AARP Rewards sent out an email today with some good news hidden towards the end of the email. They sell discounted gift cards and used to have a limit of only three discounted gift cards per month, with a separate limit of three points redemptions for gift cards per month.
The good news is that you can now buy five discounted gift cards per month rather than three. While that’s not a huge increase, it’s certainly better than three, especially if you have more than one account in your household.
There’s still a limit of three gift cards when redeeming points, but not increasing that limit has much less impact because most members wouldn’t earn enough points with AARP Rewards in order to redeem for more than three gift cards per month.
The one potential downside is that some of the better Daily Deals will sell out more quickly. On weekdays, AARP Rewards releases a new Daily Deal where the cash or points cost is reduced further than normal, but they only make 100 cards available at that rate. There are sometimes excellent deals, such as $50 Bass Pro Shops gift cards for $30 which occurred twice in May. If you could resell those cards at 80%, you’d be making $10 per card, so a limit of five means you’d make $50 profit rather than $30 with a limit of three. The higher limit of five means these deals could sell out after 20 people buy five cards each, whereas at least 33 people could get in on the deal in the past when there was a limit of three.
Update: As per Kent’s comment below, I’d misread the limit of 100 as being a limit of 100 discounted cards. It’s actually a limit of 100 members, so the previous paragraph is moot.
h/t reader Audrey
I read the daily limit on the daily deals to 100 members, not 100 cards.
Ooh, interesting – I’ll have to take another look at the wording on Monday when there’s another Daily Deal because if I’ve misread how that works, that’d be great news.
I’ve just reread the terms from recent deals and you’re right – it is the first 100 members rather than 100 cards – thanks for pointing that out.
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