Buy Yourself Discount Gift Cards This Black Friday and Cyber Monday
A local restaurant in my hometown has a promotion every Black Friday that offers customers a $ 5 free gift card if they buy a $ 20 card. The idea is that you buy that $ 20 as a gift and you get something in the process. I’ve looked at it for years and thought about how it would be nice if it made sense to give out a gift card to anyone on my list. One day I realized that I could give myself the entire $ 25 .
In the case of this restaurant, this was the place where I went to dine at least once a week. By purchasing the promotion, I was essentially giving myself a 20% discount on future dinners. Obviously, I could buy it for myself, but I never thought about it. Having realized this, I started to buy myself other gift cards from time to time, and today, on Black Friday, I invite you to do the same.
For example, Amazon is currently offering a $ 50 Fandango Gift Card for $ 39.50 (21% off) and an $ 100 App Store Gift Card for $ 80 . Full Disclosure: These are rotating trades, so by the time you click on them, they may or may not have disappeared and new ones will appear in their place. You can check the current options here .
Walmart is also offering 10% off a ton of gift cards , including those from DoorDash . I’m sure there are a million other similar promotions out there, these are just the largest I’ve found offering gift cards to various locations.
You can bet there will be even more of them on Cyber Monday.
I am not suggesting that you buy gift cards where you will not shop, it is pointless. However, if there is a discount on gift cards somewhere where you regularly shop, buying such a card is not a problem. In most establishments, gift cards work like cash, and when you buy them for a discounted local restaurant or delivery service, you are essentially getting a discount on future purchases.
What’s more, you can use gift cards to buy discounted items in the future, increasing your savings. Or, you can even use these gift cards to buy holiday gifts for this year at a slight discount, depending on where you get the card.
Look out for gift card offers in places where you shop regularly over the next few days, you might be in luck.