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i absolutely get the underlying intention, but the bad feeling of having missed the deadline and ending up with a voided present is just awful
Most gift cards I know of have no expiration dates. Gift certificates, something from a more barbaric age, on the other hand...
No expiration date? In which country? I'm in Australia, I've worked in a couple retail stores and it's usually a 3 year expiry for gift cards. You also have the generic visa gift cards you can purchase at supermarkets, same 3 years.
Yeah. That used to be the case in the US, but it’s illegal now.
Largely because, instead of expiring,after a year or so the card would charge a monthly maintenance fee until it was empty. This was deemed unreasonable and declared problematic.
Now that's something I've never seen before. I agree, it is absolutely unreasonable. I find it interesting that instead of just removing the maintenance fee you instead remove the expiry as well as the fee. I don't understand the logic but, it is what it is I guess
Believe it or not, in the US I haven't seen a gift card with an expiration in probably a decade, outside of the generic visa ones draining to zero over time due to maintenance fees.
They can still do an expiration date, but it has to be 5 years out.
If you're taking 5 years to use a gift card, that's on you.