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How to Use VISA Gift Card on Amazon

I googled and didn’t find anything useful so I thought I’d share this. If you have a VISA gift card and want to use it on Amazon.com in conjunction with a credit card (to pay for any amount over the gift card value), the trick is to use the VISA gift card to purchase an Amazon gift card of the same value for yourself (search for “gift card” on Amazon.com).

Once you have the Amazon gift card, you can then use it to pay for part of your order, with the remaining balance being charged to another credit card.

I am sure this trick works with most other online merchants too.

Chinh Do

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  • Hello, I tried twice using a $75 pnc (visa) giftcard, and was declined twice. I was thinking the reason for the decline the first time, was that I using my name for cardholder, so I left it blank the second time, and that still didn't work.

  • This trick still works, just tried it. The whole value of the gift card worked. Didn't need to subtract one dollar. 50 dollar card and used $50.00

  • Thanѕ for finally talking about > How tο Use VISA Gift Card
    on Amaazon Chinh Do < Liked it!

  • Hello all,

    This his been up here a while, hopefully there are still listeners out there!

    Anyways, I tried with a visa reward card through bank of america and had no luck, I used my name (didn't work) and the "happy holidays" on the card (didn't work).

    Made sure numbers were right 3x's lol. They are, and expiration date entered was correct as well.

    Also tried $1.00 less (didn't work)
    and $0.01 less for kicks (didn't work).....

    Any help? Think I'll email amazon soon.

    Thanks all.

  • I had a Navy Federal Union Visa gift card and it wasn't letting me use it to buy the Amazon gift card no matter what info I put in for cardholder name and address, or whether I did it for $50 or $49.

    Turns out that I had to register the card with my name and billing address before I could use it for an online purchase. I couldn't get the registration process to work on the bank's website, so I called the 800 number on the back of the card and from then on it was super easy.

    The customer service person quickly registered the Visa card to my name, address, and phone number, and then I loaded that card with those details as a payment option on my Amazon account, and then selected that card as my payment method when I was checking out with an Amazon gift card. Worked perfectly, and for the full amount.

    Then I was able to purchase my original Amazon order with the $50 Amazon gift card and the balance on my debit card. So if all else fails just dial the 800 number and they'll get it straightened out.

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