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Help me please

kjsmu-3 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:11:22 GMT

I have been gifted a gift card $20 and I have now spent it the gifter has decided to take it back and he is threatening to report me for fraud. Which I didn’t do. What will really happen?

Re: Help me please

twyngwyn — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:27:42 GMT

how can the 'gifter' take it back if you've already used it?

More information required....

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sugar249 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:44:58 GMT

@kjsmu-3 wrote:
I have been gifted a gift card $20 and I have now spent it the gifter has decided to take it back and he is threatening to report me for fraud. Which I didn’t do. What will really happen?

What business is the gift card from?

Who do they plan to report you for fraud to, considering it is the grand total of $20?

What will really happen, they will be laughed at I suspect

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digital*ghost — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 05:08:32 GMT

Just out of curiosity, what was the reasoning behind asking for it back?

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:10:13 GMT

Once you give someone a gift, that gift is no longer yours, so the person who gave you that card can't do anything, even if you drifted apart. As a matter of fact, if it were an object for example instead of a gift card, if they came to your house and took it back it would be theft because it is no longer theirs but yours. A gift is like transferring property, and not like lending something to someone. It does not belong to the person who gives the gift any more.

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jellybirddesigns — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:57:10 GMT

They gave you a gift and want it back?

Bizarre.

What does this have to to with Ebay though?

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twyngwyn — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 07:19:57 GMT

OP, if you don't come back, I'm suspecting a wind -up

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sandypebbles — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 08:25:46 GMT

I was wondering the same

Unless maybe it was a 'sweetener' with a purchase?

Odd for a seller to just give away a gift card otherwise ?

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digital*ghost — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:16:47 GMT

That, or someone is fishing for info on whether to take the threat seriously for other reasons (happens sometimes, i.e. someone asks for "how do I deal with scenario A" when they are in no such situation, just want to know how to game the system etc; I can't imagine any rational person giving someone something and then accusing them of fraud for using it, no matter how much they might regret giving it away. Not all people are rational though, I suppose. 😅 )

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:21:28 GMT

Can you tell us more (without mentioning names)? Was it for example a gift card that was a reward for something you had bought and then something went wrong and you sent back the item?

Anyway, you could always pay them $20. I doubt they would do anything though, as legal costs are much higher than that, so it would be inconvenient for them to sue you for fraud for $20.

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kjsmu-3 — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:14:29 GMT

It’s an eBay gift card

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k1ooo-slr-sales — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:06:39 GMT

you should stop dribbling information and make full disclosures along the lines of the questions you have been asked.

"It's an eBay gift card" tells us nothing.

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sugar249 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:44:30 GMT

@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:
you should stop dribbling information and make full disclosures along the lines of the questions you have been asked.

"It's an eBay gift card" tells us nothing.

I get the impression there is more to the story then is provided, maybe not really a gift at all

Re: Help me please

imastawka — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 04:12:39 GMT

Who cares anymore, it's $20 farcryin' out loud.

Gifter can't report fraud for that piddly amount.

Nothing will happen.

Life goes on...............