Update 1/6/25: On December 20th, we pointed out messaging from BuyHiltonGiftCards.com indicating an inventory shortage (that full post is below). As has been pointed out in the comments, the BuyHiltonGiftCards site has now suspended the sale of gift cards. The messaging indicates that inventory will be “replenished” within the next eight weeks, but we don’t yet know exactly when they’ll be replenished — or whether the replenishment will also affect the processing of purchases. For the time being, you can not order Hilton Gift Cards.
The original post follows below.
Those procrastinators who have credit cards that offer credits at Hilton properties might be in for disappointment this holiday season. Apparently, the Grinch has gotten into the supply of Hilton gift cards and BuyHiltonGiftCards.com is “experiencing an inventory shortage”. It doesn’t sound like that shortage is going to be cleared up before the end of the year.
Despite the messaging at the top of the page, it is still possible to place an order. And at least one person I know has placed an order since the messaging went up and he was immediately charged for the gift card. Of course, it’s early to know whether that charge will finalize immediately or whether BuyHiltonGiftCards.com will wait to finalize until they ship, which is fairly common practice among many retailers. That said, perhaps it is less common on gift card sales since they presumably want to know that the charge will finalize before loading/shipping the gift cards.
Since they are only “hoping” to have inventory “in the coming weeks”, I think there’s a good chance that gift cards won’t ship out until sometime into the new year. Obviously that’s a bummer if you need a gift card now, but it’s potentially a bigger bummer if they only run an authorization now and finalize the charge later.
I imagine we’ll know if charges post to statements in the next few days, so you may just want to keep an eye on data points to see. On the other hand, it might be worth getting an order in sooner rather than later in case they stop taking orders at some point. You could always look for an opportunity to use the credit in person sometime in the next 11 days if the charge falls off your statement (assuming you’re using a card that may reimburse the charge, I guess in the worst case you’ll know that you probably won’t have to worry about procrastinating on 2025 Q1’s credit).
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