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[gm5271]

eBay Gift Card

12,000 Points$5 Value

Available Now 

Enjoy a beautiful day! 

Try setup for us use as Main thread as they do with codes.... maybe it'll work either way I'm grateful for all who post info sure helps out Thanks! 

Ginger :  ) 

[KellytheBelly]

Only a Few Left!
Fanatics Gift Card  Sold Out
15,000 Points
$5 Value

[KellytheBelly]

Sheetz Gift Card  Sold Out

11,000 Points

$5 Value

Non-member and Members

The Sheetz Z-Card® is the perfect choice when redeeming their Z-Card for gasoline, food from our award-winning M●T●O® menu, or any of our self-serve or specialty Sheetz Bros. Coffeez® beverages, and car washes.

Z-Cards never expire and are redeemable at over 500 Sheetz locations in PA, MD, OH, WV, VA and NC.

You can now load Sheetz Z-Cards into your Sheetz Mobile App and pay for food and beverage.

[KellytheBelly]

Only a few left!  Sold Out

Sheetz Gift Card

11,000 Points

$5 Value

Non-member and Members

[KellytheBelly]

Members Only   Sold Out

DSW Gift Card

20,000 Points

$10 Value

DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse is the destination for your favorites from the best brands at incredible prices. With thousands of styles for the whole family, free shipping options, and a very rewarding loyalty program, DSW makes it easy to get what you want without spending a ton.

[AnneG461594]

Interesting - I got a $10 DSW Gift Card on April 5th for 17,000 points, and today they post the same card Members Only for 3,000 MORE points??????

[KellytheBelly]

Not too much opposition, they sold out like hotcakes. 😉

[HokiePoq]

Burger King $5

14K Points

Open to all

[Therapist4u]

Hi @HokiePoq 🙂

Thank you for the post!

I never saw this....not even as a Sold Out

They disappear before some of us ever get a chance to grab something of.....admittedly a pitifully small....value!😒

AARP.....An Absence of Rewards 🙄Possibilities  😿

LOL!!😄

Take care ☮️ ~Allen

[KellytheBelly]

Yeah, 5 bucks you get when you pay for a membership, or as a non-member get for 'free' (not including the time it takes to earn points). 🤔

P.S. The BK GC was released some time this morning, and sold out within a few hours, is my guess. Not interested. Can't always have it your way at BK. For your trouble, however, here's a BK crown >>> 👑  lol

[HokiePoq]

Ruby Tuesday $5

16k points

Open to all

[KellytheBelly]

Baby Depot eGift Card (+Burlington Stores)  Sold Out

21,000 Points

$10 Value

Non-Members and Members

At Baby Depot inside Burlington, you’ll find everything you need for baby. From furniture, to baby gear and clothing…all from trusted brands at incredible prices!

Baby Depot gift cards are redeemable at over 800 Burlington and Baby Depot stores in the US and Puerto Rico.

 

[LesL269823]

Thank you

[andrewtoo]

@KellytheBelly 

Doesn't look like anything new.

Just the same old smoke and mirrors.

I refuse to "give" points until the program

tells us how much money they will give to

the AARP Foundation for my 4,000 point

contribution.

Why hide it?  It previously stated, some time

ago, a $5 donation to the Foundation.

@AARPTeri @AARPJanelleM 

"Disclosure

Your point contribution to support AARP Foundation will result in a payment from AARP to AARP Foundation. Your point contribution is not tax-deductible."

[KellytheBelly]

ARP Foundation Points Contribution - Help End Social Isolation  Sold Out (04202023)

4,000 Points

Contribution

* Is this something new? 🤔

(note that the ARP is meant to be 'AARP,' right? Image reads ARP as well)

AARP Foundation works to end senior poverty by helping vulnerable older adults build economic opportunity and social connections. Even before COVID-19 concerns prompted calls for physical distancing, nearly 1 in 4 older adults were affected by social isolation and 43% of older adults reported feeling lonely. Connect2Affect, AARP Foundation's platform to end social isolation, provides information, resources and strategies to help increase social connection. By funding innovative concepts and launching new programs, AARP Foundation is calling attention to this public health issue and helping older adults build the social connections they need to thrive.

vs.  🤔

[KellytheBelly]

A(A)RP Foundation Points Contribution - Help End Social Isolation Only a few left!

