Have a rebate card and you aren’t sure how to cash or buy items or withdraw the full amount of credit refund? Here are some very helpful secrets:

First, some rebate cards can be cashed for the full amount of credit at an ATM or your bank.

Second, many rebate cards must be activated over the phone. After you complete this process, you may be able to contact customer service on the same phone number. With some card companies, you can ask them to cancel the card and then instead, send you a check for the full amount!

Third, you might have heard about buying a gift certificate at a store such as Amazon.com for the full amount of your rebate card. Well this might be difficult because if you try this online, many retailers do a quick check on a card to make sure it has enough funds. It can result in the loss of one dollar or so, making your fifty dollar card worth forty nine and unable to process the transaction for the fifty dollar gift card. What you can do, is use the rebate card at a brick and mortar store for a gift card in the amount amount equal to the funds on your rebate card. Even gift certificates for Amazon.com can be purchased at physical local stores such as CVS, Target, Walgreens and Walmart.

Some states do not sell physical Amazon gift cards: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Utah.

If you live in one of those states, you could use the rebate card for a gift certificate at a physical store of a retailer that accepts debit cards.

Another tip is to buy gas with the card. This way you can slowly and judiciously take the exact amount of money off the rebate credit cards.

Use Rebate Cards to Fund Online Account

Finally, some online merchants allow you to fund an account with debit cards. One such merchant is Namecheap.com For example, I like buying .com domains from them because they offer competitive pricing on domains and give you one full year of Whois guard privacy protection for free. I signed up with them and deposited the full amount of the prepaid rebate card I had to buy domains, transfers or hosting.Namecheap.com - Cheap domain name registration, renewal and transfers - Free SSL Certificates - Web Hosting

I hope you found these tips useful for getting the full amount of refund money off the prepaid rebate credit cards.