[Expired] Amazon Lightning Deals: $50 AirBnB for $35, $50 Hotels.com for $40 & More [Friday, 12/30]

The Offers

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Amazon have a number of gift cards going live tomorrow, Friday 12/30. These sell out quickly so you need to make sure you’re ready to purchase them when the deals go live.

I’ve put the time they go live in EST next to each deal. Keep in mind these are the times they go live for Prime Members; non-Prime go live 30 minutes later, and it’s often sold out by then. I’ve put the resale rates in parentheses as well:

  • AirBnB $50 for $35; must use promo code: AIRBNB15; goes live at 10:30 AM on Friday 12/30
  • Hotels.com $50 for $40 (I assume); goes live at 8:05 PM on Friday 12/30 (70%)
  • The Children’s Place $50 for $40 (I assume); goes live at 8:00 PM on Friday 12/30 (72%)

Deals currently live:

The Fine Print

  • Limit one per person

Our Verdict

The AirBnB is an especially great deal, albeit with the limit of 1.

Remember to use up your $25 Audible codes when you make the purchase or use up any Amazon gift card balance you might have. As for the credit card, either use Discover for 5% this quarter, Amex for 3x MR , or other good year-round options.

Other stacking ideas:

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TG
TG (@guest_332484)
December 30, 2016 13:23

Everyone seems excited by Airbnb so I guess I’ll be the only one interested in continuing to build up my Hotels.com credit.

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_332486)
December 30, 2016 13:26
  TG

I’m doing both. Great deals, especially when paying with Discover for another 5% cashback. Can’t beat roughly 25% off hotels.com and 35% off AirBnb.

Thanks for finding these, Chuck!

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_332463)
December 30, 2016 11:59

So I actually have a lot of credit with AirBnB saved up right now from all of the deals lately. I’ve read a few people saying that they have problems using the credit easily. Can anyone confirm/deny this? Was hoping to use it for some $300-400/night places on a group trip. Thanks!

Glt
Glt (@guest_332476)
December 30, 2016 12:44

I’ve used 3x no trouble.

Anthony
Anthony (@guest_332462)
December 30, 2016 11:56

Works for me too. But make sure you start with an empty cart. I was in process of checking out from earlier and it wasn’t working then.

Started fresh and it worked for me.

VM
VM (@guest_332453)
December 30, 2016 11:40

Is there a limit on how many we can buy?

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_332460)
December 30, 2016 11:51
  VM

One per amazon account.

McKenna
McKenna (@guest_332448)
December 30, 2016 11:36

Airbnb Code doesn’t seem to be valid

Ken
Ken (@guest_332447)
December 30, 2016 11:36

No luck on the Airbnb promo code. 🙁

@curtis – I always redeem my Airbnb gift cards immediately. The funds are banked to your account (and consolidated w/ any other GC funds you have added), and you can view the balance under “Payment Methods” on your profile page.

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_332467)
December 30, 2016 12:03

Yes, I’ve loaded them all to my account as soon as I’ve gotten them as well. Wondering if there are any issues using this balance balance. I would expect (as kinda of mentioned above) that upon checking out it just reduces this balance first until it runs out. Just making sure there are no maximums per night/stay/etc that anyone has run into.

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_332442)
December 30, 2016 11:34

Airbnb coupon code not working. 10:34AM ET… hmm….

Tony
Tony (@guest_332443)
December 30, 2016 11:34

Yeah me neither.

dax
dax (@guest_332444)
December 30, 2016 11:34

not working for me either

J
J (@guest_332446)
December 30, 2016 11:36

Looks like deal goes live at 11am

Tony
Tony (@guest_332454)
December 30, 2016 11:40

Just worked for me now at 10:40.

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_332459)
December 30, 2016 11:50

Worked for me too, thanks!

Martin
Martin (@guest_332445)
December 30, 2016 11:36

Clickbait?

Michael
Michael (@guest_332449)
December 30, 2016 11:37

Same, not working for me. 10:37 AM ET

Nguyen
Nguyen (@guest_332451)
December 30, 2016 11:37

now working for me

Kevin
Kevin (@guest_332438)
December 30, 2016 11:22

Amazon shows the AirBnb one as starting at 10:59am EST not 10:30am EST for me

curtis leasure
curtis leasure (@guest_332380)
December 30, 2016 04:50

Can anyone shed some light on the AirBNB GCs as far as how they work. I know with hotels.com GCs you can combine balances up to $2000 on one gift card. With AirBNB can you “bank” the GC value on the site like you can with say, Amazon or Itunes? Or is it the type of site where you have to input codes one at a time when paying or worst case you can only use one GC per booking or something like that?

Audrey
Audrey (@guest_332405)
December 30, 2016 07:06

As with Amazon, you redeem it to your account and it doesn’t expire (bank it). It’s applied automatically when you make a booking. The redemption process can be buggy (often gives error message) but eventually it will work.

dubs
dubs (@guest_332373)
December 30, 2016 03:32

how many promo codes can be used on amazon at once?