Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: PhytoExtractum Kratom Powder for Sale   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals, CBD Concentrates   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1 | 2 | Next >  [ show all ]
OfflineNear Dylan
Shitpost Artist


Registered: 07/29/15
Posts: 13,929
Last seen: 5 days, 15 hours
Gift Cards should be Illegal
    #26401162 - 12/26/19 04:16 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Wanted to make this all year but I saved it for Christmas.

I believe it is a clear-cut unethical business practice for places to sell gift cards. You shouldn't be allowed to sell people money that they can only use at your business. It is an undeniable scam. Literally selling people the oppurtunity to advertise your company and bring in another customer. Take $20 of real money you can spend anywhere and they give you $20 of fake money that you can only use there. What the fuck is that bullshit, how the fuck is that legal? Who the fuck are buying these things anyway??? How are they getting people to buy them?

You cant sell money, man.... You cant just sell money..

And dont get me started on some of these fucking Visa cards. You cap it out with the amount that you put on it and cant recahrge. Meaning there ALWAYS will be something leftover, you just cant spend single dollars and cents on a card like that, wtf will you buy? So after a small amount of inactivity, they'll just take that out of the card and give it back to themselves, guaranteeing on every sale that not only did they make you a profit by convincing you to just buy money at a loss, but then take the leftovers just to increase the profit margin and create this perpetual cycling of money for nothing at all. Shouldn't be legal. They literally found out how to just take your money for nothing and are actually getting away with it. Where will it end?


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleShiithead
Your Huckleberry
Male User Gallery


Registered: 04/05/13
Posts: 9,997
Loc: God's Flat Green Earth
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan]
    #26401180 - 12/26/19 04:51 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Microchips that have our banking information.


--------------------

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Psalm 12:6
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Hebrews 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Revelation 3:11
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleTulipslave
Homo sapiens sapiens, lol

Registered: 07/25/17
Posts: 11,386
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan] * 1
    #26401223 - 12/26/19 06:40 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Near Dylan said:
Wanted to make this all year but I saved it for Christmas.

I believe it is a clear-cut unethical business practice for places to sell gift cards. You shouldn't be allowed to sell people money that they can only use at your business. It is an undeniable scam. Literally selling people the oppurtunity to advertise your company and bring in another customer. Take $20 of real money you can spend anywhere and they give you $20 of fake money that you can only use there. What the fuck is that bullshit, how the fuck is that legal? Who the fuck are buying these things anyway??? How are they getting people to buy them?

You cant sell money, man.... You cant just sell money..

And dont get me started on some of these fucking Visa cards. You cap it out with the amount that you put on it and cant recahrge. Meaning there ALWAYS will be something leftover, you just cant spend single dollars and cents on a card like that, wtf will you buy? So after a small amount of inactivity, they'll just take that out of the card and give it back to themselves, guaranteeing on every sale that not only did they make you a profit by convincing you to just buy money at a loss, but then take the leftovers just to increase the profit margin and create this perpetual cycling of money for nothing at all. Shouldn't be legal. They literally found out how to just take your money for nothing and are actually getting away with it. Where will it end?





you can absolutely sell money.  ever heard of a coin shop?  some people pay thousands of dollars for $1 or less in legal tender :crazy:


IF one is going to do gift cards, something like Costco is the best option as they sell 3-4 packs of gift cards where you usually get $100 worth of cards for $75. 


Those two things aside, i completely agree with you that gift cards are stupid and on the verge of a scam (not literally, but figuratively)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Onlineviraldrome
 User Gallery


Registered: 09/21/18
Posts: 4,085
Loc: Parts Unknown
Last seen: 16 seconds
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan] * 4
    #26401224 - 12/26/19 06:42 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Near Dylan said:

Who the fuck are buying these things anyway??? How are they getting people to buy them?






I just gave one to my dad yesterday. He is suffering from dementia and we (my brother and I) didn't think he was still capable of being in charge of his own finances, because of scammers who target the elderly.

I wanted him to feel he still had a card as he doesn't have any credit cards or bank cards anymore and the whole thing has been incredibly upsetting to him. I am not even sure he can count cash anymore, and he's a target for getting ripped off there too.

