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To swap or shop?
So it’s two days after Christmas and I’m already starting to get those calls. You know, the ones from friends, where they detail all the horrible things they got this year.
“Can you believe this?,” one of my closest guy friends said Wednesday night. “My mother actually got me a gift certificate to Bath and Body Works? What am I going to do with this?”At the time I had no idea, but last night while surfing the web, I found an answer for him, exchange it. The World Wide Web is home to several sites that enable people to either buy, sell or trade gift cards. The plasticjungle.com, leveragecard.com and cardavenue.com accept a wide range of gift cards from Target to the Gap. Some, including SwapaGift.com, even allow you to pay bills with the gift card. The site gives you between 60 and 70 percent of the card’s balance, depending on the type of card. American Express and Home Depot gift cards can be redeemed for the most value, while gift cards from retailers such as Abercrombie & Fitch and Barnes & Noble get slightly less.
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