Happy to have extra $5.00 in my gift card balance.
As I was making a purchase thru Amazon, I was offered additional $5.00 to my gift card if I placed an order for $100.00 to my gift card balance and my remaining balance owed would be $107.00 on an item costing $112.00.  I had never done this and was not aware of how it worked.  I followed the blue links to read about it because I wanted to use all of my remaining gift card balance to make my purchase, not just the $5.00 being offered.  I read the reviews.  One review stated you can only use your gift card balance to make purchases.  Another stated they never received their additional $5.00 credit after reloading their gift card.  I went ahead and reloaded $100.00 on my gift card, and immediately received email that $100.00 was added to my gift card balance.  I was expecting it to say $105.00 was being added.  I went ahead and purchased my $112.00 item in full with my gift card balance and immediately received email notice that my additional $5.00 credit had been applied to my gift card balance.  I made another purchase today for another item on Amazon with the intention to use reward points on one of my credit cards already on file as one of my payment methods.  When I placed the order, the payment method had defaulted to use the remaining balance on my gift card balance.  I selected the blue link to change payment method to use my reward points on my credit card with any remaining balance to be paid with my credit card and removed the black dot on the radial button for my gift card balance by clicking on it and was able to save the remaining of my gift card balance with this purchase.  I reviewed everything in my order to make sure it was correct before submitting it.  I am giving a 4 star review because the system had defaulted to encourage me to use my gift card balance using $5.00 with my first order and I wanted to pay in full with my gift card balance since I had just made purchase of $100.00 to reload it and also because the second purchase I made defaulted to pay with my remaining gift card balance.  I had to make changes to suit me each time I placed my order.  Otherwise, I am grateful to have the extra $5.00 in my gift card balance.
Rating: 4 stars