You can transfer balances of $5 or more from one Starbucks Card to another by doing one the following:. In participating Starbucks retail locations. By signing in to your Starbucks account, and then select 'Account' 'Card management' and then 'Manage'. Through the Starbucks® app for iPhone® and Android™ by selecting the face. And while Coinstar charges a small fee for converting coins into paper money, opting for a gift card allows you to trade those coins in for free. We didn’t include this method in the main part of the article because it isn’t technically a way to get a free gift card, but it sure can feel like free money when you cash-in your spare change. Gameflip is the simplest way to sell unwanted Starbucks gift cards for cash. You can sell any unused, prepaid and non-reloadable gift cards on Gameflip. Popular gift cards on Gameflip are Steam cards, PSN, Xbox Live, Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play cards. Your Starbucks gift card will be listed in front of the thousands of buyers participating.

I have now been asked this question around 100+ times.

How Do You Convert Amazon Gift Cards and Credit Into Cash?

This stems from people using the Amazon Trade-In program with extensions like Textbook Arbitrage and Video Game Arbitrage or doing trade-ins like the one described in this post.

When using the Amazon Trade-In program, sellers are paid in the form of Amazon credit. To the normal person, this might seem like a waste of time and money.

Why in the world would I want to turn my cash into a gift card!?!? I can’t pay my bills with Amazon credit.

Well. There are actually a few different ways you can convert those credits back into cash….

#1. Use the gift cards/credits for Amazon to Amazon flips.

This is my personal favorite. I love using OAXRay and Tactical Arbitrage to find Amazon to Amazon flips. There is no better feeling then using the money I made from the Amazon Trade-In Program to make even more money!

#2. Buy all your shipping supplies from Amazon

This one is pretty much a no brainer if you are a seller on Amazon. You can easily order polybags, tape, scales, scotty peelers, etc for business purposes. Trading in for credits can actually save you 20%+ on a cost you are going to be paying already.

#3. Convert the cards and credits to Bitcoin using Purse.io

This is one that is new to me, but I have loved it thus far. Essentially what you do is sign up for an account and then you have the ability to buy a wishlist for someone in exchange for Bitcoin. They have an escrow program to ensure the transaction goes smoothly and conversion rates vary. You can learn more here.

#4. Buy Stuff for Friends/family and Get Cash in Exchange

I actually perform this method every week. My father-in-law shoots me a text message and asks me to order a given item. I hop onto Amazon and buy it and then he shoots me money via Chase Quick Pay. It is a nice and quick way to help those who don’t have a Prime account and to get cash out of your Amazon gift cards and credit.

#5. Shop Using Amazon Payments

If you shop online, there are 100’s of merchants that accept payments through Amazon Payments. You can shop on these sites for flips to Amazon, personal use, or even flipping to other sites such as eBay or Mercari.

#6. Buy textbooks and flip them using Bookscouter.com

Can I Turn My Starbucks Gift Card Into Real Money Online

This should be part of your Textbook Arbitrage process anyway, but there are actually 100’s of other sites that will allow you to trade-in textbooks for actual cash payments. These sites usually pay out less than Amazon, but it can be a good way for you to convert those Amazon credits into cash. Bookscouter is a site that shows you where you can trade-in a certain book and makes it easy to find the highest price.

#7. Shop for yourself

Duh. buy yourself something nice. And do it with the money you made.

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#8. Buy something from yourself

This one is a little strange and would be the last of my options (because this is most likely against the terms of service of Amazon – I can’t find it explicitly, but I’m willing to bet it is). If you keep your business and personal Amazon accounts separate, you could in theory purchase an item from yourself (merchant fulfilled) and say you shipped it to yourself. Once again – I would not do this, but it is an option if you were in a pinch for some reason.

And there you have it! Eight different ways to convert Amazon gift cards and credit into cash.

It’s pretty simple. Since the Bar Code is just a representation of your gift cards Serial Number, all you need to do is take a Screen Capture from your phone of the generated Starbucks Card Bar Code.

If you do not know how to take a screen capture with your particular smart phone, just google it. But here’s the iPhone instructions: Press the Home button and the Power/Sleep Button at the same time: Here’s a link: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-With-an-iPhone or this one on the Apple Forum: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3739872?tstart=0

Then you can email it to your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend, or whoever else you want to use your card.

Screen Cap Like So (Obviously I removed the real bar code and numbers from this picture):

PLEASE NOTE: This does not fool the system into giving you free Starbucks! Nor was this an attempt to try to circumvent the system.

Also, DO NOT Send this to anyone who you do not want to use your Starbucks card and your money, treat this screen capture as if it was your real Starbucks card, because it is! Your balance will decrease each and every time someone scans the photo on their own smart phone at the Starbucks register.

Also, what’s cool about this method, is you do not need to share your password, and the person you share the photo with doesn’t even need the Starbucks App installed on their phone!

Just Another Stream of Random Bits…– Robert C. Ilardi