One thing I learned about dicks just the other of you buy a gift card you earn reward points and when you buy something with said gift card you earn reward points as well. So if you have a dicks reward card and you want to purchase say a 500 dollar graph you buy a 500 gift card and use that to buy the graph. So now you doubled your reward points and that 1000 reward points you just got results in a 50 dollar check for dicks in the mail.