{"id":987,"date":"2010-07-02T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=987"},"modified":"2010-07-01T18:41:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T01:41:26","slug":"the-main-stream-tv-news-just-discovered-gift-card-resale-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"The main-stream TV news just discovered gift card resale sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly how the main-stream TV news gets their stories, but in the last 10 days or so I have seen the websites of ten or more TV news stations reporting essentially the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klfy.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12730753\" target=\"_blank\">story <\/a>on gift card resale sites, a phenomenon I have not seen in the couple of years I have been covering gift cards.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure for every one of these stories I&#8217;ve seen, two more I haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The news stories are all very similar and report the same few gift card resale sites, leading me to believe they are all getting the same story from an Associated-Press type outfit, or maybe they just copy each other.<\/p>\n<p>Our own site has seen a bump in visits over the last coupe of weeks; perhaps those stories are helping people to find us as well.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/visits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-988\" title=\"GiftCardAdvocate visits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/visits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/visits.jpg 545w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/visits-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly how the main-stream TV news gets their stories, but in the last 10 days or so I have seen the websites of ten or more TV news stations reporting essentially the same story on gift card resale sites, a phenomenon I have not seen in the couple of years I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","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=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}