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You clearly don't have anyone who insists on giving you, for example, $20 gift cards to Crate and Barrel: the gift that actually costs you money. You want to
by amalcon 17y ago
You clearly don't have anyone who insists on giving you, for example, $20 gift cards to Crate and Barrel: the gift that actually costs you money. You want to be able to tell them what you spent it on (to be nice), but there's nothing at Crate and Barrel that you can buy for $20.
- jmackinn 17y agoSome stores calculate the the value of gift cards very carefully to be below or above the mean/mode (depending on stores and price distribution) to ensure that either money is left on the card, or more money must be spent to make the purchase. As a consumer, gift cards are never a very good idea.
- lacker 17y agoEven worse is, last year I got married and we had a registry at Crate and Barrel. Several people ended up giving us... Crate and Barrel gift cards. Apparently because Crate and Barrel always adds gift cards to your registry no matter what you do. Of course by now we already have everything at Crate and Barrel that we could possibly want....