{"id":464,"date":"2006-12-28T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/12\/28\/dont-let-those-christmas-gift-cards-go-to-waste\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T23:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T04:33:14","slug":"dont-let-those-christmas-gift-cards-go-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/dont-let-those-christmas-gift-cards-go-to-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Let Those Christmas Gift Cards Go to Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, there have been reports that indicate 15% to 19% of gift cards purchased from retailers are never redeemed. Huh? Up to 1\/5 of people don’t spend that gift cards they’re given??? What a travesty!<\/p>\n

But there is hope. Websites like Cardavenue<\/a>, Plastic Jungle<\/a>, Gift Cards Again<\/a>, Gift Card Buy Back<\/a>, and Swapagift.com<\/a> help people trade gift cards or turn them into cash. Some sites generally have a small fee for selling a card, but it’s a small price to pay in order to swap a gift card for one you’ll really use. Other sites buy the cards directly from users, paying them 60% to 75% of the remaining value on the card. The sites then resell those cards for full value.<\/p>\n

Another option to unload your gift card is eBay<\/a>. Look for the “gift certificate” category. Often buyers can get deals on gift cards, so they’re actually receiving more value at the store that they’re paying for the card.<\/p>\n

The market for gift cards is estimated to be about $60 billion. That’s a lot of money, and think about how much retailers are keeping from those who never redeem theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, there have been reports that indicate 15% to 19% of gift cards purchased from retailers are never redeemed. Huh? Up to 1\/5 of people don’t spend that gift cards they’re given??? What a travesty! But there is hope. Websites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}