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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
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Location: Belfast
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17644528No wonder, every bloke I know gets one and thinks 'I don't really need/want anything right now, and there's no point in adding money to it until then...' 
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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Er, sure, except you've already had payment for that liability dunderhead.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Another good reason to give people money rather than gift cards.
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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I've certainly had gift cards for shops that I haven't used. I got quite a high value one for a certain chain of sports shops and I went in and found absolutely nothing I wanted to spend it on. Said chain apparently believed the definition of 'sports' was 'shell suits and ludicrously overpriced trainers'. No actual sports gear and nothing I'd actually want to wear in the gym either, because most of it looked like it'd fall apart after about 5 minutes. Felt quite sad actually because the gift was obviously well intentioned and in the end the card lifespan ran out before I used it.
That's probably another issue actually - as far as I know, cash has no 'use by date'.
Jon
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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Location: behind the sofa
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Gift cards - how to ruin perfectly good cash.
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am
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Location: Peebo
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The best gift card is a Bank of England (or Scotland) one.
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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Gift cards can be useful at times. Certainly I have bought things that I would not have bothered to buy with raw cash. The ones I hate are for clothes shops, namely because I hate clothes buying.
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