I was cross referencing ticket prices and noticed UT had a banner up stating up to 15% off Disney gift cards, including X Dining Dollars per ticket purchase.
https://www.undercovertourist.com/blog/maximizing-dining-dollars-disney-vacation/
I don’t want to buy tickets through UT, but I’m intrigued (and confused) by Dining Dollars. Getting more than 5% off gift cards can take stacking / coordination / timing.
Is anyone familiar with this? Are there other ways to earn Dining Dollars and pay for gift cards than buying UT tickets? I poked around the Dining Dollars website a little without signing up, and it vaguely states you can earn them “at participating retailers” - I haven’t found a list so far of who those might be…
(Also, a lot of colleges use Dining Dollars as terminology, so that makes it harder to search, as I don’t expect them to be the same thing.)
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I buy my Disney Gift Cards at Sam’s club here in Fargo North Dakota. They come in various card packages but we find the a card package containing 3 $25 gift cards or $75 package is the best deal. We pay $73 for theses as any other denomination like $100, $200, or $500 packages you save less. Now not all retailers sell these at a discount so check around. I usually buy $1000 worth all in $75 packets containing three $25 gift cards. Figure I save about $24 on the $1000. So here is what we use them for. Meals mostly. Table service. Pay with gift cards until the bill is almost paid that I put the difference on my Discover card which will include their tip. Works for us as we carry little to no cash.
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There was a post on chat today that UT offered them either Disney Dining credit or $20 off $100 a Disney gift card. I don’t know if it is the same thing but I got a Disney Dining promo code from Disney when I referred someone to DVC. I received a list of restaurants I could use it at. I used it at Narcoossee and it worked just like a gift card.
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Curious about the aversion to buying tickets through UT - I’ve used them many times and their amazing refund policy has saved my bacon more than once!
I have bought from them several times with no problem. Actually I’m an especially loyal customer since 2020 when a Disney CM (wrongly I think) insisted on giving me a refund for a UT ticket for someone who cancelled on us instead of just letting me change the use date. But, they only gave me the amount Disney received for the ticket. UT refunded me the difference when I talked to them about it. They didn’t have to but they did. I think now the dates for UT tickets can be changed in the app, but just after Covid reopening was a weird time. So that is the potential downside, changes to the ticket can be more difficult although they shouldn’t be. But refundability is a big advantage over buying from Disney.
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I don’t have a problem with UT - I just have other options that I’m using from La Cava that are a little cheaper.
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@jwinchenbach is your post empty? I didn’t think the forum would allow that?
I am just asking because I wonder if there was a software change that allowed this.
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I didn’t think so either. Sometimes we even have to put (sentence) in the post just to appease the software gods.
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Won’t let me do an empty post!
Thanks!
@jwinchenbach can you let us know how that happened?
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I am interested in this too. It specifically lists an example of getting a $100 Disney gift card for $85. I think that is sort of unheard of. The best I’ve seen is 5% off at Target with the Red Card. I am considering buying our WDW tickets there in order to use the gift card to buy DL tickets later. But, haven’t figured out much just yet.
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The one constraint I seem to find is that it is not really 15% off. You can’t, for example, buy $600 worth of cards at 15% off. You can apply $7 (or maybe $7.50?) of the dining dollars you get toward a $50 gift card. You can get 2 $50 gift cards for $85 by applying $15 dining dollars. But, it seems that it has to be in those increments and you have to have the dining dollars available to continue stacking $50 cards.
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I went through this not too long ago. You add on when you buy the tickets. I was able to go through. Something was wonky about it though. And I didn’t complete the purchase. I’ll try to see if I can go through it again.
It took me a while but I found the thread, with a liner’s experience, regarding the UT dining dollars:
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That was exactly it! I even went ahead and logged into the Dining Dollars site, and there’s still no additional information about where you can earn dining dollars. 
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I think I accidentally used an HTML formatting that translates to “make this text disappear” - the arrows on the comma and period keys!
What I had intended to say, before I was so rudely thwarted by my accidental coding, was “immediately clears schedule to go haunt La Cava for said discounts”. Except the humor is now lost because I have to explain it, so the joke is stale and lame. Boooo.
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Thank you! I didn’t mean to be cryptic - I just wasn’t sure if La Cava topics could be cross linked. I should at least have said to DM if curious. 
