If you were surprised like me last month when booze stopped taking AMEX and you were stuck with the 10X Resy Platinum dining offer, well it seems we were given a hail mary last minute attempt. It seems Doordash now carries gift cards, and if you have free Dashpash with one of the Chase cards, they’re giving 10% off (up to $20) on gift cards (up to a limit of 10 GCs).
Anyway, buy a $200 Zillions gift card shown below for $180 and earn 10X MR using your Resy card. Doordash does have some weird problems in that I can’t order with my card direct. I usually get an error that says to use AP and then when I use AP, it goes through. I also can’t get a 2nd order in back to back (not sure when that velocity limit resets.)
Now you’re thinking why do I need $25K of Amazon (well not technically $25K since I will have used some of it for legit dining)? I mean, it beats letting the 10X Resy go to waste though, right? As long as you have the capital, then it’s worth it to redeem it for Amazon. Just don’t redeem it all at once. You could also sell the gift cards to your friends for a 10% discount; everyone can use Amazon GCs. With Pepper’s crazy Amazon discounts gone, I think it’s good to buy Amazon at a 20% discount, but you do you. Also, if you do take advantage of this, make sure you copy and paste the Amazon GC’s into a spreadsheet. I don’t trust Zillions links to last a year or two, and I would dread having to call them a year from now to get them to resend the GC link.
