{"id":272,"date":"2009-05-03T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T22:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=272"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:05:15","slug":"how-companies-side-step-gift-card-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"How Companies Side Step Gift Card Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does Ticketmaster get around honoring an expired gift card even though California has a law that says gift cards can never expire? They call it a &#8220;discount card,&#8221; despite the fact that the card says &#8220;Gift Card&#8221; right on it. (<a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/gift_card_not_a_gift_card\/\">story<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>We can undoubtedly expect more of these shenanigans as more gift card laws get passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Ticketmaster get around honoring an expired gift card even though California has a law that says gift cards can never expire? They call it a &#8220;discount card,&#8221; despite the fact that the card says &#8220;Gift Card&#8221; right on it. (story) We can undoubtedly expect more of these shenanigans as more gift card laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fees-breakage","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}