{"id":1286,"date":"2011-05-01T22:25:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T05:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2011-05-01T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T05:25:50","slug":"save-on-the-fly-with-instant-mobile-discounted-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Save on the fly with instant mobile discounted gift cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That retailers are realizing they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by making gift cards easier for consumers to use is what I&#8217;m taking from this <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/04\/28\/cardpool-mobile-allows-you-to-buy-and-use-gift-cards-on-the-go\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> on Cardpool&#8217;s new service (now in limited release to existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardpool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cardpool<\/a> customers) that allows you to buy gift cards, and have them immediately delivered to your iOS or Android device.<\/p>\n<p>Because closed-loop gift cards are part of, well, closed gift card networks, I would guess this could only be done in collaboration with the gift card issuing company, such that Cardpool is able to issue new gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>This would have to be my favorite way to use your a gift card, buy it and then immediately use it up at the checkout counter of the store you are in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That retailers are realizing they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by making gift cards easier for consumers to use is what I&#8217;m taking from this piece on Cardpool&#8217;s new service (now in limited release to existing Cardpool customers) that allows you to buy gift cards, and have them immediately delivered to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}