[Live] Amazon Prime: Buy $50 Amazon Giftcard or Reload, Get $12.50 Promotional Credit

[Live] Amazon Prime: Buy $50 Amazon Giftcard or Reload, Get $12.50 Promotional Credit

AMAZON PRIME DAY is a two-day sales event where Prime subscribers can find hundreds of exclusive deals on products available through the online retailer, though there are lots of other discounts for nonmembers. This year, Prime Day is set for July 12 and 13, but you can already get plenty of slick deals on some of our favorite stuff.

Amazon has a special reload offer beginning on Prime Day (July 12-13) for Prime members. This deal is live, it’ll begin on Prime Day:

  • Beginning on July 12am PDT, Prime members get $12.50 in promotional credit with a $50 Amazon Gift Card purchase or Amazon Reload when you use promo code EGCPRIME22.
  • The $12.50 promotional credit will then be valid for the weeks after Prime Day, presumably.
  • Go here for the direct deal landing page

This is always the most popular deal of Prime Day. Seems like this deal might be valid for household Prime members as well, but we’ll have to wait and see as they excluded household Prime for the other two deals.

Last year they offer two $40/$10 Amazon gift card deals, one as a lead-up and one on Prime Day itself. For now it seems like they’re only doing the Prime Day offer this time, though it’s slightly better at $50/$12.50. The $12.50 credit will likely be valid for a few weeks after Prime Day.

Here are some other Prime Day Deals being offered by Amazon right now:

  • If you do not already have Amazon Prime you can get it free for a 30 day trial (then cancel before it renews).
  • Free Grubhub+ for a year if you’re an Amazon Prime member. Read our review of Grubhub.
  • Get four months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free (Save $35.96)
  • Get three months of Audible Premium Plus for free (Save $44.85)
  • Get select streaming service subscriptions for $0.99 for two months through Prime Video (Save $8 to $20)

Target: Spend $50+ & Get $21 Back From Google Pay

Google Pay was recently refreshed and is coming out with some amazing offers. Right now they are offering a sweet deal at Target as they’re giving $21 back when spending $50 or more.

The Deal

  • Sign-up for Google Pay and opt in to Google Pay Rewards
  • Spend $50+ at Target & get $21 cashback when paying with Google Pay.

Key Terms

  • Expires December 31, 2020.
  • Activation required.
  • Offer valid at Target both in-store & online.
  • Limit 1 reward.
  • Not valid on transactions made using the Target RedCard.

Easiest $21 of the Holiday Season

$21 back on $50 of spend is a 42% discount which is an excellent offer at Target. Even if you don’t need anything from Target right now, this is working when buying gift cards from Target, so it’s effectively a 42% discount on any gift card sold there.

You might need to update the Google Pay app in order to see this offer. It wasn’t showing up on my phone when opening Google Pay, so I updated it in the Play Store. I still didn’t see the offer when opening the app backup after updating it, but then realized it had downloaded an additional app to my phone. There are now apps for Google Pay and GPay on my phone – it’s GPay where this offer is showing up.

Note that this is a card-linked offer, so you don’t have to actually use the GPay app itself to make the payment – you just have to ensure your payment card is enrolled in the Target offer in the app. That’s great as it means you can pay with a card that earns more at Target, although Discover isn’t supported. I therefore enrolled an Amex Marriott card which is currently earning 8x at Target. I bought a $50 gift card and almost instantly received notification from Google Pay that I’d earned $21.

If you join Google Pay using a referral link, Google Pay will also give both parties $21 if you’re joining for the first time. That means you’d be getting back $42 on $50 of spend which is an even better deal.

Unpublished T-Mobile 50% Off “Covid-19 Plan”

While today is Tuesday and everyone who is a customer of Big T is logging into their T Mobile Tuesday accounts to get free gas, kids educational tools and free food they are also offering other great discounts today.

T-Mobile is currently offering a deal where you can get a 50% discount on your existing plan. This is not published on their website nor made public but most likely for people calling in with hardships. Before this they were just giving people a few months longer to pay their bill but no discounts.

The deal is that T-Mobile is giving you 50% off your mobile bill if you commit to a 3 GB data cap. Supposedly this is for 3 months and then you will get normal bill as well as your original data limit. Its worked on 55+ plans so it seems to be stackable.

According to a reddit post T-mobile will simply be adding 50% off code on your account for capping your data usage. In other words, they’re not altering your plan. So, if you’re on a old data plan then you can still participate in this offer without worry. If you’re on a 2G plan then this bumps it up to 3G so even better for three months!

We verified it with T-Mobile by calling 411 today. This is a no-brainer if you use your Wifi at home anyway.

T-Force:
We are always looking at ways to make things easier for our customers during these uncertain time and we appreciate you checking on this offer to ensure you are fully setup for success with how this discount works. We are offering customers 50% off their services for 3 months but this would require you to have your data plan switched to the 3GB capped option for the discount to apply. This won’t impact your rate plan itself or any promotions, it’s just in order to get the 50% off the services it would require us to move every line to a capped 3GB data plan. You can revert back to the unlimited at anytime but we wanted to be fully transparent with this offer so you can make the decision that works best for you and your family.

Although, If you use hotspots for other devices from one phone then I would not do this. It will not allow you to use hotspots and some of us that use 25G a month will have to pay for additional usage if it goes over the new lower cap for three months.

