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@esayaf wrote:
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
Gift cards are definately a marketing excercise for plonkers. My sister who has a high paying job with hubby also earning a squilion buys me gift cards from major city stores. She shops there regularly paying the $30 parking fees and buying the overpriced clothes and shiny tack and just expects that everyone else does the same.
I have a blind wife who does not work and needs to be guided in unfamiliar surroundings. Very taxing on everyone when its busy. I only work some of the time as I have to run the kids around, do the shopping and help around the house. I cant afford to shop in the city and would avoid the bustle of the main strip like the plague even if I had the cash. I wouldnt have been to the main city shopping strip in three years and have never used any of the cards. Frankly I find them down right annoying.
My mother gives us cash and I regularly use it to take the family out for a nice casual meal. The kids love the cash as they can pool it at christmas and buy exactly what they want, often adding it to savings to purchase major items such as i phones etc.
Gift cards are definately a marketing excercise for plonkers. Cash is king. 
