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Warning: If you’re making a purchase, be sure you use the card within 45 days otherwise you have no buyer protection.
The Offer
- CardCash is offering 5% off sitewide when you use promo code CHRISTMAS5
The Fine Print
- Offer ends ?
Our Verdict
You get 5% on top of the already discount cards, so that’s good. Prices were likely increased so it’s not necessarily a full additional 5%, but could be a good deal, overall. Some people like buying gas gift cards or similar high-value cards.
Many cards I don’t want and zero cards I want. That’s usually the case. I was too slow to get to the party!
Cardcash has a bad reputation among gift card resellers as others provide a 1 year protection guarantee
In fact you should avoid CardCash altogether because at 45 days, they are also attractive to card thieves, who use the site and cash out on day 46 in high enough numbers to make it worthwhile to them. Cardpool is one year, not attractive to card thieves.
There are ways around this. I have had some success in approaching stores within the 45-day period, showing them my Cardcash receipt, and being allowed to move the funds from the card I bought from Cardcash onto a new card with a different number. YMMV, of course.
There are also stores where you can simply buy a gift card at the register with your Cardcash gift card (or at least the registers are not hard-coded), so one can also try to move the funds that way.
I completely agree, however, that under no circumstances should you leave unspent money on the card you actually bought from Cardcash beyond the 45-day window.
I bought a Dollar General card that was already discounted by 8% and received an additional 5%! That is a good deal if you shop at DG!