I started GC Galore in December 2018. Since then, I’ve published every gift card deal that I could find, not taking a single day off from the site in the last six years.
I’m afraid that’s changing as this will be the last post on GC Galore.
Why GC Galore Will Be Ending
Working on this site takes up a lot of my time – significantly more than I’d anticipated when launching the site six years ago. Ultimately, I’ve enjoyed the hard work and, most of all, have enjoyed being of assistance to all of you readers.
Ads on the site and affiliate revenue through sites like Amazon have earned a somewhat decent amount of money, although when compared to the amount of time spent looking for deals and publishing them, the income has probably been minimum wage.
That’s been fine, but continuing the site would likely soon take up significantly more of my time. Following the election result tonight, my wife and I are planning on moving overseas in the new year. Due to issues accessing deals from overseas that I’ve experienced when traveling abroad over the last six years, I’d estimate that the same amount of work that I have to do now would take about twice as long due to problems with switching between VPNs and other issues. Knowing how long I spend working on the site already, that’s simply not a viable option.
As for why we’ll be moving overseas, there are various reasons behind this. A key one is that I’m an immigrant. I’m a legal immigrant, but an immigrant nonetheless. I come from a country that JD Vance regards as now being an Islamist country, despite it being led by a white, straight, non-Muslim male lawyer. Trump has said he wants to revoke status for those in the country legally (like myself).
My wife is still of child bearing age. My wife and I haven’t been silent about the problems with a Trump presidency and Trump previously wanted to have protestors shot and now has immunity for “official” acts.
We therefore don’t want to stick around to see what happens. We’re also disgusted that a significant portion of the country has bought into transphobia, racism, hardship for those who can afford it least, misogyny and other hatred. The fact that so many people will willingly vote for a rapist who tried to launch a coup when he lost four years ago is mind-blowing.
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I was considering keeping GC Galore going at least through the holidays. However, I’m setting off on the Frequent Miler Million Mile Madness challenge tomorrow. I was originally planning on working the entire time on that trip and forgoing doing anything fun in order to do that. Then, when I returned, I’d be in Vegas for a couple of weeks, but wasn’t planning on having time to do much due to nonstop posting about gift card deals leading up to Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. Then we were due to be in Hawaii for a month, but with gift card deals continuing through to Christmas, I wasn’t expecting to see as much of Hawaii as I might’ve liked in order to continue working on this site.
If this site wasn’t going to continue though, it didn’t make sense to miss out on what could be two months of fun activities to focus on a site that would be ending in early 2025 anyway. As a result, I’m afraid that there’ll be no more deals posted on this site.
Thank You!
I’d just like to thank everyone for their support over the last six years. From sending me details about gift card deals that I hadn’t been aware of to sharing stories about how knowing about these deals had saved you money (or made you money), I’ve loved having a chance to make your life better.
Good luck with all your gift card activities in the future 🙂
Thank you for all your years of hard work sharing deals. You deserve a true vacation. I understand and support your decision. GCGALORE will be sorely missed. Best to you and your spouse on new adventures.
Thank you!
Same for me in regard to your hard work & dedication and I appreciate you sharing all the latest deals you find. I come here almost every day and tried to support you by both reporting any good deals not posted and clicking on your links when possible. You will sorely be missed. Good luck in your next adventure and I hope that if you do return in 4 years or anytime before or after, you will get the site going again.
Thanks!
I echo the sentiments. Thank you for all of your hard work and wish you nothing but the best!
Thank you!
I noticed that you seemingly thanked everyone except for me that offered you well wishes.
I must’ve missed that, so thank you!
It’s a shame to see that you’ve squandered the value of your website by not transferring it to someone within a reasonable amount of time. This was a great site, and I will miss it. And you will likely miss the income you could’ve gained from selling it. At this point, I doubt anyone is checking it regularly anymore.
Six years finding the best place to live here and then we go and force you to rethink the whole thing. I’m 100% behind your decision and look forward to you spending a few years finding the best place to live on the other side of the pond! For every active poster here you must have 10,000 lurkers using your efforts. So glad we don’t have to say goodbye thanks to FM, safe travels Stephen, and thanks for all the devoted work!
Thanks!
You will be sorely missed! Thank you for teaching us all about gift cards over the last few years.
Thank you, and thanks for sending through so many gift card deal tips over the years 🙂
This is very tough to read. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the years and best wishes for your future endeavors.
Thanks!
Stephen,
You will be missed very much. Your kind, gentle nature, wonderful sense of humour is a breath of fresh air. And your energy and talent are amazing
I wish you the best.
Saddened because the shrill, demonizing media have instilled such fear in Shae and you.
I am an immigrant myself from a 3rd world country, and have seen this demonizing by the self serving establishment many times before.
You are a blessing in my life I never deserved.
Thank you – I appreciate it.
I hope you are able to enjoy your travels! Have a fun time with the challenge!!
Thanks – I don’t know if I’ll know what to do with all my time now!
Sincerely, best wishes to you and your family.
Thank you 🙂
Thank you for this great website and the amazing deals I’ve found across it!
Thanks!
Why not sell the website?
