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Old 01-14-2008, 12:26 AM  
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Originally Posted by Mutt View Post
oh it's way worse than that - do you know the % of gift certificates that don't get used before the expiry date? it's tens of millions of dollars and I think I read that there is a consumer law, maybe federal, that will make gift cards with expiry dates illegal. hard though to feel bad for anybody - somebody gives you a gift card you see the expiry date is a year, if somebody can't get off their lazy ass to go redeem it for something it's their own fault.

It's called "breakage" and the national average is 15% that never gets used !
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