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Technically, no.
Eligible purchases do NOT include fees or interest charges, cash advances, person-to-person payments, purchases of gift cards, purchases of traveler’s checks, purchases or reloading of prepaid cards, or purchases of other cash equivalents.
Amex receives level 3 data and sees exactly what you buy.
That being said, buying some giftcards’s mixed in with groceries is usually fine.
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Yes, but I would wait until next week during Black Friday to see if there are any deals on any.
You might find 10-15% discount on Airbnb gift cards.
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There is some risk to what you’re planning and since you said you do “a lot” of Airbnb, I imagine the plan involved a pretty large amount of gift card purchases.
Have you considered doing the Ink Cash card by Chase?
5x earnings on Office Supply stores (Staples, Office Max/ Depot and more) which sell such gift cards.
Additional upsides to the Chase INK card is no annual fee, no 5/24 slot used, 90k sign up bonus plus the card earnings and 0% for 12 months if that helps.
The big limitation is that the 2 no annual fee Ink cards do not allow for points transfer out to travel partners.
You’d eventually need a Chase Sapphire Preferred, Chas Sapphire Reserve, or Chase Ink in your household to do that.
But that can come down the road too.
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Be careful with Airbnb gift cards.
There are a lot of rules and limitations about redemption like it can’t be used for stays longer than 1 month, rules on how many you can use on 1 transaction etc.
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