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December 19, 2017 15 mins

Are gift cards a good idea for gifts? Do you return gifts after the holidays?!?!?!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcasts,
not understanding how that's even possible talking. I don't get
it either. I mean, Brodie's saying, you can return stuff
after Christmas, but don't you need a receipt. I'm just

(00:24):
going he's talking about things that he's had for years
that are on open right, That's what I'm saying. It's
called Okay. I used to work in retail, so I
know that it's called cleaning out your closet. Anyone who
works in retail knows that customers that they do, they
clean out their closet. And so you can't bring back
like nine year old gap shirts because they're obviously nine
years old, but you can bring back Most stores have

(00:45):
like a three day after Christmas return policy where they'll
take back pretty much anything without a receipt under the
assumption you got it as a gift. All you have
to do is say, yeah, I got is a gift.
I don't. But then they're gonna say, well, where's the
gift receipt you give them? I said last year, I said,
you know what, my boss spot like twelve of these
for everybody on the show. We didn't get. We didn't

(01:07):
get receipts because and I can't ask for one because
it would be offensive to him if I knew I
was returning it. Okay, we'll take a back at a
lot of time. Then you'll just get store credit, store credit.
I returned slippers last year for a hundred fifty Okay,
I need your help. Everybody does. That seems to be
the new thing now, people on Twitter asking me for help.
Uh okay, so okay, okay. Amazon. So I was on

(01:37):
a road trip upstate New York and I had a
gift card for a gas station, and I knew that
I was never going to really it's not a common
gas station. It's a long story, but I'm like, you
know what, I'm going to see if I can use
this gift card to buy another gift card that i'll
actually use. So this gas station sold Amazon gift cards.
So I bought eight now a little over a hundred

(02:01):
dollars worth of Amazon gift cards at this place. When
I get home and I try to log the number
into Amazon as a credit to my account, they don't exist.
So the issue is that either somebody was able to
see the number and they stole that number, took a
picture of it and then used it earlier before I
got them, or the people at the register didn't activate

(02:25):
the cards because they didn't know what they were doing.
Either way, not my fault. Now. The problem is that
because it was a road trip, I didn't save the receipt.
I don't know which gas station it was that sold
them to me, And so I reached out to Amazon.
I said, hey, I want a credit to my account
for this dollar amount. And it's a packaging fault on

(02:46):
your guys that you leave these numbers visible to people
that they can even scratch the pin off if they
want to, and so that's on you. I want a credit.
I've gone back and forth now three times, and I've said, look,
I don't know which store it was, and I don't
have the receipt. Help, And each time they say contact
the store, and now they the pin scratched off on

(03:08):
one of them. Yes, Um, it's three cards, four cards total.
So this person just emailed me. Prud v R at
Amazon just said, Budda can't help you. Contact the store itself,
can't yeh uh, and said I'm a consumer myself. I
understand how frustrating this is, but there's not anything we
can do. How did you pay for the cards with

(03:31):
the gifts card? Gift card, so there's probably no record.
You don't have a credit card transaction or any kind
of Okay, do you know what small town you're in?
I was somewhere between Albany and Manhattan. Okay, see if
you could remember the town, then you could Google image
every gas station until you saw the one you recognized.

(03:52):
Isn't the argument that I spend so much money on
Amazon that it would be worth crediting my account to
keep me a happy customer? Don't you think? I agree?
And I know you're an honest person, but they probably
get so many people trying to scam them that they're
they're just yeah, I have every which way till Sunday
to come up with. There's nothing here, because let's say

(04:15):
the gas stations sold you the cards. If they took
the numbers, they could have activated them for you and
then made the purchase while you were driving away with
the cards. If Amazon if Okay, first of all, did
Amazon at least acknowledge that those are legit numbers that
haven't been activated yet? Yes? Okay, so you you could
have technically just taken them off the shelf at the

(04:36):
supermarket and walked out with them. So the gas station
didn't activate them, is what the issue is. But I
don't know where the gas station is, Like it's it's yeah,
you need like channel five on your side. You Actually,
I've never heard you at a loss of what to
do well, because you can get away with doing one

(04:58):
of like seven things wrong, you did eight of them. Yeah,
you're you're um. You know, had you had the credit
card receipt you could cancel the credit card or you
could track the purchase down. It seems like, uh, you know,
a couder at the gas station didn't activate the cards
properly and as such, Uh, you didn't buy them because

