{"id":847,"date":"2010-05-21T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=847"},"modified":"2010-05-21T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T02:14:24","slug":"buying-discounted-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Buying discounted gift cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often times, when a closed-loop gift card received from another person is a pain.\u00a0 It might not be for something you use very frequently, and thus not very useful.\u00a0 Unless the giver really nails it by giving you a gift card to an establishment that you frequent, the gift cards can sit around for a long time before being used, if ever.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can sell it for less than face value at any one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/resources.html\" target=\"_blank\">many gift card buyback or trading websites<\/a>, or sell it on Ebay.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I like the idea of buying gift cards for myself for businesses that I DO frequent if I can get them at a discount, such as from one of the gift card resale businesses.<\/p>\n<p>So it is with great interest that I recently found quite a few discounted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Common\/Category.aspx?ec=BC-EC18537-Cat29676&amp;pos=7&amp;whse=bc&amp;topnav=&amp;cat=74748&amp;eCat=bc|3605|74748&amp;lang=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">gift cards at Costco<\/a>.\u00a0 In this sense, they are really discount cards, as I am not gifting them to anyone but buying them for myself.\u00a0 On average, the restaurant gift cards Costco offers are at a 20% discount.\u00a0 Not a bad deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often times, when a closed-loop gift card received from another person is a pain.\u00a0 It might not be for something you use very frequently, and thus not very useful.\u00a0 Unless the giver really nails it by giving you a gift card to an establishment that you frequent, the gift cards can sit around for a [&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-847","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\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}