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Reward Moments: Favorite Redemption in 2025?

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
December 2, 2025
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What was your favorite AARP Rewards redemption this year?

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I try to purchase the Home Depot or Lowe's gift cards from noon to 2pm when they are offered at a discount and they are immediately sold out at noon. All the bots must buy them up. Maybe from noon to 2pm let members enter their name into a drawing if they are interested. Then Email them that they won the drawing and can purchase the discounted gift card if still interested. Any suggestions on how to beat the bots and keep these great offerings within the membership?

SereneSeagull

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Not a bot here. Look at the Available Gift Card Discussion thread when people spot the cards for points. I won’t buy cards for money, only get free cards for points

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KellyE721161

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I do both - Redeem points for gift cards and purchase $25 gift cards at a discount for $20 during those noon to 2pm time offerings. I think they are both nice membership perks.

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km8295

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Through all of the many years and hundreds of contests entered with AARP, I have never won anything. Discourging!

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ds62976772

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Reward this year?! How about reward ever?! I have used my points for hundreds of 'prizes' and what

do I have? Nothing. I don't know why I keep playing.

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RandR898704

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Wish I had one but after years of trying I've yet to win anything. Are these total hype or do they really exist????

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ll28188612

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Yep, same here, I have lots of points, but have yet to win anything, so what

is the point of trying.

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jserramcorder

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trying to find three things each month starting usually on the first is not easy especially when every month remember every month not just now and then but every month on the first no matter how hard you try and no matter what aarp says , those extra credit things mess up and you cannot redeem for them until maybe the next day when of course they are all gone. aarp are you listening? there are serious flaws ont he first of every month with your system. Lost out on the walgreens for this and do not put much faith in ever getting the better rewards that sell out faster than ever. I guess those 18 year old members have figured out a way to get them first. aarp used to stand for association of american retired people or something like that now it is every person for themselves since it certainly is not for all.

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patriciamgr

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It feels disrespectful (of Members' time & efforts) to me for AARP to fail to verify that their Extra Credit reward activities on the 1st of each month actually work. They need bigger denomination points-only rewards if they insist on limiting redemptions to 3 per month. The desirable rewards (Amazon, grocery, drug or hardware stores, etc.) get snapped up incredibly quickly. Instead of the AARP Rewards Program being a fun, interesting activity it often becomes a source of annoyance.

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jserramcorder

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you mean there are people on this site who actually still have an account to work with that have not been flagged for supposedly fraud even though no proof and all the points went bye bye?