Blackhawk Network Buys Cashstar for $175M
Blackhawk Network announced today the acquisition of Cashstar, a venture-capital based private company, for $175M in cash. Cashstar was founded…
Gift Cards
My Pet Peeve about Buying Gift Cards on Exchanges, and Why Everyone Should be Using Giftcardzen
Whenever anything complains about buying gift cards from second-hand gift card exchanges, the first thing that comes to mind is…
[Expired] eBay: Save on Gift Cards from Hilton, Exxon, Speedway, Sunoco, Meijer, Domino’s, Krispy Kreme, Karma Koin & Hyatt
Here are a few new gift card deals found on eBay. Hopefully, PPDG will release a slew of deals sometime later.…
[Expired] Swych App Review for Buying and Swapping Gift Cards + Referral Bonus
We've been seeing numerous deals with Swych over the past months. After ignoring it for while, I decided it was…
Use ‘Amazon Cash’ to Reload your Amazon Balance In Stores Nationwide
[Updated 6/12/17] Amazon now advertises a new way of reloading an Amazon balance with Amazon Cash which allows direct reloads at drug…
Home Depot Merchandise Credits will be Harder to Use Starting April 10th
Back in June 2016, Home Depot stopped allowing merchandise credits to be used online. Beginning April 10th, in-store use of merchandise…
Paypal Repents
What a pleasant surprise! Paypal Digital Gifts purchases have been going smoothly of late for most people. PPDG is a…
SVM Still Posting as Cash Advance
Just a quick update: many readers confirm that SVM on eBay is still posting as a cash advance. I'm shocked…
Raise Extends Buyer Protection to a Year
Raise recently extended their Buyer Protection from 100-days to a year. (Link) Should a gift card turn out depleted for…
Giftcardmart is Back Up and Running
A few readers reached out to let us know that the Giftcardmart site was showing an error message and wasn't…