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.

    • Cysioland [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      "I wanted to buy you something at BrandStore™ but I don't know what Brand™ shit you already have or not have, so take this card and buy something"

      One of my "friends" has a lot of CDs/vinyls and if I bought him some there is a high chance that it'd be a duplicate. So I give him a card to the CD store and he buys something he doesn't have.

    • Gremblo [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      its cool when theres a card you can buy things with and its got like an xbox guy on it