So that's why I bought a gift card, sorry to be a Debbie Downer


--------------------
Lysergamides I have tried so far: 1P-LSD, 1cP-LSD, ALD-52, AL-LAD, LSZ, ETH-LAD, MIPLA, EIPLA, 1cP-AL-LAD


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleCrazy_Horse
I’m Rick James, bitch!
 User Gallery

Registered: 08/15/16
Posts: 13,356
Loc: Hampsterdam
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan]
    #26401226 - 12/26/19 06:43 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

What are Split Payments?
Split payments combine several payment methods for one purchase transaction. This means a shopper can buy an item with a credit card, a gift card, and cash or any combination of payment methods; on a single transaction. Although this makes a purchase more complex, it caters to the customer’s needs. Split payment methods are not a rarity in the brick and mortar stores world. However, we haven’t seen it as prevalently online … yet.




--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisible1234go
Ban Lotto Champion
 User Gallery

Registered: 07/08/09
Posts: 54,411
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan] * 2
    #26401325 - 12/26/19 08:27 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

this thread sucks - you can do better


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinewatermelon mon
Willow Trees


Registered: 04/05/13
Posts: 7,800
Last seen: 3 years, 3 months
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: 1234go]
    #26402029 - 12/26/19 06:51 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I understand

Don't think we need more things to be illegal though

Hey man thank you , you reminded me

I got a 10 $ tim hortons gift card that I never used yet

From a work barbeque over our summer

I signed into the barbeque then I snuck out to go sleep in my car

It was like trailer park boys

I'm going to spend it on white hot chocolate with a bag of chai tea inside , a few of them


--------------------
    :dazedandconfused:


Edited by watermelon mon (12/26/19 06:51 PM)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Onlinespirit_shadow
Feature not a bug
I'm a teapot User Gallery


Registered: 08/15/11
Posts: 25,996
Last seen: 7 minutes, 39 seconds
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: viraldrome] * 1
    #26402215 - 12/26/19 09:50 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

viraldrome said:
Quote:

Near Dylan said:

Who the fuck are buying these things anyway??? How are they getting people to buy them?






I just gave one to my dad yesterday. He is suffering from dementia and we (my brother and I) didn't think he was still capable of being in charge of his own finances, because of scammers who target the elderly.

I wanted him to feel he still had a card as he doesn't have any credit cards or bank cards anymore and the whole thing has been incredibly upsetting to him. I am not even sure he can count cash anymore, and he's a target for getting ripped off there too.

So that's why I bought a gift card, sorry to be a Debbie Downer



Damn it man that is sad :frown: im glad you are still in his life. My father died new years eve this past year.....so make sure you make every moment count <3


--------------------
Those content with the least have the most.....(this account is automated, all posts related to illegal activities or advice thereof are strictly from numerous online sites and are for informational purposes only)- Circa 2011
Ban lotto


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineAegis
Stranger
Male

Registered: 10/03/19
Posts: 150
Last seen: 4 years, 1 month
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: spirit_shadow] * 1
    #26402334 - 12/27/19 12:45 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

People have a choice...and they seem to like it. I hate hearing "should be illegal".


--------------------
"We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” - T. Mckenna


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSurReality
PsychAdemic
Male User Gallery

Registered: 12/21/06
Posts: 11,808
Loc: Colorado, USA Flag
Last seen: 1 year, 7 months
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: spirit_shadow] * 1
    #26402339 - 12/27/19 12:47 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Lol OP prohibition is not a solution.


--------------------
ProDOPEFiend Diary: (my public diary)

PodCast


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineNear Dylan
Shitpost Artist


Registered: 07/29/15
Posts: 13,929
Last seen: 5 days, 15 hours
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: SurReality]
    #26402450 - 12/27/19 03:48 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Yes Im sure that it would just create an underground gift card market, run by the gift card mafia.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSurReality
PsychAdemic
Male User Gallery

Registered: 12/21/06
Posts: 11,808
Loc: Colorado, USA Flag
Last seen: 1 year, 7 months
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan]
    #26402745 - 12/27/19 09:18 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

That's pretty funny. Just talk to your friends and family about how shitty of a gift it is to get and I'm sure you can save the hassle of passing policies.


