Card Details
- No Fee
- No Expiration Date
- Redeemable Online & In-store
- Accepted by Multiple Merchants
- Not Replaceable When Lost
Note: One of my favorite cards due to the flexibility it offers. Gap gift cards can be redeemed online and in-store. They can also be redeemed online at oldnavy.com, bananarepublic.com, and piperlime.com.
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Curiosity got the best of me today so I decided to find out what the 10 most popular gift cards are. I figured the best way to do this was to see which gift cards feature the most on searches. Since I am biased towards Google and Yahoo, i decided to use a keyword research tool to find out which gift cards are popular on these two sites. It turns out the most popular gift card according to Google and Yahoo Search results is the Visa gift card. The top 10 is made up of the following:
- Visa
- Walmart
- Target
- Home Depot
- American Express
- Lowe’s
- iTunes
- Best Buy
- MasterCard
- Simon Gift Card (Visa)
The result was surprising to me. I was expecting to see more department store and clothing store gift cards. I am not sure why i had that thought. It is interesting that the bank issued gift cards (Visa, American Express, and MasterCard) feature prominently in searches because these cards are laden with fees and have expiration dates. Does this mean people want the convenience of being able to use these cards everywhere and don’t care about the fees or expiration? Let me know what you think. Post your comment below.
For a limited time, Best Buy is giving away a $20 gift card when you buy 5 select DVDs priced at $9.99 each. This means you get $20 back for spending $50. That’s 40% of your money back. Sounds like a good deal to me. Click here for details.
Check out the Free Gift Cards page for the current list of free gift card deals.
Now that the high definition movie format war is over and Sony’s Blu-ray won, Best Buy is trying to appease customers who bought the HD-DVD players, the format that lost. To do this, the company is offering a $50 dollar gift card to customers who purchased an HD-DVD player or HD-DVD attachment from its U.S. stores before February 23, 2008. The company estimates that it will distribute more than $10 million in gift cards through this offer.
Most Best Buy customers won’t have to do anything to receive their gift card. The company will begin mailing cards to all customers they can identify as having purchased an HD-DVD player. You can also call 1-888 BEST BUY to get your gift card if you qualify or visit the company’s website for details. You will have to show proof of purchase through a credit card or a Best Buy receipt.
In case you are wondering if you have to give up your HD-DVD player? The answer is no. However, in case you decide to get the Blu-ray player, Best Buy is giving you an incentive to come back and buy it from them.
Check out the Free Gift Cards page for the current list of free gift card deals.
According to this story on Bloomberg, Bookseller Borders is in trouble and may be on its way to bankruptcy. If you hold a Borders gift card, you may want to redeem it now before you become a victim to what happened recently to gift card holders of The Sharper Image or Bombay Company after both declared bankruptcy and suspended redemption of all gift cards.
Gift cards are more popular than ever, and with their increased acceptance comes a surge in gift card fraud. Over the last few years, a secondary market has sprung up targeted at unused gift cards, providing several options for customers to unlock the value in their gift card. These sites allow customers to swap gift cards, sell them for cash, or donate them to charity. Before you buy a gift card from one of these sites, here are five (5) tips you should know.
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Card Details
- No Fee
- No Expiration Date
- Redeemable Online & In-store
- Accepted by Merchant Only
- Replaceable when lost
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Card Details:
- Redeemable Online Only
- Accepted by Merchant Only
Note: iTunes Gift Cards can be redeemed for songs, albums, audiobooks and videos on the iTunes Store. They cannot be used to buy Apple products. The Apple Gift Card may be used to purchase other Apple products outside the iTunes Store. For the Apple Gift Card, click here
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Over the last several weeks, there has been a number of stories about gift card fraud, including this one from Missouri and this story from New Jersey. These stories have one thing in common: Stolen credit cards being used to buy gift cards, which are sometimes resold online for cash (a form of money laundry). In some cases, like the Missouri story above, the credit cards are stolen from another state and used to buy merchandise, which are then shipped to the home state of the perpertrators. This is all done to make tracing the transactions more difficult for law enforcement.
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