Of course. Then you are obligated to spend at least a little more than $25 so they aren’t going to waste

$75 gdp without having to do a god damn thing, and then the plastic gets tossed into a landfill.

What happens when you can’t give up the christmas gift card no more

The one area where gift cards are nice is when you for sure know that someone is going to be shopping somewhere and will use it up. My husband and I recently gained two nephews through his brother’s fiancee’s previous marriage. There’s a local game store that the boys love, so we got them gift cards paired with an outing to the store and lunch. My brother-in-law and his fiancee just had a baby, our niece, so it’s also a way to give them a little bit of a break. It wouldn’t have been existing for them if it had just been cash.

They also borrowed the money from each other too, so each has a $25 card and a $25 debt. The debt will never be paid, and they’ll acrue interest with each other. They’ll all use the growing debt as a justification to cut social services.

6 months later, all three cards have expired, so all three companies get $25 of free revenue, and no one really got anything for Christmas.

Gift cards are a fucking scam