Ok, so! I went into a shopper today with the game plan being the 50,000 pts for $65 and to get my first Disney GC "with" optimum points. I ended up after redeeming the $65 spending $74.57 ( tax plus $65 disney gc). Then after it processed the cashier told me that my target offers ( which I had done alot of my shopping around) did not earn me points because I had redeemed. I was shopping on my lunch break and didnt have time to dig into it further so I just went back to work.
While at work I was doing some math and looking at all the things I worked up the nerve to stop at a different shoppers on the way home and do some return/exchanges to get my bonus offer points and use the 15x pts offer I also had. I was thinking I'd have to do two transactions and that the system wouldnt process both the bonus redemption event and the 15x in one transaction.
Manager at the second location was super nice and took her time with me and I expressed my appreciation to her for that. When we were working with numbers before doing any returns she didnt believe it would make much of a difference and I hadnt missed out on that many points, she thought there was the possibly of me getting 18,000 points back. Told me it was my call if I wanted to process the return and see what happened.
So at the second location I spent $54.39 and the receipt shows a total of 34,925 points. Before redeeming points today I had 134,358, I redeemed 50,000 and now I have119,298. If you take the bonus point plus the extra 15,000 for redeeming during this weekend event I received 49,925, so I think it was worth it!