Frequently Asked Questions

Escrow is how FlipGift turns gift cards into cash — without the card ever changing hands. A seller keeps their gift card and uses it to fulfil a buyer's retail order, the buyer pays below retail, and the money sits in escrow with FlipGift until the package is delivered and confirmed. The seller gets cash, the buyer gets a discount, and no card number or PIN is ever shared with anyone.

No — never. That’s the point of the model. As a seller you place the buyer’s order yourself, from your own store account, using your own card. The code stays with you from start to finish, so the drained-code and clawback scenarios that plague code-selling sites structurally cannot happen.

You paste a product link from a supported store and set a below-retail price. A seller holding that store’s gift card accepts, orders the item to your address, and uploads the tracking number. Your money stays locked in escrow until the carrier confirms delivery and you confirm the contents — if it never ships, you’re refunded. Sellers are required to offer at least 8% off retail, and most offers run deeper, so every deal is a real saving.

Yes. Code FIRST50 puts $50 on your account toward your first order of $250 or more — on top of the discount the seller is already giving, not instead of it. It applies automatically the moment you pay for the deal, so you deposit $50 less than the deal costs. One per person, it expires 30 days after you claim it, and it is a discount rather than cash: it pays for an order but cannot be withdrawn. If that deal is cancelled or refunded, the credit comes back to your account for another order. Sellers don’t need a code — they’re being paid, not paying.

Yes — a free one for Chrome and the other Chromium browsers on a computer (Edge, Brave, Opera). On a store’s own site its icon lights up when a FlipGift seller is ready there; click it on a product to see your price and open the order form with the link, name and price already filled in. It is not a coupon tool, Chrome shows no permission warning when you add it, and it does not send your browsing anywhere. From version 1.1 it also has a Sell side: what buyers will pay for a gift card balance at the store you are on, and — if you connect your seller account — your open orders with the address to ship to and one-click order proof. What it does and where to get it: the FlipGift extension.

You net 72–88% of the card’s face value in cash, and you choose where in that range you land: the discount you offer is the whole of it. Per $100 of card value, $89.70 reaches your balance at the 8% minimum discount and $73.13 at the 25% this market usually clears at; the 2% withdrawal fee (minimum $2, capped at $25) is what turns those into roughly 88% and 72% by the time the money is out of FlipGift. The platform fee is 2.5% on your side (5% split with the buyer) and the exact breakdown is shown on every deal before you accept. That usually beats buy-back sites, and unlike them, you never surrender the code and then wait to be paid.

Deals run from a $10 minimum up to your tier cap. New accounts start at $600 per deal and $1,200 per day, and limits grow automatically with your completed-deal track record — up to $10,000 per deal and $40,000 per day for the most established accounts.

Your checkout total is an estimate: it includes the store's shipping (per-store rates and free-shipping thresholds where we know them) and sales tax for your shipping address — in the US tax always follows the destination, not the seller. The exact amounts are set by the store itself when the seller places the order, so every deal is reconciled to the seller's receipt: if the store's real total comes in below the estimate, the difference is refunded to your balance automatically. You only ever pay what the store actually charged.

You fund your balance with stablecoins, paid on the wallet page itself — there is no outside checkout. Start by picking where the money is coming from: Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, Robinhood or your own crypto wallet, so you do not need to already hold crypto. Send the exact amount shown (that amount is how we recognise your payment) and it credits once the network confirms, usually within seconds. Deposits run from $10 to $5,000 and carry no fee. Money comes out two ways: crypto to your own wallet — USDT or USDC on Solana, BNB Chain, Base, Tron or Ethereum, DAI on Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base — or a digital prepaid Visa card you can spend anywhere Visa is accepted in the USA, any whole-dollar amount from $20 to $1,000, no crypto wallet needed. Withdrawals are open from your very first deal; new accounts have a 48-hour security hold that shrinks to 6 hours as your tier grows, and every payout is reviewed manually before it’s sent, which is part of how we keep fraud out. Withdrawals cost 2% (minimum $2, capped at $25); a prepaid card adds the issuer’s own 2.5% purchase fee on top, so the full face value stays on the card. Crypto payouts also have a per-network minimum, because network costs differ: $10 on Solana, BNB Chain and Base, $100 on Tron, $300 on Ethereum.

Your money is still in escrow — it never reached the seller. Deals have fulfilment deadlines: if a real tracking number doesn’t appear in time, the deal is cancelled and you’re refunded automatically. If something ships but arrives wrong or damaged, don’t confirm delivery: the dispute is reviewed with funds still frozen, and the store’s own return policy applies on top.

Around 200 US online stores — the full list with live availability is on the store catalog at /shop. If your store isn’t listed, submit a request from the escrow page: popular requests get added, and we’ll email you when yours goes live.

Two clocks: matching and shipping. Matching depends on seller availability for your store — mainstream stores often match within hours, niche ones can take days. After that it’s normal retail shipping with a tracking number you watch yourself.

Because a gift card code is just information. Once two people exchange codes, both of them know both codes — forever. The previous owner can spend the balance an hour or a week later, redemption is anonymous, and stores don't share redemption logs with third parties, so nobody can prove who drained a card. That applies to every code-trading service, whatever it promises — which is why FlipGift doesn't offer one. Escrow avoids the problem entirely: the code never changes hands, so there is nothing to drain.

No. Escrow deals never require them — you keep your card and redeem it yourself. There are no card codes in our database to steal.

Referrals are now the Partner Program: you earn 50% of the platform fee whenever someone you referred buys and 10% when they sell, on every settled deal for 12 months from the day they signed up — rising to 65% and 15% once you have earned $50 — plus a flat $25 the first time someone you referred completes a purchase. No cap and no minimum.