Okay just kidding but I feel compelled to respond to this silly article from yahoo “Five reasons go avoid gift cards”. My responses in blue. Here’s the link to the original. http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/five-reasons-to-avoid-gift-cards-this-holiday-season-544695/
1) Most people don’t want them: While 46 percent of people plan on buying gift cards, only 15 percent said they want to receive them as gifts.
Who are these “most people” and how did they get so jaded that they don’t use gift cards? I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use their gift cards and never got one that I didn’t use right away. Anyone who has gift cards they aren’t using and don’t plan on using need to maybe drop them off at a local church or community center where there are plenty of people who will be happy to use them.
2) A quarter of people haven’t used the ones they got last December: During the 2008 holidays, about half of adults received a gift card, but one in four hadn’t redeemed at least one of the cards as of last month. Read the rest of this entry »
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