4,000 Points

Contribution    Sold Out (04202023)

[OneDayMatisyahu]

Ruby Tuesday  Gift Card      Sold Out

$5.00 Value          16,000 Points

😎

[KellytheBelly]

Ruby Tuesday Gift Card  Only a few left!  Sold Out

16,000 Points

$5 Value

[KellytheBelly]

Members Only   Sold Out

Hotels.com Gift Card

18,000 Points

$10 Value

The Hotels.com Gift Card is redeemable towards bookings at hundreds of thousands of places to stay in 200 countries and territories, ranging from international chains and all-inclusive resorts to local favorites and bed & breakfasts. Redeemable on Hotels.com, the Hotels.com Gift Card can be used in conjunction with member-only-deals and promotions. Bookings with the Hotels.com Gift Card count toward free nights with Hotels.com® Rewards where customers can earn a free* night for every 10 nights stayed. For more information visit www.hotels.com/giftcards or e-mail giftcards@hotels.com.*Subject to Hotels.com Rewards terms and conditions, as set out at www.Hotels.com.

[KellytheBelly]

Only a few left!

Members Only  Sold Out

Hotels.com Gift Card

18,000 Points

$10 Value

[jd5928561]

I think we are all looking to get "something for nothing" because it's fun ! I think we need to separate the good works of AARP such as education and information from the way to entice us into viewing the content.  I view the second part as a symbiotic relationship - companies get some advertising and goodwill by having their gift cards available, AARP helps us by providing videos and the company running the platform gets paid by ad sponsors.  I don't see a free lunch for anyone here.  As to the structure (18 year old members ?!) there are a lot of state rules about sweepstakes and drawings. I know that even for our church raffles, we have to provide a free ticket to anyone who asks.  Possibly during the pandemic, companies found this a cheap way to entice us to shop, but many no longer need to do so.  It's all big business - not a way to give away free stuff to us seniors .....  pls don't get me wrong, I'm just as frustrated as the rest of you at fighting to get a $5 Amazon card, but since this is still a free country, we can decide how we spend our time in order to get what we want.  Lots of other platforms are more lucrative, but not too many give us good information videos as a benefit.  At one point during the pandemic, I had over a million points because i enjoyed watching (and doing!) the exercise videos every day.  Never won anything via the sweepstakes, but it certainly was fun (and beneficial!)  Please continue to post your ideas and suggestions, because it seems they clearly are listening !

[al45009948]

Hello everyone 🤗. I hear you. Just give it a little time and let's see how you feel. You mentioned that the Companies that make their gift cards available for advertising and goodwill 🤔. Give me a minute to think about that. I hope you know that companies buy these gift cards in Bulk at a Big Discount. Wish you could have been around when AARP Rewards Program was only for 50+ people that really need help and let's not talk about the economy today. You mentioned that you had around 1,000,000 points and did you win anything? Back in the day there was Auctions which was real fun and you had to keep your eye on your monitor and try to get your bid in at the very last second. A lot of us have learned a thing or two, but ask yourself what is or what was AARP's goal and reason for this organization. I'm just saying 

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[gm5271]

Hello there

Reading your post brought back to memory that I had to wait to join AARP - back in 2008 was 50 years old at that time you had to be 50 to be a member... in line with how most Senior Centers you have to be 60 or 55 .... indeed there are alot of boomers but once AARP dropped age requirement that really increased membership plus added more members to Rewards program Not sure what year they removed age requirements but think in last 10 years possibly last 5... Anyone recall when? 

AARP was really known as group for Seniors which was founder Ethel goal/idea in 1958... so reckon few of us may recall those times & have witnessed lots of changes through the years which is how life is Always changing whether we desire it too 😯😫🤷‍♀️🤗😍

I recall Sweepstakes back then & I'm not up on rules to know whether that's why program changed to allow everyone??

