{"id":949,"date":"2010-06-25T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=949"},"modified":"2010-06-25T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:36:36","slug":"bankruptcy-still-a-problem-with-niche-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Bankruptcy still a problem with niche gift cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As evidences by this recent fiasco experienced by TXU Energy customers, bankruptcy of companies that issue gift cards is still a problem.\u00a0 Customers who were promised a free gift card for switching to TXU for their electricity service quickly found out the card didn&#8217;t work, because the company behind them, Spring Box Services, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdfw.com\/dpp\/news\/consumer\/062310-txu-gives-away-worthless-gift-cards\" target=\"_blank\">had gone bankrupt<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a case where our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=886\" target=\"_blank\">advice<\/a> to spend your gift card immediately, would not have helped.<\/p>\n<p>While in this case the customers didn&#8217;t have a choice of who the gift card was from, perhaps sticking to gift cards from stable, large retailers is a your best bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evidences by this recent fiasco experienced by TXU Energy customers, bankruptcy of companies that issue gift cards is still a problem.\u00a0 Customers who were promised a free gift card for switching to TXU for their electricity service quickly found out the card didn&#8217;t work, because the company behind them, Spring Box Services, had gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bankruptcies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}