topic Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card? in Credit Cards

Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 05:07:41 GMT

I dont see anywhere option to redeem points for visa prepaid gift cards? I see different brands of retail gift cards but not visa.

Do they still have option to redeem for prepaid visa ?

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:08:52 GMT

I don't think so, never seen it available.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:06:00 GMT

hmmm. If prepaid visa is not available then that makes their reward points worthless to me. I guess i will choose amazon gc. BTW until march 2017 , the visa was available if you typed ' visa' in the rewards catalogue search box. Now even that does not work.

check out this thread about how they slowly eliminated the prepaid visa.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193946

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:13:22 GMT

Yeah, Visas were good get. Now, i just get the gas cards.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:19:27 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
hmmm. If prepaid visa is not available then that makes their reward points worthless to me. I guess i will choose amazon gc. BTW until march 2017 , the visa was available if you typed ' visa' in the rewards catalogue search box. Now even that does not work.
check out this thread about how they slowly eliminated the prepaid visa.
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193946

Their rewards points are pretty useless. I would suggest their 2% cash back card.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:06:50 GMT

Yeah i have their powercash rewards visa sig.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:20:34 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
hmmm. If prepaid visa is not available then that makes their reward points worthless to me. I guess i will choose amazon gc. BTW until march 2017 , the visa was available if you typed ' visa' in the rewards catalogue search box. Now even that does not work.
check out this thread about how they slowly eliminated the prepaid visa.
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193946
Their rewards points are pretty useless. I would suggest their 2% cash back card.

Agree

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:27:51 GMT

It’s there. Select gift cards and scroll to the bottom. I just checked.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:59:37 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
It’s there. Select gift cards and scroll to the bottom. I just checked.

Screenshot please . Thanks!

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

SBR249 — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:52:55 GMT

It showed up on the front page of the rewards site and it's the first listing when I click on gift cards.

Sorry I can't seem to upload images at the moment so I can't include a screenshot.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Loquat — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:09:37 GMT

I think it depends on the type of card you have with PenFed. Not all cards get the same gift card options. I remember asking this question well over a year ago to a CSR when I had the Platinum Rewards and the Amex Travel.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:50:14 GMT

I just checked mine and I don’t have it on either of my cards.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:52:40 GMT

Yesterday i met the spend requirement for my penfed travel amex and to day ihad 23000+ bonus points ,so i called penfed rewards department and asked them about redeeming for a prepaid visa card and they said that 'they dont have that programme ' for travel amex redemption.

So i went ahead redeemed the points for 200$ amazon gift card.

Luckily i shop a lot at amazon and i have prime. Besides my step daughter has given me a list of toys to get for her birthday and christmas from 'toys r us' brochure and all of those in the list are available on amazon. Lol!!

So it works out for me.

But it sucks that they dont have prepaid visa redemption (like navy does ) for travel amex.

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:47:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
It’s there. Select gift cards and scroll to the bottom. I just checked.
Screenshot please . Thanks!

For me (Plat Rewards) it's the first item in Giftcards

Re: Penfed reward points - how to redeem for visa prepaid card?

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:03:00 GMT

Thank you for the screen shot. My travel amex does not have that option unfortunately