Facebook has a new physical gift card that works like a regular gift card except you can use it at multiple retailers. But! It’s not a cash-equivalent Visa you can spend everywhere. It’s not even a stored value card that lets you spend the X-amount of money wherever you want within a Facebook-approved pool of retailers. It takes the saddest and lamest gift possible and makes it worse. More »
Facebook, a modern day technological success story, has fallen back onto old school marketing techniques when it comes to announcing the availability of Gift Cards which can be purchased online for a friend or relative living elsewhere. Basically, Facebook users will soon be able to gift their mates items from Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target, thanks to the introduction of the reusable gift card from Facebook.
How does it work? The premise is rather simple, really, where you first pick a gift for your friend from the Gift Cards & Digital category. Following that, choose a value and complete your purchase. Your friend be informed immediately about your gift, and checking their mail, they should see a Facebook Card in the mailbox not too long after. They can then take a quick trip to a nearby retailer that you have selected, and spend whatever credit is in there. Best of all is, Facebook Gift Cards are reusable, and each card can hold multiple gift balances, with individual balances dedicated to the associated retailer. Expect the ability to send a Facebook Card gift being made available in stages to folks living Stateside.
If only Facebook Gift Cards were launched before Christmas last year…[Press Release]
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Best Buy released a too good to be true coupon earlier today: Spend a $100 and save $50 automatically when you pay with a MasterCard credit card. The fine print had excluded a few products but it was pretty much a free $50 bucks for everything else. So predictably people took advantage of ol’ Best Buy and rung up thousands of dollars of Amazon.com and iTunes gift cards for half off, Apple TVs for $50, Kindle Paperwhites for cheap and anything they could find without any limits. More »
Who needs a piece of plastic to give a gift card anymore? Not you if you go through Square. A new update to the Square Wallet app adds digital giftcards you can give right from your phone right to someone else’s. And if your gift-target is running iOS 6, it’ll show up in their Passbook. More »
Starbucks, purveyor of coffee flavored water, builder of coffee scented corner stores and shelter for no coffee drinking Wi-Fi leeches, has a new shtick: a premium gift card. It’s made of steel! It’s ‘specially etched’! And it’s a super, limited edition that inanely costs 450 bucks. More »
It’s that time of year where you have to start gifting, and you’ll find yourself faced with all sorts of deep, important questions. Here’s one to get you started: Is it tacky to give an app store gift card as a gift? More »
Gift cards are a cop-out that screams “I’m too lazy to think about this!” But if you’re going to go that route, you might as well go with an Amazon gift card because, well, you can buy just about anything on Amazon. It’s like handing someone cash. Besides, now that Amazon’s teamed up with video greeting card service JIbJab, you can add a little personal spice to the blandest gift of all. More »
Though iOS 6’s Passbook burst onto the scene with a bit of a whimper, it’s been getting more useful as time goes on. This weekend, Apple started rolling out Passbook-enabled Apple Store gift cards so you can buy a gift that’s not only last-minute, but not even a physical object. More »
With Apple having recently introduced its novel Passbook feature in the latest version of iOS, it’s only natural for app makers to try and take advantage of such miscellaneous hub. With that in mind, Gyft — a 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt finalist — has made its application fully compatible with Cupertino’s newfangled iOS 6, adding support for the iPhone 5’s 4-inch screen and, most importantly, the ability to add gift cards from many retailers to Passbook; some of which include Amazon, Target, Lowe’s, GAP, American Eagle and Starbucks. You can grab the Gyft (v1.2) application now directly from your iDevice, or there’s always the link below if that makes it slightly easier for you.
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Gyft for iOS now compatible with Passbook, adds gift cards from more than 200 retailers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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During Motorola’s keynote on Wednesday, the company announced a nice little bonus for loyal fans — should your 2011-or-later handset not receive a Jelly Bean update, you’ll get $100 if you upgrade to one of its new models. Well, a website for the deal has gone live and the initial Ts&Cs don’t make it sound like an immediate discount, but that the Benjamin will instead be reimbursed as a gift card, carrier credit or a cash equivalent of Motorola’s choice. We’re still in the dark about which specific phones will be denied a taste of Android 4.1, although the list is expected “very soon.” In the meantime, you can sign up at the source link below to receive details of how to update, or how to claim the rebate once the fate of your old handset has been decided.
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Motorola’s rebate site goes live: $100 credit if you need to upgrade to get Jelly Bean originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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