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Sell your Best Buy gift card for cash

We buy Best Buy gift cards at 80% of the balance — $10 to $2,000 per card, paid within 24 hours with no fees.

Best Buy cards have a particular failure mode: the balance is almost always the wrong size for what Best Buy sells. Electronics come in big-ticket increments. A $100 card does not buy a television, and once you have bought the television, the $37 left on the card does not buy anything you actually want. It buys a cable you do not need.

That mismatch is why these cards linger. There is no natural small purchase to absorb a remainder, so the card waits for a next big purchase that may be years away — and by then the technology has moved and the plan has changed.

Best Buy cards are also a standard corporate and rebate reward, which puts them in the hands of people who did not ask for them. If you are not in the market for a device, a Best Buy balance is close to inert. It is worth its face value only to someone who was about to shop there anyway.

We pay 80% of the verified balance, flat, on cards from $10 up to $2,000. A $250 card is $200. Partially used cards are fine — a card with $42.67 left is worth exactly the same per dollar as a fresh one, as long as it clears the $10 minimum.

Best Buy cards can be used in store, on bestbuy.com, and towards Geek Squad services, which is the least-known route and often the most useful one for a stranded balance — a repair, an installation or a support plan absorbs credit without requiring you to want a new device. The cards do not expire and carry no fees.

If a purchase is genuinely coming — a laptop for school, a replacement for something failing — the card is worth more spent than sold. Sell when the balance is an orphan: the big purchase already happened, the remainder is too small to matter, or the card came from a rebate on a product you bought years ago and you have no electronics needs at all.

You can check the balance at bestbuy.com/gift-card-balance with the card number and PIN. This is one of the balance pages that has been stable and works cleanly, so it is worth doing before you submit rather than guessing. Enter the figure exactly as it reads.

After you submit, we verify with Best Buy before paying. A lower confirmed balance means a recalculated offer at the same 80% rate, shown to you before anything is sent. Payment goes out by PayPal or Cash App within 24 hours, or a paper check in 5 to 7 business days.

Your cash offer
$0.00
80% of the balance · $10–$2,000 per card

Nothing is final until you submit. You can still back out at review.

Best Buy payout table

What we pay for a Best Buy card at 80%
Card balanceYou get
$25.00$20.00
$50.00$40.00
$100.00$80.00
$250.00$200.00
$500.00$400.00

How to check your Best Buy balance

Check it on Best Buy's own site before you sell. You will need the full card number and the PIN — usually under a scratch-off strip on the back, or in the confirmation email for a digital card. Enter the balance here exactly as it reads.

Check your Best Buy balance

When you get paid

Three ways out, no fees on any of them. There is no bank transfer option — we removed it deliberately.

  • PayPal Initiated within 24 hoursUsually the same afternoon once the balance is confirmed.
  • Cash App Initiated within 24 hoursSent to your $Cashtag. Same timing as PayPal.
  • Paper check 5–7 business daysPosted to you. Slower, because the mail is the mail.
  • Card data encrypted and admin-onlyThe full number and PIN are visible to the verification admin and nobody else — not other sellers, not support staff.
  • No fees, everNo listing fee, no commission, no payout fee. The number you accept is the number that arrives.
  • We buy it outrightThere is nothing to list and no buyer to wait on. Once we own the card, the resale risk is ours, not yours.

Selling a Best Buy gift card: common questions

80% of the balance we verify with Best Buy. A $100.00 card pays $80.00 and a $250.00 card pays $200.00. The rate is flat — it does not improve with larger balances and it does not drop for smaller ones.

$10.00. Below that the payment processing costs more than the trade is worth to either of us. The most we take on a single Best Buy card is $2,000.00; if yours is larger, submit it as two cards.

PayPal and Cash App payments are initiated within 24 hours of you submitting the card, and often the same afternoon. A paper check takes 5 to 7 business days because it goes through the mail. The only thing standing between you and the money is the balance check.

We recalculate at the same 80% rate and show you the corrected offer before any money moves. If the new number does not work for you, say no and keep the card. People misremember balances constantly and it is not held against you.

Yes, and most of what we buy is partially used. A Best Buy card with $37.18 left is worth the same per dollar as a full one. Enter the exact remaining balance, down to the cents, as long as it is at least $10.00.

Other electronics cards we buy

Same process, same payout timing. See all electronics brands.