{"id":1165,"date":"2010-09-06T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2010-09-06T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:02:07","slug":"bulk-gift-card-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Bulk gift card discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulk purchasing of gift cards is a common activity for businesses, to use for rewarding outstanding employees and for en-mass holiday employee gifts.\u00a0 Despite my frequent rant that gift cards, if misused, can be quite the thoughtless gift, I do think there are good reasons companies can use them to reward employees.<\/p>\n<p>But it might come as no surprise that very few retailers offer discounts on bulk gift-card purchases.\u00a0 Whether you buy $100 worth or $5,000 worth, you will likely pay full price.<\/p>\n<p>However, one of the gift card secondary marketplaces, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardrescue.com\" target=\"_blank\">GiftCardRescue<\/a>, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.giftcardrescue.com\/bulk-gift-cards-discount\/\" target=\"_blank\">offering some bulk discounts<\/a> on gift card purchases.\u00a0 You have to contact them to get information about what types of cards are available with bulk discounts, and from the sound of the press release, they may not always be available.<\/p>\n<p>To date I have not seen any other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/resources.html\" target=\"_blank\">secondary marketplaces<\/a> offer these type of discounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulk purchasing of gift cards is a common activity for businesses, to use for rewarding outstanding employees and for en-mass holiday employee gifts.\u00a0 Despite my frequent rant that gift cards, if misused, can be quite the thoughtless gift, I do think there are good reasons companies can use them to reward employees. But it might [&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-1165","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\/1165","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=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}