A credit card is a card to say "these people will pay you and I'll owe them money"

With a gift card, you're choosing items that have already been paid for, the company already got the money and you're just picking out what you want to buy with it

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Gift cards say, “I could have just given you cash, but I wasn’t considerate enough to also give the freedom to buy what you want. I have therefore restricted you to store of my choosing, for if I cared at all about you, I’d actually have been able to buy a suitable gift myself.”

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Gift cards are great for family members who have addiction issues 🤷‍♀️

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They're also great for the people in your life who you know are too practical to buy themselves something nice with gifted cash

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    can confirm. every time i get a gift card I'm as annoyed that I can't use it for rent as I am excited to be "forced" to get myself a goddamn fancy coffee or whatever

    that being said when I was truly desperate in college I did used to sell them online using various exchanges. i usually got $0.70 on the dollar which wasn't terrible

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