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.

  • longhorn617 [any]
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    4 years ago

    I will say, as someone who flies for the holidays, it's much easier for me to give people gift cards, plus that's usually specifically what they ask for when I ask what they want. My mom wanted an Amazon gift card, my dad wanted a Home Depot gift card, and my brother wanted a Lululemon gift card. I bought my dad a few small things and I ordered an immersion blender for my mom that I am splitting with my brother, but other than that, everyone just says they want gift cards now.