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Originally Posted by rostasi
You wrote a screed on the "racket" of gift cards (it's not a racket because there's nothing illegal or dishonest being proffered).Then you said that you were "astonishe[d]" that it actually works. It works because some people might not know exactly what to get someone. People stopped buying music gifts for me a looooong time ago and so I get "cards" from, for example, Bandcamp, so I can choose and, most importantly, it's not just someone lazily throwing 20 bucks at me to go buy something. To think that a store offering the convenience of a gift card to a customer is somehow ensnaring them into their web of deceit or money-hungriness is conspiratorial. Instead, it shows that they are offering a valuable option to the customer and, yes, of course, it's a benefit to the store because they are offering their customers an option. They'll want to come back.
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Convincing people to trade money that can be spent anywhere into money that can only be spent on something sold by the seller is a hella ****ing racket. Actually believing that $20 you can only spend at one place is a more thoughtful gift than just a plain old twenty that can be spent anywhere is some serious blind allegiance to capitalism. What’s next? A Wendy’s only GoFundMe? Actually, I could totally see that happening and people actually believing it’s a more thoughtful way to give money. It’s amazing to me what these *******s are capable of selling. Selling money that’s actually less valuable than money is at least as mindboggling as selling ice to Eskimos.