A credit card is a card to say “these people will pay you and I’ll owe them money”

With a gift card, you’re choosing items that have already been paid for, the company already got the money and you’re just picking out what you want to buy with it

  • bklyn@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Gift cards say, “I could have just given you cash, but I wasn’t considerate enough to also give the freedom to buy what you want. I have therefore restricted you to store of my choosing, for if I cared at all about you, I’d actually have been able to buy a suitable gift myself.”

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        They’re also great for the people in your life who you know are too practical to buy themselves something nice with gifted cash

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          can confirm. every time i get a gift card I’m as annoyed that I can’t use it for rent as I am excited to be “forced” to get myself a goddamn fancy coffee or whatever

          that being said when I was truly desperate in college I did used to sell them online using various exchanges. i usually got $0.70 on the dollar which wasn’t terrible