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Sell your U-Haul gift card for cash

Sell your U-Haul gift certificate for 75% of the balance. $10 minimum and no maximum, with payment initiated within 24 hours.

U-Haul calls them gift certificates rather than gift cards, and they are sold in any amount from $5 to $1,000. They are good against far more than trucks: trailer and towing equipment, self-storage rent, moving supplies like boxes and tape, and Moving Help labour all draw on the same certificate. That breadth is why they are a common housewarming and new-job gift, and also why so many of them outlive the move they were bought for.

The pattern we see is almost always a move that changed shape. A relocation falls through, an employer covers the move after all, a family member turns up with a pickup truck, or the whole thing happens six months later with a different company. The certificate does not expire, so it waits — and because nothing prompts you to spend it, it keeps waiting.

Redemption is a single value. The certificate number goes into the gift card or discount code field at checkout, and the same number is what U-Haul's own certificate page uses to look up a balance. There is no PIN on a U-Haul certificate, so if someone has asked you for one, something is wrong with what you are holding.

Worth knowing before you decide: if the certificate exceeds your order, U-Haul does not refund the difference in cash, and if the order exceeds the certificate you simply pay the rest. So a large certificate against a small need strands most of the value, which is the case where converting it makes the most sense.

U-Haul certificates do not expire and carry no fees, and the number works online and at a store counter alike. The easiest way to use an awkward remainder is supplies rather than a rental: boxes, tape, furniture pads and mattress bags all draw on the same balance, and a storage payment will absorb almost any figure.

Keep it if a move, a storage unit or a trailer tow is genuinely on the calendar, because the certificate is worth its full face value the moment any of those happens. Sell it when the move is behind you, when the company you are moving with is not U-Haul, or when it was a gift for a relocation that someone else ended up paying for — all three leave a balance with nothing to attach itself to.

We pay 75% of the verified balance on U-Haul certificates, from $10 up with no ceiling. Rental and travel credit is slower to verify and harder to resell than ordinary store credit, which is what separates this from the standard 80%. A $300 certificate pays $225.

Check the balance on U-Haul's own certificate page before you submit, using the certificate number, and enter the figure exactly — part-spent certificates are common because supplies and storage rent chip away at them in small amounts. Every one is verified by hand before payment, and a corrected balance is shown to you before any money moves.

Your cash offer
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75% of the balance · $10 minimum, no upper limit

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

U-Haul payout table

What we pay for a U-Haul card at 75%
Card balanceYou get
$25.00$18.75
$50.00$37.50
$100.00$75.00
$250.00$187.50
$500.00$375.00

How to check your U-Haul balance

Check it on U-Haul's own site before you sell. You will need the certificate number — U-Haul cards carry one code and no PIN. The code is usually under a scratch-off panel on the back, or in the email if the card is digital. Enter the balance here exactly as it reads.

Check your U-Haul 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-onlyWhatever the card carries — a code, or a number and a PIN — is 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 U-Haul gift card: common questions

75% of the balance we verify with U-Haul. A $100.00 card pays $75.00 and a $250.00 card pays $187.50. 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. There is no upper limit on a single U-Haul card — large balances take the same rate and the same route as small ones.

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 75% 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.

Just the certificate number. U-Haul cards do not have a separate PIN — one code carries the whole balance, and it is the only thing we ask for. It is usually under a scratch-off panel on the back, or in the email if the card is digital.

In cash, 75% of whatever balance is actually left on it: a $50.00 card is $37.50 and a $200.00 card is $150.00. Check the balance with U-Haul before you decide, because what a card is remembered as holding and what it actually holds are rarely the same number. The calculator on this page prices any balance you type.

Yes, and most of what we buy is partially used. A U-Haul 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 car rental cards we buy

Same process, same payout timing. See all car rental brands.