I’d wondered about that and it might be something I look into in the future. At the moment though, I don’t have the time or capacity to look into what would be needed in order to get everything transferred over to a different person/entity.
please look into this after your vacation this holiday season. this/your legacy should live on !!!
I’ve had a few people reaching out about this, so it might be that it gets continued by someone else in the future.
You could just sell the domain and the web hosting contract — to allow people to get access to the back end. You will get far less for this without also producing key financial and engagement numbers, but the longer you wait on selling, the less valuable it will become.
I feel your frustration. As a trans man from France, I will also be moving back because I will be unable to have the necessary medical procedure if I become pregnant and do not want to carry the child to term.
Thank you for the years of dedication you have put into the site. I truly enjoyed the deals and will miss the content. Hope to see you around.
Thank you and I’m sorry that you’re in a much more serious situation. And I’m particularly sorry about all the truly awful ads targeting the trans community during the election – it’s disgusting and I’m ashamed that it seems to resonate with so many people.
men can get pregnant?
No, and most of the country accepts that immutable natural law.
Thank you for all the deals you’ve shared for so long! Wishing you and your family the best.
Thank you 🙂
and if Harris was elected everything’s would be wonderful? Get a life and stop being a cry baby. I didn’t and would never vote for Trump either. Love what you do and keep politics out of this
If he just put up a post that the site is ending – goodbye, and thanks for all the fish – everyone would be asking why, speculating, formulating, and gesticulating. So, Stephen unapologetically told us. Bravo to you, sir. He can’t keep politics out of it, because that is a major reason the site is ending.
I didn’t think everything would be perfect if Kamala got elected. However, she’s not a rapist, so there is that.
Neither is trump so there is that
Facts would dare to disagree https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
Yeah E Jean Carroll was extremely credible. Especially when she called rape “sexy”. There’s a reason these cases are brought forward in deep blue districts where orange man bad is enough.
Stephen, I’m sad that you are moving, but please reconsider. Trump is not going to do anything to you. [Bill Clinton was an alleged rapist too](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_assault_and_misconduct_allegations), but he governed fine, and people voted for him.
If those allegations of sexual assault were true, that’s not acceptable either. And “a rapist isn’t going to rape you” isn’t quite the assurance you might think it is.
Not only is he a convicted rapist he’s also an adulterer. Idiot can’t keep his promises, no matter who he made them with including his wives. If it were legal he would have sex with his daughter, the look on her face when he said it on national tv, Priceless! Orange guy had 4 years to keep the promises he made: build a wall to end illegal immigration and make the Mexican gov. pay for it. He built a partial fence and we the people paid for it. Nice. Ben, you should have fact check the twat before you sold your soul. You were made for him. Enjoy your glass of bleach or a lightbulb up your ass – humpty dumpty’s answer for Covid. All talk, no action. He had everything in place in his first two years, Republican majority, the house and senate and NOTHING was accomplished by this moron.
Your tears are delicious deranged psycho
Except that he is NOT a convicted rapist. He lost a civil suit against someone who made criminal claims that have not been proven in a criminal court. (aka NOT a convicted rapist)
Yes men, you have to remember – it’s perfectly fine to rape someone civilly, just not criminally.
Glad you put the same level of thought and research into that comment as you did your original post today. Sad that people don’t do their own real research and just believe what they’re told.
but she is a witting enabler of GENOCIDE — so there’s that.
Kamala De Ville…I don’t like Trump, but even less a geriatric genocider and his hapless cackling sidekick.
Stephen, I have enjoyed and benefited from your labor. For that I thank you. When we bring political opinions into any conversation it opens pandora’s box. Harris attended Pediddys party’s with the Clintons!!! So there is that sir. And I have the same disrespect for Trump but as an American I respect the office and so should you!!!
And which party was that? Are you admitting that you fell for the faked photo of Kamala Harris with P Diddy when she was actually standing next to Montel Williams?
“You should respect the office of a rapist” said
no one everfar too many people sadly.I am sorry to see the propaganda has you fleeing the country, and I’m sorry we’re losing your incredible work, but I hope everything goes well for you and your wife where you’re going Stephen 🥰
Take care
Thank you. We’re basing it on Trump’s, Vance’s, etc. own words and actions rather than propaganda.
I haven’t commented at all in this post but I have been following the comments. I have no dog in this fight but please advise where and when Trump and/or Vance said that they planned to deport LEGAL immigrants?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/trump-revoke-status-ohio-haitian-migrants/index.html
Yes, I heard about that. However, I heard on CNN that those people only had temporary status in a way that went around the law. I wouldn’t consider deporting them as deporting “legal” immigrants.
Since you have lived here for many years “legally”, what do you have to worry about?
They’re in the country and working legally. As per the start of the article:
“You have to remove the people, and you have to bring them back to their own country. They are, in my opinion, it’s not legal,” Trump said
In Trump’s opinion they’re not legal despite the fact that they are in the country legally. He’s arbitrarily deciding that their legal status should be removed based on his own whims. I don’t want to trust my immigration status to him, especially when they’re planning on creating concentration camps (note that I said concentration camps, not death camps), etc.