(05:19):
exactly to me before, where like I went to CVS
and bought like a gift you know, they gift card,
Yeah exactly, and they didn't activate it, but I had
the receipts, so I brought it in and then they
activated it. I had people tell me, I know you
gave me this for How embarrassing is that you give
it to them as a gift and they call you
it's not activated. I'm like, I swear I put money
on it, you know, I mean, there are dishonest ways

(05:40):
to fix this problem. Thank god you didn't give them
as gifts. You know, a person could you know, buy
another set of Amazon gift cards and have a receipt
and then claim that that receipt was from the first ones.
The numbers wouldn't match cards, right, But if you buy,
if you just go to a store and spend twenty
five dollars and they give you twenty receipt, it doesn't
say is this the most boring pod as ever? I'm sorry, no,

(06:02):
I don't want to encourage, but I just think a person,
not you, a person needs to be extra careful and
buying with a gift card another gift card. Although it
sounds like a great idea, there's no there's no records
if we're talking about gift cards. While we're on the subject,
I discovered that you don't necessarily have to use the

(06:23):
gift card at the store that it's signed to because
a lot of times stores are owned by other companies
and have other stories. Right, well, we know the obvious
ones obviously, that's like Macaroni, a huge chain of restaurants.
There are some. There's some that are not really you know,
right right out front there, like like Sears, Sears for instance, Yes,

(06:46):
exactly that, and like, I gotta I think it was
a Nautica gift card. I got some some random gift
card for something, and I'm like, I didn't realize that
it was a subsidiary of Sears. So all of a sudden,
I found myself buying electronics for something that I was
going to only by like really outdated men's wear with
you know, it was like I forgot to name the story.
Someone not Nautalists, probably whatever, that's just clothing brand. But

(07:12):
the point is you should, I guess always check to
see who the parent company is, and then you could
probably you have like seven or eight other choices to
spend your gift card. Also, there are gift card swap
sites where you can trade in your gift card someone else's.
Just google it um and just trade in someone. Oh,
someone has an exercise one and you have a food one.

(07:34):
You can just swap and swap, or you can sell
them on eBay for like ten percent less than what
they're worth. That's not really worth it. Well, if you
had a hundred all a gift card to a story
you had no interest in going to, and you've got
ninety bucks to spend somewhere else it's worth it. Can
you imagine if I was a horrible person and I'm
not going to do this, I would swap out these
dud Amazon gift cards. They would be screwed. Well, you

(07:54):
know what, we've talked about this on the show. Give
them as a Christmas gift, that's terrible and they go
what they weren't at to it? What that's she'd have
to go and she'd have to go then and activate them.
Well you can't, but you can't know. I mean, that's horrible.
Horrible would be giving him to a homeless person and
saying here, Merry Christmas. He's on a First of all,

(08:16):
they don't have a computer, so I don't know how
the shopping or an address. The point is that's cruel,
giving it too scary and going oh they didn't work. Yeah,
but don't you think that at that point? Being the
nice person that she is, she would say, okay, let
me go and get you. Who's that guy? Who's that
famous guy right there? I have no idea he's fus
who is he you doing? I have no idea? Okay,
he's one of those guys. He's on a million TV

(08:38):
shows Alexander. He's coming. I know he's coming from He's
coming from the AM station. I'm gonna I'm gonna text
that George. I'd run out of here and just drop
my headphones. I'm gonna, hey, can you put the Amazon
thing up to him and say if he comes up,
you know you're taking a picture and you put it
on Amazon. I'm googling, literally googling j An Alexander doppelganger,

(09:01):
and I found apparently there's a mannequin at a store
in Denmark. Yeah, Hi, Hi, Andrew, Andrew. This is the
most non sequitur podcast we've ever done. I texted the
AM station. I'm waiting to hear back who that guy was.
It's it's it's like he's played the dad on a
hundred shows and it doesn't look so he's a guy
who should be up for one of the Carny Awards

(09:22):
next Yes, okay, okay, okay, Google uh Ron and Sanna.
That's who it is. He's on cable news. He's there,
is Ron and Sana. He's a reporter from market score
Board Report with Ron and Sanna, syndicated by Compass, and
a senior analyst and commentator at CNBC. He's got a

(09:47):
smiling face. He's like him. Okay, Ron and Sana just
walked by. For those of you who don't care, what
do you think makes someone have kind eyes? Because this
guy has kind eyes. If you're at a desk whatever,
at your phone, google Ron and Sana, he's kind of
He's a good guy. Financial all this is happening. Somebody
just texted in talking about the fifteen minute morning show

