{"id":1146,"date":"2010-08-14T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2010-08-14T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:41:07","slug":"does-target-charge-more-for-in-store-gift-card-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Does Target charge more for in-store gift card activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-lazarus-20100813,0,3766592,full.column\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times consumer advocate column<\/a> states that a customer was upset when he found out that Target charged him a $4 activation fee.\u00a0 When I tried to verify this by going through the purchasing process with Target online, I was not charged an activation fee, but only a $1.95 shipping and handling fee, a cost that seems reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Is Target charging an activation fee for its gift cards purchased in-store?\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent LA Times consumer advocate column states that a customer was upset when he found out that Target charged him a $4 activation fee.\u00a0 When I tried to verify this by going through the purchasing process with Target online, I was not charged an activation fee, but only a $1.95 shipping and handling fee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fees-breakage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}