Fair enough.
Since your mind appears to be made up, good luck on the move!
Again, enjoy life back home in the Empire. Where you obviously can’t run this blog because you might get arrested for sharing your thoughts on online posts.
It’s almost like you’re gullible enough to believe everything you watch on Newsmax
Have fun fleeing to your home country that made 100 countries part of its “Empire” and stole and plundered the art and artifacts of those countries for its museums. And has pulled out of the EU. That should be fun.
Did I say I approved of that?
I think you’re too focused on your terrible politics to put enough energy into your failing site, while you blame Trump for it. Seems like the typical, lazy, leftist always looking for someone else to blame! Time for some self responsibility on your part!
So I worked on this site every single day for six years without ever taking a day off, providing the content for free and building it into a site with ~1.5 million page views per year. And that constitutes a failing site by a lazy leftist? I can see how you got so easily fooled by Trump.
She IS a genocidal Femi-Nazi who killed hundreds of thousands of people and her party risked all of their political power in subservience to a deranged foreign power. The Blue Team chose to look past a genocide for their own parochial interests, and took an L across the board for crimes against humanity. Comeuppance. 280,000 Palestinians survived Trump, but did not survive Biden/Harris, so there’s that.
I didn’t vote for DJ Trump, but my family will certainly survive him here deep in Trump country, as we did before. MAGA scooped up a lot of minorities this round, and they’re not all “garbage” people. Political vengeance against liberals was worth burning the country down for.
Do the D’s lost because they were too pro the Jews?
I thought it was the other way around. I thought people were fed up with bigots running around in our major cities and Universities harassing Jews and pro Israel individuals?
quit expecting handout from this website, you whiny piece of shit. go do the work yourself
You must be a paragon of class and virtue!
What a dick you are Dick.
Keeping it classy
Stephen, thank you so much for all your hard work. CG Galore was my go to and I will deeply miss your posts. Lucky you, as an immigrant from the same country I can totally relate to your move and reasons. If my kids and grandchild were not here I’d be packing my bags as well. Sad and disappointed right now. Safe travels. Carrie
Thanks, and sorry that your situation makes it harder to leave.
this was one of my favorite blogs. thank you for all the deals and best of luck
Thanks!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what mental illness looks like. Bye!
Name calling… shocking. Oh wait… no it’s not.
Name calling and hate have become normalized now, unfortunately. 🙁 Thanks for all you’ve done for the community, Stephen. I’m sorry America has failed you/us.
Thanks 🙂
Name calling? Lol. I’m pretty sure he just called Trump voters – misogynist, racist, transphobes. He just forgot to add Nazi fascists. I’m amazed that someone like Stephen can travel across the country for years and think that 51% of US voters are Nazis, but that is the power of media brainwashing. You are being controlled by fear. I suggest trying some alternative news sources that don’t constantly lie about Trump being Hitler and his supporters being Nazis. Many minorities like myself have realized its just a bunch of lies.
Can you point me to where I said that I think 51% of US voters are Nazis?
I think it was clear in my message that I was using “Nazis” (which some media/Democrats actually used to describe Trump supporters, like at Madison Square Garden) as shorthand for all the slanderous insults hurled at Trump supporters. 51% of the voters chose Trump. I know a lot of Trump supporters, and we aren’t a bunch of racists, misogynist, transphobes. We are decent Americans that have reasonable disagreements, like thinking 10 million unvetted illegal immigrants in 4 years is not a good idea for the country, Kamala/Biden has done a terrible job with the economy/inflation, US taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for gender reassignment surgery for illegal immigrants (which Kamala is on record supporting), etc. The mainstream media/the Democrats constantly demonize Trump and his supporters. And you wrote: “We’re also disgusted that a significant portion of the country has bought into transphobia, racism, hardship for those who can afford it least, misogyny and other hatred.”
Brainwashing… try Trumps words. He has proven he’s a racist “black jobs”, misogynist “She certainly can’t handle President VladimirPutin, President Xi of China. She will get overwhelmed, melt down” … the words that come out of his hateful mouth every single day make the case… not ‘liberal media’ as the right loves to parrot over and over ad nauseam.
Yep, it’s shocking when people listen to what the future President says they’ll do and acts accordingly.
Somehow you survived just fine in his first term. Did we forget that?
It is unreal, like the world we are living in, but I wish you all the best, whether you stay or leave. Thank you!
Thanks!
Who was president when you started the site in 2018? I can’t recall.
Someone who’ll be completely unrestrained in their second term.
The same president who lowered our taxes? Stayed out of wars? Didn’t genocide anyone? Reversed draconian and racist criminal justice legislation? I think he likes steaks…a LOT.
Who did genocide someone? (You can’t genocide “someone”)
Are you sure that you are using the term genocide correctly?
OMG you’ll be missed greatly!! Thank you for all you did for us these years. I wish you the best of luck in your future.
Thank you!
Best of luck to you Stephen! You will always be special to this community. Your site was incredibly helpful and you’re a really nice guy to boot. 🙂 Have lots of fun!
Thanks!
LOL!