Gizmodo: Gift Card

Dealzmodo: $100 Wal-Mart Gift Card With Purchase of PS3

Jason Chen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:50:00 EDT

That deal where you get a $100 Wal-Mart gift card when buying a Blu-ray player is even better than we thought. If you buy a PlayStation 3 (including the Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle) between June 8 and June 14, you'll qualify for that hundred bones. This deal looks even better than the last one, seeing as the $100 gift card qualifies for purchase of anything, not just Blu-ray movies, of which there are only a handful we actually want. Good find, Crecente. [Wal-Mart via Kotaku]

Brookstone Accepts Your Temporarily Worthless Sharper Image Cards For 25% Discount

Jason Chen — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:00:20 EST

You know that $100 Sharper Image gift certificate you got for Christmas? The one that's now not being accepted while the company's going through bankruptcy proceedings? Turns out you can head to Brookstone, the other purveyor of fairly useless light-up gadgets that you stick up your nose to generate ozone, and get 25% off any purchase. What's even better is that you can take any gift card there, regardless of value, so feel free to trade in a $10 gift card for a quarter off a vibrating jacuzzi submarine with built-in alarm clock and personal organizer. [Yahoo]

Sharper Image Suspends Gift Card Redemption

Jason Chen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:50:40 EST

As a result of Sharper Image's bankruptcy filing earlier this week, the company's decided to stop accepting gift cards until they can get their finances in order. That really sucks for you if you just received a Sharper Image gift card for Christmas '07, but it really sucks for people who returned merchandise and could only get store credit in the form of a card. What's even more unfortunate is the banner at the top of Sharper Image's press release site. Ouch. [Sharper Image via Consumerist]

Dealzmodo: Buy 3 $15 iTunes Gift Cards, Get 1 Free

Travis Hudson — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:30:27 EDT

So, in other words, get $60 at the iTunes store for $45. Best Buy is currently running this promotion, and it could be good if you have a lot of gifts to give out soon (Easter baskets?) or it could be a good if you are a rabid iTunes shopper who wants a free $15 courtesy of Best Buy. Beatles fans need not apply, yet. –Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via Slickdealz]

Unethically Hack Coinstar To Bypass 9% Fee

Jason Chen — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:00:33 EST

Did you know Coinstar charges a 9% fee for sorting your cash if you're not redeeming it for a gift card? Well, if you've got a huge sense of entitlement, here's a way to bypass the 9% fee.

All you have to do is put in your money and select an iTunes gift card. Then, when it asks you how much you want in cash and how much in the card, put it all in the card. After that, unplug the machine from the phone line, and long story short, it will give you a voucher with all of your money intact (no 9% fee) which you can redeem.

If you feel like somehow Coinstar owes you something—one fell over and killed your brother, perhaps—here's a way to screw them over. – Jason Chen

The ultimate guide to hacking a CoinStar machine [Antiyawn via Gearfuse - Thanks Andrew!]