eBay Travel Gift Card Deal
PayPal Digital Gifts on eBay currently has a very very good deal on travel gift cards. You can save quite a bit of money by combining the discount, eBay Bucks, portal rewards and a Chase Ink card. Let’s take a look.
The Offer
Save an extra 15% off when you purchase $200 or more of selected gift cards.
Which Travel Brands
There are a total of seven different travel brands available. Here are the cards you can buy under this discount:
- American Airlines
- Delta Airlines
- Southwest Airlines
- Carnival Cruise Line
- Princess Cruises
- Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
- Celebrity Cruises
You can find the full list of brands on sale here.
The Math
Update: You may only receive eBay Bucks based on the discounted amount despite what is shown above. That would make the cost $3 more and bring the savings amount down to 24.78%.
To make it simple, let’s take a look at a purchase of $200 of American Airlines gift cards.
- Cost: $170
- eBay Bucks Earned: -$20 (If targeted for 5X)
- Shop at Home 1.5% portal cashback: -$2.55
- Final Cost: $147.45
- Percentage Saved: 26.28%
- 5X Ultimate Rewards earned with Chase Ink: 850
Reselling Opportunities
While there doesn’t seem to be a huge resale market for cruise gift cards, the American and Southwest cards can be sold for 81% of face value which would mean a profit for some. My main purpose to buy these would be for personal use, but there is a bit of an opportunity to profit here. You can find the resale values of different cards at Gift Card Wiki.
Conclusion
This is a great deal if you are looking to spend money on any of the included travel brands. I love to take cruises, so a potential savings of 26.28% on brands like Royal Caribbean is very appealing. That same discount on Southwest, Delta and American will also be exciting for some. Even if you weren’t targeted for 5X eBay Bucks the math may still work for you.
HT: Slickdeals
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Has anybody received their gift cards yet?
Looks like this died in the last few minutes. I was able to get one $200 order in.
does S@H still offer $5 for a min spend of $150+?
Yes but there is a limit and it goes back a few months.
thx, but can’t check out via paypal for AA GC with the following error code:
Error Codes: 70245 70358 TRANSACTION_REFUSED
anyone happens to know what that is? not a smooth sailing… will call either paypal or ebay tomorrow
I notice the terms for the RCL gift cards state that you cannot use for cruises book through a travel agency? I have two cruises at the moment, do you know if that is enforced?
Total newb question but when I go to ‘check out’ I’m only able to use PayPal. How can I use my Ink card?
Add your Ink card to PayPal and select it when checking out. You need to pay with the Ink through the PayPal interface.
Thank you! I was able to add my Ink card but now I can’t seem to check out.
Keep getting stuck when I have to log into PayPal. I enter my pw and then it shuts me out. Then I have to reset my account with PayPal! PITA!
have you actually been able to buy, I know at least 10 people pulling their hair out right now, PPDG is just teasing you
I did buy 2 X RCCL $100 cards. Earlier I was able to add 9 X $100 AA gift cards to the cart, but didn’t checkk out. My guess is there is some sort of unpublished limit. As with anything from PPDG it can’t just be easy it seems.