;s worth (literally) is to convert your  Visa\/AMEX gift cards into Amazon.com dollars. Since they are just  credit cards with a spending limit, you can use them to purchase Amazon  gift cards. Amazon makes this very easy to do because you can purchase a  gift card in any incremental value up to $5,000. In order to redeem the  entire value you will need to purchase TWO Amazon gift cards.  The  first gift card should be the Visa\/AMEX gift card value minus $1. Then  purchase a second gift card for the remaining $1 balance. Amazon uses a  $1 authorization to confirm the credit card, or gift card in this case,  is legitimate. If you try to use the full value initially, it will get  declined. If you have a $50 AMEX gift card, buy a $49 Amazon gift card  followed by a $1 gift card.  If you have a $14.56 AMEX gift card, buy a  $13.56 Amazon gift card followed by a $1 gift card.  It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great tip from Lifehacker on draining the last few dollars from your open-loop (Visa\/Mastercard\/Amex\/Discover) gift card buy buying Amazon.com gift bucks. The problem with Visa\/AMEX gift cards is that it&#8217;s difficult to spend every cent. It usually takes several transactions to whittle away the majority of the gift card&#8217;s value. Once the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}