Best Buy Is Selling $100 DoorDash Gift Cards for $85 Right Now

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Food delivery has a way of costing more than the menu implies, between marked up item prices, service fees and the tip you tack on at the end. Buying the currency instead of the meal is one of the few levers left that actually drops the total, which makes discounted gift card deals one of our preferred savings hacks when ordering out.

For example, right now Best Buy is selling a $100 DoorDash gift card for $85, a flat $15 off everything you eventually order with it. There is a strict one per customer cap, though, and the thread commentors have already mapped out how to stretch the discount further.

Here’s what you’ll need to know to cash in on this offer:

How to Get $100 in DoorDash Credit for $85

Best Buy has the $100 DoorDash eGift Card (Email Delivery) marked down to $85, a 15% discount with no promo code required. The card is digital, so there is nothing to ship and no shipping charge to work around. Redemption information is emailed to you and also lives in your order details after checkout, which means you can load it into your DoorDash account within a few minutes of buying. Make sure the listing you add to your cart is sold and delivered by Best Buy rather than a marketplace seller, since the promotion only covers the Best Buy version.

The limit is one card per customer, and that appears to be enforced after the fact rather than at checkout. Best Buy has not published an end date, describing the offer only as valid while the promotional supplies last, so this is the kind of price that can disappear without warning. Gift cards are also final sale and not returnable, which is worth knowing before you buy a denomination larger than you plan to use.

What 15% Off Actually Saves You

Fifteen dollars sounds modest until you spread it across the way most people use DoorDash. Four $25 orders funded by this card work out to roughly $3.75 off each one, which is close to erasing a typical small order fee every single time. Order less often and in bigger baskets, and the math tilts further in your favor: two $50 pickup runs cost you $42.50 apiece. The discount applies to the whole balance, including the fees and taxes the card covers, rather than just the food subtotal.

The deal has earned a +242 deal score with 31 comments and more than 25,700 views since community member tunabreath posted it. User shackrock tested the limit and reported that while Best Buy will let you place more than one order through separate checkouts, the extras get canceled about 15 minutes later, so plan on a single card. User lollerskates laid out the strategy that makes discounted gift cards worth stockpiling: buy them at 15% to 20% off, stick to pickup orders to skip delivery fees, then hold the balance until DoorDash sends out one of its 40% to 50% off promo codes. Stack all three and the effective price of a meal lands well under what the restaurant charges at the counter.

Discounted gift cards for the delivery apps tend to surface in short bursts, usually at the electronics retailers rather than the apps themselves, and the good ones sell through quickly. Setting up a Deal Alert for DoorDash or for Best Buy gift cards will send you a notification the moment a matching deal is posted, so the next 15% off run does not slip by while you are deciding what to order.