Amazon Canada Gift Card Review

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Amazon Gift Card is one of the most convenient methods to shop online for your favourite items and save more money from the purchases in Canada. The gift cards are the ideal ways of giving your loved ones what they are yearning for.

You may not necessarily know what your loved ones need in particular, but with a gift card, the recipient of the card has the liberty to choose from a wide variety of items in the online store.

Regarded as the largest online retail store in Canada for all household items like electronics, books, toys, healthcare products, and more, Amazon’s online retail store has millions of amazing products for Canadians. The company boasts of having low prices on its items, and interestingly, these items can be purchased with the Amazon Gift Cards, depending on the price of the product and the amount on the gift card.

About Amazon Canada

Seattle-based American multinational technology company, Amazon, was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. The company has spread its services across the globe, beyond the shores of the United States. One of its multinational presence and branches is Amazon Canada, which has about three fulfillment centers across Canada – Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario.

About Amazon Gift Card

Gift cards are prepaid debit cards with loaded funds for immediate and future usage for payment of goods and services. Gift Cards can be in a physical form or e-gift cards.

Unarguably one of the most popular gift cards in the same class as Visa, Walmart, iTunes, and others, the Amazon Canada Gift Cards are available in various participating retail stores across Canada. However, Amazon Canada Gift Cards may only be used towards purchases of eligible products at Amazon.ca and not on any other Amazon online retail stores across the globe.

Before now, holders of the Amazon gift card can use it to purchase third party gift cards, but this service has been disabled. Amazon sells gift cards for numerous retail stores. Some of the non-restaurant gift cards that were available for purchase with Amazon gift cards on the Amazon store are:

  • American Eagle
  • Supercuts
  • Airbnb
  • The children’s place
  • Whole Foods
  • Ulta
  • Star Bucks
  • Staples
  • Sephora
  • Spotify
  • Petco
  • Office Max
  • Regal Entertainment
  • Netflix
  • Xbox
  • JC Penny
  • Game Stop
  • Fandango
  • Gap, Athleta, Banana Republic, and Old Navy
  • Cabela’s
  • Bass Pro Shops
  • Carnival Cruise Line
  • Hollister
  • Justice, and more

However, Amazon CA gift cards can no longer be used to purchase third party gift cards; neither can it be applied to any order that contains another brand of a gift card. To purchase other brands of gift cards, you will need to provide a debit card, credit card, or other valid forms of accepted payment methods to process your order. If you have any other gift card in your cart, you will be denied from using your Amazon gift card at checkout, unless you remove the third party gift cards from the order.

As a result, Amazon CA gift cards are not to be transferred to another account once the claim code has been redeemed. Also, these gift cards and third party gift cards are most times non-refundable and not returnable.

How To Get Free Amazon Gift Cards

Gift cards are one of the significant ways to save money on your purchases. Interestingly, you can earn Amazon Gift Cards and codes for free from a couple of websites. These sites may ask you to complete one or two tasks to earn the free gift codes – such as to shop online through their portal, fill out surveys, sign up for their services, write reviews, or refer your friends to their web platform.

These are some of the places to get loyalty points which you can redeem for free Amazon Gift Card codes:

  • Swag Bucks
  • Ebates
  • Survey Junkie
  • Survey Club
  • Personal Capital
  • Ibotta
  • Honey Extensions
  • Harris Poll
  • Inbox Dollars
  • My Point
  • Drop App
  • Amazon Prime Referrals
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk
  • Cash Back
  • Microsoft Rewards
  • Recycle Bank
  • Fetch Rewards
  • Get Upside
  • Dosh App
  • Price Rebel
  • Pay Prizes
  • Instagram Gift Card
  • Check Points
  • Deal Spotr
  • App Down
  • Opinion Outpost
  • Amazon Credit Card

How To Purchase Amazon Gift Card

Amazon Canada Gift Cards are available in participating retail stores in Canada. Apart from getting Amazon Gift Card in groceries, gaming, drug and convenience stores across Canada, the following companies are authorized to sell Amazon Gift Card:

  • Loblaw
  • Safeway
  • Sobeys
  • T & T supermarket
  • Gap Canada
  • Amazon Canada website

To order for your Amazon Gift Card (physical and e-gift cards), go to the Amazon Canada website under gift cards. The next thing to do is to choose the type of card you wish to buy and add it to your chart. Proceed to checkout and provide your payment details, and click on continue to place and complete your order. The maximum of e-gift cards from Amazon Canada and affiliated websites in a single day is $10,000 from any customer. Also, physical gift cards are delivered free with standard or express shopping.

