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My sister gave me a $25 BestBuy gift card last Christmas. I went to BestBuy, and found that for each of the 3 different things that I needed, I would spend less by buying it on Amazon, even with the gift card. Tax software, for instance, was $49.99 at BestBuy, $16.99 on Amazon.

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In some stores you can spend your Best Buy gift card on an Amazon gift card.

I'll have to look for that. My in-laws give me a Best Buy card every year for Christmas and half the time I use it to buy their Christmas gift the next year. Amazon gift cards get spent right away.

Also if you ever get a prepaid credit card as a gift you should just spend it on an Amazon gift card. That way you don't need to worry about expiry or going over the credit card's "limit"

Now that most mail in rebates come on some form of pre-paid credit card I'll just use them to buy Amazon gift cards at the local megamart.

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