Swagbucks now sending gift cards directly to Amazon account :(
By chocsie
@chocsie (259)
Greece
February 24, 2009 8:40am CST
Hi mylotters, as you can see from the title, swagbucks will now send your amazon gift cards straight to your amazon account. This may be a good thing for some people but for me (and a few others I know), it's not, because I don't have an amazon account. I was planning to sell the gift cards on Ebay (I've learned this from other swagbucks members) but now they send it straight to your account. Is there still an option to have the code emailed to you? Or is that the only way? Please help. Thanks!
1 response
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
25 Feb 09
Well if I ran Amazon I would see selling of gift cards on ebay as something akin to ticket scalping. I'm sure this is why they changed their practices since they want to keep their relationship with Amazon and they want to make sure people are participating in their program for what they deem to be the right reason. I seem to remember a site where you could swap unwanted gift cards with other people who might have a card to a retailer you liked. Of course with the value being placed into an account at Amazon that would be more difficult. Why not just use the credit with Amazon to buy gifts? It seems like birthday, weddings and holidays always come up with times are tight anyway.
