{"id":388,"date":"2009-08-23T20:17:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=388"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:22:17","slug":"another-way-to-look-at-all-access-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Another Way to Look at All-Access Gift Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get a better idea the value lifespan of an All-Access Visa gift card, one of the most highly reviled and complained about gift cards due to their very short no-fee period and their very high ($4.95 monthly fee), it is helpful to graph the value left on the card over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/all-access-life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-389\" title=\"all-access-life\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/all-access-life.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/all-access-life.jpg 362w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/all-access-life-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A $25 gift card will be worthless after 12 months, a $50 gift card after 17 months, and a $100 gift card after 27 months.<\/p>\n<p>If All-Access showed a graph like this on their gift card packaging, people wouldn&#8217;t be so excited to buy their cards.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the above images should be incorporated into the All-Access logo. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get a better idea the value lifespan of an All-Access Visa gift card, one of the most highly reviled and complained about gift cards due to their very short no-fee period and their very high ($4.95 monthly fee), it is helpful to graph the value left on the card over time. A $25 gift [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fees-breakage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}