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The Offer
- MastercardGiftCard.com is offering a $100 Mastercard giftcard and get a $10 bonus giftcard for free when you use promo code bonus25.
Our Verdict
Total comes to $104.95 for $110 in gift cards. Can be done multiple times according to this comment. Don’t see any datapoints on the payments workshop on what does/doesn’t earn a category bonus.
I used my 5 $100 cards to give a donation to my church and I covered the fee. I loaded the $10 cards to my Amazon account.
Since I paid for these with a 2 percent card, I figure my profit is $7 per card minus about $3.60 in fees and lost opportunity to buy a discounted Amazon card.
Final profit: $3.40 X 5 = $17 :):):)
Per email I received, 0 fee promo code: FORGOT
Anybody else receive a phishing e-mail after ordering? I got an e-mail today from an obvious scam e-mail address that had my name and order details and was asking me to e-mail my card details in order to verify the purchase. I called the number on the official company website and it was clearly an outsourced call center. Please be careful with this company as it seems there is some sort of scammer working there and stealing customer information.
Anyone has used this card to pay auto insurance? I tried this on Geico and was declined, called MC customer service and was told it can not to used to pay insurance. I am not sure it is real or the Rep just has no clue.
My Connect by AmFam (Costco) doesn’t take partial payments unfortunately.
Some places don’t take prepaid card and some don’t want to and some don’t know how. So, could be anything.
It is not Geico. Geico does take partial payment and GC, it is this GC.
this is strange. It’s the first time I heard MGC doesn’t work on geico.com.
I was able to buy 16 $100 gift cards, but I was only able to liquidate 3 of them successfully. I tried to liquidate the rest, but mastercard locked them all up. I had to call their number and they told me they’ll send me a refund check within 30 days. Sigh.
same boat. kinda glad they send a check rather than another giftcard that might get locked, but the 30 days sounds horrible, I’m guessing it might be more like 30-50 days tbh.
similar issue. ran out of luck after 6th card. 7th was locked. you guys dont think there is an easy way to track the refund right?
Have you guys received a refund check yet?
I got six using Paypal, then Bank of America, the card I was using on Paypal, refused to fund any more purchases. Did the security check etc.
Interestingly the $10 cards worked for one of my utility payments, but the $100 card didn’t. Then I tried using the $100 card to pay less than $17 at the same utility and it worked. Made multiple payments.
I’m guessing that’s something on the utility end.
Also used two of the $100 cards to make a property tax payment. Sadly, only two cards had expiration dates of 2034 or before and the county system doesn’t allow payments for cards with expiration dates beyond that.
Cards work at ATT, Amazon, and for my natural gas and electric payments.
If the date is early enough also property taxes.
Overall not a bad deal, but a PITA to do over and over.
Such is the game we play.
Fidelity 2% card blocked the transaction from going through. I did the text verification, I called in, neither option worked.
No answer as to why, just said “it is risky activity” and to “try again later” (read: I can’t fix it and/or I don’t believe you are the person, so I am not unblocking)
Citi Double Cash had no problems.
Update: tried purchasing number 2 on citi double cash.
Rejected with:
Authentication failed! Your financial institution has indicated that it could not successfully authenticate this transaction.To protect against unauthorized use, this card cannot be used to complete your purchase.You may complete the purchase by selecting another form of payment.
I approved via text but didn’t allow. I’m not gonna bother calling at this point in time.
What is the PIN number for these cards. Tried at a couple stores and it ran as debit and asked for PIN after I swiped. No way to change it to credit at terminal
Sometimes just press the green button to continue.
last four of card number is always a good ‘default’ pin to try as well…….
This enabled me to use my discover card for Costco purchases (and take advantage of Discover 0% APR for 18 months):
Bought $100 + $10 master card for $105Went to costco online and bought a $100 costco shop card with the MC gift cardThen placed an order for Instacart $80 for $100 vouchers using the shop cardThe only issue now is the extra $10 card. There is a minimum spend of $25 for Costco shop card.
I was able to use the $10 one to pay my USAA insurance.
bought 3 times. used on Progressive.
used Paypal credit card through Paypal – cashback 8.2%.
Whats Paypal credit through paypal ?