I've always stated all that AARP offers and information available plus support of Seniors with AARP Foundation I'd always be a paying member regardless of what becomes of Rewards program & grateful for 🍒'cherries on top'🍨 when get a usable gift card for points... guess getting anything is truly icing on cake 

Thanks for sharing... really a blessing to have our community here

Enjoy your day⚘

Ginger  ;  )

[jserramcorder]

In the early 80's my mother had joined AARP but passed away soon after.  I was in my 20's.  Among mail she got over the next several months was from AARP for auto insurance.  I mailed it back to them, marked deceased, but it kept on coming.  Finally, in desperation after having done this several times, I crossed out all he info and inserted mine.  They sent me auto insurance!  It was a year policy for a way better price than I was already paying for the standard 6 month policy.  I got the insurance and even took the 55 Alive Defensive Driver course and got a 10% rebate on the insurance as well.  The next year, upon renewal, they sent me a notice saying I was not old enough and would be dropped.  I asked them why did they take me in the first place, I gave them all valid info so they knew I was no where near 50.  They said they were dropping everyone who did not qualify.  So I guess they did this to many people.  They told me I could reapply for insurance (and presumably AARP) when I turned 50.  20 plus years later, they stated sending me invites so they once again had all my info.  I did not get auto insurance but signed up for AARP.  In all the correspondence they now tell me "Thank you for being a member for 29 years"! --

MEMBER SINCE:

Jan. 01, 1984

So I guess once you are in their system they keep that as your baseline.

[RuthW135973]

I agree with most of your comments, but I am not sure if they are listening to any of the suggestions for making changes.  I wasn't a member of the old AARP program, but I've seen other rewards programs I belong to make "improvements" which were really just improvements for the company and not for the members of the program.  But as you say, it is up to us to decide how we want to use our time, and these companies don't owe us anything, it's up to them to decide how they want to get our business.  When I first joined AARP rewards last year, I was excited about the rewards and spent quite a bit of time on the site earning points.  Now that I've seen it isn't very easy to use my points to get things I can really use, I am spending much less time on this rewards program.

[JoLo49]

The new AARP Rewards program started favorably with "points only"  GC's ranging from $10 to $25 for popular vendors like Panera Bread, Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Target, and Williams Sonoma, to name a few.  It was great to be able to redeem 3 rewards from the same vendor back then, and the number of points per dollar value for redemption was much less.  Now a $5 Amazon GC could go as high as 25K points.  In the beginning, there was 1 Daily Instant game with 100 winners per day instead of the 7 Instant Win games we now have.   AARP made it harder for us to win the Instant Wins, plus we have to use up more points to play 7 games now.  There used to be a weekly Instant Win for $50-$100 GC's when the program started, but soon eliminated.  As time went on, the new rewards program was changed, and not for the better for us paying members.  AARP started "take aways" by eliminating the higher dollar value GC's, limiting redemption rewards to 1 vendor per month, and making earning points more difficult by changing some of the daily earning videos to weekly and monthly videos.  Allowing membership to the rewards program for anyone 18 years or older, I don't see this reward program getting better for the paying senior members.  AARP is the acronym for  American Association of Retired Persons and the intent of AARP is to focus on seniors age 50+ years,  so why does an 18-year old qualify to join a program meant for "retired" persons??  I just don't get it!

[al45009948]

Hello everyone 🤗 I just have a picture to share with everyone. This is how my community page loads in the beginning. ( Kind of fast) REWARDS FOR GOODS. Then the AARP Rewards shows up. 

I'm just saying 

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[JoLo49]

Hi Ginger,

I agree, those were the good ole days!  The Rewards 4 Good was fun, and I also looked forward to the 3 p.m. Daily Deals. I never got involved with the auctions, but enjoyed the free magazine subscriptions and other perks.

JoLo49

[OneDayMatisyahu]

 Jamba Juice     Gift Card      Sold Out

$5.00  Value         15,000 Points

--  Find participating locations, visit  ---->  www.jamba.com.

😎

[KellytheBelly]

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Jamba Juice Gift Card

15,000 Points

$5 Value

[JoLo49]

I remember at the start of the "new" rewards program, there were "points only" gift cards available with values as high as $20-25 after completing the Extra Credit activities.  Now these gift cards have been reduced to $5.  The 3 rewards per month would be adequate if the dollar value of the gift cards could be increased for members to at least $10, and allow the non-members the lower $5 gift cards.

AARP has been conducting an ad campaign to recruit new members, so there are a lot more people in the program. It is so much harder to redeem for the more popular rewards with so many more people competing to get the rewards. My complaint is that  AARP is allowing anyone 18 years or older to join the rewards program.  The rewards program should be a "reward" for seniors age 50 years or older, however, as it stands, the sky is the limit as to the number of participants in the program.  I presume most of the younger participants are non-members, and they are competing for the same rewards as the paying members.