Buy $300+ Delta Gift Card, Get $20 Starbucks Gift Card

Buy $300+ Delta Gift Card, Get $20 Starbucks Gift Card

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Delta is back with another promotion for buying gift cards…

Starbucks bonus gift card with Delta gift card purchase

Here’s an easy promotion that could be worth taking advantage of. In celebration of National Coffee Day, if you purchase a $300+ Delta gift card, you can receive $20 worth of Starbucks gifts as a bonus:

  • The Delta gift cards can be redeemed 72 hours after purchase, and have no expiration date
  • The offer is valid while supplies last or until September 29, 2023, whichever comes first
  • Each person can take advantage of this promotion at most one time
  • The $20 worth of Starbucks gift cards come in the form of two $10 electronic gift cards
  • The Starbucks gift cards will be emailed separately from the Delta gift card
  • This offer is available to residents of the United States who are 18+ years old

Getting a $20 Starbucks gift card for a $300 purchase is potentially a good deal, as it’s essentially the equivalent of an incremental ~7% return.

Delta is offering a $20 Starbucks gift card

The catch with buying Delta gift cards

If you’re a Delta frequent flyer, on the surface it’s a no brainer to pick up a Delta gift card, so you can get an extra reward for money you’d spend anyway. Just to be clear, you’ll still earn SkyMiles and Medallion Qualifying Miles for your flights as you usually would when you go to redeem your gift card for a flight.

There is just one catch to buying Delta gift cards — the Delta gift card purchase as such won’t code as a Delta travel purchase for the purposes of your credit card spending, since the transaction is processed by a third party. What are the implications of that if you’re maximizing rewards?

  • If it did code as a Delta airfare purchase (which it doesn’t), you could earn credit card rewards as you usually would for airfare purchases, so there would be no opportunity cost to funding your Delta travel this way; you could earn up to 5x points on airfare purchases
  • Since it doesn’t code as an airfare purchase, you’d be better off using a card that’s lucrative for everyday spending, and there’s quite an opportunity cost there

If you’re anything like me, you’d ordinarily earn 5x points for an airfare purchase, while you’re only earning 2x points for everyday spending. So the opportunity cost here is 3x points per dollar spent. I value transferable points at 1.7 cents each, so that’s like an opportunity cost of 5.1%. That makes the value of this promotion pretty marginal, assuming you’re in a similar boat.

Bottom line

At the moment you can receive $20 worth of Starbucks gift cards when you purchase a $300+ Delta gift card. While this isn’t the highest value offer on earth, if you spend money with Delta regularly, then this offer could be worth it.

Do you plan on taking advantage of this Delta gift card promo?

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  1. Luv Guest

    I purchased the egiftcard $300 for the promo $20 Starbucks, on the website it said it would be available instantly and available to use. There wasn’t any mention of waiting 72hrs. Well, I never received the egiftcard or any email notifying if there was a delay. The money has been placed on hold in my account. I have emailed the email on their faq page. It has now been 36hours, on their faq page it...

    I purchased the egiftcard $300 for the promo $20 Starbucks, on the website it said it would be available instantly and available to use. There wasn’t any mention of waiting 72hrs. Well, I never received the egiftcard or any email notifying if there was a delay. The money has been placed on hold in my account. I have emailed the email on their faq page. It has now been 36hours, on their faq page it said to contact the email or call their 1 (800) 225-1366, which I did and been on hold for almost an hour. The First Lady said I would have to just wait it out, but if the only way to get a refund is to request it before it’s sent to me, what do I do since I am following the website instructions, I don’t want to be told that I didn’t follow their instructions within the time frame. It’s going to really suck since I had to now buy the ticket with additional money that I was hoping to have to spend on my son when he came to visit. The money is worth it but everyone passing me around on the phone is frustrating. The deal is awesome, it’s always nice to get a little incentive for buying a gift card, but not worth it when their is no live person and the number they give you tells you there’s so refund dept, sales dept, customer care department to actually speak with.

  2. Steven E Guest

    Why would you even bother - lacklustre coffee from a seemingly desperate money grabbing carrier

  3. Steve C Guest

    Please stop shilling for a $20 Starbucks gift card. Leave your $$$$ in a short term money market fund.
    Airlines would be sucking wind without gimmicks.

  4. BenjaminGuttery Diamond

    Yeah, Starbucks Loyalty Program SUCKS now.

  5. RaflW Guest

    If this is Delta's answer to the 10% discount SWA offered over the weekend via Costco (netting an instant $50 actual purchase price savings), I just have to laugh.

  6. Jan Guest

    And here I am thinking I should use up the remaining 5% grocery cashback on CFU buying DL gift cards in the supermarket before Q3 ends. On a $300 spend, 1500 UR >>>>>> 3 pumpkin spice lattes

  7. betterbub Diamond

    oh hell yes I'm gonna have Delta status AND about $20k in Starbucks gift cards

  8. T. Magee Guest

    Two companies who have dramatically devalued their loyalty programs in 2023!

  9. ZTravel Member

    Is Delta high? Lately they have been trying to replace credit card companies, hotels, rental cars, travel agencies, and now where and what coffee we drink?! What’s next - toilet paper? I’m sure someone will come on here and tell me that financially it makes sense and that Delta being the premium airline that they are, they care about what coffee we drink when not flying!
    How long will it take delta to go...

    Is Delta high? Lately they have been trying to replace credit card companies, hotels, rental cars, travel agencies, and now where and what coffee we drink?! What’s next - toilet paper? I’m sure someone will come on here and tell me that financially it makes sense and that Delta being the premium airline that they are, they care about what coffee we drink when not flying!
    How long will it take delta to go back to the flying business and spend all that energy on their route network, improving their weak joint ventures and maybe reward their frequent customers!

    1. TravelinWilly Diamond

      "I’m sure someone will come on here and tell me that financially it makes sense and that Delta being the premium airline that they are..."

      That goes without saying.

  10. Henry Guest

    Oh no, not even a single appetite to buy this trash

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TravelinWilly Diamond

"I’m sure someone will come on here and tell me that financially it makes sense and that Delta being the premium airline that they are..." That goes without saying.

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betterbub Diamond

oh hell yes I'm gonna have Delta status AND about $20k in Starbucks gift cards

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T. Magee Guest

Two companies who have dramatically devalued their loyalty programs in 2023!

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