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lmao... so i had $400 of apple giftcards i redeemed from amex points. turns out, once you close the amex account, you cant access redemption codes on their website. i printed out the codes once, but lost the paper.

so in desperation i searched 'giftcards' in my googledrive to see if i saved a PDF copy.  and in that process, i discovered i had a $500 hotels.com GC from 6 years ago (genuinely dont remember where it came from), and turns out its still active and valid.

and for the apple card, amex was happy to issue a new physical ones sent to the mail.  a $400 loss just turned into a net $500 gain.

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the reason i was looking for it was to buy a replacement ipad for my kid.

turns out, i had no idea amazon's price on this ipad literally just bounced from 399 to 489 from week to week? the fuck kind of strategy is this. 

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On 8/21/2025 at 4:17 PM, 52-80 said:

lmao... so i had $400 of apple giftcards i redeemed from amex points. turns out, once you close the amex account, you cant access redemption codes on their website. i printed out the codes once, but lost the paper.

so in desperation i searched 'giftcards' in my googledrive to see if i saved a PDF copy.  and in that process, i discovered i had a $500 hotels.com GC from 6 years ago (genuinely dont remember where it came from), and turns out its still active and valid.

and for the apple card, amex was happy to issue a new physical ones sent to the mail.  a $400 loss just turned into a net $500 gain.

Wouldn’t it be a $900 gain?  

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