Casino Shopping Benefits - Part 2
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Jean wrote,
"...if you have a card issued by a credit card company, you can't get the balance at a store. And stores cant take the card for purchases unless you know exactly how much is on the card and they can key into the register that amount. This isnt a problem if you have a full card, but if you have a couple of hundred cards from umpteen different sources, as we do, you need to be organized to keep track of balances on partially used cards."
I use mini post-it notes to solve this problem. Each time I get a gift card, I take a mini post-it note and write the balance on it. As I use the gift card, I write down each use, and keep a running tally of the amount left. The mini post-its fit right on the card and don't get lost.
As Jean said, it's not a big problem for stores, but when you have generic gift cards (like the Visa ones we were getting through the Coast Casinos promotion), it really makes sense to keep track.
Lainie
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A couple of years ago, I got several Simon Mall gift cards from the
Golden Nugget. I had planned to use them until I read the fine print,
which said that they could be redeemed for cash by mailing them to a
specified address. I followed the instructions and received a check
for the full face value of the cards.
Jean wrote,
"...if you have a card issued by a credit card company, you can't
get the balance at a store. And stores can't take the card for
purchases unless you know exactly how much is on the card and they can
key into the register that amount. This isn't a problem if you have a
full card, but if you have a couple of hundred cards from umpteen
different sources, as we do, you need to be organized to keep track of
balances on partially used cards."
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Lainie Wolf <lainiewolf702@y...> wrote: