{"id":1016,"date":"2010-07-07T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2010-07-07T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:08:25","slug":"uses-for-costco-giftcash-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Uses for Costco gift\/cash cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/costcocash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1017 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"costcocash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/costcocash-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/costcocash-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/costcocash.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Costco sells what are essentially gift cards, but they call them Costco Cash Cards.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Browse\/ProductSet.aspx?Prodid=10024438&amp;search=costco%20cash%20card&amp;Mo=1&amp;cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&amp;lang=en-US&amp;Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&amp;Sp=S&amp;N=5000043&amp;whse=bc&amp;Dx=mode+matchallpartial&amp;Ntk=Text_Search&amp;Dr=P_CatalogName:BC&amp;Ne=4000000&amp;D=costco%20cash%20card&amp;Ntt=costco%20cash%20card&amp;No=0&amp;Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&amp;Nty=1&amp;topnav=&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\">buy them<\/a> with a value anywhere from $25 to $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>What makes them really valuable however, is that if you have a Costco cash card with any value on it whatsoever, you can shop at Costco without a membership.<\/p>\n<p>How can you get them?\u00a0 Have friend with a membership buy them for you, or some of the gift card resale sites carry them.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, people selling these cards on Ebay obviously know about this benefit.\u00a0 Otherwise, why else would they be selling these cards at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.ebay.com\/?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=costco+cash+card&amp;_sacat=See-All-Categories\" target=\"_blank\">more than their face value<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costco sells what are essentially gift cards, but they call them Costco Cash Cards.\u00a0 You can buy them with a value anywhere from $25 to $1,000. What makes them really valuable however, is that if you have a Costco cash card with any value on it whatsoever, you can shop at Costco without a membership. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}