eGifter Pulls a Gyft: Offers 3% Back For Bitcoin Gift Card Purchases
Popular gift card-buying service Gyft made a splash in November of last year when they announced they would be launching a rewards program, offering 3 percent back in the form of points to customers who made gift card purchases in bitcoin. Competitor eGifter is now following suit; announcing today that they have launched a tiered rewards program. Customers using the social gifting company to buy electronic gift cards can now earn 3 percent back for each dollar they spend on over 200 brands. Like Gyft, the percentage is returned as points which can be applied to subsequent purchases.....
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Electronic gift card provider eGifter has launched a new incentive program for customers who want to pay with bitcoin, dogecoin or litecoin: a 3% discount in redeemable rewards on such purchases. The eGifter Points program, officially launched today by the New York-based company, skews discounts favorably toward the company's decentralized payment options. Customers in the rewards program only receive a 2% discount for using PayPal, and 1% for using credit cards to buy eGifter cards from major merchandisers. Tyler Rowe, eGifter's co-founder and CEO, said: "Because cryptocurrencies cost....
Plastic gift cards are so 2012, but going mobile and digital with your gift-card purchases isn't enough anymore. Now you can pay for gift card apps with bitcoins. California-based Gyft, a digital gift card platform serving the US, announced today that it has partnered with BitPay to begin accepting bitcoin payments from customers. While Gyft offers both an iPhone app and an Android app, the bitcoin option will be available only on Android. The app itself is free. By enabling bitcoin payments for gift cards, the Gyft-BitPay partnership essentially opens the door to let bitcoin fans....
On Christmas Eve, gift card-buying service Gyft has announced that for a short time, purchases of gift cards made in bitcoin will earn 4 percent points back from Gyft. Compare that to using a credit card (1 percent points back) and PayPal (2 percent points back). "Given the huge demand and success of Bitcoin Black Friday, we decided to repeat the promotion as a once off for the next 24 hours only (until midnight PST, Dec 25th)," says the announcement. It's interesting this would happen so late (given Christmas is tomorrow), but we reckon it's being offered as a gift to the customer themselves.
Just this morning, BitPay, Inc announced it's newest merchant, Gyft. Gyft, a mobile gift card platform, added support for Bitcoin purchases of gift cards on the Android platform, through its partnership with BitPay Inc, the world's leading payment processor for Bitcoin. Gyft offers a mobile gift card app to allow customers to buy, store, send, and redeem gift cards on their phones. In addition to a free phone app, customers can share gift cards via Facebook. Gyft works with 50,000 physical retail locations across the USA including GAP, Lowes, Sephora, Gamestop, American Eagle, Sports....
Gift card-buying service Gyft has today announced the introduction of what has been aptly named Gyft Points, a program which allows users to earn 3 percent back in points (where each point is the equivalent of one U. S. penny) in purchases going back to the first day the user originally joined Gyft. These points can subsequently be used on future gift card purchases. "If anyone has ever questioned the benefit of using Bitcoin vs a credit card - we now have an answer to that! We think this is the best rewards program available anywhere - beating all major credit card companies and we're....