Have an old Visa gift card lying around from a past rebate or offer? If you’re like me, you may have a couple of these with odd amounts stuck on them, like $3.72 — a number too small to buy anything large with, but also something that you don’t want to throw away, right? Did you know you can use those small prepaid gift cards to make partial-purchase payments on Amazon?
Consumerist has a great article on how to do this, and I love this idea, especially since many of us have been doing rebates lately (Kohl’s, Olay, etc.) that involve Visa, MasterCard, or American Express gift cards.
While Amazon won’t let you split payments among multiple credit cards, they will allow you to pay both with an Amazon gift card and another form of payment! It’s easy to use up your old Visa gift card by turning it into an Amazon gift card. Send it to yourself as an e-gift card (which you get immediately in your email) and then use that to pay on Amazon!
I’ll walk you through the steps, as it’s very easy to do…
Head over to Amazon’s Order a custom-balance Amazon Gift Card
Outlander says
That is a great idea! The only thing is, I don’t know how much is left on the cards. I’d have to check that first.
naisula says
I knew you could do partial payments, but never considered turning the mini balance into an Amazon gift card!
grandma says
Amazon will let you use multiple gift cards at once. Think we have used 4 on the same order.
Have fun
kkalook says
Why don’t you just use the partials at the grocery store? It used to be a hassle because you had to keep track of how much was left so you could tell the cashier. The register computers are better now. It will take what you have left on the card and then you just pay the balance with another card or cash.