What's the point of gift cards?

ariba10

vyle wrote: »

Where do you live that won't allow you to spend scottish £20 notes? Russia?

You would have difficulty spending one down here.

(I would not recognise one if I saw it)

missile

Faith177 wrote: »

Have you ever tried to spend a Scottish note in London??

90% of retaliers will refuse it as they don't believe it to be legal tender.

More like they delight in taking the pizz out of the jocks.

Faith177

missile wrote: »

More like they delight in taking the pizz out of the jocks.

More than likely :rotfl:

arbroath_lass

vyle wrote: »

Where do you live that won't allow you to spend scottish £20 notes? Russia?

Lots of English places won't take them simply because they have no way of knowing if they are real or fake.

Touristy places are more familiar with them and generally have no issues.

arbroath_lass

Faith177 wrote: »

There is only 1 machine in my mums local town that we know of that does English notes and they don't always have them.

She works long hours so doesn't have time to drive 30 mins to the other side of town to go to 1 cash machine in the hope it has an English note

That's a bit odd, still, you are happy with a voucher

(I'd tell you which machines they are but I've no idea, sorry. Generally they are at Asda).

Dave_C_2

lucy03 wrote: »

It also enables you to give a gift which you know the recipient will use, so if you give 20 pounds of vouchers for a cinema chain, you know they'll go and see a film and enjoy a night out. .

It took me ages to stop my daughter giving me W. H. Smith gift vouchers. She knows I love books, but most of the books I bought were second hand and I got more books that way.
Since then I have a Kindle and Amazon Gift cards are welcome and not limited to books.

Also I get a good night out in the local pub for £20 (about 7 pints) the landlord doesn't accept gift vouchers.

If you give them 20 pounds of cash, it might just get used up on other things and the giver never gets to think they're enabled the recipient to have a night out

Maybe the cash will help them over a cash flow problem when funds are low, like at Christmas.

Dave

lucy03

Dave_C wrote: »

Maybe the cash will help them over a cash flow problem when funds are low, like at Christmas.

Dave

That would be a separate issue of why do people buy presents, rather than just give cash. I still think it's a shame you can't give premium bonds in small amounts, that's a gift that can be withdrawn for cash if necessary and was an easy gift to give to children (I'm not very imaginative).

DCFC79

I received Gift vouchers ( form WH Smiths) when younger, I believe it gave the person who was giving me the gift a feeling of giving me a gift that had a use eg buy a book or books.

MamaMoo_2

This Christmas I received 2 £20 gift vouchers, both for shops I don't shop at. Pain in the bum, really.
If I buy someone a voucher, I make sure it's for a shop they'll use. My mom always gets Dotty P/Next/River Island vouchers from me, as I know if I gave her cash it'd go towards the house/my brother/the car, and I know that they're the shops she gets all her clothes from.
My dad always gets a B&Q voucher, so he has an excuse to buy more tools

michaelvintner

goater78 wrote: »

Its a nightmare trying to spend Scottish currency in England. A lot of retailers won't take them. Although the other week I got a Northern Ireland £10 and that was even worse to get rid of!

Worked in a couple of shops and I have always been told that as long as it says "Sterling" on it then it is fine to accept.