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Like most of us who are living through the Internet age, chances are you receive gift cards via email on occasion.
For example, you might receive a gift card as compensation for filling out a survey or performing some other task.
Or of course it could simply be a gift from someone. [Read more…]
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Gift cards
They virtually guarantee that your money will end up buying something the recipient will like.
If you plan to buy gift cards to give away as gifts (or even to purchase something for yourself), make sure the cashier doesn’t try to charge you sales tax on the purchase of the card. [Read more…]
Email scams have been around almost as long as email itself, and the problem seems to be getting worse instead of better.
Add in all the scams that are constantly making the rounds on social media and it’s easy to see that fraud is a major problem in today’s connected world.
There’s a rather tempting email and social media scam that pops up every now and then, and unfortunately it’s making the rounds again right now. [Read more…]
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Have you ever found a gift card that you had forgotten about lying around the house and wondered if it had a spendable balance on it?
If so, you probably stuck it in your wallet or purse and asked the cashier to check the balance on it the next time you visited that store.
But there’s an easier way to check the balance on gift cards from hundreds of retailers, restaurants, gas stations and more.
In fact, you can quickly check the balance on most any gift card using your own computer or smart phone. Here’s how: [Read more…]
As I’ve mentioned before, gift cards make great gifts because they make it easy to ensure that your gift of “cash” will be spent on something the recipient really wants.
That being said, there are times when we receive gift cards for establishments that we never visit.
After all, some folks tend to give gift cards only for the places they like to shop at themselves. [Read more…]