With Black Friday and Cyber Monday approaching, things are about to get incredibly busy in the gift card reselling world.
It’ll be nicely profitable and a chance to knock out some credit card minimum spend requirements, but it’s going to be pretty hectic too. As some light relief before the avalanche of deals, here’s a list of 21 reasons you know you resell lots of gift cards.
21 Reasons You Know You Resell Lots Of Gift Cards
1) Google Maps asks if it should set your local Kroger as your workplace
2) You know MetaBank isn’t Facebook’s new financial arm
3) You have to add another 1,000 lines to your Google Sheets gift card tracking spreadsheet
4) “Welcome valued customer” becomes the soundtrack of your life
5) When someone mentions 50DD your immediate thought is $50 DoorDash or $50 Dunkin’ Donuts rather than anything else.
6) Your inbox is littered with emails between you and Ryan at Bitmo
7) You have a silver thumb from wiping off the remnants after scratching off tons of gift cards
8) You look forward to new PayPal Digital Gifts deals, but dread the monotony of pressing ‘Skip’ on the time-wasting splash screen when getting the cards
9) You’re given a $100 Home Depot gift card for your birthday and your instinctive reaction is that you’ve been given $90 cash
10) You’re disappointed when you go to use an Amex Offer online and see ‘CashStar’ in the URL
11) Your daily routine includes going to MyGiftCardsPlus at 11:58am ET, logging in and getting ready to hit refresh
12) It feels like there can’t be any more 10 digit Alt IDs available after all the accounts you’ve created
13) You automatically know a $10 bonus when spending $50 is a 16.67% discount
14) You eagerly anticipate the $110 Home Depot gift cards for $100 deals coming as soon as October ends
15) You earn Best Buy Elite Plus status just from buying gift cards
16) The words “4x fuel points promotion” fills you with both anticipation and dread
17) You don’t know whether converting Game & Grub gift cards is worth the effort or not
18) Your eyes roll to the back of your head when you see there’s yet another place offering a 20% discount on Fanatics gift cards
19) You can immediately distinguish between the number 0 and a capital O
20) You’ve cleared out your local stores of variable load Best Buy gift cards
21) Your annual spending on gift cards is 10x that of your salary
What would you add to the list? Add your suggestions to the comments below.
Hahaha! Thanks for this.
16/21, yikes.
Daily routine also includes browsing this site, or more likely hourly routine during holiday seasons.