--------------------
ProDOPEFiend Diary: (my public diary)

PodCast


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleJokeshopbeard
Humble Student

Registered: 11/30/11
Posts: 26,088
Loc: Deep in the system Flag
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan]
    #26402748 - 12/27/19 09:21 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Near Dylan said:
Take $20 of real money you can spend anywhere and they give you $20 of fake money that you can only use there.



I never got this either. Like, WTF would I do that?!? Maybe you wanna charge me $17.50 for a $20 card I can use at your store I could respect it, but as it stands... it's retarded.


--------------------
Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not.
--Jac O'keeffe


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineBaby_Hitler
Errorist
 User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 03/06/02
Posts: 27,604
Loc: To the limit! Flag
Last seen: 21 minutes, 8 seconds
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26402813 - 12/27/19 10:17 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It's all because it's considered lame to give money as a gift, but you can buy fake money and that's ok, I guess.


--------------------
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
(•_•)
<) )~  ANTIFA
/ \
\(•_•)
( (>    SUPER
/ \
(•_•)
<) )>    SOLDIERS
  / \


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleBurke Dennings
baby merchant

Registered: 11/29/04
Posts: 81,641
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 6
    #26402819 - 12/27/19 10:19 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I got my fiancée a gift card to Sephora as an Xmas gift.  It felt like a good idea because I knew she wanted quality makeup, but I don’t know anything about makeup.  At the shop they have makeup artists who color match you and shit, so it makes more sense for her to go there herself, rather than me choosing a bunch of stuff that probably wouldn’t be right for her.

And yeah, I could’ve just given her cash to go to Sephora with, but that would’ve felt dumb.  Like, “hey girl I’ve been with for over a decade, here’s some money from our shared account.  Buy whatever.”  The gift card demonstrates that I listened to her that time she mentioned wanting good makeup, and that I recalled a specific want of hers while calculating what to give her.  It’s a slightly more thoughtful gift that way, and I think that’s what matters to her.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineBANANA.MAN
Turd Ferguson
Male
Registered: 01/11/15
Posts: 7,474
Loc: Ontario Canada
Last seen: 7 hours, 29 minutes
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #26403023 - 12/27/19 01:07 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It's a voluntary transaction. The sellers of the gift card are not misleading anyone. It's not the government's job to make sure you spend your money wisely. It's your job to not be stupid.

Just dont make bad deals.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleTantrika
Miss Ann Thrope
Female


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 03/26/12
Posts: 17,138
Loc: Lashed to the pyre
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: viraldrome]
    #26403032 - 12/27/19 01:16 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

viraldrome said:
Quote:

Near Dylan said:

Who the fuck are buying these things anyway??? How are they getting people to buy them?






I just gave one to my dad yesterday. He is suffering from dementia and we (my brother and I) didn't think he was still capable of being in charge of his own finances, because of scammers who target the elderly.

I wanted him to feel he still had a card as he doesn't have any credit cards or bank cards anymore and the whole thing has been incredibly upsetting to him. I am not even sure he can count cash anymore, and he's a target for getting ripped off there too.

So that's why I bought a gift card, sorry to be a Debbie Downer




Well shit, was going to say that the people buying them are parents and grandparents who don't know what to give to people younger than them
but don't want to give them money for risk of buying dr00gz

kind of enjoy getting gift cards for book stores because it is an excuse to get more books without the concern of how/if they fit into budgeting


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleTheFakeSunRa
Bitch Splitter
 User Gallery


Registered: 03/01/05
Posts: 16,449
Loc: Dirdy SOUF Flag
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan]
    #26403122 - 12/27/19 02:51 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Near Dylan said:
Wanted to make this all year but I saved it for Christmas.

I believe it is a clear-cut unethical business practice for places to sell gift cards. You shouldn't be allowed to sell people money that they can only use at your business. It is an undeniable scam. Literally selling people the oppurtunity to advertise your company and bring in another customer. Take $20 of real money you can spend anywhere and they give you $20 of fake money that you can only use there. What the fuck is that bullshit, how the fuck is that legal? Who the fuck are buying these things anyway??? How are they getting people to buy them?

