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Hi, I’m looking for advice on buying Tesco gift card.
Currently Jamdonut offers 2.5% cashback but not working with VISA credit card.
Is there another way I can pay by my foreign VISA card and still get 2.5%+ cash back?
TIASwiipi and you’ll get 10%
does your employer sign up to any schemes usually 4% off on those rather than cashback. i have never had problems using foreign cards unless it is like airtime there they give you cashback by reading your data compare to refer like tcb.
Swiipi and you’ll get 10%
How do you get 10%?
Swiipi and you’ll get 10%
How do you get 10%?
Read this topic, the last 2 pages are about Swipii – it’s a bit dodgy, but worked a month ago:
https://www.headforpoints.com/forums/topic/giftcards/Many of these schemes block international cards due to the interchange and scheme fees. There’s also an element of KYC, money-laundering, and fraud concerns over using international card to purchase UK Gift Cards. Amazon, for example, will no longer allow you to buy a gift card with a gift card balance.
If you used a UK issued card, and bought a £100 Tesco Gift Card, the fee is around 40p to the Merchant. As you are using a card that isn’t issued in the UK, the fee is around £2.75
Andrew is right. My employer does provide a scheme offering 3% off on tesco gift card.
Unfortunately it seems that foreign card is not accepted for all methods I know, and swipii.. I’m just don’t know if that is secure.
Shame I can’t make use of the 3% off on top of my foreign card benefit.I’ve thought about curve card as an alternative way, as it can link foreign card and using curve card to pay is usually accepted.
The only problem is curve charges significant amount of transaction fee if you’re with free plan.
they used to be free until last year…
other plans have monthly fee which seems not worth it.Many of these schemes block international cards due to the interchange and scheme fees. There’s also an element of KYC, money-laundering, and fraud concerns over using international card to purchase UK Gift Cards. Amazon, for example, will no longer allow you to buy a gift card with a gift card balance.
If you used a UK issued card, and bought a £100 Tesco Gift Card, the fee is around 40p to the Merchant. As you are using a card that isn’t issued in the UK, the fee is around £2.75
I believe EU has forced visa and Mastercard to cut fees on international cards when used in EU. Not sure if UK has followed suit.
I’ve thought about curve card as an alternative way, as it can link foreign card and using curve card to pay is usually accepted.
The only problem is curve charges significant amount of transaction fee if you’re with free plan.
they used to be free until last year…
other plans have monthly fee which seems not worth it.Curve doesn’t allow foreign Visa cards to be added anymore.
another way is link paypal to curve, and link foreign card to paypal.
but this route visa/amex are excluded.
🙁Swipii dropped their discount, now around 7.5%. Any other options for 10%+ bonus when buying gift cards?
There are some websites where people dump their unused gift cards. You can get some of the cards at a higher discount.
ebay used to work, but people keep bidding close to or over face value now.
When I used Amazon I must have bought over £20k of Amazon GC on ebay for around 10% off plus cashback plus nectar (then nectar stopped working)
They often have instore offers of a free £5 when you load £50 to their own gift cards.I know it’s old school to actually walk into a store.
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