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  • #16
    Quoth Aethian View Post
    Please stop appologizing for being one of those who bought gift cards. Specially those who do that because it's easier to send or give then a item where someone may be a different size, look better in a different color, or who have already too many toys.
    Agreed! Was just about to post the same. It's not the use of GCs but the how.

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    • #17
      I almost became a SC earlier this week. I was buying something and found a Visa gift card I'd had awhile. I asked the clerk if she had a way to check the balance, and she said she did. But when she took the card, she said it was expired.

      Oops!

      Out came the debit card
      They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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      • #18
        I am already getting calls about getting cash back on gift cards.

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        • #19
          I think what most of us are trying to say by apologizing for buying gift cards is that we're sorry that we have potentially made some sucky gift card users.
          http://www.customerssuck.com/?m=20080203

          My destiny is not pretty, but it's what my cutie mark is telling me.

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          • #20
            Not if they are trained right by fellow friends or family.

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            • #21
              Quoth sweetj82 View Post
              I am already getting calls about getting cash back on gift cards.
              Can you actually do that? I thought you could only get cash back as "change" if you bought something with the card.
              They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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              • #22
                I don't mind gcs. I have new mom's or newlyweds that'll come up with a stack. The Visa or American Express ones aren't too bad. Some times the registers will automatically take off whatever is on them and sometimes we have to put in the amt. But most of the time they're ok.
                "They gave me a badge with my name on it. In case I forget who I am." Dr Who - Closing Time

                "I reject your reality and substitute my own." Adam Savage-Mythbusters

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                • #23
                  Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
                  I gave my brother a $20 card from Bulls-Eye . . . but that's was only b/c it came included when I bought his 320GB Playstation 3 console.

                  He's already decided what he's using it on . . . it's going toward accessories for the PS3.
                  Tell him he needs to use his card on Skyrim.
                  To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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                  • #24
                    Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
                    ... it's going toward accessories for the PS3.
                    Quoth Mr Hero View Post
                    Tell him he needs to use his card on Skyrim.
                    But the PS3 is an accessory for Skyrim...
                    I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                    Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                    Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                    • #25
                      This year I got american express gift checks, I plan on just depositing them in my bank account and shopping online as I hate shopping in stores. I gave walmart gift cards to my dad and sister only because I never know what to get them lol.

                      When I do get gift cards I make sure to call the 800 number to check the balances on them so I'll know what I have to spend. Unfortunately sc's out there do not do that.

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                      • #26
                        Quoth Aethian View Post
                        Not if they are trained right by fellow friends or family.
                        A baseball bat works all right for this.

                        ...what? Why's everybody looking at me like that?
                        Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                        "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                        • #27
                          I have my boyfriend a gift card for Christmas last year, he spent it when Dead Space 2 came out.

                          We wait for the rushes to die down.

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                          • #28
                            Quoth sweetj82 View Post
                            I am already getting calls about getting cash back on gift cards.
                            I wonder if this is just the typical morons who don't read the fine print or people who are struggling in the economy and really need the money...I suspect the former.
                            "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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                            • #29
                              I normally don't give gift cards. Normally I get lots from my customers. This year I only got one, though (so far, anyway). One of my customers gave me a $25 GC for the local food coop. I told my husband "Look, honey, we can buy...an apple!" Yeah, I have no clue when I'll ever get around to spending it, if ever.
                              Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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                              • #30
                                Before Christmas, I hated Gift Cards, because every single transaction was "Okay, this has to a separate transaction, and it's CASH or DEBIT ONLY", which was confusing to people. Because people like to be confused. And then the Visa/MC and Amex cards with the fee, that just pissed people off. Not my fucking rule.


                                I freaking HATE the credit card gift card people who don't know how they work "what you can't tell me the balance?" "no, not unless it's a Glitter Hell card..."

                                Bah.

                                MOST customers? Are fine. They've btdt, and know exactly what to do. If something screws up, it's usually not their fault, and it's usually not mine. It's some weird entity that fucks with everything.
                                you are = you're. not "your".

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