With a little elbow grease, anyone can earn free Amazon gift cards completing simple tasks ranging from watching some videos, reviewing apps, scanning receipts, and even for cashing in that jar full of pennies.
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Amazon has evolved to the point where you can buy just about everything through their platform.
Need something to read?
A new wardrobe?
How about groceries?
Whatever you’re looking for, Amazon’s got it – and you can pay for all of it with a gift card.
Below, I’ve detailed a few easy and totally legitimate ways you can earn free Amazon gift cards and take some of the sting out of the price of that Jeff Goldblum shower curtain you need to complete your bathroom. It really is a masterpiece.
Scan your receipts
Grocery apps like Ibotta offer cash back when you preload offers and scan your grocery receipts, but you can opt for Amazon gift cards instead.
- What is Ibotta?
- Ibotta is a cash-back app that grants you rewards (in real-life dollars — not points or gift cards) on your everyday purchases
- It turns couponing into a bit of a game, and you can do it all from your phone. No newspaper coupons required.
- It also features rewards across retailers: from Amazon to Forever 21 to Walmart.
Here’s how to use Ibotta:
1. Download the free app and sign up.
2. Explore cash-back offers.
Ibotta is a great way to find cash back not only on grocery staples but also at online retailers and through travel sites. You can also use it to discover new brands.
For example, if you only bought Viva paper towels before downloading the app.
But if you can get $3 back on a pack of Bounty, why not?
Trade in your old electronics, movies, books, and games
Old books and movies, video games, and your cell phone from 4 phones ago that you threw in a drawer and forgot about? Trade them for some Amazon gift cards.
Get Paid for Sharing Your Amazon Purchase History
- Such an easy way to Earn an extra $36
- Shoptracker is operated by The Harris Poll, a well known survey company that measures U.S. public opinion.
- In this case, it wants to see what products Amazon users purchase. When you sign up for ShopTracker, it tracks your Amazon purchases from your computer.
- All it wants to see is your order information, including the order date, product title, category, ISBN number, release date, condition, seller, list price per unit, quantity and other details.
- Shoptracker will send you a $3 Visa Gift card every month but only if you download their software, which takes about 5 minutes. Here is more info about ShopTracker
Share your opinion online
- SwagBucks: Swagbucks is the largest online rewards site that gives free gift cards to its members for their online activities, such as Taking Surveys, Shopping, Searching the Web, Watching Videos, and Playing Video Games.
The Highest Paying Survey Sites:
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Survey Junkie (Great Surveys/ Great Payout/ Earn $12-$18/ Hour)
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Vindale ($2 sign-up bonus and high-paying surveys)
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American Consumer Opinion: 6 Million Members (My nephew makes $150-175/mo with ACOP)
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Ipsos I-Say (High Earnings up to $95! and solid reviews!)
Cash in your credit card rewards
It’s not my favorite use of points, and definitely not the most valuable way to use them, but the option is there. Check with your credit card provider to see if you can cash your points in for Amazon gift cards.
Check in when you shop at the store
Doing a little brick and mortar shopping? Check in at the store with an app like Shopkick to earn points that can be redeemed for free Amazon gift cards.
Leverage your Amazon spending through your Prime account
Being a Prime subscriber comes with a ton of perks, but one of my favorites is that I can opt out of free 2-day shipping in exchange for free Amazon credits. They’re usually limited to either digital downloads or Prime Pantry orders, but it’s still a nice discount the next time you rent a movie, buy an ebook, and the Pantry credit can be used towards nonperishable groceries and household goods.
Watch some TV
Use one of these apps to check-in to your favorite TV shows and earn rewards you can cash in for free Amazon gift cards. Viggle is part of Perks.com.
Download and test apps
Love discovering new apps? Become a tester and you can earn Amazon gift cards for your feedback about them.
Trade gift cards you don’t want for the one that you do
With gift card exchanges, every gift card can be magically transformed into an Amazon gift card! Trade your unused gift cards for cash, true, but the trade-in value is generally higher when you exchange the cards you don’t want for the ones you do.
Cash in your penny jar
Normally when you lug your jar of pennies to the closest Coinstar coin counter, the company takes a percentage of the total as a fee. But you can skip the fee when you opt for a gift card instead.
Complete simple tasks
If you’re willing to complete simple tasks like image sorting, watching a video, listening to music, or playing a game, you can earn Amazon gift cards for your work. Mechanical Turk is owned by Amazon, and you can choose to be compensated with credits to your gift card account. Perk.com is also a compelling option, rolling up several different task types covered by our list into a single app.
Surf the web
Companies like Microsoft and InstaGC offer gift cards in exchange for the data they get when you search and browse the internet. One downside to Microsoft Rewards is that you’ll have to replace your favorite search engine with Bing.