Types and Categories of Amazon Gift Cards

Amazon gift cards which can be redeemed towards several in-store items on Amazon or affiliated websites carry no activation fees and do not expire. The following are the different types of gift vouchers available:

  1. Physical Gift Cards (with free shipping on Amazon).
  2. E-Gift Cards (email and text message delivery).
  3. Print At Home Cards.

Furthermore, the gift cards (physical and e-gift cards) are available in various categories, these include:

  • Birthday Cards
  • Easter Cards
  • Congrats Cards
  • Mother’s Day Cards
  • Wedding Cards
  • Thank You Cards
  • New Baby Cards
  • Anniversary Cards
  • Get Well Cards
  • Just Because Cards
  • Graduation Cards
  • New Home Cards
  • Retirement Cards
  • Work Place Cards
  • Father’s Day Cards
  • Halloween Cards
  • Hanukah Cards
  • Christmas Cards
  • Kwanzaa Cards
  • Valentine’s Day Cards

How To Redeem Your Gift Cards

When you purchase or possess a gift card or code from Amazon, you can redeem it towards purchases on Amazon or its affiliated websites. The online retail store has millions of products in various categories such as:

  • Books
  • Music
  • Movies and TV shows
  • Kindle
  • Echo and Alexa
  • Gift cards
  • Fire Tablets and Fire TV
  • Deals
  • Electronics
  • Computers and Tablets
  • Software
  • Video Games
  • Handmade
  • Clothing and Shoes
  • Jewelry, Watches and luggage
  • Home Garden and Pets
  • Tools and Automotive
  • Business and Industrial
  • Health and Beauty
  • Grocery
  • Toys and Baby
  • Sport, and more

Consequently, when you redeem your Amazon gift cards to your account, the funds’ value on the card will be stored on your account, which you can further apply to your next eligible order. If your order total surpasses your gift card value, you can balance up with your credit card.

Therefore, all you are required to do is log in to Your Account, enter your claim code, and click on Apply. Besides, you can use your gift cards to download digital content from Kindle.

Your Amazon account balance will display the total remaining balance of all gift cards that you have applied to Your Account but not yet redeemed towards purchases.

Amazon Cash

For customers who prefer not to use their debit or credit cards for purchases, probably for security reasons, Amazon has developed a channel through which its customers can shop with Amazon Cash. You can add an amount between CDN $5 and CDN $500 to your balance in a single transaction.

To use the Amazon Cash to top-up your balance, you are required to:

  • Bring your cash to a participating store location and request for Amazon Cash.
  • Use your barcode or phone number to identify your Amazon account.
  • Add an amount between CDN $5 to CDN $500 to your Amazon balance, which you can then use to shop on Amazon CA online store.

You can add cash to your Amazon Balance at all participating store locations. This balance can further be used for items on the Amazon CA website, without your credit or debit cards. Some of the participating stores include:

  • 7-Eleven (Barcode only)
  • Canada Post (Barcode only)
  • Circle K (Barcode only)
  • Hasty Market (Barcode and Phone Number)
  • MacEwen (Barcode and Phone Number)
  • Mobil (Barcode and Phone Number)
  • Now Prepay (Phone Number)
  • Super Segamie (Phone Number)

Some FAQ On The Amazon Gift Cards

Do Amazon CA gift cards expire?

Amazon gift cards do not expire and are redeemable towards a wide number of items at the online store.

How much is the activation fee?

Amazon gift cards carry no fees.

Can I use Amazon CA gift cards on Amazon.com?

Amazon CA gift cards are meant to be used on purchases made on Amazon.ca

What is the cost of Amazon Cash?

There are no fees to use the Amazon Cash.

Final Thought

Amazon gift cards are great for saving on your purchases and putting a smile on the faces of your loved ones. You can use the gift cards to stock up your home or office with the best available items on the online retail store. Besides, you can equally use the Amazon gift cards to customize a message or design to your friends or family on any occasion, which they can use to purchase any item of their choice in the retail store.

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