# They'll BUY my giftcards?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyll-buy-my-giftcards/230371>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 21, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyll-buy-my-giftcards/230371 "2004-02-21T14:59:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ottoerotic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ottoerotic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ottoerotic)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyll-buy-my-giftcards/230371/1 "2004-02-21T14:59:16Z")

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I have a gift card for the Gap, with like $165 on it. Unfortunatley I hate the GAP, which is why I returned the gifts which got me the giftcards. Looking around the web I’ve found a few sites that will buy the giftcard off of me for about $155 and resell them to others. I think [SwapAGift.com](http://SwapAGift.com), is one of them.

What I’m wondering, is how legit are these sites, and how does this work? I don’t use E-Bay or usually buy or sell things off the net, but I really want to unload this card for some cash. Is there anyway to tell whether or not I can trust thier business?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![something\_clever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@something\_clever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/something_clever)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyll-buy-my-giftcards/230371/2 "2004-02-21T18:33:58Z")

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an alternative. and… as far as i know, legal way…

hang out by the registers, if you see someone walk up with a lot of merchandise, simply explain the situation. if they are paying with cash, there you go, a cash exchange. If they’re worried youre lying, stand there while they do it. a lot of people are more than happy to do this for you… my cousin had 3 gift cards for best buy totalling 300$ or so, within 20 minutes we had $300 cash 🙂