If you are an Amazon shopper, you may be eligible for a promotion that gets you a $5 credit if you reload your Amazon Gift Card Balance with $100 or more. To find out if you are eligible, you must be logged on to your Amazon account, and then click on the “Click here to qualify” button that adds the coupon-promotion to your account. Then reload your balance. The $5 promotional credit expires 2/20/16. The $100+ gift card amount never expires. Offer ends 12/31/15. More details on the Amazon Promotional page.

NOTE: when buying gift cards, Amazon’s Checkout system may ask you to re-enter your credit card number for verification and security purposes.

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Strategically, now is a good time to do this if you have a Chase or Discover credit card. Their Q4 rewards (if you opted in and are below the $1500 quarterly maximum) give you 5% to 10% back on Amazon purchases until 12/31/15.

After you reload the card with a $100+ amount, you will see this offer verified at the top of your Amazon Checkout page like this (annotated screenshot below):

The new amount will be added to your gift card within 5 minutes. I am still waiting to see how the $5 promotional credit will appear (I will update this after it happens). Per the terms and conditions, you will receive a separate email notifying you that the $5 promotional credit has been applied to your account…

UPDATE: The $5 Promo Code is Here (arrived in 12 minutes)
The $5 promotional credit email arrived 12 minutes after I placed the order. The $5 promotional credit won’t be added to your gift card balance, but will be added to your promotional credit account. You can see that by going to any Instant Video available for purchase and clicking “More Purchase Options” and then clicking “Redeem a gift card or promotion code”. The $5 was added after I received the email. It was not there before. Then if you place a qualifying order, the $5 promotional will be automatically applied to your purchase. Here’s an annotated screenshot crop of that right below (showing the top right corner of the Amazon Checkout page):

UPDATE 12/21/15: The $20 Best Buy gift card remains in your account (stored on Google’s servers) even after you uninstall Android Pay. If you re-install Android Pay, it is right there. You may have some flexibility in the PIN entry by adjusting how quickly the lockscreen activates after you press the power button or the screen doses off. This is YMMV depending on your phone and OS version.

ORIGINAL POST
I became a guinea pig for this promotion we mentioned earlier this week: if you have a Nexus device and install and use Android Pay on it by 12/31/15, you will receive a $20 Best Buy electronic gift card in your Android Pay account.

I did this earlier this the week, and the e-gift card arrived the following day. I did not count the number of hours in-between, but my first Android Pay transaction happened on 12/16 and the gift card was in my Android Pay account on 12/17. Cropped screenshot below – it has a PIN and bar code which I won’t post 🙂

Android Pay requires a lockscreen PIN for your phone or other approved locking mechanism. And NFC turned on. If you remove the lockscreen PIN (or the locking mechanism), Android Pay automatically removes your credit card(s) from your Android Pay account. Kinda rude but they are erring on the side of financial security.

Since there is no way (as far as I can tell) to access Android Pay transactions with a web browser, once you receive the $20 Best Buy eGift Card, you may want to take a screenshot of the number and PIN to make sure you don’t lose it later.

NOTE: I did this using only one phone. I do not know what happens if you have two or more phones using the same Google account with Android Pay activated on both.

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, B&H Photo now has e-mailable Gift Cards, with preset amounts ranging from $20 to $250. You can optionally leave a personal message and also pick from 11 different e-designs.

Good until Saturday 11/21/15, at Rite Aid stores, if you are participating in the Plenti rewards program, you can get 1000 Plenti points (= $10 equivalent) if you purchase a $50 Best Buy Gift Card. Limit two per customer during this week. You can redeem the Plenti points at Rite Aid or other places. The Plenti program is managed by American Express… In parallel, you get 500 points (= $5 equivalent) if you buy a $25 Google Play Gift Card (good for all digital content including camera and photo apps [cannot be used on subscriptions or physical goods]). Google Play gift cards are rarely discounted, unlike iTunes…

UPDATE 4:30am ET: This offer is valid ONLY to Amazon Student members

They didn’t mention this in the Lightning Deals Upcoming schedule, but it turns out this offer is ONLY good for Amazon Students members, by entering coupon code STUDWEEK at Checkout. Amazon Student is a special program for eligible/qualifying students. The general population cannot use it. I don’t have an “Amazon Student” account so I can’t test it.

If you are an “Amazon Student”, this offer is good until the end of day on 10/9/15. The $5 promotional credit expires 11/22/15. The $25 gift card never expires…

If you are an “Amazon Student”, they have a number of Other offers running in parallel as well…

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This is a YMMV promotion. You receive a $10 bonus if you setup an Amazon Gift Card Auto Reload with $100+. Only some Amazon customers are eligible for this promotion (depending on however their computers determine this). You can tell if you are eligible if you are logged on to your Amazon account and then visit the Auto-Reload FAQ page. If you are eligible, you will see it there. Unfortunately I am not eligible for this offer, so I can’t tell you how it works…

If you are not eligible for this offer, you will see the FAQs but at the top of the page you will see this message: “Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com Gift Card Balance Auto-Reload. Unfortunately, you are not eligible for this offer.”

If you are not logged to an Amazon account, you will see this message: “Oops! You aren’t signed in. Please sign in and refresh this page to confirm if you qualify for this offer.”.