Use up your old Visa gift cards to shop on Amazon!

Have an old Visa gift card lying around from a past rebate or offer? If you’re like me, you may have a couple of these with odd amounts stuck on them, like $3.72 — a number too small to buy anything large with, but also something that you don’t want to throw away, right? Did you know you can use those small prepaid gift cards to make partial-purchase payments on Amazon?

Consumerist has a great article on how to do this, and I love this idea, especially since many of us have been doing rebates lately (Kohl’s, Olay, etc.) that involve Visa, MasterCard, or American Express gift cards.

While Amazon won’t let you split payments among multiple credit cards, they will allow you to pay both with an Amazon gift card and another form of payment! It’s easy to use up your old Visa gift card by turning it into an Amazon gift card. Send it to yourself as an e-gift card (which you get immediately in your email) and then use that to pay on Amazon!

I’ll walk you through the steps, as it’s very easy to do…
Head over to Amazon’s Order a custom-balance Amazon Gift Card page. Enter the amount of the balance left on your Visa gift card, and fill out the gift card info to have it sent to yourself. Once you pay with your old Visa gift card, you’ll receive a new Amazon gift card in your email!