You cant sell money, man.... You cant just sell money..

And dont get me started on some of these fucking Visa cards. You cap it out with the amount that you put on it and cant recahrge. Meaning there ALWAYS will be something leftover, you just cant spend single dollars and cents on a card like that, wtf will you buy? So after a small amount of inactivity, they'll just take that out of the card and give it back to themselves, guaranteeing on every sale that not only did they make you a profit by convincing you to just buy money at a loss, but then take the leftovers just to increase the profit margin and create this perpetual cycling of money for nothing at all. Shouldn't be legal. They literally found out how to just take your money for nothing and are actually getting away with it. Where will it end?




This is actually a great post.


--------------------
[quote]Asante said:
You constantly make posts thatr fling middle school insults at people you don't like mixed in with maladjusted psychopathic comments about wanting to beat up the other poster with a crowbar.

You know how shit you are, you just don't give a fuck for precisely that reason.

I disendorse you.[/quote]


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Onlinespirit_shadow
Feature not a bug
I'm a teapot User Gallery


Registered: 08/15/11
Posts: 25,996
Last seen: 7 minutes, 39 seconds
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
    #26403621 - 12/27/19 08:27 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

So....hey man.... I have $20 you can buy from me for $21.37.....that you can only spend at my house.


--------------------
Those content with the least have the most.....(this account is automated, all posts related to illegal activities or advice thereof are strictly from numerous online sites and are for informational purposes only)- Circa 2011
Ban lotto


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineNOUS333
Stranger Than You
I'm a teapot

Registered: 12/26/15
Posts: 2,952
Last seen: 2 years, 11 months
Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #26403673 - 12/27/19 09:02 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Burke Dennings said:
I got my fiancée a gift card to Sephora as an Xmas gift.  It felt like a good idea because I knew she wanted quality makeup, but I don’t know anything about makeup.  At the shop they have makeup artists who color match you and shit, so it makes more sense for her to go there herself, rather than me choosing a bunch of stuff that probably wouldn’t be right for her.

And yeah, I could’ve just given her cash to go to Sephora with, but that would’ve felt dumb.  Like, “hey girl I’ve been with for over a decade, here’s some money from our shared account.  Buy whatever.”  The gift card demonstrates that I listened to her that time she mentioned wanting good makeup, and that I recalled a specific want of hers while calculating what to give her.  It’s a slightly more thoughtful gift that way, and I think that’s what matters to her.




This.


I got my mom and dad gift cards

I hate getting them. Would rather just have money but.  My mom loves blowing money on dumb shit so shell enjoy it no matter whar store its for. And my dad always goes to the hardware store so it will just save him money he would of spent there anyway. And i think he will appreciate that


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1 | 2 | Next >  [ show all ]

Shop: PhytoExtractum Kratom Powder for Sale   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals, CBD Concentrates   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Ordering stuff online w/ Simon Gift Card? Kenny7822 1,062 4 12/26/04 12:10 AM
by Kenny7822
* simon gift card next best thing! Bruce3 827 2 02/25/04 10:02 PM
by Bruce3
* Most Random Gift This year?
( 1 2 3 all )
WildCardsRevenge 3,575 42 12/29/05 12:14 PM
by Konnrade
* I got a $50 gift card to B&N, what books do u recomend? sui 690 5 12/25/04 09:30 AM
by Penguarky Tunguin
* "I have illegal drugs in my car" bumper sticker
( 1 2 3 4 all )
LearyfanS 9,549 68 01/12/11 06:58 PM
by Raw
* Bom's Annual Christmas Card Party
( 1 2 all )
CherryBomM 1,588 22 12/01/05 12:41 AM
by InjectTruth
* My suicide girl contribution... all i have as a gift to you shroomery
( 1 2 3 4 5 all )
Todcasil 12,916 96 09/03/05 09:17 AM
by ShroomArtist84
* A Stranger's Valentines Day Gift to WoodsCall *DELETED* WoodsCall 1,447 10 02/18/05 07:15 PM
by WoodsCall

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
755 topic views. 9 members, 36 guests and 49 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.031 seconds spending 0.009 seconds on 14 queries.