Free $25 bi-lo gift card

[anaj06]

Do you have to buy the whole $500 on one receipt or can you buy them over time...I have read the entire promotion on their website and can't seem to find this.

I am thinking about buying for gas (Shell) but can't stomach $500 at one time.

[uummm]

They can only sell 7 cards on one receipt (atleast that is how it worked when I did it) so you either have to buy all cards at one time or if you wanted to buy smaller amount cards (like I did) then they have to be done back to back and then they use the $25 GC q from the pharmacy dept (atleast they did for me). If it is all in one transaction then it spits out a catalina for the $25 GC that they then scan to use as payment for the $25 BiLo gc.
So you would have to buy all $500 in one trip whether it is in one transaction or back to back.

[anaj06]

Originally Posted by uummm They can only sell 7 cards on one receipt (atleast that is how it worked when I did it) so you either have to buy all cards at one time or if you wanted to buy smaller amount cards (like I did) then they have to be done back to back and then they use the $25 GC q from the pharmacy dept (atleast they did for me). If it is all in one transaction then it spits out a catalina for the $25 GC that they then scan to use as payment for the $25 BiLo gc. So you would have to buy all $500 in one trip whether it is in one transaction or back to back.

Thanks for the information...this makes it more difficult to get $500 unless you have a situation where you have a large purchase anyway.

[uummm]

Not necessarily. With Xmas coming depending on how much you spend, it might work. You can buy gift cards and then use them to buy what you were going to buy anyway. I personally buy a lot at ebay (games), kohls (clothes my kids needs- nice filler under the tree) and best buy, if I couple that with a gift card for gas I MIGHT be able to get to $500...though will still probably be a hundred or two short...I try and limit my kids to $100 each for christmas and maybe $50 for DH-we don't buy for ANY extended family so I would need to come up with another $150 and not sure I want to spend that much in gas cards since that is about 3 months worth of gas and we budget monthly. Another idea is gift cards for resturants if you go out to eat at all.

[anaj06]

Originally Posted by uummm Not necessarily. With Xmas coming depending on how much you spend, it might work. You can buy gift cards and then use them to buy what you were going to buy anyway. I personally buy a lot at ebay (games), kohls (clothes my kids needs- nice filler under the tree) and best buy, if I couple that with a gift card for gas I MIGHT be able to get to $500...though will still probably be a hundred or two short...I try and limit my kids to $100 each for christmas and maybe $50 for DH-we don't buy for ANY extended family so I would need to come up with another $150 and not sure I want to spend that much in gas cards since that is about 3 months worth of gas and we budget monthly. Another idea is gift cards for resturants if you go out to eat at all.

Thanks for the ideas...I need to put some thought into it and see if I can come up with a workable solution. We budget monthly also and I just spent down my rebate money on a new freezer so no fluff in the budget right now. I usually use my rebate money to fund other rebates/deals and then just cycle the money back into my rebate account, which if I had it this would be a prime possibility. I am now working on paying for Disney World over Thanksgiving 2012...