Gift cards - they suck, folks. I don't get the point of gift cards as a standalone gift for someone. Like, if someone gets me a $25 gift card and I get them a $25 gift card then what the fuck was the point?? We're comfortably sitting at a net zero exchange, we could've just kept our cash and been better off. All we've done at that point is limit where we can spend our money to a single location. If you bought one of those Visa Vanilla cards, congratulations you just paid an activation fee to give them money, but wooptiedoo they can spend it whereverrrrrr. W H Y?

To make matters worse, there were about $3 B I L L I O N in unused gift cards last year. That's recorded as breakage revenue after enough time has lapsed to get the liability off the balance sheet too. That's free fucking revenue that no one provided services or goods for. W H Y A R E W E D O I N G T H I S?

WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT? THEY'RE JUST SO VAPID AND MEANINGLESS, I CAN'T FUCKING STAND IT. OH MY GOD.

  • Lee [any,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I worked at disneyland years ago and there were people that would collect the giftcards. Every 4 or so months 4-6 new designs would come in for the "season" and there would be all these old white people buying 3 of each card at a minimum balance. I fucking hate it they literally had to design an app that would combine all your disney gift card balances because buying bulk of this trash was so popular.

    • TransComrade69 [she/her,ze/hir]
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      4 years ago

      WHAT THE FUCK. THIS IS SO MUCH EFFORT FOR SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SO EASILY RESOLVED BY JUST GIVING PEOPLE CASH. IS THIS THE INNOVATION THAT THE LIBS KEEP TALKING ABOUT????

      • garbology [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Capitalism brings innovation.

        That innovation is ARPU.

        :agony-turbo:

      • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I have an (almost) irrational hatred of them because some of my extended family are like that. They recently even bought a house to be near disney. fucking insane shit. I just always had so many feelings about them going on vacation to disney world every damn year... it just bothers me that they'd go to the same shitty amusement park instead of going literally anywhere else and seeing the real world.