{"id":538,"date":"2010-01-30T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=538"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:20:06","slug":"make-companies-obey-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Make Companies Obey The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve stated a number of times, there are many companies that either aren&#8217;t aware of the laws around gift cards, don&#8217;t train their staff properly, or just don&#8217;t care to obey them. So when company<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/action-line\/ci_14270974?nclick_check=1\"> refuses to give you cash back<\/a> for your gift card valued under $10 (in California), it may not be worth the couple of bucks to you to file a complaint with the proper authorities, but it will help the next guy who tries to get their money.<\/p>\n<p>Do the right thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve stated a number of times, there are many companies that either aren&#8217;t aware of the laws around gift cards, don&#8217;t train their staff properly, or just don&#8217;t care to obey them. So when company refuses to give you cash back for your gift card valued under $10 (in California), it may not be [&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-538","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\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}