Nestea is running a new promotion that offers consumers $25 prepaid Mastercard gift cards if they collect a certain number of Nestea proof of purchases off of specially marked products. To cash in on the deal collect one of these sets of products:

1) 12 x 473/591ml bottles of Nestea, Nestea Cool, or Nestea Vitao and receive a $25 prepaid Mastercard gift card.

2) 10 x 10 (200ml) tetra packs of Nestea and receive a $25 prepaid Mastercard gift card.

3) 10 x 2 bottles of Nestea Cool and receive a $25 prepaid Mastercard gift card.

4) 8 x 1.89L cartons of Nestea

5) 4 x 12 (341ml) can packs of Nestea, Nestea Cool, or Nestea Vitao.

The proof of purchases will be available on specially marked Nestea products until the all the packages are sold or August 31, 2009. After purchasing the products the proof of purchase and receipts must be mailed in to Nestea. Each household is limited to claiming 3 $25 prepaid Mastercard gift cards. For the full details of this promotion check out Nestea’s Refresh and Redeem website.

The caffeine wars have heated up with McDonalds offering free samples of its coffee to its customers every morning for the next month. McDonald’s has long had its eye on the business of coffee chains such as Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. To help promote the McDonald’s McCafe franchise the company is sponsoring a “McCafe Your Day” contest. The grand prize is a $50,000 Visa gift card and a $500 McDonald’s gift card. That’s a lot of cash, not to mention hamburgers.

To enter head on over to the McCafe mini site and let McDonald’s know who you think would benefit the most from winning the competition. You can upload your story along with photos to the site anytime before June 21st, 2009. All finalists will receive a $1,000 Visa gift card and a $50 McDonald’s gift card. Winners will be determined by an online vote held between July 13th and July 26th.

There are also weekly gift card draws available for users of the site. McDonald’s will be giving away 130 $1,000 Visa gift cards and $450 McDonalds Arch Card gift cards. The massive amounts of gift cards and money being given away make this the largest current gift card promotion happening online. With thousands of gift cards being given away there is a good chance you may be able to get your hands on a card. If you end up with one of the McDonald’s gift cards but would prefer cash, sell you gift card online with Giftah the online gift card marketplace.

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To celebrate the unveiling of the many new features at Giftah we are giving away $100 to one lucky member to use on any gift card they wish that is listed for sale on Giftah.

All you have to do to take part in this giveaway is sign up on Giftah! Any person that signs up from March 1st 2009 to March 31st 2009 is eligible to win! One member that has signed up between those dates will be picked randomly and awarded the $100 credit. You are not required to purchase a card or sell a card. You may use the $100 on the Giftah website at anytime you wish, it does not expire nor are there any restrictions as to what card you may purchase. The $100 cannot be withdrawn and must be used to purchase a gift card listed on Giftah. The currency of the gift card will be given depending in whichever country the user is from (CAD or USD; the user must be a legal resident of that country and proof will be required).

In short the two rules are very simple:

1. Sign up for Giftah between March 1st and 31st 2009
2. Be a legal resident of Canada or U.S.A

The contest is over on Wednesday March 31st 11:59 PM Eastern Time. The winner’s username will be announced on the blog and they shall also be contacted via e-mail.

So what are you waiting for!? Sign up for Giftah today.
Update: The winner of our first giveaway is missy.e from Toronto. Congratulation missy.e!