So how do you get 50% off? You need to contact T-Mobile on Twitter and ask them for it.

Apple Card has arrived but not a card we recommend

Apple Card has arrived but not a card we recommend

Apple finally came out with it’s innovative new card but we are just not impressed. While it does offer a few features:

•No card number, No CVV code
•No Fees
•3% at Apple, 2% with Apple Pay
•No expiration date
•No signature
•Physical Titanium Card
•No International Travel Fees

Apple warns new credit card users over risks of it touching wallets and pockets

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Free Pepsi Trucker Hats, T-Shirts, Magnets and Coaster Sets

Check out this cool new offer being promoted by Pepsi. You can score some great free stuff from Pepsi such as Trucker Hats, Magnets, Coaster Sets, T-Shirts, Glassware Sets and more. To get stared with this promo, just create a free account with them on their rewards page which is linked below.

You can use the promo code STUFF10 to get 10 free points. The offer is live now through 12/31/18. Join now before all the good prizes are gone. Just fill out the request form.

Some of the prizes are incredible if you drink tons of Pepsi. They have a meet and greet with mega-Pop Star Britney Spears at the Hard Rock. They also have coolers, old school vending machines, and picnic tables for the ultimate soda fans.

This freebie, like most others can take up to 8 weeks to arrive. Head over to PepsiStuff.com to sign up. If you like this deal you’ll love (or dislike) the Coke Rewards program.

Scan Receipts with this Stackable App

The list is growing long for us grocery shoppers who keep our receipts or take time to scan them and earn rewards. We have many apps available such as Ibotta and now we have another you can stack with it while you have your receipts out to scan. If you haven’t signed up for Ibotta then do so here and get a bonus.

The Fetch Rewards App is a free mobile app that gives you cash back for taking pictures of your grocery receipts. The main difference between Fetch Rewards and other receipt scanning apps is that it doesn’t matter where you buy your product. Ibotta requires you to buy a specific product at a specific store.

The Fetch Rewards app only requires you to buy a specific product. As long as your offer appears on a receipt at any grocery store, you’re going to earn cash back for it. You also get 25 points for ANY receipt from grocery stores.

What we like about this app compared to the other grocery shopping apps is that it recommends other brands you would have made more money on when you scan the receipt for the next time you go shopping. For example, I bought Starbucks coffee and it tells me I could’ve earned more points on Maxwell House. Although I still made points for scanning the receipt.

How To Earn Gift Cards Using Fetch Rewards

1. Sign Up For An Account
As with all point reward apps and websites, you can’t earn if you haven’t joined. Go to the app store on your smartphone and download the free Fetch Rewards app. Once downloaded enter your information, including my referral code QG4YH. When you enter the referral code, you will receive 2,000 points when you scan and complete your first receipt. That is enough points to bring you halfway to your first $3 gift card cash out–making it worthwhile.

Take Advantage Of Special Offers
Under the “Special Offers” tab within the Fetch Rewards app, you will find a current listing of offers that provide relatively high point values. For instance, when I wrote this you could earn 1500 points for buying any two namebrand hair care products. To get the full details of these special offers, simply touch the “offer” box and a new screen will appear that shares all the details of that offer.

How To Earn Gift Cards Using Fetch Rewards

2. Any Receipt Earns Points. Fetch now gives you points for every grocery receipt you update. You do earn more points though if your receipt contains brands from their list.

Bonus Points: Search Through The List Of Brands After Your Next Grocery Shopping Trip:
Currently, there are over 160 different brands available to earn rewards through in the Fetch Rewards app. These are primarily brands that sell grocery and personal product items. All are name brands such as Degree, Axe, Gatorade, Heinz, and Kraft.

3. Upload Your Receipt
Knowing that you have a qualifying item on your receipt, hit the “scan” tab at the bottom of the app and follow the instructions.

An example is one qualifying brand was a stick of Axe deodorant and it was for 750 points plus the receipt of 25 points.

The second time I used the app my only qualifying items was $2.99 box of Captain Crunch which earned a 1,000 receipt scan bonus plus 29 points for the cereal. Essentially this means I earned $1.02 for my few seconds worth of effort to scan and verify the receipt.

Those two trips plus the 2,000 points I earned for entering my friend’s referral code at sign up were more than enough to claim my first Amazon code.

How To Earn Gift Cards Using Fetch Rewards

4. Claim Your Reward
As you can see by my example, it is possible to earn your first cash out with Fetch Rewards in as little as two shopping trips.

Fetch Rewards makes claiming and redeeming your reward simple. In the app, press the “rewards” tab at the bottom of the screen. You can then pick out your reward either by “category” or by “points.” I find it easier to search by points. Simply press the 3K option to cash out 3,000 points for a $3 reward or the 5K option to cash out 5,000 points for a $5 reward and so on. Fetch Rewards offers cash out values all the way up to 50,000 points for a $50 reward.

There are dozens of different types of gift cards available including those for Amazon, Walmart, Itunes, Panera Bread, Dunkin’ Donuts, Whole Foods and more.

Once you pick a reward, a code will be sent to your email box with instructions of how to cash in your gift card. So far I have cashed out for Amazon gift card codes and the whole process from picking out my reward in the app, to receiving my email, to adding it to my Amazon account has taken under five minutes. I would assume the process would vary depending on what gift card you choose.