{"id":797,"date":"2010-05-01T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-07-07T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:37:45","slug":"more-tricks-for-rebate-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"More tricks for rebate cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some rebate cards, like those provided by Verizon wireless, carry the Visa or MasterCard logo and can be used as credit\/debit cards.\u00a0 We just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=793\" target=\"_blank\">outlined<\/a> how important it is to be careful with rebate cards as they don&#8217;t carry the same safeguards as gift cards and don&#8217;t fall under the new Federal gift card rules, but here are more tricks as reported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walletpop.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/restricted-rebate-debit-cards-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\">WalletPop<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>Trick number one:\u00a0 Take the card into your bank and attempt to have it turned into cash.\u00a0 Apparently this is allowed on some cards.<\/p>\n<p>Trick number two:\u00a0 Use the card to buy another open-loop gift card, one that DOES have the gift card safeguards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some rebate cards, like those provided by Verizon wireless, carry the Visa or MasterCard logo and can be used as credit\/debit cards.\u00a0 We just outlined how important it is to be careful with rebate cards as they don&#8217;t carry the same safeguards as gift cards and don&#8217;t fall under the new Federal gift card rules, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}