{"id":457,"date":"2009-10-27T20:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:38:47","slug":"survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Survey Says &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As these\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews\/idUSN2620074020091026\">survey<\/a> results seem to indicate, consumers don&#8217;t really understand the true costs or fees associated with open-loop (Visa\/MasterCard) gift cards. Probably the most understated result is the question where 17 percent said they had trouble spending the remaining amount on their card because a merchant refused to split the transaction across multiple payment types. What is missing is the fact that the other 83 percent of people never had a problem BECAUSE THEY DIDN&#8217;T EVEN KNOW YOU COULD DO THIS! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As these\u00a0survey results seem to indicate, consumers don&#8217;t really understand the true costs or fees associated with open-loop (Visa\/MasterCard) gift cards. Probably the most understated result is the question where 17 percent said they had trouble spending the remaining amount on their card because a merchant refused to split the transaction across multiple payment types. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}