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Has anybody paid for remainder owed on your trip with gift cards? I still owe a few thousand and noticed sams club has disney cards below cost of cards.
What is the Sam's Club discount?Has anybody paid for remainder owed on your trip with gift cards? I still owe a few thousand and noticed sams club has disney cards below cost of cards.
What is the Sam's Club discount?
You can definitely pay for your balance due with GCs. Someone else already pointed you in the direction of disneygiftcard .com for combining the GCs that you purchased onto fewer GCs. You can combine GCs up to a maximum value of $1,000 on one GC using the website.Has anybody paid for remainder owed on your trip with gift cards? I still owe a few thousand and noticed sams club has disney cards below cost of cards.
Plus you can use a cash back credit card like the Capital One Quicksilver which gives you 1.5% back.Sam's Club sells three $50 Disney gift cards for about $143. It works out to 4.68% discount, so slightly less than the 5% that REDcard holders get at Target.
DVA gives you 2% back? How does that work?We pay all of our Disney cruises, annual passes and Adventures by Disney trips with Disney gift cards. We use the Chase Ink card to purchase them at Staples or Office Depot to get 5 miles per dollar when we are focused on collecting miles or by using the Raise/Target method when we are trying to save 10% or more. We load all of the gift cards on to our Disney Vacation Savings account and then use that to pay for the trips etc. in order to get an additional 2% back in Disney gift cards.
Right now I have about 10 $50 Disney gc's. I plan to just keep buying one a week for our two trips this year. Can I start adding them to one card now until I reach the $1000 limit then begin another ?You can definitely pay for your balance due with GCs. Someone else already pointed you in the direction of disneygiftcard .com for combining the GCs that you purchased onto fewer GCs. You can combine GCs up to a maximum value of $1,000 on one GC using the website.
You can also use the Disney Vacation Account website to add your GCs up in one place. You can put more than $1K in there and you will only have to use the account number to pay for your trip. As an added incentive, Disney will give you a $20 GC for every $1K spent on qualifying Disney purchases. But before you open a DVA, read all of the reviews and search for threads on here for problems that people have had with it. You may or may not be willing to take the risk, given some of the negatives involved.
If you're using the disneygiftcard website, you can begin combining GCs at any time. You can never have more than 5 registered GCs in the account at one time, so you wouldn't have to wait until you have 20 $50 GCs.Right now I have about 10 $50 Disney gc's. I plan to just keep buying one a week for our two trips this year. Can I start adding them to one card now until I reach the $1000 limit then begin another ?
Can we deposit Disney gift cards into the account and still earn the 2 percent?The account needs to be open for 120 days. Then, after 120 days for every $1,000 you spend out of the account to pay for your Disney vacation you will receive a $20 Disney gift card (2%) back up to a maximum of $500 per account.
You won't get a bonus GC just for making deposits. You need to actually spend the funds in order to get the bonus. It's not a true 2%. It's a $20 Disney GC for every $1K spent on qualifying purchases. So, if you were to spend $1800 on Disney purchases, you would only earn a $20 GC, not $36 (which would be 2%).Can we deposit Disney gift cards into the account and still earn the 2 percent?
This is exactly what I did to pay for my DVC dues, my park passes and my trip last summer. I first combined all my gift cards to $1K cards and then I entered them into my DVA. One thing to remember if you use your DVA is to keep your gift cards that you enter into it. I don't know why, but sometimes a refund will go back on your gift card instead of the DVA.You can definitely pay for your balance due with GCs. Someone else already pointed you in the direction of disneygiftcard .com for combining the GCs that you purchased onto fewer GCs. You can combine GCs up to a maximum value of $1,000 on one GC using the website.
You can also use the Disney Vacation Account website to add your GCs up in one place. You can put more than $1K in there and you will only have to use the account number to pay for your trip. As an added incentive, Disney will give you a $20 GC for every $1K spent on qualifying Disney purchases. But before you open a DVA, read all of the reviews and search for threads on here for problems that people have had with it. You may or may not be willing to take the risk, given some of the negatives involved.