Paze Gift Card Rewards Got Replaced With Pizza Coupons
11 posts since Jul 2026, all from r/CreditCards.
“The idea of being able to redeem a gift card for cash at all is insane, that’s just welcoming scammers (speaking as someone who works in retail and has common sense)”
“Well, shoot. This is 1000x times worse than nerfing cashback redemption for some stupid gift card scheme. Anyone got a plan B handy?”
“Man I miss those days. We got acquired by a mega corp and now the Expense team penny pinches on the corporate card.”
Users are complaining about a 'Paze craze' involving credit card rewards that has been significantly nerfed, with initial free gift cards replaced by less desirable offers like coffee and pizza. Many express disappointment at lost opportunities and question the long-term viability of the platform.
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“The idea of being able to redeem a gift card for cash at all is insane, that’s just welcoming scammers (speaking as someone who works in retail and has common sense)”
“People who took advantage of the paze promotion and didn't combine their gift cards could easily have thousands of dollars in $10 gift cards”
“Well, shoot. This is 1000x times worse than nerfing cashback redemption for some stupid gift card scheme. Anyone got a plan B handy? submitted by /u/SargeSlaughter [link] [comments]”
“Man I miss those days. We got acquired by a mega corp and now the Expense team penny pinches on the corporate card.”
“When they still had uber eats i would spend 152 dollars to get 200 dollars worth of gift cards on Costco”
“exactly. OR just literally $100 per account, no matter how many cards. It's really not that difficult. What they ended up with is a mess. And nerfing things on the go is the stupidest thing. Like, if you didn't think in this day and age, people wouldn't find loopholes. Then YOU SHOULD pay for your stupidity.”
“I wonder if Chase will still do the PayPal 5% category for the freedom card, kinda goes against their Paze product.”
Yeah I don't understand the benefit over PayPal if not for the promo
“i was able to do 3 in a row before red banner today! now I gotta wait 48 hrs boooo”
“If the Fed did that, they should do it for all gift cards, not just Amazon. The whole model is a racket. Free 0% loans to businesses is all they are. But you're right, there are billions of dollars represented as gift card credit in the monetary system. It would be interesting to account for it. The only reason Amazon gift cards aren't exactly as good as cash (anymore) is that they've stopped allowing you to check the balance of a card. You must redeem it to know the balance, and at”
“How? Because it seems Paze are still charging to a credit card, and don't the banks own the credit card as well? I suppose they don't own the network i.e. Visa/MC.”
“It was a craze because initially everyone was getting free gift cards. Now everyone is getting their diarrhea coffee and pizza.”
“Massively nerfed? It works exactly the same as before, just not for gift cards lol. You can use it exactly the same at any of the vendors. They've even added new ones.”
“I had a whole day to abuse the shit out of it and didn't. Lost out on a free 1k. Which really sucked cuz I literally bought some tech like a week later”
“Sort of - it's owned by EWS, which is owned by most of the big banks, including Chase.”
“Paze’s rollout was unneeded (no market niche, last movers) and until they started paying people to use it, really failed. Some people have many, even dozens of eligible cards. There are very few merchants that take Paze so once this is over in September their volume will go back to being abysmal.”