(10:09):
and one. I think they want to incite a riot
here in the room ahead. They want us to do
the topic, starting every sentence with I don't want to
sound like an asshole, but blank well, I don't want
to sell like an asshole. But that's a stupid topic.
You just insulted the listener. I don't want to sell
like an asshole, but screw you. Yeah, I know, but

(10:31):
you don't imagine that. I don't want to go around
the table talking about that. That's only going to cause
controversy problems. How much time is left, by the way,
we have about four more minutes left. I was doing
the topic. None of you guys played along. You want
me to do the topic. I was doing that. I
don't want to seem like an asshole. I don't want to,
but you guys all right that he's eating popcorn. I

(10:51):
want to insult you guys. You know, I feel like
I lead this podcast down a bad path for financial
advice about a gift card. No, I think there's a
lot of people that buy stuff on Craigslist that's fraudulent
and and and buy concert tickets to the fraudulent and
have this similar problem. There's there's only so many ways
you can get get out of it. Sometimes people buy

(11:13):
fake concert tickets and then they email us and they say, well,
can you get me real tickets? The problem is that
if we're sold out, there are no tickets and you
bought a duplicate or a fake ticket. That breaks my heart.
When we get like I bought my daughter these tickets
on Craigslist, it turns out there not real. Can you help?
I'm like, oh, here's here's my life advice. Don't buy
concert tickets on craigs. Yes, you know what. I said

(11:36):
that so many times I tried to help people. Uh,
in private on d M. They've been hitting me up
saying that they got counterfeit tickets. But don't understand it's
a it's a it's a it's a known thing. It's
it's it's part of American culture. Don't buy concert tickets
on craig and no, listen. You can buy baby furniture
on Craigslist, buy a bicycle. There's great things you can
do with craigslist. Get you know, get a date or
companion or murdered or or a will mate. If the

(12:01):
only thing on Craigslist, I would say don't buy is tickets.
Tickets like most of the time they absolutely our counterfeit
like most of the time, most of like eBay will
verify your purchase. Stop Craigslist. No Craigslist sells Amazon gift cards.
Do you know what I'm saying? Like another thing you
may not know. I'm finding out a lot of people

(12:23):
don't know is that if you have an iPhone of
like an iPhone five probably or later, even if the
phone is locked, you can use the camera. It's amazing
how many I was doing something and I realized that
we people were stopping to like unlock phones. It was
when we were in I think when we were in
Philly and we were taking pictures and so many people
were like, oh, your phone is locked, unlock it, and
they would stop to unlock it and you can just

(12:43):
swipe and the camera shows up even if your phone isn't.
I don't want to sell you an asshole, but that's
common knowledge. I thought it just a lot of people.
You don't know that. It's very very helpful. You know what,
who was It was it Andrew that was telling me
the other day about about the emergency the s O s.
If you start clicking, if you start doing don't do this,
by the way, don't do this because it will call

(13:05):
nine one one. But if you start rapidly clicking the
side button over and over again on your phone, it'll
immediately down line one one eventually. Yeah, well like three
to five times. I don't know if I can trust
Andrew with anything anymore after what he said to me today.
What did you say to you talking about Elvis assistant?
Elvis A sister Andrew High Andrew producer now on Facebook
watch later today go to that mike because this one's

(13:27):
not working. So um. Andrew grew up in the New York,
New Jersey area. Now, look, if you live in the Midwest,
maybe you're not exposed to this, but in this area
you are. I was putting a condition the toaster oven,
and he said, what's what? Wait, I need to defend
myself because a kindish is it filled with cheese? No? No?

(13:50):
Which which was your first question? And I looked, would
be a blin, that would be a bliss? Well can
I say that? I asked Kathleen, and Kathleen thought it
was the cheese too. Yes, what it is? Married to
a children. A knih is a baked pastry, sometimes filled
with potato, could come round or square. They sell out
sporting events. It's it's typically uh no, it's it comes

(14:13):
from the Jewish culture. It's a Jewish food at Jewish
being a religion. I understand that, but it's not like
a bagel and a knish. You might not have heard
it's k and I s h google it, Google image it,
and you eat it. But again, if you listen to
this podcast and you're let's say in Nebraska, you might
not know of it, but it's a big item in
the New York area because there's a lot of Jewsie,
I'm kind of surprised you didn't know You've heard the

(14:34):
word before telling the words, it's like telling an Italian
I don't know what lasagna is. That's the equivalent my apologies.
It sounds like a parogue. You're dead to make it out.
It's not. Parogi is filled with yeah. Well sometimes is
like a dumpling, but it's just people. Fifteen minute morning

(14:59):
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