gift cards

[esayaf]

You have ti be an absolute plonker to buy a gift card. They are a scam to get free money. They expire. They are seldom the exact amount required by the recipient to purchase the desired items. Requiring either more money to be handed over or money left on the card just becomes extra profit for the business. Stop buying gift cards. They are useless

[electric*mayhem*band · Accepted solution]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@electric*mayhem*band wrote:

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*julia*2010 wrote: 

gift cards are great

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Hard cash is even better. 

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that's true. 

how much cash do you normally

give as gifts?  

i think giving cash as presents

is a bit tacky. 

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To my brother and sister-in-law £50 each at Christmas, birthdays £25. Nephew and Niece both £25 each at Christmas, birthdays a tenner.

Gift cards - we call them vouchers - I think are restrictive, only being redeemable at the shops which they were bought, so therefore by their very nature, restricted to what you can buy. For instance, I couldn't walk into Debenhams and purchase a lawnmower because they don't sell them.

Cash also prevents you maybe losing out, if for instance like your Dick Smith company, it happens to go belly up.

Disclaimer.

(You can also spend the cash on booze and ciggies if you so wish).

[esayaf]

Where are they. I live in Western Victoria. How do I pay land rates with a gift card.
I know I can burn the gift cards under the bridge I now have to live under as I have no money to pay bills. You spend your money how you want. I won't change my mind, plonkers buy gift cards

[kopenhagen5]

EMB, that I think is a very good reason for gift cards.

So hopefully it won't be spent on booze n ciggies.....................Now where did I put my wine. 

[raptor_rebooted]

Gift cards - we call them vouchers - I think are restrictive, only being redeemable at the shops which they were bought, so therefore by their very nature, restricted to what you can buy.

here, you can buy coles/myer 

giftcard that can be redeemed at different

stores such as supermarkets or department

stores.  there are also other giftcards that

are accepted at 1000's different stores. 

those are great unless you know someone

likes specific brands/stores.

I won't change my mind, plonkers buy gift cards

i won't change my mind either -

cash for presents is tacky 

How do I pay land rates with a gift card.

get an australia post or a universal giftcard 

[raptor_rebooted]

Where are they. I live in Western Victoria.

don't you have coles there?

[lind9650]

A few years ago we had a small family Xmas Eve. Two teenage grandchildren got gift cards from their maternal grandparents, for Office Works, saying they thought it useful for students.

I could see the disapointment in their eyes, even so they profusely thanked the givers. Their parents paid for everything they needed for School anyway.

I had no access to a big shopping centre, so I put for each teen $50.- in a Xmas card. When they saw the money, their eyes lit up. Grandson said; "Now I can go to the Wreckers and get a cuple of things for the car I am fixing up."

Granddaughter was going on a shopping trip with her friends and hoped to find something nice to wear.

With gift cards they would have been restricted to certain shops. With cash they could choose where to spend the money.

Nowadays, things are different. My son has a large house and every Xmas there is a mass congregation there. Our family is very big, and growing. DIL loves entertaining, so there usually are about 25 to 30 people for Xmas Eve alone. I told them that we can not afford to buy gifts for so many, so DIL arranged to have only Kris Kringle on Xmas Eve, all other gift giving is for Xmas day for those that stay overnight and others to join them.

By then we are back home and don't have to worry or be embarrassed with expensive gifts.

Gift cards are great if you know what people like or need. When my son gor married, on the invitations it said;"Please, NO gifts. If you like to give something, gift cards from Bunnings would be welcome, as we are extending the house."

Last year Peter received a Gift card for an Artist Supply Shop in Melbourne. Not only did he have to travel for three hours and pay parking, to redeem the card, but the shop did not have the things Peter needs for his glass paintings.

Erica

[imastawka]

I usually buy gift cards for the older grandkids for gaming shops.

They love their gaming, but it can be expensive, so the gift cards

help them out.

And I buy a petrol gift card for my sister, who sometimes cannot

afford to put petrol in her car.

[esayaf]

No Coles in my town

[raptor_rebooted]

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@esayaf wrote:
NoColes in my town

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what do you have in your town?

[raptor_rebooted]

Last year Peter received a Gift card for an Artist Supply Shop in Melbourne. Not only did he have to travel for three hours and pay parking

3 hours???? 

couldn't he use it online?