bernina
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2014
I forgot to add that it's possible to stack eBags offers from more than 2 cards in the way I originally posted, but it's tedious and may not be for everyone. You'd use one card with the offer to buy a GC, apply that GC to a purchase where you pay the balance with a second card with the offer (ideally, the balance amount is the same as or not much more than the minimum amount required to trigger the offer). Then you return your purchase within 30 days of delivery and take an eBags Return Credit, which exempts you from the $7.95 per item restocking fee, but expires after one year. The eBags Return Credit is issued in the form of a GC-like code, which now combines the GC balance from the first card and amount paid on the second card, while letting you keep the original charges on the statements that triggered the Amex offer credit. Apply that eBags Return Credit to a larger purchase where you pay the balance with a third card with the offer, and so on.
I do not advocate for this method, but I'm putting this out there as a possibility. I hate that it's had to come to this, but eBags made a very customer unfriendly policy change when they stopped combining their GCs for their customers and still won't let you use more than one GC per transaction.
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