{"id":1157,"date":"2010-08-31T04:32:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2010-08-31T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T11:32:08","slug":"gift-certificates-vs-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Gift certificates vs Gift cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metnews.com\/articles\/2010\/tane082710.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a> that finds that state gift card laws do not apply to airline gift certificates.\u00a0 Specifically, the court found that California&#8217;s law against gift cards with expiration did not apply to an airline gift certificate that had a one year expiration date.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Div. Four agreed with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr that the Airline Deregulation Act, which bars states from regulating \u201ca price, route or service of an air carrier,\u201d takes precedence over Civil Code Sec. 1749.5.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Airlines seem to have an interesting exemption here.<\/p>\n<p>The class distinction between gift certificates and gift cards goes further.\u00a0 Under the new federal laws, gift certificates issued in only paper are exempt, but actual gift cards would be covered under the federal laws.\u00a0\u00a0 In plain language, the new federal laws don&#8217;t apply to paper gift certificates<em> at all<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From the airlines perspective, they clearly treat gift certificates as second class citizens as well.\u00a0 In the past, my experience on several airlines has been that these certificates can only be used at the ticket counter at the airline, and typically can not be used more than one at a time, making them incredibly tedious to use up.\u00a0 So when an airline offers to give you four $25 gift certificates for your troubles, ask for a gift card instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting ruling that finds that state gift card laws do not apply to airline gift certificates.\u00a0 Specifically, the court found that California&#8217;s law against gift cards with expiration did not apply to an airline gift certificate that had a one year expiration date. Div. Four agreed with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","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=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}