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Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 12:59 AM UTC

anson wrote: post #7

physcab wrote: post #5

Are there any companies/non-profits/charities that would allow me to donate my gift cards that have a small balance on them but not enough to buy a product? Ideally I'd like to give this money to charity instead of throwing them away.

we will be adding this feature very soon!

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Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by andrewljohnson » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 12:59 AM UTC

This is by far one of the best YC ideas I've heard in a long time!

If you succeed, you're going to destroy balance sheets, move markets, and hopefully reform the gift card scam forever. But, you probably already know all this.

Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by luxiou » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:03 AM UTC

Congrats guys! I might use my borders card this weekend :)

Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by sachin » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:08 AM UTC

luxiou wrote: post #13

Congrats guys! I might use my borders card this weekend :)

Ditto, congrats guys! The service is looking good.

Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by andrewhyde » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:11 AM UTC

anson wrote: post #7

physcab wrote: post #5

Are there any companies/non-profits/charities that would allow me to donate my gift cards that have a small balance on them but not enough to buy a product? Ideally I'd like to give this money to charity instead of throwing them away.

we will be adding this feature very soon!

great news, I've wanted to give the 'if you don't use this the balance goes to charity' card for a while.

Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by arihelgason » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:24 AM UTC

Great! Especially like being able to buy a gift card to get a discount on a purchase I was going to make anyway.

Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by gustaf » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:24 AM UTC

Great. Looking forward to playing with this!

Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:26 AM UTC

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Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by smokey_the_bear » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:27 AM UTC

I've often wondered if stores could make money selling discounted gift certificates with a time delay. It's 5% off, but not useable until 2 months after purchase. It'd probably be a hassle to handle, but I'd actually consider using gift certificates if they had something like that.

Re: CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

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Post by anson » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 1:30 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #18

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absolutely. we verify every gift card when we buy it and when we sell it, and will refund your purchase for any reason, even if its because the retailer goes bankrupt, leaves town, or you simply change your mind. we are creating this service to solve the problems with gift cards and the last thing we would want to do it contribute to it :).