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[misssue23]

Question for all of you DGC discount veterans:

Ignoring credit card bonuses, are there any decent DGC buying opportunities (i.e. sales) at any times of the year other than
November and December? Or do you pretty much have to plan on buying a year’s supply during this time period to fund your dues, passes/tickets and other Disney spending for the following year?

Thanks!

If you pay attention, there are definitely opportunities to buy discounted cards other months. it may not be a straight sale like BB, but you may be able to stack cc offers, cash back sites - just need to be more creative
BB and sams have had sales on DGC at other times during the year...

 

[trenty]

Question for all of you DGC discount veterans:

Ignoring credit card bonuses, are there any decent DGC buying opportunities (i.e. sales) at any times of the year other than
November and December? Or do you pretty much have to plan on buying a year’s supply during this time period to fund your dues, passes/tickets and other Disney spending for the following year?

Thanks!

I personally find deals all year long and slowly collect. I have $80 more to get before Jan 15. I will do $30 at CVS using cashapp (7%) and then use my Disney Rewards (PYB) for the remaining amount (100%).

This past year, I bought Disney GCs 11 times from May through December so far. Prior to May I did buy - but those were applied to 2024 dues.
Here is the breakdown:

• 3 purchases were made at BJs online - all using whatever coupon was given to me at the time - sometimes they were on sale, sometimes there were not; one of these was using some rakuten money
• 5 purchases were made at CVS with either CC offers, cash app offers
• 2 purchases were made at Best Buy online - one with an AMEX offer, one with the recent sale
• 1 purchase was made at the disney store online - I used my rakuten cash back for that

 

[my523]

Finally a target circle bonus I can use.
Get $10 off a $50 purchase. Good until 12/24.

Wish gift cards were not excluded.

Is anyone else having issues with Target not letting you use gift cards online if your order includes buying any Disney (or any other brand) gift cards? I bought the $500 worth of Target gift cards for 10% off. I was trying to fulfill the spend $120 4 times bonus, but if I do it online it won't let me pay for the merchandise portion of my order with my gift card. It is making the whole thing be paid with my Red card.
Thankfully my store is only 5 minutes down the road (and it works fine to use the gift card to pay the merchandise portion in store and only charge the Disney gift card to the Red card), so this isn't a huge problem, but I like to do curbside pick up to prevent myself from buying stupid stuff while walking around.

The system probably doesn’t have a way to separate the DGC portion from the total charged.

 

[trenty]

I just got a $10 off $100 coupon at BJs. Expires 12/28.
I will probably pass on using this for a Disney GC. I have enough to pay my 2025 dues.

 

[gr8ful]

If you pay attention, there are definitely opportunities to buy discounted cards other months. it may not be a straight sale like BB, but you may be able to stack cc offers, cash back sites - just need to be more creative
BB and sams have had sales on DGC at other times during the year...

Appreciate the advice. Discovered this community in November and immediately started buying DGCs with Sam’s and BJs purchases, and now in December with giftcard.com and BB purchases.

We are relatively new to DVC - second DVC trip coming up in January. Thanks to this thread, we have been able to purchase enough discounted DGCs to cover most of the cost of our first-time APs and Annual Dues. Now working to accumulate cards for spending during January trip and thinking ahead to our November trip…

 

[gr8ful]

I personally find deals all year long and slowly collect. I have $80 more to get before Jan 15. I will do $30 at CVS using cashapp (7%) and then use my Disney Rewards (PYB) for the remaining amount (100%).

This past year, I bought Disney GCs 11 times from May through December so far. Prior to May I did buy - but those were applied to 2024 dues.
Here is the breakdown:

• 3 purchases were made at BJs online - all using whatever coupon was given to me at the time - sometimes they were on sale, sometimes there were not; one of these was using some rakuten money
• 5 purchases were made at CVS with either CC offers, cash app offers
• 2 purchases were made at Best Buy online - one with an AMEX offer, one with the recent sale
• 1 purchase was made at the disney store online - I used my rakuten cash back for that

Thanks for sharing. Definitely can use some
of these tactics. I am trying to figure out a similar strategy of buying throughout year instead of a mad scramble at the end although November and December will likely always be a time of heavy DGC purchases.

 

[eticketplease]

I just got a $10 off $100 coupon at BJs. Expires 12/28.
I will probably pass on using this for a Disney GC. I have enough to pay my 2025 dues.

Were you planning to use the coupon on other things?

I always just use the rewards/coupons on GC as those are not returnable.
If I use it on something else and return that item I am getting the value - the value of the coupon and or rewards used.

You would save at least 10% with that coupon even if you just bought the variable load that doesn't get discounted.

BTW 2026 dues are just around the corner lol