$14.05 of Free Money With Mastercard Promotion @ Albertsons [ADVANCED]

So I had a chance to test this deal this morning, and boy did it just work PERFECT!  AS I mentioned a few days ago in the Weekly Albertsons post, There was a Gift Card Promotion, starting today, where you spend $100 in select Gift Cards, and you get a $20 OYNP Albertsons Catalina coupon. Also this deal WORKS with Amazon.com $100 cards!!!!

Some people will be interested in Buying Kohls Gift Cards, and perhaps Amazon.com gift cards.  But I focused in on the $100 Mastercard Gift Cards.  The beauty of the Mastercard is we can use it ANYWHERE mastercard is accepted.  So once you do this deal, you’ll have a $100 Mastercard to pay your Cable or Electric Bill(etc), so your really not out any money.

When purchasing the $100 Mastercard, we need to pay a $5.95 activation charge.  This makes the card “active” to the credit card machines of the world.  When we buy a $100 Mastercard, we can pay for it using a credit card/Debit card, so the total will be $105.95 total, $100 +$5.95 activation fee.  We then get a $20 OYNP Coupon we can use on anything(almost anything) at Albertsons for the next 7 days!

I was the first transaction of the day, and the catalina machine wasn’t working quite right, so they gave me a $20 Gift Card. 🙂  I would have had 4 of those $20 OYNP coupons.

We then can buy, in a different transaction, another $100 Mastercard Gift Card, for a total of $105.95.  We use the previous $100 Gift card(ask them to make the register accept just $100 first), which will leave us a balance of $5.95.  You can use cash or your debit card again, to pay that amount.  You will then have another $100 Mastercard Gift Card and another $20 OYNP Catalina.  Each time we “roll” this deal we will get a $20 OYNP Catalina, which ultimately costs us the $5.95 activation, which is how we get to a $14.05 Money Maker, EACH time we roll.

So I did this 4 times.  I payed on my credit card/debit card $100 for the initial transaction, and then $5.95 each “roll”.  So i payed $128.30 on my credit/debit card, and have a $100 Mastercard in my possession and 4 x $20 OYNP coupons. NET=$28.30 for 4 x $20 OYNP Catalinas.  So I essentially payed $28.30 for $80 worth of groceries at Albertsons.

The coupon does say one $20 OYNP coupon per transaction per day, but many stores will allow you to use all at once on the same day, BUT that’s up to the stores discretion, so very much a YMMV.

This kind of deal only happens once or twice a year, and I am going to spend most of the money on Meat & Veggies, things that usually do not have coupons for them.  This $28.30 to $80 ratio is like having 70% off.  A discount that is just awesome.  Especially if this next week is a large value item shopping week! 🙂

ADVANCED Tips and thoughts:

This kind of promotion sometimes brings out the weirdest cashiers out of the woodwork.  They say silly things like, you can’t pay for that Gift card with a debit/credit card. (yes you can)  You can’t pay for another Gift card with a Gift Card.  That is technically correct, except when you buy one of the American express/Visa/Mastercard.  That $5.95 activation fee you are paying for is an agreement with the issuing Bank, not Albertsons and not Giftcardmall.  So if I get some cashier that says that, I just smile, and ask for a manager.  Explain the above, and its usually not an issue.  Would they prefer you do this rolling of MasterCards? Probably not, but its truly not much different than buying 4 x $100 Kohls Gift cards in separate transaction with a credit card to get your 4 x $20 OYNP coupons.  Just smile be nice and patient, and you shouldn’t have any problems. 🙂