{"id":957,"date":"2021-02-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:44:05","slug":"online-gift-card-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/online-gift-card-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Gift Card MS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like everyone is talking about deals on Simon Mall $1,000 gift cards right now (40% off of prepaid Visa fees with promo <em>FS21FEB40<\/em>). Yeah, they\u2019re good at stores that aren\u2019t Walmart, they\u2019re high denomination, and you can buy a bunch at once easily. There\u2019s a big problem with them though: They don\u2019t earn points when purchased with American Express cards because AmEx blocked earning on Simon purchases.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re trying to put spend on an AmEx and get something out of it, use <a aria-label=\"Vanilla Gift Cards (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanillagift.com\/catalog\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanilla Gift Cards<\/a> with the promo code <em>FLASH2020<\/em>, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/22\/easy-vanillas\/\">which amazingly is still working<\/a>. You\u2019ll earn spend when you go this route, and the fees are almost non-existent. They still work at most grocery chains too, just like BlackHawk gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus hint: Simon business volume accounts are better than personal ones, but that has nothing to do with AmEx.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man passed out on a tan couch wearing a Mario costume.\" class=\"wp-image-958\" height=\"305\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mario-on-couch.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mario-on-couch.png 375w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mario-on-couch-300x244.png 300w\" width=\"375\"\/><figcaption>A guy dressed up like Mario dreaming of earning Membership Rewards through manufactured spend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like everyone is talking about deals on Simon Mall $1,000 gift cards right now (40% off of prepaid Visa fees with promo FS21FEB40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,53,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7354,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/7354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}