{"id":978,"date":"2010-06-30T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=978"},"modified":"2010-08-15T19:57:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T02:57:57","slug":"comparing-gift-card-buysellswap-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Comparing gift card secondary marketplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to do a comparison of all the major gift card secondary marketplaces of my own, but I recently came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kabc\/story?section=news\/consumer&amp;id=7528052\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> that referred to a comparison of seven sites done by Consumer Report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopsmartmag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ShopSmart magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 Unfortunately I am unable to find the original article as the ShopSmart magazine website has limited content, probably to motivate people to subscribe to the paper magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the results are about what I would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are buying or selling gift cards, there is no clear leader on value, but two sites most often had the best prices &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardpool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plastic Jungle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardpool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Card Pool<\/a>.\u00a0 You best bet is to shop around on multiple sites to find the best deal.<\/p>\n<p>Update:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/watch\/video\/cash-for-unused-gift-cards\/q91vcctw?from=sharepermalink\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the video<\/a> of the ShopSmart review of these sites.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, a used gift card meta-site like I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=940\" target=\"_blank\">suggested the other day<\/a> would sure come in handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to do a comparison of all the major gift card secondary marketplaces of my own, but I recently came across an article that referred to a comparison of seven sites done by Consumer Report ShopSmart magazine.\u00a0 Unfortunately I am unable to find the original article as the ShopSmart magazine website has limited [&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-978","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\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}