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OfflineNear Dylan
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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: NOUS333]
    #26405527 - 12/28/19 11:38 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Bull! Either go for a thoughtful gift, or go for money. Don't try to half ass in the middle with no 'I vaguely remember you have this broad interest but idk what to pick out, so you do it. Here's a card' BS!


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OfflineLoaded Shaman
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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan] * 1
    #26405598 - 12/29/19 02:09 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Anyone else catching the irony about people people bitching about gift cards but no mention of the fiat currency we use as actual money...?


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OfflineNear Dylan
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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Loaded Shaman]
    #26405804 - 12/29/19 07:11 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

What are we supposed to do, have our civilization be revolved around the scarcity of a shiny rock?

There is no comparison to our money having artificially created value in order to serve as a universal currency, and a gift card that you can only buy shit at Applebee's with. What a shitty comparison, sad!!!


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan] * 1
    #26405946 - 12/29/19 08:57 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

If we all chip in a dollar we could get ND a real sweet gift card.


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InvisiblebodhisattaMDiscordReddit
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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Dark_Star]
    #26406016 - 12/29/19 09:52 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Gift cards exist to give lazy people that have to keep up their family/friendly image a way out. They're a way of buying someone a gift without giving them a gift. "Hey here's some cash" isn't a gift. My brother and I would simply just exchange money each year hopefully the same amount or one of us loses and one wins... But a gift card it has gift in the name. It must therefore be a gift, I mean it says so right on the card. You can plausibly imply that you put thought and effort into getting this "gift" for someone. And the person receiving it will surely be a dick if they call you on it. Hey motherfucker thanks for not thinking of anything unique and just giving me money in lieu of thought and consideration.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26406022 - 12/29/19 09:57 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Mom's guide to gift card giving

I'm getting this for my mid. This money can be spent at Costco because I think you need help with groceries and spend too much money on drugs and not your own kids. I think your spouse sucks and got you into being this lousy piece of shit.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: bodhisatta] * 2
    #26406042 - 12/29/19 10:05 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Leave it to millennials to complain about getting free money.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Dark_Star]
    #26406066 - 12/29/19 10:18 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Real talk..


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan]
    #26406171 - 12/29/19 11:29 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I always thought the point was to force someone to get an actual, tangible gift.

Cash goes straight into the wallet, while you have to exchange a gift card for something.


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...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan]
    #26406479 - 12/29/19 02:44 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I like giving gift cards because then I know that the person is going to have a certain kind of experience, like eating icecream or having a nice dinner or going to a movie. That's what I ultimately want to buy them. And if I just give them cash then they're just going to put it in their bank account and spend it on bills or something. If I wanted to pay their bills, I'd do that. Instead I want to give them some icecream or a nice night at the movies, that kind of thing, and I can do that with gift cards.

I understand your objection to them, but they do actually serve a pretty cool role in society. They have some advantages over cash for the person giving them.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: nooneman] * 1
    #26406528 - 12/29/19 03:14 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It’s a lazy af gift

The tradition of exchanging shit we don’t even need needs to stop

Capitalism needs to lick my dick


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: nooneman] * 1
    #26406689 - 12/29/19 05:43 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Bad excuse! Giving someone a 20 a telling them to go buy some ice cream with it would be more practical, and just as thoughtless and lazy. Don't pass it as some cute little 'the gift of experience', you just got had by capitalism.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Near Dylan] * 1
    #26406743 - 12/29/19 06:26 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Nooneman is just a bad friend if he does anything less than buy all the makings of a sundae (ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, chopped nuts, maraschino cherries, etc.) and wrap them all up.  Simply.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Burke Dennings] * 3
    #26406754 - 12/29/19 06:33 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

My aunt gave me two $50 gift cards for SiriusXM radio.

I thought it was a pretty sneaky lefty liberal trick because all she really wants is for me to quit listening to talk radio all day.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: mycosis] * 1
    #26406757 - 12/29/19 06:42 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Lol.  Clever girl.

Hey, here’s a tip though, if you’re gonna use those.  Buy whatever cheaper package they offer, and then when it goes to expire, let it.  They’ll start spamming you about renewing.  At this point, you get on the phone with them, and tell them you would like to renew, but that you think it costs too much.  They’ll whittle the price down pretty far.  That’s what we do, I think we paid about 50$ for a year of XM this last time.  And then you can just listen to XM talk radio, there’s a ton of it.

I mostly listen to the 80’s channel, the new wave channel, and the 90s grunge/alternative channel.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: mycosis]
    #26406758 - 12/29/19 06:42 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Siruisxm is full of talk radio.


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Re: Gift Cards should be Illegal [Re: Tantrika] * 1
    #26407436 - 12/30/19 08:32 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Tantrika said:

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






I'm literally buying drugs with the christmas money my boss gave me right now. My drug vendor is open one day and then going on holiday again I'm not normally awake at this hour. My boss giving me a gift card for timmies would have really sucked, not going to lie.


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