[JASPREET]

All Digital vouchers, Coupons, and Gift Cards have an expiry date which is mostly for a year and even Amazon GC has 1-year validity from the date we add these to our account so we should keep a note of these things and use these before expiry.

[augusta]

Not just gift cards for all things that comes with an expiry date it is good to use them as fast as possible to avoid wasting money but saved it

[kataomoi]

I think there's a law in the US that prohibits gift cards from expiring within 5 years from purchase. And for Amazon, I don't think the gift cards expire at all. I've had a balance in my account for years and never noticed any of my balance expiring.

[Treborika]

However I am not a fan of using gift cards in my daily life. When I work on an online earning site I choose to be paid through PayPal or Skrill but not gift cards.

[augusta]

I think the best bet is to sell your gift card to save money it you know you can't use it before expiration then keeping it to expired

[oldbuddy]

Amazon Gift Cards do NOT Expire, it says so right on their website.

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[JASPREET]

They have a one year expiry and when you add one you can check its expiry date as well and this is why the gift card added first is used first

[oldbuddy]

They have a one year expiry and when you add one you can check its expiry date as well and this is why the gift card added first is used first

It must have something to do with the the country, because I have put hundreds of dollars through my account in the US with no such problems.

[Nsikan]

We don't even have gift cards in my country and I use to consider them as wastes.

[kataomoi]

We don't even have gift cards in my country and I use to consider them as wastes.

It's basically cash. Even if your country doesn't have giftcards, if you own a giftcard you can sell it online for cash. It's never going to be a waste.

[JASPREET]

They have a one year expiry and when you add one you can check its expiry date as well and this is why the gift card added first is used first

It must have something to do with the the country, because I have put hundreds of dollars through my account in the US with no such problems.

That's good, here we get for one year old and some food delivery apps give for only 6 months

[Nsikan]

Before you accept payment in gift cards, you have to find who you would sell it to or an exchanger so that it would not stay too long in your hand..

[OldGuy]

Way back in the 70s and early 80s, I lived on the west coast and my grandmother was still in her old home on the east coast. I thought I had found the perfect gift for Christmas and sent something similar every year while I lived out there. It was a combination gift certificate and catalog. Everything in the catalog was the same price. You could get them in a selected price and I usually sent her a $50 catalog. She could choose any item in that catalog by just sending in an attached card and it would be sent to her. She died in 1984 bringing an end to that tradition.

I was stunned and saddened when relatives cleaning out her estate came across a pile of those catalogs and gift cards. She had never cashed any of them in.

They finally packaged them all up and sent them back to me about 10 years later to see if I could use them myself. Well, back then, unused gift cards were charged an annual fee to keep them open. If you let it ride, those fees would eventually gobble up the entire value and they were no longer valid. I found that to be true with every one of them.

That was the way it was back then. If you bought a gift card from anyone, they would set up an annual fee to maintain them and it was worth a lot less than you paid if you went beyond the first year. They would eventually become worthless if you kept them too long.

I was not the only victim. The federal government had received lots of complaints and changed the law. Merchants in the US are required to honor gift certificates at full value forever and are forbidden to charge annual fees to keep them open.

I will never buy a gift card again. You are basically handing the merchant cash for nothing but a receipt. If it is not used, it is pure profit for them. If you give a gift card to someone who has no interest in shopping at whatever store you selected, the card ends up not being used. You wasted your money and that merchant ends up with free profit. Think about that. It is really pretty stupid, especially for those who check the price on everything they buy as recently discussed on another ForumCoin topic.

If you really must give a gift card or certificate, give a Visa, Mastercard, check or some other form of cash that can be used anywhere. At least that makes it more likely it will be put to use.

[Pistis]

Gift cards are valid payments for some people in developing countries. Just that it is hard to find an exchanger. There are platforms though that buy gift cards for PayPal and crypto but the rates are low. It is still better to cash them lower than lose them all.

[Jem Smith]

Not all vouchers have an expiry date. For example, there is a big hardware chain called Bunnings here in Australia and their gift vouchers never expire. I really like that. It's less pressure on the gift recipient.

[Treborika]

I agree with you on that. Redeeming the gift cards on time is the best thing ever. When you do this you will avoid the wastage of resources.

[Uty Theo]

Apart from the gift cards expiring, the value if those gift cards can keep fluctuating as inflation continues. It makes sense to redeem them on time.