UPDATE: People have reported that Swagbucks and other shopping portals are no longer giving bonuses for Staples giftcard purchases.
I’m always afraid that my online shopping portal purchases will somehow not be properly tracked but for those of you are taking advantage of buying Staples Visa Giftcards using the Swagbucks shopping portal, I can happily report that the points are now showing as pending from an email I received.
As you can see, I ordered the Visa giftcards from Staples on 4/28/14 and the credit will post to my account to use on 5/30/14. My Swagbucks can be used to get giftcards or transfer to Paypal. 5,000 Swagbucks equals $50 so I will not only be earning 5x UR from my Ink Card but I will be making about $15. Pretty good deal!
Interestingly my Visa giftcards just shipped and are expected to arrive on May 14 so this whole process will take awhile but worth it since I can do this from home and not have to drive around buying giftcards.
Update: Just got my Visa GCs today 5/5/14 and just realized you have to first activate them online at www.giftcardmall.com/activate and you also must use the activation codes that they sent you in a separate mail envelope. Good thing I didn’t throw it away! After you activate the card, you can then call the number on the back of the card to set a Pin # to load to BB.