Ever had a gift card you never used? Of course you have. Gift cards are something scamesque like rebates wherein a certain percentage of those who could redeem the redeemable will just be too apathetic to do so translating into a win for the orchestrating party. Amazon will let you just hand in a gift card in exchange for Amazon money/credit with which to shop at Amazon, so a gift card to one place in particular is now a gift card to everywhere making the gift cards suck less. The same coworker who told me about this today also mentioned that if you have less than five dollars on a gift card that it is the law here in Texas that the card may be redeemable for the balance in cash. I guess if you're a heroin addict but you have a bunch of gift cards you may scrounge together enough money for one more fix. Honestly, you could just buy stuff with the cards and then pawn what you bought too... well, depending on what the card is for. You can't pawn Alamo Drafthouse movie tickets I suppose.
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