{"id":1250,"date":"2011-03-13T18:12:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T01:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2011-03-13T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T01:54:39","slug":"fee-free-coin-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Fee free coin exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the kind of person who throws all my change in a jar and then looks to cash it in every five years, but if you are, you&#8217;ve undoubtedly come across one of the 17,000 Coinstar automated coin counting machines where you can simply dump your coins in and get cash, at a cost &#8211; Coinstar takes a 9.8% commission of the total.<\/p>\n<p>But they have been offering some deals where you can get a gift card instead of cash and certain retailers have signed up to sponsor the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/14\/business\/media\/14adco.html?_r=2&amp;src=busln\" target=\"_blank\">waiving of the Coinstar commission<\/a> if you get a gift card instead of cash.<\/p>\n<p>They also periodically offer discounted gift cards.\u00a0 For instance, Apple has done several promotions where you can buy a $50 iTunes gift card for $40.<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad way to save a bit of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the kind of person who throws all my change in a jar and then looks to cash it in every five years, but if you are, you&#8217;ve undoubtedly come across one of the 17,000 Coinstar automated coin counting machines where you can simply dump your coins in and get cash, at a cost [&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-1250","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\/1250","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=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}