• Zorque@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Most gift cards I know of have no expiration dates. Gift certificates, something from a more barbaric age, on the other hand…

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
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      5 days ago

      No expiration date? In which country? I’m in Australia, I’ve worked in a couple retail stores and it’s usually a 3 year expiry for gift cards. You also have the generic visa gift cards you can purchase at supermarkets, same 3 years.

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          5 days ago

          Largely because, instead of expiring,after a year or so the card would charge a monthly maintenance fee until it was empty. This was deemed unreasonable and declared problematic.

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            5 days ago

            Now that’s something I’ve never seen before. I agree, it is absolutely unreasonable. I find it interesting that instead of just removing the maintenance fee you instead remove the expiry as well as the fee. I don’t understand the logic but, it is what it is I guess