This week’s syndicated Super-Couponing Tips column is entitled “Words of caution about gift cards.” Here’s an excerpt:
“I wanted to get your perspective on giving gift cards. I used to give these all the time until I got burned a few months ago! I bought a gift card for a popular store in our area, and I probably should have used it all at once, but I didn’t. Well, the store filed for bankruptcy and as part of their restructuring, they invalidated all of their gift cards that were out there. I am so disgusted about the money I lost and had no idea they could just declare my gift card void like that. It has turned me off from buying any future gift cards.”
Read this entire column at NWItimes.com.
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Kari O. says
On the west coast See’s Candies is very popular and my family has loved them for generations. They had always done gift certificates for 1lb of chocolate and you pay for current price. When I was in college I worked at one and we had a customer come in with a certificate that was 20 years old. We still honored a full 1lb. It was awesome. Now in store you have to buy dollar amount giftcards, but they sell the paper 1lb certificates through Costco once in awhile. We have customers who ‘stock up’ on those and plan on keeping them for when the price of chocolate goes up. ;)