topic 👍 Thank You AARP for "fixing" the POINTS ONLY filter for RETAIL giftcards!!! in AARP Rewards Connect

👍 Thank You AARP for "fixing" the POINTS ONLY filter for RETAIL giftcards!!!

SummerOnTheWay1 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:52:26 GMT

[Sunday 3/8/26 12:52pm ET]

I just "tried" using the filter I had been using since joining the Rewards Program in May 2025.

As we all know, "filters" had a GLITCH this year 2026.

*** Well, fingers crossed it is indeed fixed - it just WORKED for me. 💃

I do ONLY retail points only giftcards.

And the interesting thing when I COMPARED both lists (one used points only filter with retail filter,one used just retail filter) = the one WITHOUT the points only filter was SHORT by one giftcard. It DIDNOT list the Shari giftcard.

Lol, now to HOPE it works the NEXT time I search. 😅

HAPPY SUNDAY ALL!!!

Nicole 💛

Re: 👍 Thank You AARP for "fixing" the POINTS ONLY filter for RETAIL giftcards!!!

SereneSeagull — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:11:24 GMT

Good to hear, Nicole! Thanks for letting us know!

For those of us who still might distrust the given search filter like I do, here’s the search string to filter rewards, that I”ll continue to use…

-greeting -subscription -coloring -instant -sweepstakes -guide

Enter it here.

Minus sign in front of each word, one space between words. This filters out those words. It’s called Boolean Search, and it’s an old, but a tried-and-true way to filter out given words from a search, even Google.

Results will then be cleaner:

Re: 👍 Thank You AARP for "fixing" the POINTS ONLY filter for RETAIL giftcards!!!

SummerOnTheWay1 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:16:35 GMT

WE appreciate you @SereneSeagull 🤗

Re: 👍 Thank You AARP for "fixing" the POINTS ONLY filter for RETAIL giftcards!!!

SummerOnTheWay1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:25:52 GMT

[Monday 3/9/26 9:25am ET]

Okay, worked AGAIN so it has been "fixed" 💃

Re: 👍 Thank You AARP for "fixing" the POINTS ONLY filter for RETAIL giftcards!!!

sr13892711 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:15:53 GMT

What does that string of words do? What are they filtering for?

Re: 👍 Thank You AARP for "fixing" the POINTS ONLY filter for RETAIL giftcards!!!

SereneSeagull — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:35:58 GMT

Hi @sr13892711 ,

The Search string filtered out what I didn’t want in my search, making it a cleaner list to sort through.

But mainly when the gift cards for points search filter that this site has set up was not working properly, and cards were dropping through the cracks when using it, this helped, for me at any rate, to be a work-around. Plus it got rid of the things I didn’t want in my given results. (Those items listed in the search string). 👍😊