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Re: Geoffrey Bucks. Was re: TRU stuff shipped yet?
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sun, 5 Dec 1999 01:52:25 GMT
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Maggie Cambron <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote:
> TRU is going the way of Target, Walmart and KMart regarding their refunds w/o
> receipt. They have begun to issue plastic "gift cards" instead. Soon you will
> have to buy those instead of Geoffrey bucks if you want to give a gift
> certificate. There is no way for the recipient to tell the value when he or she
> receives it; furthermore, if you read the fine print on the back of the card it
> says,"To cover administrative costs, a $2.50 per month dormant account fee will be
> deducted from your account balance after 12 months of non-use." Gone will be the
> days when you can get those heretofore complimentary pale blue envelopes and insert
> the GBucks so that when the lucky recipient opens the envelope there is the cute
> little face of Geoffrey giraffe peeking out of the center cutout,
> and the contents feels more like money to a kid.
I like the gift cards a lot more than the paper certificates. Don't
care for that "dormancy" clause, but then again, I doubt it would
ever hurt me because the card would burn a hole in my pocket in far
less than a year.
As for the feel of "money" - I go weeks without touching paper
money. I seldom go a day without using plastic. Brave new world...
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